Monthly Food Expenses

I spend £160 on groceries each month (approx. $250).

I'd say about £120 of this is my usual food and drink, and the other £40 is for treats including better quality meat than we usually have, and occasional unhealthy foods that don't fit into my weekly shop.

Married here with 3 adult children(19 and 18 twins), all males.

We spend about 1200 US dollars a month. That is before we run out of Milk, bread, Etc., mid week.

As a vegan my meat bill is nothing For me alone, including protein powder, now that I'm trying to eat at maintenence+ I spend about $150 a month. Total we spend about $400 per month (including eating out once a week)

dried legumes, tofu and tempeh on sale is cheap. we do splurge on 'sausage' and some fake meat.

All of us are "in training"
daughter is vegan, too - 12 years old, but 5'5"/130 so she eats A LOT
husband is omni so we do buy some lunch meat and cheese but he eats vegan dinner with us 90% of the time

What also helps us is buying very little alcohol. Husband is sober and I'm a light weight

i probably spend about $300 a month which seems like a lot since I live alone. I think about this every time i go grocery shopping because i do eat a lot of food throughout the week. i also only shop at TJ and WF.

I think it averages out to about $50/week for food and supplements. Eating out would maybe be about $25/week. Trying to cut that down for financial and health reasons.

i spend about 40-50$ a week for myself. ive found that avoiding meat seems to help, and replacing it with cheaper (and healthier!) alternatives like eggs, tofu, and canned beans. a lot of times people say produce is the culprit, but if you've got a walmart with a grocery store nearby you can get a lot for not much money. last week i was amazed when i bought one avocado, a bag of onions, one yellow pepper, a bag of little carrots, a bag of spinach, broccoli, 3 apples, 3 oranges, mushrooms, 2 tomatoes, and a can of kidney beans for 12.50$!! i was blown away.

um....like $20-30/month rsrsrs. Some months I go over and buy big things in bulk, like oatmeal, rice, beans, and things like that that I can eat over the course of a few months, so most of my grocery shopping is just buying produce and such.

£300 a month for my partner and I - and that's with trying to keep it to a minimum! We get a lot of fresh meat though, which probably makes up a lot

I don't include protein supplements in with that, that's always separate. £40 a month for protein for both of us.

I have a family of 4 and I spend $400 a month on groceries.

Honestly, I wish I knew! I am pretty sure for the 3 of us we spend about $500 per month on food, but probably another $200 or more eating out.

We spent $175 per month in 2011, which I am upping to $200 per month this year for our family of 4. That includes all food and toiletries and household things like light bulbs, batteries, paper towel, etc.

A couple ways I am able to make it this low is 1) I am a dedicated (although not extreme) couponer. 2) My father-in-law is a hunter and we are able to supplement with venison we sometimes get from him. 3) My father is a farmer, and I have access to really inexpensive and sometimes free produce . So I spend a lot of time and energy canning, drying, freezing, jamming, juicing etc.

For myself, about $250. Mostly because it's winter and absolutely nothing except root vegetables is in season here, so just about all the fresh fruit is imported. It'll probably drop substantially in spring/summer as fruits and vegetables come into season and I can buy more stuff local.

We spend ~$800 a month - 2 adults, 3 teenage girls at home, 1 married + son in law nearby and often eat with us. Our kids are homeschooled, so we provide all meals, 7 days a week. We are vegan-ish (some of us eat no meat, some of us do) so we eat a lot of meat-free or meat-optional meals. We buy our beef on the hoof from a local family, plus my husband hunts and fishes, so we are well-stocked in venison, duck and salmon/halibut most of the year.

I cook in bulk, so I tend to shop at warehouse stores every 2 weeks, and I have 2 pantries, 2 freezers and 2 fridges and a cold-store to store everything. I buy most of my stuff in bulk, and then buy a few things at the regular grocery store.

We kept our food expenses for a family of 4 (2 adults, 2 young kids) at $600/mo for everything including toilet paper, etc, from 2008-2011 while I was on a strict budget. I went lax on the budgeting last spring and the baby started eating more (now we have 3 boys ages 8, 6, and 1.5) and it went up to $800/mo. I started shopping at Aldi for a bunch of stuff recently, so I need to look back and see how that's affecting things.

We buy 1/4 cow once a year, I can A LOT of stuff using food I grew, picked on farms, or bought at the farmer's market. I use coupons on double-coupon day. We get organic produce and dry goods through a co-op with friends along with earth-friendly cleaning supplies and paper products. I try for mostly unprocessed food.