How much do you spend on groceries per week?

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Anonymous wrote:Family of 4, $225.

Wondering if this is in the ballpark of what others spend.

I would love to know what kind of meals you make and how often you eat out.

We just eat out once a week and it’s usually something cheap like pupusas or pizza. I didn’t include in that in the $225. Including that it’s probably $250-$275. I roast a whole bunch of vegetables and cook rice or pasta on Sunday’s. That covers all the work lunches. Then dinner is super simple stuff, tacos with beans and veggies, grilled cheese/soup, quesadillas, breakfast for dinner (eggs), store bought ravioli, spaghetti and meatballs, nachos, sometimes sandwiches if we’re in the mood for that kinda thing.

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Family of four, $350. That’s ALL our meals, we basically never eat out.

It feels so crazy to me. I remember when I could get groceries for myself for two weeks for $50. But our kids have wide, varied diets and eat obscene quantities of fruit.

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Family of 4 (kids are still in elementary). About $300/week on groceries. We get takeout on Fridays and usually end up eating one of the weekend lunches at a fast casual restaurant. That's about another $125-$150 per week.

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Family of two (early 30s, no kids) - $100/week at grocery store(s), plus about $100 at a restaurant (usually Friday or Saturday) and whatever DH buys for lunch (I’d guess $25, Hill cafeteria). I WFH so I just eat easy things here (leftovers, yogurt and cereal, eggs, etc.) I shop at Aldi, Trader Joe’s and occasionally Harris Teeter or Costco, so it’s really like $150 one week and $50 the next. Dinners are simple (pasta, stir fry, salmon and veg, burgers, etc)

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sooooooooooooo much it isn't even finny anymore.

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$350-$400. 2 elementary kids and 2 adults.

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Anonymous wrote:Family of four. Including eating out, and hosting people throughout the week, $400-500.

This.

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Family of 3 (single mom, two kids). $150-250/week, including diapers. I budget $50/month for eating out so guess that averages to $10/week. We eat a lot of beans/lentils/chickpeas (for preference but it has the added advantage of being cheap) and my kids’ school/daycare does lunch (and snacks for daycare) so they’re only home for 2 meals a day five days a week which probably helps keep cost down.

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Anonymous wrote:sooooooooooooo much it isn't even finny anymore.

+1 I’ve stopped counting. And we almost never eat out anymore. Just not worth it.

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Family of 5
$250 average weekly.

We also add to that quote a bit of eating out. Even when we dial it back, we end up spending the same. Inflation + growing needs as kids get older + sometimes we eat healthier out …

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About $200 for a family of four, 2 adults, 1 young teen and one 11 year old. We dont buy a lot of meat since i grew up vegetarian and still dont cook or eat it. We do buy treats/junk food. We make our lunches. Eat out about 2 times per week on the weekends, but sometimes it’s grandparents treating us.

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Probably $250 on groceries
$100 on target/Costco
$500 on takeout/restaurants

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We don’t eat out - I cook a ton of things from scratch, and we don’t eat much meat… but still probably $200-300/week for family of 4.

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Around 350. Two adults, two tween/teen boys. This doesn’t include eating out, which might be once a week.

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Family of 4, including two teen athlete boys.

Between our regular weekly store run, farmers market and our weekly SMC delivery, we run about $250/week. But add to that:
Bulk purchase of most meat, $1000 once or twice a year
Monthly seafood delivery, $250/month
Costco runs a few times a year, probably $300-400 each
Alcohol (not going to add this one up lol)
Target or Amazon purchases for random household items I forgot to get at the store, probably $50-100/month
Eating out ... maybe $300/month? It varies like crazy, we'll not eat out for a few weeks, we'll have one big splurge on a nice dinner, or we'll have Cava or equivalent a couple times.

I think that all comes out to something like $450/week on average??? I know we could do stuff more cheaply if we needed to. SMC, seafood, and farmers markets in particular add up. I distinctly remember having a food budget of $80/week for two people, granted that was 20 years ago, but we could obviously cut back a lot.