how much do you spend on food a month?

[Anonymous]

We get this one: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Almond-Crunchy-Honey-Oats-Cereal-18-oz/127399616 since this is the one the kids like. My husband and I don't eat cereal ever. We buy it for the kids.

My husband and I prefer either an omelet with or without veggies, or steel cut oats/regular oatmeal. Eggs are about $0.79 pack of 12. I buy bulk steel cut oats/oatmeal for $0.69 per pound. I don't but unless I see it for this price or lower. Veggies for my omelet? Mostly spinach from Aldi, if I remember it's $1.79. I also like celery which is $0.98. My kids will occasionally have a fruit/oatmeal smoothie. They get their veggies at dinner/lunch.


Corn Syrup honey AND brown sugar all in one healthy breakfast!

You till can't feed a family for .50/meal in the US without growing your own food to supplement, but at least you've shown us the quality of the food you feed your children, that helps me understand.

Do you have kids? If not, I assume you still remember being a kid. I pick my battles, so I let them have the cereal, but their lunch and dinner is healthy. I am not going to force a green smoothie down their throat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We recently counted it up. We spend, on average, 1500 dollars a month on groceries and household items. I can’t believe you all spend so much less. We never go out to eat, like not even once a month, but still: I feel like our grocery bills are shocking.

us too. $250-300 a week. We have 5 people, two teens one tween. Rarely eat out, bring lunch etc.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We are a family of four, two adults, 1 teen, and 1 tween
We ALWAYS eat at home, and spend about $200 per month.

How do you do this?

Shop mainly at Aldi for all basics. Don't eat meat every day, and buy vegetables and fruit depending on what is in that weeks paper as best deals. We cook enough so there will be leftovers for the kids for lunch. We only drink water with our meals, and almond milk with coffee/cereal. Soda or juices are for special occasions only.

We don't buy all the expensive cleaning products that promise to change your life. Vinegar and baking soda for scrubing. Alcohol deluted with water works great on countertops and stainless steel.

Yeah....we do that as well and spend more than you spend in a month in a week. I'm sorry but I don't buy it for a second that you feed a family of 4 for $50/week

I agree and would like to see a menu for the week. I am guessing she is buying a lot of processed products

[Anonymous]

We are a family of four with two kids, 11 and 10, both with healthy appetites. I'd love to keep our grocery budget to $600 but it's impossible. We buy organic meat and dairy, and mostly conventional fruits and vegetables. We cook every meal from scratch and rarely buy junk food like chips or cookies or sodas or condiments. I think we blow a big part of our budget on fresh fruits and veggies and cheese which eat a ton of. This budget doesn't include alcohol, which my husband buys separately, mostly for himself. I make all our lunches and dinners, though we eat out an average of once a week. I think $500 for 6 is amazingly cheap.

[Anonymous]

[guardian]

Anonymous wrote:I think the original post was a humble brag

Why would someone brag about spending a little? I would brag about spending a lot.

[Anonymous]

We are a family of four and spend about $1000 a month- that includes groceries, and we do eat out for dinner once a week and do takeout once a week.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We are a family of four, two adults, 1 teen, and 1 tween
We ALWAYS eat at home, and spend about $200 per month.

How do you do this?

Shop mainly at Aldi for all basics. Don't eat meat every day, and buy vegetables and fruit depending on what is in that weeks paper as best deals. We cook enough so there will be leftovers for the kids for lunch. We only drink water with our meals, and almond milk with coffee/cereal. Soda or juices are for special occasions only.

We don't buy all the expensive cleaning products that promise to change your life. Vinegar and baking soda for scrubing. Alcohol deluted with water works great on countertops and stainless steel.

Yeah....we do that as well and spend more than you spend in a month in a week. I'm sorry but I don't buy it for a second that you feed a family of 4 for $50/week

I agree and would like to see a menu for the week. I am guessing she is buying a lot of processed products

Why don't you tell me your menu and I can help you FIX it? We don't eat a lot of processed. No ramen noodles or processed lunch meats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're two adults, eat almost all meals at home, and I can't get by on less than $800 a month -- although that includes household items. No organics, very little processed food.

I think feeding 6 on $500 a month is amazing.

Same. We are two adults and a toddler, and I struggle to stay below $800/month. That’s almost all meals, but does include pet, household items, and alcohol. Then another $250 for a couple dinners / few lunches out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are a family of four, two adults, 1 teen, and 1 tween
We ALWAYS eat at home, and spend about $200 per month.

How do you do this?

They probably live across the country in a low cost of living area. There is a dad who posts here about how his teen boys eat mostly beans so they are able to spend almost no money on groceries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

We get this one: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Almond-Crunchy-Honey-Oats-Cereal-18-oz/127399616 since this is the one the kids like. My husband and I don't eat cereal ever. We buy it for the kids.

My husband and I prefer either an omelet with or without veggies, or steel cut oats/regular oatmeal. Eggs are about $0.79 pack of 12. I buy bulk steel cut oats/oatmeal for $0.69 per pound. I don't but unless I see it for this price or lower. Veggies for my omelet? Mostly spinach from Aldi, if I remember it's $1.79. I also like celery which is $0.98. My kids will occasionally have a fruit/oatmeal smoothie. They get their veggies at dinner/lunch.

Corn Syrup honey AND brown sugar all in one healthy breakfast!

You till can't feed a family for .50/meal in the US without growing your own food to supplement, but at least you've shown us the quality of the food you feed your children, that helps me understand.

Do you have kids? If not, I assume you still remember being a kid. I pick my battles, so I let them have the cereal, but their lunch and dinner is healthy. I am not going to force a green smoothie down their throat.

They are obviously not from this area. Eggs do not cost 7o cents for a dozen here in the DC area. Even at cheap grocers like aldi they are 3x as much.

[Anonymous]

They are obviously not from this area. Eggs do not cost 7o cents for a dozen here in the DC area. Even at cheap grocers like aldi they are 3x as much.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:so 4 people eating 3 meals a day at home = 84 individual meals. .59 cents/meal at $50/week. No way.

Not quite right. Dinner will also be next days lunch. So really, I cook 1 meal a day. Breakfast is cereal, oatmeal or what ever.

So? You still need greater quantity to feed 4 mouths a day. Thats the price per meal. A gallon of milk is $6, add in some cereal and you're already at $10.

He doesn't live here.

The prices he is posting are not Aldis prices for this area. They are 2 to 3 times Aldi prices for this area.

He could not spend that little shopping here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are a family of four, two adults, 1 teen, and 1 tween
We ALWAYS eat at home, and spend about $200 per month.

How do you do this?

Shop mainly at Aldi for all basics. Don't eat meat every day, and buy vegetables and fruit depending on what is in that weeks paper as best deals. We cook enough so there will be leftovers for the kids for lunch. We only drink water with our meals, and almond milk with coffee/cereal. Soda or juices are for special occasions only.

We don't buy all the expensive cleaning products that promise to change your life. Vinegar and baking soda for scrubing. Alcohol deluted with water works great on countertops and stainless steel.

Yeah....we do that as well and spend more than you spend in a month in a week. I'm sorry but I don't buy it for a second that you feed a family of 4 for $50/week

I agree and would like to see a menu for the week. I am guessing she is buying a lot of processed products

Why don't you tell me your menu and I can help you FIX it? We don't eat a lot of processed. No ramen noodles or processed lunch meats.

I think the burden of proof is on you. You are the one who is said 50 a week is possible.

- np

[Anonymous]

Is it possible the poster meant $50 per person? Still low but more understandable...

[Anonymous]

I'm a single mom with one 7 yr old who eats lunch and school and I really struggle to keep it under 70 a week. That's aldi and giant lost leaders. We eat apples, pancakes, eggs, soups, occasionally chicken, oatmeal, plain yogurt, veggies and ranch/hummus, and PB toast on the regular. We make quesadillas and grilled cheese a lot too. The mom who claims she can do a big family on this budget has to be lying. I literally know every single supermarket price