How much do you spend on food per month?
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Anonymous
Either you eat out/take out 3x a week OR you “cook a lot.” The two are mutually exclusive. |
Anonymous
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$1000 groceries.
$250 eating out lunches. $400 ordering dinner in. Total $1650/math could easily be $2000. |
Anonymous
OK you got me -- you know me better than me! 7 days in week, 4 periods of cooking per day (3 meals and a hot snack) = 28 potential cooking incidents minus 3 take out times (~10% of the time) = 25 times I cook in a week and then you factor the variations between foods (one adult is gluten-free, adults like spicy, toddler does not, adults can eat sashimi, toddler cannot) it all adds up to a lot of cooking for me. You're just going to have to take my word for it. |
Anonymous
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$1200 on groceries (2 adults 2 tweens)
$400 going out as a family 1-2x week $240 mom/dad work lunches |
Anonymous
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$1-1200/month groceries, this includes household supplies and alcohol
$300/week restaurants 2 adults |
Anonymous
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Single woman, no kids:
200 for groceries 200 for eating out 100 for household but I tend to buy the basics in bulk (ie. detergent, toothpaste, dish soap, air fresheners, paper towels, etc.) |
Anonymous
Np here. I believe you. If you’re making stuff from scratch it ends up to be a lot of time in the kitchen! Curious what you mean by a “hot snack”? |
Anonymous
No Aldi shopping, but we live in a lower COL area. Our BJ’s trips are usually $100 if we go regularly & weekly grocery trips around the same to $110. We are pretty repetitive with our meals which are not intricate or fancy so we have basically the same grocery shop every week. |
Anonymous
A hot snack is like a warm snack. Something I cook that's not a full meal but not a snack that's premade. Like artichoke dip with grilled bread, nachos, samosas, pizza, gougeres, and things |
Anonymous
But no one makes exactly the servings you need every time. You aren’t cooking all those meals and snacks all day. I’m also certain you have non hot snacks. I’m guessing you cook plenty but are feeling defensive and stretching the truth a bit now |
Anonymous
| About $100 a week, 2 tweens and 2 adults. I cook 95% of our meals so eating out is minimal. We eat a lot of produce which is one of the biggest costs each week. |
Anonymous
When do I talk about serving size? Or cooking all day? Ain't nobody got time for this, I gotta go cook! |
Anonymous
| You were the one who said you cook 25 times per week, not I. You count making a daily hot snack as cooking and listed things like artichoke dip. You also said you cook “a lot”. I’m saying no way are you “cooking” things like that 25 times per week unless you count reheating some premade things as cooking. |
Anonymous
Don't be an ass. |
Anonymous
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$750 month groceries, $500 a month eating out, $80 on alcohol (stupid montgomery county monopoly). So let's say $1,350 a month all-in, or $16,200 a year.
Family of four with two little kids. Working on getting the eating out down to more like $300 if we can. |