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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Make $220K per year or about 11,000 per month after taxes etc.

Mortgage  2500
Childcare/kids activity  2500
Utilities/phone etc 500
Food 1500
gas, shopping etc. 1-2K
try to save 3K but at average we save about 2K per month

Guess we are spending too much on food??
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1500 on food is a lot, that's about how much I earn every month (graduate student here lol). How many people in your family?

Buying coffee every morning, lunch everyday, eating out for dinner, drinking bottled water, etc can really wrack up your food expenses. It's much cheaper bring coffee, to pack leftovers for lunch, used filtered water in reusable water bottles etc. You can try it for a couple of weeks and figure how much your saving.[/quote]

Do you have kids?

I agree with PP--most people don't really track all of their food spending.  I thought we were spending around $115/week for a family of 3--and we were, on our weekly grocery trip.  Once I started adding in all of the mid-week trips to pick up this or that, and the 1-2 times/week we eat out, plus the 1-2/week we each eat lunch out, I realized we were spending a lot more than that.  Including everything, we spend $1000-1200/month on food.  I almost never buy coffee out, and need to keep eating lunch out 1-2/week to maintain my professional network.  I buy the "dirty dozen," dairy, and eggs all organic, but not a lot else.  I don't think we're particularly extreme in our food spending.  Maybe I'm totally out of touch.[/quote]

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