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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]About $100 a week, 2 tweens and 2 adults. I cook 95% of our meals so eating out is minimal. We eat a lot of produce which is one of the biggest costs each week. [/quote]

You feed four people on $5,200 a year??  How??[/quote]

Here is an example of tonight's dinner:

I had a package of chicken legs (thighs/legs attached) that came with 4 pieces in it from Aldi.  It was $3.50 for the package.  I used two pieces for dinner on Thursday and froze the other two.  I defrosted them and two are for tonight's dinner.  I put them in a large pot (like a paella pot) in the oven with 3 cut up carrots, 3 celery ribs cut up, 3 sweet potatoes cut up, 3 white potatoes cut up, garlic and a carton of bone broth  from aldi that was $1 (discount) + water.   The bolded veggies were in sold like $.99 for carrots, $1.29 for celery, etc.  I got a bread (bagette) there that had a sticker on it for $1 off and it was originally $.1.69.  Dinner of warm bagette.  When it finishes, I'll take the skin off, take the chicken off the bone and we'll have soup with bread for dinner.  There will be plenty left over and this will be my son's school lunch for Monday and Tuesday.

I'm actually what most people would consider wealthy, but I don't just go into a grocery store and buy whatever I feel like buying.  I try to steer towards items that are on sale, even discounted so long as still fresh.  Grapes are on sale this week?  You're eating grapes.  You like raspberries at $3.99 a carton...you'll have to wait on that.  I have plenty of money for the "raspberries" in life that aren't on sale, but I HAVE that plenty of money because I've alway watched what I spent.  I'll go to Aldi when possible.  So, yes, I have been watching my receipts for awhile and it is absolutely around $100 a week.[/quote]

That is NOT enough chicken for two adults and 2 tweens. Stop it![/quote]

Previous poster, please admit that you all must be starving if this is truly what you do. [/quote]

Are all of you underweight? That meal would be an appetizer to my DH.  You  can’t possibly be getting enough calories in that soup for dinner.[/quote]

They are probably just normal weight. People don't know what normal weight looks like anymore....[/quote]

This is true.  Her dinner actually sounds really good.[/

A small amount of meat/fish in a dish with grains or sweet potatoes plus assorted other veggies is pretty typical for Mediterranean cooking and is what we do (I was taught to cook by my Italian grandparents) with fruit/nuts/cheese/olives/peppers etc. as the assorted extra nibbles around for snack/dessert.  Just under $600/month family of four that includes two athletic teens (1 boy, 1 girl). We don't shop at Aldi but we buy bulk at Costco every 2 weeks and then to HMart and the like for the week's veggies/fruit.  I have one credit card I use for groceries so I know this average is accurate.  Assorted food allergies/intolerances mean we rarely eat out (maybe 1 or 2x month total).   I don't particularly do this for frugality, just don't like to grocery shop much and in general tried to avoid any prepared foods (even store/factory baked bread, breakfast cereals etc).  But most of our fish/meat tends to be frozen (though I try to go with the organic variety as much as possible from Costco) --something I miss from growing up where we had a butcher and a fishmonger just down the street.  But though my grandparents would roll over in their (recent) graves, I have to admit I think the extra virgin olive oil at Costco is really good![/quote]

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