What's your weekly food spending for a family of 4?

[Anonymous]

At least 350 for family of 4, including one couple’s date for lunch/brunch/light dinner (average 70-80 per week). It used to be 200 maybe a year ago. Food price has gone up crazy!

[Anonymous]

Around $300 a week for our family of four (two adults, two big boys). Plus, we spend about another $25 a week at farm CSA for meat and eggs. We cook from scratch a lot and don't eat out much, sometimes order pizza on the weekend. I used to be able to budget $200 a week, but my kids got bigger and prices got higher!

[Anonymous]

Everything has gone up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP who said whole food is cheaper than Harris’s teeter, can you share the list of things to prove it? Because each time I try whole food, I can’t find anything affordable apart from some kind of cheese.

Sure here is what I bought from HT: RBP, English cuc, broccoli bag, tomatillo salsa, canned coconut milk, sliced almonds, sausage patties, happy heritage eggs, shredded cheddar, shallots, PT. These items were cheaper than WF when compared or on e-vic sale. For example the heritage eggs are normally $8 they were 5.97 this week so I got 3; the eggs I normally get from WF are 5.99 each. Sparkle PT were 8.99 bc I didnt feel like going to Costco.

WF list:
I buy meats at WF because I have had awful experiences with HT and Giant. If I have this experience with WF, I just submit a ticket for a refund. So the pork tenderloin may be cheaper at HT but I have gotten 2 rancid ones in the past 2 years from HT so I refuse to buy them from there anymore. Berries last longest from WF or Costco- I wont buy berries from grocery stores anymore. This is a cost savings for me because we can actually eat them vs throwing out half the pack after 2 days.

Here are some items I cost compared and WF was cheaper. Prices will be laid out as WF:HT respectively

Mason Dixie Biscuits 4.49: 5.99 (evic 4.99)
Bonne Maman 4.49: 6.99 (4.99evic)
Dorot frozen garlic 2.25:3.69 (3.00 evic)
Daves white bread 6.49:6.99
Banza chickpea pasta 4.29:4.99
Lime 0.59:0.69
Zucchini 1.99lb:2.29lb
Grass fed beef 85/15 6.99lb:8.99lb
Asparagus 3.99lb: 4.19lb(evic 3.99lb)
Organic Banana 0.75lb:0.79lb

My local HT also doesnt regularly have red onions or SP in stock so I tend to just order those from WF because I know its in stock when I order. Same goes for Daves bread- HT is usually out so I just order from WF even when it isnt cheaper.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can do cheaper and still be healthier, but you sacrifice convenience.
I’ve found I can drive down my groceries cost substantially by hitting Costco, an Asian supermarket for produce and protein (Great Wall has excellent produce for very good prices), and a standard supermarket like giant or even Whole Foods for the rest.
Don’t have time every week to do it, but there’s very few places in America that have this amount and variety of grocery stores, taking advantage of each of their strengths saves money and is also delicious

Asian stores OK if you dont mind eating "steroid" grown produce.....They are not big or that cheap because they are healthy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So it is insane but I bought a 25US organic roasting chicken at Safeway. The same size organic roasting chicken was like 16US at Whole Foods. I am finding whole foods strangely affordable!

All that said, it is probably 250-300 a week now for a family of four. We rarely eat out and we don't buy much meat.

I just spent $16 for an organic roaster at Aldi! Maybe I should be taking the trip to Whole Foods.

HT kind of sucks these days. Chicken thighs are like $6/lb and “organic” thighs are like $9/lb. organic thighs from wf are $7

[Anonymous]

About $200/week for family of 4 (one grade schooler, one toddler). That doesn't include DH buying lunch at work 2-3x/week, though, which probably adds another $50.

[Anonymous]

I also find WF cheaper these days, at least for fruits. We can often get strawberries or raspberries for 3.99 or 4.99 and they are like 6.99 at HT.

Cheese seems more expensive at WF. A bag of basic shredded cheese was 7.99 at WF yesterday. Haven't gone to HT yet but I imagine I can get it for 4.99

[Anonymous]

Family of five, two adults with an 18, 17, and 15 years old. We are spending about $800/week on groceries. We buy lot of seafood (lobsters, fish) and steaks on top of lot of vegetables, fruits and milk. Kids are hungry.

[Anonymous]

I think GIANTs prices have really skyrocketed recently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Family of five, two adults with an 18, 17, and 15 years old. We are spending about $800/week on groceries. We buy lot of seafood (lobsters, fish) and steaks on top of lot of vegetables, fruits and milk. Kids are hungry.

[Anonymous]

Easily 250/week or more.

I can save money if I do big pantry stock ups at Trader Joe’s and get my produce and meat at Whole Foods, but it is still a significant tab.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PP who said whole food is cheaper than Harris’s teeter, can you share the list of things to prove it? Because each time I try whole food, I can’t find anything affordable apart from some kind of cheese.

Sure here is what I bought from HT: RBP, English cuc, broccoli bag, tomatillo salsa, canned coconut milk, sliced almonds, sausage patties, happy heritage eggs, shredded cheddar, shallots, PT. These items were cheaper than WF when compared or on e-vic sale. For example the heritage eggs are normally $8 they were 5.97 this week so I got 3; the eggs I normally get from WF are 5.99 each. Sparkle PT were 8.99 bc I didnt feel like going to Costco.

WF list:
I buy meats at WF because I have had awful experiences with HT and Giant. If I have this experience with WF, I just submit a ticket for a refund. So the pork tenderloin may be cheaper at HT but I have gotten 2 rancid ones in the past 2 years from HT so I refuse to buy them from there anymore. Berries last longest from WF or Costco- I wont buy berries from grocery stores anymore. This is a cost savings for me because we can actually eat them vs throwing out half the pack after 2 days.

Here are some items I cost compared and WF was cheaper. Prices will be laid out as WF:HT respectively

Mason Dixie Biscuits 4.49: 5.99 (evic 4.99)
Bonne Maman 4.49: 6.99 (4.99evic)
Dorot frozen garlic 2.25:3.69 (3.00 evic)
Daves white bread 6.49:6.99
Banza chickpea pasta 4.29:4.99
Lime 0.59:0.69
Zucchini 1.99lb:2.29lb
Grass fed beef 85/15 6.99lb:8.99lb
Asparagus 3.99lb: 4.19lb(evic 3.99lb)
Organic Banana 0.75lb:0.79lb

My local HT also doesnt regularly have red onions or SP in stock so I tend to just order those from WF because I know its in stock when I order. Same goes for Daves bread- HT is usually out so I just order from WF even when it isnt cheaper.

Wow! Thank you! I also found Lidle and Aldi are generally cheaper than closer groceries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Family of five, two adults with an 18, 17, and 15 years old. We are spending about $800/week on groceries. We buy lot of seafood (lobsters, fish) and steaks on top of lot of vegetables, fruits and milk. Kids are hungry.

Insane that some people are now spending north of $40,000 per year to feed their families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everything has gone up.

And yet everyone here will still vote for the D’s in 7 weeks.