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spinoff - groceries, how much do you spend

how much does it cost to feed yourself

  • $0-300

    Votes: 15 23.1%

  • $300-600

    Votes: 27 41.5%

  • $600-900

    Votes: 13 20.0%

  • $900+

    Votes: 10 15.4%
  • Total voters
    65
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spinoff from spawnX's thread about delivery services

how much do you spend a month on food?

to feed our family of 5, we budget (cash money so no wiggle room) $600/month. we got a separate pile of cash for buying eating out of $160, typically pizza once a month, a few trips to DQ or frozen yogurt place and a couple fast food dinners.
 
About $150 a week. The past few months I've been hitting $200 though. Family of three. Shop on sale. All store brand. Filling freezers. That sort of thing.
 
I buy a lot of canned goods on line, plus we shop at the Family dollar and local grocery store I would guess around $350 locally, on line maybe $150. I buy stuff we can put back for later just in case.
Speaking of which picked up our new Costco cards yesterday, took time to go through their meat department cause I am always reading how low priced they are. I'll keep buying at my local thank you, meat comes from an in state processing plant and is about a dollar cheaper per pound!
 
bigun said:
I buy a lot of canned goods on line, plus we shop at the Family dollar and local grocery store I would guess around $350 locally, on line maybe $150. I buy stuff we can put back for later just in case.
Speaking of which picked up our new Costco cards yesterday, took time to go through their meat department cause I am always reading how low priced they are. I'll keep buying at my local thank you, meat comes from an in state processing plant and is about a dollar cheaper per pound!
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AND Costco mechanically tenderizes their meat. There was talk about it here and most don't care, but thats a pass for me.
 
I think we end up in the 600-900 range, probably on the high side. Family of 5. That also includes most of the beer. I have spent higher than that on occasion which seems absurd to me.
 
I live alone, spend about $100 a week including beer. I never eat out unless it's a pizza every once in a while.
I stock up on staple items when they're on sale but I'm running out of space to store nonperishables.
 
$150 per week for three of us. I usually take us out to eat 1-2 times per week.
 
Somewhere between 50-100 a week.
3 adults
 
Being on the conservative side, I’d say $200 for groceries for Monday—Friday home cooking. It’s normal seeing $250-350 every once a while. My kids are going through the teen years of eating everything in sight. My two younger kids like the healthy stuff which tends to be pricier. This isn’t including alcohol, eating at a restaurant Friday/ Saturday night and $40-80 for bbq Sunday night depending what I’m cooking.
 
$50-100 a week, been closer to $100 a week lately with current prices. VA also has like the worst grocery prices in the country for whatever reason.
But I also only buy fresh stuff for the most part. Very little processed foods, snacks, ect.
 
I picked 0-300. Less than when we had two growing boys at home. We always have a beef in the freezer so that helps at the store. Wife still makes food for the boys, we get to haul it to their place! :laughing:
 
Motorcharge said:
$50-100 a week, been closer to $100 a week lately with current prices. VA also has like the worst grocery prices in the country for whatever reason.
But I also only buy fresh stuff for the most part. Very little processed foods, snacks, ect.
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Where are you again?
 
Around 200 a week for our walmart pickup. This includes groceries and everything else for 2 adults and a 4 year old. We also eat out once a week
 
about $80 per week 2 of us, no beer we drink tap water
 
3-600, closer to 400 I'd imagine since I buy most everything at wally world and there is always things not grocery related in the basket.

I buy for just myself mainly but some of the food is "house food" so my friend and his 11 year old triplets that are here part time eat off part of it too. I generally eat decent, mostly name brand unless I like the house brand better. I don't worry about sale prices or bulk discounts unless it's a screaming deal.

I do buy meat at wally world over costco though. Especially ground beef in bulk or patty form. Costco doesn't have patties under 15% fat content and their bulk isn't any better. I can buy 3% ground beef at wally world and not even have to drain it.
 
Holy crap you guys spend a lot. We spend maybe 80-100 a week at most for 4 people. We got out for dinner maybe once a week.

my wife shops at Aldis and only goes into a supermarket maybe once a month for the shit you can’t get at aldis. We get a 1/2 cow from my uncle every year, get eggs from the neighbors, raise meat chickens once a year, and grow a huge garden. I would say 3-40% of what we eat is is grown or sourced from the neighborhood.

If I had to guess our biggest food expense is fresh fruit. My kids love eating all kinds of It.
 
We buy a whole hog and 1/4 or 1/2 beef every year so the monthly shopping doesn‘t include meat. We still spend around $500/month, household of 4. We also probably spend $400-500/month eating out or getting takeout.
 
Husband, wife, 3y girl, 1y allergic boy: $400 +/- $50 month on all household/grocery items:

About 200 a month or so on a costco run (groceries, toiletries, cleaning). Maybe another 50 through a month for a whole baked/cooked chicken, fruits and veggies odd fresh items for a meal.

Our boy is allergic to eggs, peanuts and dairy, which oddly hasnt changed life much, kind of like ok this meal stop at step 6, serve his&my plate, finish step 6 serve wife and daughter. I dont want the boy feeling oddman out as he grows, so I eat how he eats. Anyway, that means his milk is $5 a day, err day, until he outgrows milk. Otherwise, a gallon of milk every 5 days or so for the rest of the family.

We buy a half cow minimum a year off our friends farm, so another 1100/year?

Chickens and eggs from cousins farm. Throw in however much he wants at years start for whatever he needs. Probably not paying enough, but it's his hobby, and he'll never take more than $100 bill of me and my step dad. Just says 'build a new coop' or 'can you build me some bee boxes, I'd like honey' every few years.

This year that'll probably mean a new mortgage we'll pay him for another coop or bee box..
 
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Terina and I spend ~$100/week currently. Sometimes that’s just for the two of us, and it seems to be the same when we have one of our parents visiting. Occasionally We only spent $50. It seems kind a high to me but 🤷‍♂️.

ever since she started watching some clean eating guy we have bought all organic stuff most of the time and the weekly bill has gone up $20-$30.
 
rugger said:
A coworker has 100s of hives. He has agreed to help me get set up. The city allows 2 hives for my size lot.
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It's amazing how docile honey bees can be. Think it's like 10 boxes (hives) now

If we're out and about, bumblebees, wasps, I dont necessarily enjoy their company. Walking round the farm, through past the bee boxes, they just kinda..wander and dont bother me at all.

Occasionally they'll start head bumping ya though..
 
:eek: Me over here wondering how everyone else seems to each so cheap.

Family of 4 with 2 kids being 5 or younger. Our grocery bill runs over $1,000/month. That number includes anything you typically buy at the grocery store (cleaning supplies, toiletries, beer)

We typically eat out once a week (not included in that total).

I will add, my wife is a bit of a health nut and I know she typically buys the free range/ antibiotic free version of things plus we buy a ton of fruits and veggies. We eat good home cooked meals, but damn!
 
Family of 3 two adults and an 11 year old boy that eats more than the two adults combined. Only eat high quality real food, not a lot of processed garbage in our house. $6-$9 easy.
I buy half a beef annually, usually about $1100 bucks a half and we eat it all by the time the next one rolls around.

The boy can eat a pound of taco meat by himself on taco night. Next half cow comes in November, We’ll be out of burger before then for sure.
 
JR4X said:
11 year old boy that eats more than the two adults combined.
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heh, I feel this day coming. I've already had to bump up the amount of steak we do on Saturday nights. I now cook up two steaks for dinner.
 
Sceep said:
No idea. Wife does the shopping. I haven't been in a grocery store in probably 2 years.
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Don't go. Like seriously don't do it. Keep the blinders on. A full buggy at checkout right now is a life changing event if you're not ready for it.


We did a big family run last week with 2 buggies. $650.
 
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