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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I spent $584.45 on groceries for a family of three -2 adults and one teen. What do you spend? Trying to gauge what is normal.[/quote]

Is this per day, week, month?[/quote]

Sorry.  From Sept. 1 through today.[/quote]

WOWWWW!!!!   Where do you shop and what did you buy?[/quote]

Is it low? I split my shopping among Asian supermarkets - Great Wall in Merrifield or HMart - for vegetables; Trader Joes or SuperA (local Latino market) for milk - and Giant and/or Safeway for the balance depending on what's on special. I usually get meats on sale at either Giant or Safeway. Sometimes also hit Harris Teeter.[/quote]

$585/22 days is $27 a day. I'd say that's pretty low indeed.[/quote]

I read somewhere someone fed a family of four for $7 per day.[/quote]

That's actually very doable though I think I'd get really tired of the routine quickly: eggs are about $0.15 each so you could feed some one breakfast for $0.30, $0.50 if you want to throw in some random greens & some cheese, call it an omelet. It's been a few years since I did the math but I remember a bowl of rice & beans topped with a little cheddar, onion, and fresh tomato as less than $0.50 a bowl. Cheapo cold cuts and $1 loafs of bread can make for some cheap lunches too - you could probably piece together a $0.75 sandwich, which add that to the 30 cent breakfast and 30 cent rice & beans dinner gives you the $1.75/person/day budget you need. [/quote]

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