How much do you spend on average for food?

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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..

Again SMALL children.

I have two teens. They are heavily into sports as well. We don’t need 6-7 lbs of meat for a meal. We have edamame, smoothies, beans and cheese in addition to some meat. Maybe you can’t do it. Maybe your kids eat differently. But be open that it works for others.

You must have kids with growth endocrine problems. No family of 4 with teens are splitting 3 potatoes a night, 4 carrots, 2 ribs of celery, a can of broth and a roasted chicken with a clove of garlic and enough chicken left over for chili the next day. The menu is laughable.

You are full of sh!t and just making crap up.

It’s about 5 pounds of chicken with roasted veggies as a side with milk. Again, it works for us. If it doesn’t work for you, it doesn’t. I said that. Ps you’re kinda nasty.

You eat the bones?

Seriously, 3 potatoes, 4 carrots, 2 pieces of celery and a clove of garlic for 2 teens and 2 adults? It's kind of funny.

When summed up it is funny! That's about the kind of meal my boys would eat as a snack. The actually quite often destroy a rotisserie chicken between the two of them and that is just picking and snacking.

Its roasted vegetables, people. My god - grow up.

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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..

Again SMALL children.

I have two teens. They are heavily into sports as well. We don’t need 6-7 lbs of meat for a meal. We have edamame, smoothies, beans and cheese in addition to some meat. Maybe you can’t do it. Maybe your kids eat differently. But be open that it works for others.

You must have kids with growth endocrine problems. No family of 4 with teens are splitting 3 potatoes a night, 4 carrots, 2 ribs of celery, a can of broth and a roasted chicken with a clove of garlic and enough chicken left over for chili the next day. The menu is laughable.

You are full of sh!t and just making crap up.

It’s about 5 pounds of chicken with roasted veggies as a side with milk. Again, it works for us. If it doesn’t work for you, it doesn’t. I said that. Ps you’re kinda nasty.

You eat the bones?

Seriously, 3 potatoes, 4 carrots, 2 pieces of celery and a clove of garlic for 2 teens and 2 adults? It's kind of funny.

When summed up it is funny! That's about the kind of meal my boys would eat as a snack. The actually quite often destroy a rotisserie chicken between the two of them and that is just picking and snacking.

Its roasted vegetables, people. My god - grow up.

Random.

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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..

Again SMALL children.

I have two teens. They are heavily into sports as well. We don’t need 6-7 lbs of meat for a meal. We have edamame, smoothies, beans and cheese in addition to some meat. Maybe you can’t do it. Maybe your kids eat differently. But be open that it works for others.

You must have kids with growth endocrine problems. No family of 4 with teens are splitting 3 potatoes a night, 4 carrots, 2 ribs of celery, a can of broth and a roasted chicken with a clove of garlic and enough chicken left over for chili the next day. The menu is laughable.

You are full of sh!t and just making crap up.

It’s about 5 pounds of chicken with roasted veggies as a side with milk. Again, it works for us. If it doesn’t work for you, it doesn’t. I said that. Ps you’re kinda nasty.

This works for us too--in fact, part of what I love about rotisserie chicken is how many meals we get out of it! Obviously, if that's a snack for you, you're going to need to budget more than we do for groceries. We only eat meat 1-2x per week and I buy a pound of fish or most ground meats to feed our family of four with 1-2 lunches leftover depending on what we make. I also get that there are people who eat a half pound of meat a day. Different strokes for different folks.

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Family of 4. About 100 per week too but our kids are little, we all have pretty small appetites, and we hardly ever eat out or get take out. Breakfast is usually plain yogurt and granola for adults and oatmeal and fresh fruit for the kids; lunch is usually sandwiches (PB or cheese) and fresh vegetables/fruit for the kids and leftovers for the adults; dinner we have vegetables, a grain (pasta, rice, etc), protein (2 nights/week are fish or other seafood, 2 nights are chicken/turkey, 1 night is red meat, 2 nights are vegetarian so beans, lentils, etc. We don’t buy any drinks except milk for the kids and alcohol for the adults (no soda or juice or bottled water), try not to spend much on snack foods or desserts. Meal plan every week and Only buy exactly what we’ll need. Our diet is boring but we just don’t care that much about it (eating haha) so it works for us.