Anonymous wrote:these numbers are CRAZY low. have you accounted for ALL expenses?

We only shop 1x per week for groceries. We are 2 adults and a toddler. We spend $100/week on groceries and $300/week on work lunches and weeeknd meals (brunch or dinner). Our $100/week is 70% food for the toddler and snacks.

We shop mostly at Safeway. Before baby, we shopped mostly at WF but it is too expensive now because my son eats/snacks a lot and we are eating at home a lot more.

PP abve with 300/month. Yes, for us that is all our grocery cost. I shop every other week and spend $150 each time. It does not include dine out/delivery, which is about $25/week.

Anonymous wrote:these numbers are CRAZY low. have you accounted for ALL expenses?

We only shop 1x per week for groceries. We are 2 adults and a toddler. We spend $100/week on groceries and $300/week on work lunches and weeeknd meals (brunch or dinner). Our $100/week is 70% food for the toddler and snacks.

We shop mostly at Safeway. Before baby, we shopped mostly at WF but it is too expensive now because my son eats/snacks a lot and we are eating at home a lot more.

This is just asking about groceries, not meals out bough it's useful to know how many meals out folks have. We spend around $500 a month for 3. We eat out about once a week. We don't have a strict budget so some months do vary depending on where we are with our stockpiles. We shop a lot at Aldi and Costco.

Oh, and $0.15 bowls of oatmeal! I ate that almost every day for a year in grad school. Store brand 5 minute oats + splash of milk + brown sugar + a spoonful of blueberries. Loved it and one of the cheapest things you can eat! I would get a huge container of oats for $3 and it lasted me a month! If I ever need to need my family off $10/day or less, there will be alternating oatmeal or eggs for breakfast and rice & beans for dinner. Lunch would vary based on what's on sale.

We're 2 adults and 2 ES-kids. Approx $400 monthly at Trader Joe's, approx $80 at Asian grocery stores for fruits/vegetables, $100 at Target (detergent, paper etc), $60 for eating out (carry-out). Eat non-veg once or twice a week.

these numbers are CRAZY low. have you accounted for ALL expenses?

We only shop 1x per week for groceries. We are 2 adults and a toddler. We spend $100/week on groceries and $300/week on work lunches and weeeknd meals (brunch or dinner). Our $100/week is 70% food for the toddler and snacks.

We shop mostly at Safeway. Before baby, we shopped mostly at WF but it is too expensive now because my son eats/snacks a lot and we are eating at home a lot more.

$585/22 seems high to me. I spend $300 for myself and 2 kids now that my husband is away for work. While he's home it can be about $350-400/month.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Is this per day, week, month?

Sorry. From Sept. 1 through today.

WOWWWW!!!! Where do you shop and what did you buy?

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.

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

I read somewhere someone fed a family of four for $7 per day.

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.

About $147/week on the farm share + other groceries (milk, nuts, extra meats as needed, yogurt, avocados, cheese). That's not including household items but we use vinegar for cleaning, unpaper towels, and a bidet, so we don't actually have many household item expenses - trash bags is all I can think of.

Look up the other 3,000 threads on this topic.

Between $600-$900 per month depending on how much meat/fish we eat. Whole Foods and local organic store plus delivery about once a month. Cook all meals for 2 adults and 1 toddler. Eat out about 4x month.

Anonymous wrote:We budget $120/week for fresh foods (mostly from WF) and then get toiletries/tp/pt/dry pantry items every other month or so at Costco ($200-300 avg bill). 2 adults. We cook a lot. I'm expecting and trying to limit salt intake, artificial ingredients, and processed foods.

This is close to what we spend. Maybe a tad more, and I shop at Giant, not WF (but buy mostly organic products when they are available).

$800. 2 adults, 1 toddler. Not including eating out.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Is this per day, week, month?

Sorry. From Sept. 1 through today.

WOWWWW!!!! Where do you shop and what did you buy?

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.

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

I read somewhere someone fed a family of four for $7 per day.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Is this per day, week, month?

Sorry. From Sept. 1 through today.

WOWWWW!!!! Where do you shop and what did you buy?

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.

I would consider that pretty high. We don't eat meat as a central part of the meal as often because we realized how much extra money it was costing (not to say we wouldn't flavor a soup with bacon or a ham bone).

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Is this per day, week, month?

Sorry. From Sept. 1 through today.

WOWWWW!!!! Where do you shop and what did you buy?

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.

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