How much do you spend?

$800-1000 a week for two people in New York. It varies depending on what we want to eat for lunches. Food's expensive.

I live in South Texas, I spend around $300 a month for 2 of us.

I live in TX too but we probably spend about $600 combined

We are a family of 5, and I spend close to $200/week in groceries. Probably $160-175 of that is food, and the balance is supplies and pet food.

Before I started couponing, I spent about $800-$900 per month for groceries (including paper products and toiletries) for our family of 5. Now, I spend about $500 per month. I'm not a crazy couponer, but I find that it saves me a lot on diapers, wipes, paper products, personal items (deo, tampons, toothpaste, etc). This savings helps me be able to stay at home with my children.

I live in Alabama and can buy a

10pc pack of large chicken breasts (No skin or bone) for 10 dollars,

pack of four lean eye of round steaks for 5 dollars

pk of ground turkey for 4 dollars

Fish including imitation crab meat for 11.00

That's meat for 30 suppers and 30 lunch meals for one person for 30 dollars.

Now add veggies, fruit

8 cans of spinach - 7.00
broccoli for four meals - 3.00 x 4 for the month is 12.00
onions for a month - 3.00
tomatoes month - 6.00
fruit for half a month - 7.00 no need to splurge for a whole month here
Frozen brussel sprouts for month - 7.00
mushrooms - for month 7.00
cabbage - 8.00
sweet potatoes - 4.00

That's 61.00 for produce (ridiculous)

now staples.....

Chicken broth - 8.00
Beans - 3.00
rice - 4.00
sugar - 1.00
salt - minimal
2 loaves whole wheat bread 4.00

That's 16.00

Spice allotment/monthly - 10.00 (includes vinegars and sesame seed oil)

Fun stuff for a month

Sea Weed sheets for sushi - 2.00
draft saki - 3.00
egg roll wrappers 3.00
prepared sauces such as mandarin, seafood, asian sauce, soy/ginger sauce/ lite soy sauce/ dijon w/chardonnay etc. - these last so long that the initial price is high but the monthly price is minimal. around 3.00

That's around 11.00 depending on how fun I wanna get each month!!

The absolute must have to survive's !!

Coffee - 5.00
creamer - 3.00
skim milk - 12.00
slim fast - 14.00

That's 34.00

grape fruit juice (i drink it every other day and eat a fruit on the alternate day ideally) 6.00
tap water - free..until the water bill comes..hehe

so that is 6.00 a month on drinks other than water.

If I'm not mistaken that comes to 175 dollars per month per person pre-tax.

175.00 average
x .09 tax

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15.75 tax

so 185.00 average a month for one person.

i avoid aldi, im not a snob but the amount of mouldy veg and fruit ive ended up with, so normally asda, tesco or morrisons and its about £60 a week for 3 of us, mainly fruit , veg, meat, pastas.. and i get plenty of meals out of it .

I've ended up with mouldy fruit and veg from ASDA. Some of it was mouldy on the shelf!!

We tend to buy from Tescos now as the quality of their fresh veg has really improved over the last few years, and I buy frozen veg from ASDA because it's cheaper

However, we're growing our own now providing the summer is better than last year. Disastrous weather and bugs last year

I'd say we spend about £200 at the moment, but that's an average for when I go (and spend less!) and when the hubby goes (and buys expensive stuff!!)

I figured my husband and myself spend about $500 a month on groceries, cleaning supplies, and dog food & treats for our two dogs. I think it might be time to cut back a little more.

We spend about 500-600/month for a family of 3. We used to only spent 400$ a month, but that was when we ate a lot of crap devoid of nutritional value, but cheap. Now i make all of our meals and we eat whole grain and healthy versions of everything we buy so it's brought the price up. i figure the slight increase is worth it to improve our health.

I try to save as much as i can. I do coupon, but here in Canada we pretty much only use coupons now for non food items as coupons for food items are all for packaged processed crap. I also price match which allows me to save gas by shopping at just one store, but getting all the great deals. In the on season i buy local, fresh produce which saves a bundle!

We're starting to cut back a bit on that budget by integrating anywhere from 1-3 meatless meals a week. 1 meal of firm tofu = .99 vs 1 meal of ground chicken = $5

£160 a month, just for me.

My fiancé spends £40 a month.

Sounds like part of your 160 may be going in fiance's tummy. You must be a great cook!

Family of 3....husband, myself and kiddo (10 year old). We eat lunch out most days (work) and the kiddo eats at school and we still spend about $300 a month on groceries.