Reply to What is your weekly food bill?

Forum Index » Food, Cooking, and Restaurants

Reply to "What is your weekly food bill?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly that is what we spend. Our food costs were 37,000 last year for absolutely everything, including takeout and fairly infrequent holiday entertaining, etc. we have two young kids and our nanny whose meals we provide during the week. That’s about 700 a week all in. It’s insane. [/quote]

This is honest - and likely accurate.

OP, the people saying they only spend $150-$200/week on groceries are generally underestimating what they spend.[/quote]

I track my expenses religiously and my food bill actually is about $200 a week.  We don’t eat out.

Breakfast is cereal, oatmeal, avocado toast, eggs.  Coffee.  Kids drink milk or juice.

Lunches are sandwiches, salads, leftovers, soup.

Dinners are where most of the cost goes: meat, rice/pasta, vegetables.

Snacks are whole fruit, tortilla chips.

I add frozen veg to soups and pasta dishes regularly.  I buy some organic produce but not all.  Sometimes will splurge on farmers market meat but mostly eat chicken (or no meat) from the grocery store.  We don’t get a lot of treats or extras.  We don’t drink a lot of alcohol. Everyone drinks mostly water (we have an under-sink filter so not bottled).  I make my own soups and salad dressings.

Family is happy with what we eat.  Obviously for birthdays/special occasions we will get fancier and nicer foods, but for everyday?  Why? [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics