How much do you spend on food per week?

I do a lot of canning and freezing.. We are a family of 6.. We spend 300 every 2 weeks.. I meal plan and am able on that budget to cook healthy meals for my family..

This. We have our own veggie garden every year that I can carrots, peas, beans, tomatoes, sauces, etc from. $300 is our goal per paycheck 2x a month) but after we buy cleaners, and the occasional new shirt/pants/socks for the kids, it always ends up being just a bit more.

I spend approximately $30 a week at the farmer's market for fruits and vegetables. approximately $300 a month at the grocery store and approximately $100 a month at Trader Joe's. So that works out to about $130.00 a week to feed 3 people. That doesn't include eating out, which we do about once a week (about $50-$120 more per week, depending on where we eat).

The grocery store number includes non-food items too, so overall number is probably closer to $120 a week. We do okay. I wish we could afford higher quality meats.

I shop once a month at the grocery store and stock up. Usually, it comes to around 200. However, my husband eats at work and my son eats lunch at school. So that means that everyone only eats breakfast (usually cereal) and dinner together. I also spend around 100-200 per month on Schwan's. So all together for a family of four it is about 300-400 a month. I also grow a garden in the summer for fresh veggies and I will spend around 10 every other week for fresh fruit and veggies. (always buy the stuff in season!) However, if I plan and actually try to cook more around my house (which I get the bug occasionally) I can go through a month spending less than 150. But that takes a great deal of work and time (and coupons!)

1200 to 1500 a month...my mortgage is way more than that but it's annoying!!! We don't eat out much though...I have 3 boys...family of 5 😊!

I'm obviously shopping incorrectly after reading these other replies!!!!

I spend £30 on food, per week, just for me. £40 a week if I include toiletries and cleaning products.

£160 a month.

My fiance gets by on £10 a week, or around £40 a month.

So, between us, that's £200 a month. Our rent is £600 a month. Just the two of us though - no kids to feed yet!

Don't know the food-alone cost - my budget is separated into household (which includes washing liquid, loo-rolls and all the things you need for running the house as well as food) and car, utilities and so on...

But the household bit came to an average of just under £200 a month, which is pretty good for one person living well.

I cook from scratch, but I eat out a few times a month. So I would reckon I use less than £45 a week on food and drink including that.

I reckon people spend too much because they think it costs too much to shop around - but I use the supermarkets I go past, and never make a special trip to anywhere. There's a farmers' market once a month, but I only buy eggs and flour from there, and a few veg (I prefer to buy fresh every day or so) and otherwise I use the local shops and walk to them, which adds exercise to the value for money of the local shop. I buy often, and I buy reduced, and I eat what's in season, or on offer, or what the shop can't sell because of the tyranny of the sell-by date.

Well for me and my 16 month old a £50 shop will last us nearly 2 weeks. When my other half is on leave it's more like £80 a week. Royal Marines eat a LOT!

I'm just an 18 year old art student in the UK, and a typical weekly food shop would be something around £39 for just myself. I make my own lunches etc. and don't get takeaways or really eat out, so I guess it's just the £39.
I don't think that's too bad to be honest.

$80 a week strict budget for my husband and I. I carry my list and my little calculator around the store with me. This includes hubby's diet soda ( I rarely drink them anymore) and any incidentals we need that week (toothpaste, cleaning supplies etc.) It gets tricky at times. On the weeks I know we need a lot of fresh produce items, i'll put off paper products or other costly items for another week. Thankfully my husband is an avid deer hunter, so we rarely purchase meat, though every once in a while I have to splurge on some pork chops or ground turkey It's challenging sometimes, but I almost find it fun now to see if I can get everything on the list and under budget! We also give ourselves a $40 a week allowance to keep our daily spending on lunches and other things in check. $40 goes fast, so it's really helped us learn to be a bit more conservative. I've tried couponing, but honestly it doesn't help me very well. I usually find I spend more when I use coupons (because I'm buying things I wouldn't necessarily without one)

Starting with my trip to the grocery store on Tuesday, I kept tabs on how much I spend on groceries and eating out and so far, including Tuesday, Wed, Thurs and today, I have spend $208. This is stupid. We only went out twice. Once to BWW and once to McDonalds (BWW had a Blackened chicken salad-big mistake, it had 700 calories).

So I will probably spend another fifty or so before Monday, making my seven day week a total of about $260. I have a husband and grown son. They eat a lot.

Are groceries costing you more than the rent/mortgage? It is for me!

I spent usually 40-60 a week on groceries. Thats just for me alone, but healthy food seems to cost less the junk food.
and FYI I go to BWW once a week, kind of a cheat day. If you get the Southwest Queso Wrap with the Salsa and Chips its only 740 and fills ya up!

I spend about $100 a week for the 2 of us, I eat mostly at work but eat dinner at home.
School holidays are a different storey, that is when I spend more.

1200 to 1500 a month...my mortgage is way more than that but it's annoying!!! We don't eat out much though...I have 3 boys...family of 5 😊!

I'm obviously shopping incorrectly after reading these other replies!!!!

what in the world do you buy?? Thats a month and a half's rent for me....i wish I could spend more to eat

we spend $600 a month for two of us and our mortgage is more than twice that, so not even close!! but if you factor in restaurants (another $250 a month for us both) then that's $850, but still way less than the mortgage

I spend about $250-300 every three weeks for myself and the cat, making sure to buy meat on sale and throwing it in freezer for when its not on sale. Most fresh fruit and veggies will last me that time period, and I just have to pick up milk and bananas and few other fresh things at convenience store when I run out. Compared to the way I used to throw money away on eating out a LOT, I think I'm spending less even though it seems like more.

I have the option to shop online at local grocery store, too. I think that helps me spend a little more time picking out exactly what I need and rehashing my cart before I check out so I dont get things I dont really need and just want that will probably go to waste, and not being at the store helps me not impulse buy and spend more, too. Its a great service - they shop my list and have it waiting for me at the door in carts for pick up for just a $6 charge. Also great to come home after work and spend an evening watching TV and shopping in my pajamas off and on and just running by after work the next day...I consider it a time saver.

Hmmm ... some of you are amazing. My girlfriend recently told me she spends $90 a week. She is married and has three kids, the youngest only just started to eat. I can not (still) get my head around it! I did ask her and her way is that if they are still hungry after a meal they can have cereal. So her meal portions are very small.

I am a mum and I spend $90-$125 on fresh fruit, veg, milk and bread ALONE each week to feed my husband and two kids under 10 years. That doesn't include pastas, rice, meats, cheese ... and we love all those things. So I guess we spend about $200 total a week on food? Like above, I think I will track it closer.

I love good food, fresh, home made food as opposed to eating out, but still like to go out for yum cha, pizza, steaks etc. I do make casseroles and curries to stretch the dollar further if needed, and I do have a problem with "quantity". But I do love making chicken corden bleu with sides of vegetables or salad, types of meals. Mmmm ... salivating. Our left over lamb roast tomorrow will be the filling in our sovlaki wraps. Mmmmm ... I love cooking, I love eating. OK ... am getting hungry. Will stop writing now.