What is your monthly grocery store bill? Generally
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Anonymous
| Similar to OP - around $750/mo. We are a family of two adults, two elementary school girls. Our eating out budget per month is $300; alcohol $50/mo. |
Anonymous
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God, I adore egg noodles.
We spend around $1500/month for a family of 5 (including occasional takeout like Panera-no real sit down restaurants). It is way too much. I have two tweens who eat as much as my DH. We eat breakfast at home and pack lunches. I am at the grocery store all the time. We go through food so fast. ??? |
Anonymous
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Plz can some of you with families of 4 list what you eat each week? I don't feel like we shop extravagantly but it is likely $1K at giant and Safeway and not even organic.
What are we doing Wrong? It cannot be 35 cent coupons. |
Anonymous
How old are your kids? |
Anonymous
An organic ranch with fresh spring cool water that is magically purified by vegan fairies each day. Everyone should have one and I can't understand why people don't pay a few hundred dollars extra a month to do so-I mean work a third job if you must! |
Anonymous
| $3000 including eating out. Family of four. We don't budget for food. |
Anonymous
| Probably 1200 a month |
Anonymous
| About 150/week on groceries for 2 adults and 2 kids, but we also spend a lot on takeout. So our ultimate food budget is probably about the same as yours. |
Anonymous
Here is my meal plan for the week: Chicken noodle soup Calzones Grilled chicken and asparagus Tacos with pico and rice Hotdogs, salad, fries Crock pot BBQ chicken sliders and carrots Turkey burgers and baked sweet potatoes |
Anonymous
| Thanks for this thread. I thought I spent too much... roughly $500/month for a family of 3. Looks like I'm actually doing well. |
Anonymous
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Probably $800 including most toiletries. I primarily shop at Giant and Safeway, with some TJs, Whole Foods, and even Aldi mixed in. We hardly eat meat but do eat lots of fruit and produce. 3 people, including a VERY hungry little boy.
We budget about $250/month for eating out - so $60 each on lunches/coffee, with another $130 left for maybe two casual restaurant trips and takeout 2-3 times. We often exceed this but we are trying. Date night $ would be from a separate budget. I find that when I cut out Target we save money, because I buy tons of stuff there we don't need with regard to drinks, snacks, and household items. |
Anonymous
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We do about 800 p/m for two adults and a toddler. We eat breakfast and dinner at home almost every day and pack lunches a couple times per week. We get our meat through a meat CSA that costs $200 per month and get the rest at Costco or Giant. We do organic milk and eggs, some produce. Our biggest $$ drain is probably that we go through tons of berries and other fresh fruits in and out of season.
I don't coupon per se but I pay attention to items that are on sale and try to choose those. We're not wedded to specific brands for most things. When I do use coupons it's usually the ones you get at checkout - those seem to be tailored to what you actually buy. I'm glad to see other families of our size spending about what we do. |
Anonymous
| We are family of 4 with 2 kids under 6. We have organic veggie share right now, and buy ~80% organic stuff from Costco and trader joes. We spend about $800 per month and additional $300 per month on eating out. |
Anonymous
| Probably $750 a month. Two teenage boys who have daily sports practices. |
Anonymous
That is really stupid. |