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I feel like I spend too much, so just looking for an average. I realize it will vary based on where you live, how often you eat out, and if you coupon.
I am spending about $150 for 2 weeks worth of groceries for all 3 meals for my husband and me. I don't coupon at all, and we eat out about once a week for dinner and once a week for lunch.
@shellyjean: That seems really good to me. It's about our average too.
@shellyjean: That seems really good to me. It's about our average too.
Ours is about the same as well. We never eat out and I coupon here and there, but not a whole lot.
Food is EXPENSIVE!!!
woah - we're two (in DC) and spend about $100 a week. I buy a TON of produce, and maybe one piece of fish and one piece of chicken a week (for him and me respectively)...we don't really buy 'convenience foods'. We mainly go to Wegmans or Whole Foods.
If it's farmers market season, we spend more because I totally buy a lot of stuff there.
We must be nuts!
We pay about $250 a month for groceries here in the Midwest. We eat out a lot (almost all lunches and dinner about twice a week), but we are also foodies who cook pretty extensive recipes a lot too.
I think what you are spending is about average. We budget $75.00 per week; sometimes we spend a little more; sometimes we spend a little less. This doesn't include take out or going out though; those are in our entertainment budget.
For the two of us it's about $100 per week/ week and a half if we buy all our groceries and make our own food.
Wow, I only spend about $30-50 a week on groceries (it's just me at the moment). If I do coupon, I can usually get away for $20 or less buying twice as much or more than I'd normally buy.
My FI works out of town M-F, so I'm just feeding myself for the most part. I spend about $30 a week on my food, which is a MASSIVE change from our previous life when he worked here and I was in an office with an awesome cafe - I was blowing through about $150 every 2 weeks, at least.
Couponing is awesome :) I've only been doing it a few weeks but it makes a huge difference.
I am super jealous of your low grocery bills BTW.
we currently spend about 2-300 per month on groceries, depending on where she shop and what's on sale. Household is just my FI and I, and our puppy.
We probably spend $100 a week- for two people. It surprises me if someone can do it for less, but we also eat organic and local.
I'm hoping that ours go down once our veggies in our garden start growing in! We buy A LOT of produce too and that gets expensive!
We spend a lot. I think it partly depends on where you live (Boston, DC, NYC, San Francisco, etc. are going to be more expensive) and also where you shop and what you buy. We probably spend about $100 a week, give or take. We cook at home and don't buy processed food for the most part, but we spend a lot on vegetables, fruits, spices (SO expensive) and meat/fish for FI (I'm vegetarian).
We spend about $120-$130 a week for the two of us. We usually eat out 1-2 meals a week too. So we do spend a lot on food!!
Wow, we spend $450-500 a month for the 2 of us, and we don't eat out very much.
We spend 6-800 dollars a month for two of us. We buy organic product, no processed foods, etc.. so we spend a quite a bit more. We also don't eat out.
We actually spend about $50-75 a week and I shop every two weeks, with a weekly trip to replenish produce/perishables. We have a discount grocery store nearby that gets "off" products from manufacturers that cannot go to a regular grocery store (ripped box lid, misprinted label, etc). I can get boxes of Cherrios for $2, cans of veggies for $.25, bottles of tea for $.30, name brand shampoos for $1.50... I absolutely LOVE this store!!
I also go to regular stores for things I can't get there, because their stock rotates... you never know what you'll find! We really lucked out with this store, but I know they exist other places in the country.
If I plan out our week of meals ahead of time (which I do, but I tend to get swamped at work and don't get it done...sad face!), I can keep it around $90. But I do notice that come Thursday and Friday, the produce is running super low at home.
We eat out once a week and we bring lunch to work every day.
Tip: when in doubt, always have eggs for breakfast for dinner:)
Way to damn much. We buy as cheap as possible and eat out too much. Usually we spend about $100 when we go shopping in one big swing but we usually go back for a billion little things we forgot or suddenly decide we want.
I have no idea how much we spend on groceries. We go shopping about once a month and pick up perishables whenever we need them. I do all the cooking, so I put anything we need in the cart and then DH pays for it.
We've done grocery shopping like that from the very beginning. It was really hard for me the first few times we went grocery shopping... At first I'd put something in the cart and look at him to make sure it was okay. Then he finally just said, "you're doing the cooking. You know what you need and want, so don't worry about it."
Don't feel bad, my food budget is $700/month for both of us ($350 for groceries) and I always go over. Oh farmer's market how I love you, but you're so hard on my wallet.
holy majority of people in this thread spends so little on food. What am I doing wrong haha.. we spend about 100-300$ a week on groceries I make everything from scratch, but I'm also gluten and lactose intolerant so that makes some items a whole lot more expensive. depends if we hit the farmers market or costco; cause costco bills are always expensive.
@lthai: lol.. I was thinking the same thing. We don't go to costco, but there's this great little market near our house of all organic meats, produce, and other stuff.. we spend about 150 dollars there each week + I stop at the normal store for odds and ends a few times a week.
I'm happy when we spend $100 or less, and its just us two. We eat a ton of produce and only buy whatever meat is on sale. We usually eat out once a week and we bring our lunches to work everyday. I also coupon and shop based on the weekly ad. I have no idea how to get our bill lower!!
I currently don't shop right now, but this is one thing I am concered about when we get married. I will be keeping a very tight budget and cooking most meals. working on creating a cookbook with lots of recipies and thinking about this.
We budget $125 per week for the two of us. Usually we spend closer to $100 but the extra helps get things like the cat food and over the counter drugs. That's generally enough food for us for breakfast each day, 5 dinners, and some leftovers for some lunches. Admittedly, we don't cut too many corners or try to save much money in this area--we're big foodies and cooking good meals together is something we really enjoy. We buy produce, meats, dairy and bulk items...not much in the way of canned or packaged foods and shop at a slightly higher than average priced grocery store.
i don't keep track of our budget exactly, but we buy groceries about 2 times per month, and spend an average of about $100-ish when we do. and then on top of that, we eat out maybe 2 times per week (usually when we're running low on groceries--we have been getting our groceries through a delivery service, which was actually cheaper than the grocery stores closest to us, but required thinking ahead and placing the order before we ran out...), so that's another $100-ish/week...so maybe we spend ~$500-600/month? that's in nyc, so it's a little pricier than it otherwise would be...we just moved closer to the most awesome and cheap grocery store though, and farther away from a bunch of restaurants we really liked, so hopefully our food spending will go down!
Wow, all you ladies budget so well on food!! The FI and I spend between $150-200 per week, thats for 3 meals, and 2 snacks a day. We buy a ton of fresh produce, vegtables and fish though, thats were the majority of the money goes. Now, thats if i go to the store, if I send the FI, he comes home with gourmet cookies, wine and beer. lol.. and it takes him forever!!
Ha! I was just thinking about this question over the weekend. We usually around $100/week. So, sounds like we're pretty much average.. maybe a little higher. Good to know. :)
We probably spend about $75-100 per week. We try to plan out meals at the beginning of the week and have leftovers, etc. I eat lunch at work 2 days per week but it only takes me 30 mins to earn that money so it's not too bad. The other days, I eat leftovers. He takes a salad/leftovers every day pretty much. For breakfast we each have a banana (those babies are cheap!)
Around $100 a week for us and the same for the sanctuary cats
We used to spend about $100 each week. Now we found Aldis and cut our bill down to $40-$50 per week.
@lthai: Yay! Someone else who spends as much as I do! We do at least $75-100 a week per person in food.
We spend about $250/month on food. We live in the LA area, so stuff is a bit expensive. We also buy organic meat and wild-caught Alaskan fish. Our beef just went up to $6.50/pound! We buy only fresh veggies and fruits, all organic, no processed food.
Every six months-1 year, we do stock up at the local Sprouts on all their bulk items. Like $.75/pound dried beans, lentils, and $.50/pound rice. I probably buy 50 pounds of stuff and stick it in my pantry. That way, I can always have a quick side/protein when needed, and don't have to add to my usual budget.
We spend about $100 a week on groceries - we usually eat all our breakfasts from home, 5/7 dinners at home and bring lunch 3/5 days. We have one vegetarian dinner a week and have chicken 3x, seafood 1x and beef 1x. Our lunches are usually leftovers. We buy a fair amount of produce - all organic. We should coupon but we don't.
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