What's your budget?

Now that I think about it, my budget is pretty big for food. However, it doesn't mean that I spend a ton on it either. I always watch for sales and even do some coupon clipping for things I need. It can be done on a budget.

thankfully, my boyfriend buys the majority of our groceries!
i probably spend up to an extra $100 on food that i want but he won't eat (i.e. tomatoes, ice cream, frozen meals for work, etc.)
one thing i promised myself was that i would never skimp on healthy food for myself or my gym membership, even if i'm close to broke. i'd rather bike instead of drive and cut my cell plan down than cheat my body out of Healthy options!
but like i said, i'm lucky that my bf foots the food bill )

I try to stay under $150 every week and a half or so. I'm sure it's way over. Food is expensive in Colorado!

I have foodstamps I only get 180 a month and my sons father pays for the rest,I also have wic for our son and that helps I would say about 300 a month on food I shop at aldi a lot

I'm on a low budget. I get paid every 2 weeks and use $100.00 from each check for food. So I use about $200.00 a month on food. It's pretty expensive here in IL.

Mine, for a family of four in New Zealand, is about $250.00 a week (so about $1,000NZ a month... which is I think about $800US a month). For me this seems like an awful lot, and the majority of it goes into making sure the children (aged 7 and 12) have enough cereal, muesli bars, snacks and sandwiches for their school lunches.

For me, as I'm trying to lose weight, choosing healthy can be really hard. Especially on those Friday nights when you're home from work, tired, feel like getting drunk of just falling into a coma and you STILL have people relying on you to cook. It has less to do with the budget, and more to do with the 'imma just gonna make THIS because it's easy'.

One life saver is the humble omlette. Two eggs, a little cheese and some herbs and you've got a healthy meal right there. I fall back on this so much I'm about to start clucking.

I get foodstamps as well for me & my boyfriend. We get $280 a month - but we end up putting money in like the last week of the month. Now that I am eating healthy and well - my boyfriend isn't (he doesn't really HAVE to though, he's tiny and could gain some lbs haha) it's going to be a struggle now divding up healthy between not so healthy.

But I am a coupon queen! COUPONS are amazing, so I sometimes get $200 worth of groceries for about $60.

Less than $100 a month. All organic, processed food-free!

We live paycheck to paycheck .....food is not a top spender in my house!! I usually spend $50-75 per week on groceries.....family of 4 , one being a baby! I clip coupons and go to the Dollar Tree (the have food items there) often! We eat pretty healthy....so I guess, you don't need to spend a lot to do so!

I spend about 120 a week, including my husband and I and feeding all the children in my childcare center. (8)

My husband and I operate on $50 - $60 a week.. it's a struggle at times. We have to do meal planning to stay in line.. we plan 5 meals and count on leftovers or occassional meals with in-laws to make it last. Junk food is actually quite expensive, so it has been somewhat easy to cut back on that. We also use produce stands, which is a huge money saver. If meat is on sale we get extra and freeze. My husband actually uses $15 - 20 of the budget on things that he eats that I'm not (junk, cereal, juice). We also try to freeze soup if we make it, since there is always extra of that. It's just a matter of making it work. It's certainly not easy, but you do what you got to do

I just had this same conversation a few weeks ago w/a co-worker. I feed a family of four on about $500 per month. A majority of what we eat is fresh veggies and fruits. We only eat beef once a week, chicken and fish is our majority. I get legs and thighs and then skin them, more bang for the buck. As for our fish, we eat alot of it. Shrimp, yellow fin-tuna (seconds are less than half he market price of steaks), salmon and/or steel head trout. I try and base our dinner plates on ruffage of some-sort, such as romaine, spinach, and/or iceberg. Almost none of our veggies food is frozen, unless its popsicles or skinny cow. We drink crystal light, water, or milk. I allow my kids to pick out one box of cereal per/grocery visit, so of course it's usually sugar loaded. I feel that it costs more to buy processed foods, such as chips, chicken nuggets, soda, lean cuisine meals, kraft macaroni and cheese, etc. We replaced those expensive and space consuming foods w/fresh and I am glad. It makes me smile to see my kids run to the kitchen excited to eat fresh apples, bananas, and peaches, rather than cookies, crackers, or pretzels. Don't get me wrong, we have some snack stuff, but because our main focus is fresh, we eat fresh first and don't blow through the processed treats.

family of 4 two adults and two small kids ( age 6 and 4 ) I spend between 200-250 every other week on average

ETA-- about 20.ish of that cost go`s to my older daughters pediasure drinks she is underweight and needs the extra and those little drinks are pricie I try to get them at sams club when I can but she only like the strawberry flavor so sometimes I have to spend alittle more and get it at a regular store

i try to keep it under $125 a week for my boyfriend and I. That is what it was this week but that included $20 in steaks and $10 for beef jerkey which we normally wouldn't buy. Food is very!!! expensive in Alaska. A 8 oz thing of organic blueberries was $7 bucks!