If you spend $1000 a month on groceries

[Anonymous]

... could post approximate basket for a week? Big thanks in advance!

[Anonymous]

Basket? What? I don't understand what you're asking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Basket? What? I don't understand what you're asking.

List of items you buy each week with prices per person.

[Anonymous]

I do not buy the same things every week. That would be very boring.

[Anonymous]

This is going to depend entirely on the specifics of each family's situation. You could spend $1000 a month on a family of eight with several teenagers and be living pretty frugally. You could spend $1000 a month on a DINK couple and be having lots of wine and steak. And how much food that translates into depends on whether you buy all organic, whether you eat a lot of meat (or none), whether you drink a lot of alcohol (or none), etc.

A better question might be: if you have a grocery budget of $1000 a month for a family of X, what kinds of things do you typically buy in a given week? (But even that is going to be all over the board--not sure exactly what you're trying to get out of the results, which would be helpful to know.)

[Anonymous]

List of items you buy each week with prices per person.

Yeah, let me spend the next 3 hours putting that together for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is going to depend entirely on the specifics of each family's situation. You could spend $1000 a month on a family of eight with several teenagers and be living pretty frugally. You could spend $1000 a month on a DINK couple and be having lots of wine and steak. And how much food that translates into depends on whether you buy all organic, whether you eat a lot of meat (or none), whether you drink a lot of alcohol (or none), etc.

A better question might be: if you have a grocery budget of $1000 a month for a family of X, what kinds of things do you typically buy in a given week? (But even that is going to be all over the board--not sure exactly what you're trying to get out of the results, which would be helpful to know.)

Thank you!
I like to read about people’s budget for monthly costs, so I was curious how people shop.

[Anonymous]

We do. Family of 5, teenagers. Some food allergies as wel.

We buy non-organic vegetables and fruit, a few specialty allergy items, meat including steak, cleaning supplies and such that others might get at Costco but we get at the grocery, about 4 organic milks a week, bread, ice cream, sometimes frozen pizza, a fair amount of chips, cheese and junk food.

[Anonymous]

Dinks here and we spend somewhere around that. Our menu rotates, but generally:

Organic eggs
Organic chicken breasts and thighs
Organic ground turkey
Lamb rack once/week
Wild caught salmon once or twice a week (less often in winter, more in summer)
Fresh produce: baby spinach, peppers, brussels sprouts, mushrooms, whatever else that may be in season (only organic if they have it at costco)
Herbs: cilantro, green onions, parsley
Multiple napa/sonoma wine clubs - save these for weekends
DH likes whiskey
I buy cheap wines from costco and tj's to drink during the week
We mainly eat at home
Eat out 2x/week or so.

[Anonymous]

We spend about $10 per day per person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dinks here and we spend somewhere around that. Our menu rotates, but generally:

Organic eggs
Organic chicken breasts and thighs
Organic ground turkey
Lamb rack once/week
Wild caught salmon once or twice a week (less often in winter, more in summer)
Fresh produce: baby spinach, peppers, brussels sprouts, mushrooms, whatever else that may be in season (only organic if they have it at costco)
Herbs: cilantro, green onions, parsley
Multiple napa/sonoma wine clubs - save these for weekends
DH likes whiskey
I buy cheap wines from costco and tj's to drink during the week
We mainly eat at home
Eat out 2x/week or so.

I should add, we don't really spend much on junk/prepared foods, but I do buy a lot of processed foods like cheese, crackers, charcuterie, chocolate that add up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dinks here and we spend somewhere around that. Our menu rotates, but generally:

Organic eggs
Organic chicken breasts and thighs
Organic ground turkey
Lamb rack once/week
Wild caught salmon once or twice a week (less often in winter, more in summer)
Fresh produce: baby spinach, peppers, brussels sprouts, mushrooms, whatever else that may be in season (only organic if they have it at costco)
Herbs: cilantro, green onions, parsley
Multiple napa/sonoma wine clubs - save these for weekends
DH likes whiskey
I buy cheap wines from costco and tj's to drink during the week
We mainly eat at home
Eat out 2x/week or so.

Interesting, lots of animal protein.

[Anonymous]

Veggies: Lettuce, Tomatoes, Green Onions, Sweet Onions, Carrots, Celery, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Butternut Squash, Potatoes
Fruit: Grapes, Strawberries, oranges, pineapple

Meat: Chicken, Beef, Pork, Fish (About $20 for each), bacon, sausage, 1lb sliced meat

Starch: Rice, pasta, cereal

Dairy: Milk, Coconut milk, eggs, cheese, yogurt, cottage cheese, sour cream

Bread: 1 loaf, different each week, depends.

Other: Bags of chips, nuts, orange juice

Frozen: Fruit, ice cream, hot pockets


Fruits and Veggies vary due to season
Meat cuts vary due to recipe

[Anonymous]

^^^Family of 4 with 2 teen boys.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

List of items you buy each week with prices per person.

Yeah, let me spend the next 3 hours putting that together for you.

+1000

C'mon OP. This question comes up every other week on this forum. Can't you do a search?

Costco for 90% of the groceries
Grocery store with online/paper coupons combined sale prices to backfill the remaining 10%
We rarely eat at restuarants.
Everyone brings lunch.
We are big on salmon in our house.
Organics not so- much.

Family of 6.