Groceries $$

For a family of 3, including a 3 year old...I spend around $400 per month. I try to buy meat when there is a meat sale, and have been doing local produce and veggies (our local grocery store sells them, as well as farmers markets). We do eat meat. I keep my calories at 1350/day.

Around $650 for a family w/2 adults and 2 kids (3yrs & 6yrs, both boys). I eat around 1300-1600 cals a day. My hubby & kids eat whatever they feel like. Sometimes my 6yr old eats as much as me, growth spurt I guess right now. We do eat meat, sometimes organic. Def foods w/o dyes, my son is sensitive to the dyes - they make him very hyper!! I tried to do the Feingold Diet becuase of that but found it very time consuming and even more expensive. So now I just make sure the foods dont have dye and try to cook from scratch most of the time. Now that summer is here I hope to save a little and get our veggies & fruit from the amish, cheaper and much fresher!!!

Oh and this total does include toilet paper, toothpast, laundry det, soap, etc.

About £300 a month for 3 adults. My daughter and I are both on 1200 calories (but tend to eat over that on the days we go to the gym) and my partner is on 1750. We eat quite a healthy diet and meat is included.

I'll spend around $800-$900 month, for 5 adults and 3 teenagers. We have a small farm, so I buy NO meat, eggs or milk. I'm eating around 2300/day. Most, if not ALL, meals are homemade. I'll buy bread for sandwiches, but things like english muffins, pizza crust, baguettes, biscuits or breads for dinner are made from scratch. We also have a large garden, so the tomato sauces, potatoes for homefries, etc, are things we canned last year. I freeze berries for smoothies and berry sauce, etc. The perfect meal is homemade waffles, using the milk from the goats, and the fresh eggs, homemade berry sauce or HM maple syrup, bacon or homemade breakfast sausage from the pigs and some tasty homefries, canned from the garden :-) Maybe even HM toasted english muffins with HM jam :-D

Wow, we spend in a week what you all spend in a month. But, we have 6 kids and 2 adults. And three of our children are teenage boys with the fourth being a teen next year.

This does include all toiletries and I pack the boys lunch, no school lunches for them. The boys are eating machines and need food all of the time so I have to keep the freezer stocked with stuff. We go through a gallon of milk a day! So on milk alone I spend $100/month

And now that gas and diesel have gone up per gallon, my food bill has jumped up a lot....our food bill is a house payment!

We are omnivorous and I do not buy any name brand...everything is generic!

When it's just me about $250/month depending on what staples I need to buy and how well I do hitting sales and using coupons. I eat meat but not very much, usually only when I go out. When My husband is home that number goes up to about $600 and his lunch is provided at work. I am more apt to actually cook and he eats meat most nights. I've noticed that the bill has started to go down since we both cut out some of the processed crap foods from our diets, which seems backwards to me since you always hear how expensive it is to eat healthy. I shoot for 1200-1500 calories/day he is usually at 2000-2500.

$400-$500 a month for 5 total - 2 adults (1 mostly vegan), 1 teenager, and 2 elementary school kids...more in the winter, but once the farmer's markets get going I can get great produce at awesome prices, plus I make trips to Sharp Shopper and Costco to buy in bulk and keep the overall cost down...I usually focus on quality over quantity, so will pay more per pound for grass fed organic beef or pasture raised pork (love the local farms), but serve less of it - the kids are all huge so clearly this strategy is not stunting their growth...we also eat a lot of whole grains (rice, quinoa, etc) and stay away from processed foods...which seems to help in keeping the budget down - where I am a pound of quinoa costs about the same as a box of kraft mac & cheese, but the quinoa goes a lot further and has much more nutrition...I do my own gardening as well so that will kick in and cut my grocery costs about another $100/month from July-November...assuming the garden does well and doesn't get demolished by critters, which does happen some years...

We spend about $150 a week for a family of 5.

Right now my husband and I are both having to eat about 3000 calories a day (he's lifting weights to gain muscle, I'm breastfeeding/pumping 60 ounces a day, which means I need and extra 1200 calories). We eat mainly organic food and we do eat meat.

$240 every two weeks. This includes all toiletries, cleaning products, diapers, etc for a family of five. I eat around 1400 cal a day and eat a mix of everything-whole grains, dairy, meat, veggies (fresh and canned).

Family of 4...I'm pescetarian, the family are omnivores, we're all locavores... we spend around $500 a month when we're growing the majority of our produce and around $800 a month during the off season. My cut is between 1700-1800 a day.