How much do you spend on average for food?

[Anonymous]

^^^awful types. Sorry

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Family of 5 with 3 middle school aged kids who play sports year round.
We spend about $1200 a month and maybe eat out at Chipotle once a month.
The kids just eat a LOT. They also always have friends over at our house---probably 5 per week. They eat too.
Those of you with young kids are just feeding your own kids. When they get older, their friends may stop by after school, after sledding, etc and suddenly you may be feeding 10 kids an after-school snack or dinner or whatever. It adds up.

I only feed my teens and just a quick snapshot...tonight I'm cooking chicken. I have to plan on 8 chicken breasts, 3/4 of one large box of salad, 2 avocados, and 6 baked potatoes. Last night we had salmon and I used an entire pack of salmon from Costco. That was framed raised. Cant afford the wild.

This morning my 3 boys had a delay from school. They ate 9 eggs, a package of bacon and 6 pieces of toast. They washed it down with a half gallon of milk.

I buy 3 gallons of milk a week, 3-4 loaves of bread, 3 dozen eggs, and ALL fruit come from family packs at Costco. This is thebtionof the iceburg.

When they were little it was a load of bread a week, a gallon of bread a week, and a dozen eggs. Dinner was a half of a chicken breast each, a couple of pieces of broccoli and a few spiral noodles.

I have teens who are athletes. I still spend $100 or so a week. I’m just mindful of what I buy, buy discounted meat and shop at aldi. For example, I bought chicken at aldi that was .89 lb and the. Had a $2 sticker off bc it expired soon. Costco can be pricey with something as are what you shop for. Do you buy skinless or skin it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Family of 5 with 3 middle school aged kids who play sports year round.
We spend about $1200 a month and maybe eat out at Chipotle once a month.
The kids just eat a LOT. They also always have friends over at our house---probably 5 per week. They eat too.
Those of you with young kids are just feeding your own kids. When they get older, their friends may stop by after school, after sledding, etc and suddenly you may be feeding 10 kids an after-school snack or dinner or whatever. It adds up.

I only feed my teens and just a quick snapshot...tonight I'm cooking chicken. I have to plan on 8 chicken breasts, 3/4 of one large box of salad, 2 avocados, and 6 baked potatoes. Last night we had salmon and I used an entire pack of salmon from Costco. That was framed raised. Cant afford the wild.

This morning my 3 boys had a delay from school. They ate 9 eggs, a package of bacon and 6 pieces of toast. They washed it down with a half gallon of milk.

I buy 3 gallons of milk a week, 3-4 loaves of bread, 3 dozen eggs, and ALL fruit come from family packs at Costco. This is thebtionof the iceburg.

When they were little it was a load of bread a week, a gallon of bread a week, and a dozen eggs. Dinner was a half of a chicken breast each, a couple of pieces of broccoli and a few spiral noodles.

I have teens who are athletes. I still spend $100 or so a week. I’m just mindful of what I buy, buy discounted meat and shop at aldi. For example, I bought chicken at aldi that was .89 lb and the. Had a $2 sticker off bc it expired soon. Costco can be pricey with something as are what you shop for. Do you buy skinless or skin it?

I would be really interested to know how an Aldi supplier could humanely raise a chicken at a price that low. Sounds horrific. I'm not a vegetarian but I would be if I were trying to keep a low budget and not support animal abuses in the process.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Family of 5 with 3 middle school aged kids who play sports year round.
We spend about $1200 a month and maybe eat out at Chipotle once a month.
The kids just eat a LOT. They also always have friends over at our house---probably 5 per week. They eat too.
Those of you with young kids are just feeding your own kids. When they get older, their friends may stop by after school, after sledding, etc and suddenly you may be feeding 10 kids an after-school snack or dinner or whatever. It adds up.

I only feed my teens and just a quick snapshot...tonight I'm cooking chicken. I have to plan on 8 chicken breasts, 3/4 of one large box of salad, 2 avocados, and 6 baked potatoes. Last night we had salmon and I used an entire pack of salmon from Costco. That was framed raised. Cant afford the wild.

This morning my 3 boys had a delay from school. They ate 9 eggs, a package of bacon and 6 pieces of toast. They washed it down with a half gallon of milk.

I buy 3 gallons of milk a week, 3-4 loaves of bread, 3 dozen eggs, and ALL fruit come from family packs at Costco. This is thebtionof the iceburg.

When they were little it was a load of bread a week, a gallon of bread a week, and a dozen eggs. Dinner was a half of a chicken breast each, a couple of pieces of broccoli and a few spiral noodles.

L

I have teens who are athletes. I still spend $100 or so a week. I’m just mindful of what I buy, buy discounted meat and shop at aldi. For example, I bought chicken at aldi that was .89 lb and the. Had a $2 sticker off bc it expired soon. Costco can be pricey with something as are what you shop for. Do you buy skinless or skin it?

I would be really interested to know how an Aldi supplier could humanely raise a chicken at a price that low. Sounds horrific. I'm not a vegetarian but I would be if I were trying to keep a low budget and not support animal abuses in the process.

Yeah, chicken can be as cheap as you want it. But you’re getting bottom of the barrel chicken.
Regardless, what else are you serving on $100/wk for teen athletes? I’m not doubting, I’m just curious because groceries are expensive and kids eat A LOT. I’m wondering how you satiate them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Family of 5 with 3 middle school aged kids who play sports year round.
We spend about $1200 a month and maybe eat out at Chipotle once a month.
The kids just eat a LOT. They also always have friends over at our house---probably 5 per week. They eat too.
Those of you with young kids are just feeding your own kids. When they get older, their friends may stop by after school, after sledding, etc and suddenly you may be feeding 10 kids an after-school snack or dinner or whatever. It adds up.

I only feed my teens and just a quick snapshot...tonight I'm cooking chicken. I have to plan on 8 chicken breasts, 3/4 of one large box of salad, 2 avocados, and 6 baked potatoes. Last night we had salmon and I used an entire pack of salmon from Costco. That was framed raised. Cant afford the wild.

This morning my 3 boys had a delay from school. They ate 9 eggs, a package of bacon and 6 pieces of toast. They washed it down with a half gallon of milk.

I buy 3 gallons of milk a week, 3-4 loaves of bread, 3 dozen eggs, and ALL fruit come from family packs at Costco. This is thebtionof the iceburg.

When they were little it was a load of bread a week, a gallon of bread a week, and a dozen eggs. Dinner was a half of a chicken breast each, a couple of pieces of broccoli and a few spiral noodles.

I have teens who are athletes. I still spend $100 or so a week. I’m just mindful of what I buy, buy discounted meat and shop at aldi. For example, I bought chicken at aldi that was .89 lb and the. Had a $2 sticker off bc it expired soon. Costco can be pricey with something as are what you shop for. Do you buy skinless or skin it?

Yea. There is no way I could get away with $100/wk. Not a chance in hell. No matter what chicken i bought. I'm also not big on expiring meat....or only eating chicken.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Family of 5 with 3 middle school aged kids who play sports year round.
We spend about $1200 a month and maybe eat out at Chipotle once a month.
The kids just eat a LOT. They also always have friends over at our house---probably 5 per week. They eat too.
Those of you with young kids are just feeding your own kids. When they get older, their friends may stop by after school, after sledding, etc and suddenly you may be feeding 10 kids an after-school snack or dinner or whatever. It adds up.

I only feed my teens and just a quick snapshot...tonight I'm cooking chicken. I have to plan on 8 chicken breasts, 3/4 of one large box of salad, 2 avocados, and 6 baked potatoes. Last night we had salmon and I used an entire pack of salmon from Costco. That was framed raised. Cant afford the wild.

This morning my 3 boys had a delay from school. They ate 9 eggs, a package of bacon and 6 pieces of toast. They washed it down with a half gallon of milk.

I buy 3 gallons of milk a week, 3-4 loaves of bread, 3 dozen eggs, and ALL fruit come from family packs at Costco. This is thebtionof the iceburg.

When they were little it was a load of bread a week, a gallon of bread a week, and a dozen eggs. Dinner was a half of a chicken breast each, a couple of pieces of broccoli and a few spiral noodles.

L

I have teens who are athletes. I still spend $100 or so a week. I’m just mindful of what I buy, buy discounted meat and shop at aldi. For example, I bought chicken at aldi that was .89 lb and the. Had a $2 sticker off bc it expired soon. Costco can be pricey with something as are what you shop for. Do you buy skinless or skin it?

I would be really interested to know how an Aldi supplier could humanely raise a chicken at a price that low. Sounds horrific. I'm not a vegetarian but I would be if I were trying to keep a low budget and not support animal abuses in the process.

Yeah, chicken can be as cheap as you want it. But you’re getting bottom of the barrel chicken.
Regardless, what else are you serving on $100/wk for teen athletes? I’m not doubting, I’m just curious because groceries are expensive and kids eat A LOT. I’m wondering how you satiate them?

That's my question too! My boys are eating about 4k calories a day. That's 12,000cal a day for 3 boys, plus we have 2 adults.

So you are telling me you can feed a family of 5 with 3 teens on .95 cents per meal? Thst math is pretty fuzzy

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We do about $200 per week in groceries. I’m trying to limit eating out to 1x per week Starbucks. I’m a huge fan of Blue Apron and such but have cut way back on those for now. More important bills on the way.

We are a family of 4....baby and a grade schooler. We buy some specialty products and a lot of yogurt pouch type items for daycare lunch. I also pay for school lunch...which is $3 per day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Two term boys, both athletic, bot over 6' tall. Both DH and I are runners and life weights. Very active family. Eating healthy is also important

$400/wk. When my kids were little, we spent about 120.

Similar here. 2 boys approx 350/we. Eating chicken form Aldi that is on its last leg is definitely NOT on the menu. We do eat a lot of fresh fruit, an abundance of fresh vegetables and meat each night for dinner. We truly rotate chicken, pork, beef and seafood at least 2xs a week.

No way could I feed my family on .95 per meal. I can't imagine what a diet like that even looks like. Somebody call Sally Struthers!

[Anonymous]

$600.00 - $800.00 per month for a family of 5 in Loudoun County (2 parents, teen, a toddler, and a baby). We do a combo of Costco, Harris Teeter, and Lidl for groceries and eat out about twice a month. We pack our lunches and our daycare provides meals/formula.

[Anonymous]

Family of 3 (2 adults, 1 young teen boy) - I spend around $1,500 for groceries, eating out. Primarily Wegman’s ($1,000), other stores ($200), eating out/Starbucks ($300). My husband may buy his lunch out during the week, but I have no idea how much he spends.

I applaud those who spend $100/wk, I couldn’t do it. We don’t spend a lot on meat/fish/chicken, but I do spend a lot on organic fruit/vegetables (dirty dozen).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Family of 3 (2 adults, 1 young teen boy) - I spend around $1,500 for groceries, eating out. Primarily Wegman’s ($1,000), other stores ($200), eating out/Starbucks ($300). My husband may buy his lunch out during the week, but I have no idea how much he spends.

I applaud those who spend $100/wk, I couldn’t do it. We don’t spend a lot on meat/fish/chicken, but I do spend a lot on organic fruit/vegetables (dirty dozen).

Applaud people who feed their kids garbage? Nobody is feeding their family of 2 adults and teens anything, but absolute trash on that budget.

Penny wise pound foolish

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Family of 3 (2 adults, 1 young teen boy) - I spend around $1,500 for groceries, eating out. Primarily Wegman’s ($1,000), other stores ($200), eating out/Starbucks ($300). My husband may buy his lunch out during the week, but I have no idea how much he spends.

I applaud those who spend $100/wk, I couldn’t do it. We don’t spend a lot on meat/fish/chicken, but I do spend a lot on organic fruit/vegetables (dirty dozen).

Applaud people who feed their kids garbage? Nobody is feeding their family of 2 adults and teens anything, but absolute trash on that budget.

Penny wise pound foolish

Wrong. I spend about $100 a week. I don’t fedd my family garbage though we don’t do organic. We have lots of fruit and vegetables (packed lunches have 3-4 servings, alone). We do meat dishes, lots and lots of soup to accompany dinner or lunches on weekends, and fruits and vegetables. Just because you don’t do it doesn’t mean it can’t be done. I waste very little of the meat I buy.

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Those with $100/week budgets please give examples of your meals and links to recipes. Truly interested.

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Also what do your kids snack on?

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Anonymous wrote:Those with $100/week budgets please give examples of your meals and links to recipes. Truly interested.

I will get a whole chicken from aldi that usually has a $2 off coupon attached to it bc it goes bad in a day or two. I’ll put it in the oven with carrots (that I peel and slice for .89 a bag and I use maybe 4 out of 10), sliced potatoes (I use maybe 3 out of a 10 lb bag), celery (2-3 ribs $1 for the whole thing), one clove of garlic (.99 for the whole bulb), and seasonings and either a few cubes of chicken broth seasoning and water or a can of chicken Broth (.47) we have roast chicken on night one. Next day I might make chicken chili (cans of beans, tomatoes, chicken and seasonings). We might have burritos another night (beans, cheese, chicken, lettuce, tomatoe, etc). I use the bones and skin to make broth. I will then make a soup with the broth for another part of a dinner dinner. Kid lunches are leftovers. Kid snacks may be tortilla with sauce and cheese or just cheese (leftover from burrito night). If I have lettuce from sandwiches, I’ll make lettuce wraps using ground beef, turkey or chicken - whatever is cheapest. I’ll bake a few potatoes from the 10 lb bag. I buy a bigger package with discount stickers on it and divide it and freeze the rest. We have fruit and veggies that are on sale. Last week was pineapple, oranges, mandarin oranges, cauliflower and broccoli etc. This week will be mangoes, bananas, blueberries, etc..