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Im really curious on how others do it. My parents usually have this routine.. My dad gives my mom a certain amount of money each month and that is grocery shopping money. So how do you do it? do you ALWAYS do the grocery shopping? do you guys do it together once a week? Or do you guys switch it up? And who usually " holds " the shopping money?
We shop once or twice a week and we always go together. The money comes out of our joint account, so whoever is closest to the cash pays, while the other bags.
Going together makes it more fun.
We do a big shopping every 2 weeks, and probably once a week pick up fruits and veggies, etc. FI pays for the groceries. Right now FI pays most of the bills and most of my income goes to our wedding account.
I do the vast majority of the grocery shopping while DH is at work, so I pay. But he picks up odds and ends on the way home or grabs steaks at our favourite market in the city, so he pays for those. We don't really keep track to tell you the truth!
We shop together and I love it! We have a joint account so the money comes out of there. I usually "pay' because I have a credit card with sweet cash rewards :)
Since I am a SAHW, he pays, but our account is joint. I do most of the grocery shopping or I will end up with all kinds of crazy foods and nothing to make a meal. I am kind of picky about fruit and vegetables and DH has never really learned how to buy them so I find it easier just to do it myself.
We have joint accounts. Even though he makes considerably more money I am the one who handles the bills and does the bulk of the shopping.
I would not be cool with being put on an allowance. I know that's kind of an old school thing, but my mom has always handled all the money too, so I guess I'm just used to the woman being in charge. She always said if my dad handled the money we would have been living in a tent on the golf course because that's where all his money goes. :)
We usually go shopping together. I like certain foods and he likes certain foods, so honestly we just do separate trasactions, each paying for our own food. But it's not like we can't EAT each other's food once it's at home or anything like that. It's just always worked for us.
If we're shopping for a special meal or something, we split the costs too. Like for Christmas, I bought the ham and stuffing ingredients, and he picked up the side dishes and desert.
We've always split everything down the middle, paying wise. It might not seem romantic, but it's just always worked perfectly for us :)
My parents did it the way your do, @Mrsgurzakovic. I hated that my dad gave my mother what looked like allowance...but it worked for them.
We shop once each week or once every other week. We always go together. :)
I normally do the shopping while DH is at work, sometimes we do go together though. And it comes out of our joint account (the only account we have) so we pay for them.
@tksjewelry: My DH is the same way. I try to buy organic when possible and get cage free eggs, etc. If I send him to the store on his own he comes back with whatever is cheapest.
I grocery shop for us. There is a line in the budget for it.
Before I married DH, I was a busy professional with a demanding carrer who lived alone, so I was used to eating out quite a bit. As a result, my infrequent grocery shopping involved buying whatever I was in the mood to eat or snack on, and I wasn't very mindful of prices. DH, on the other hand, was a single dad who had always loved to cook and who had been grocery shopping on a tight budget for his family for years. I had to quit my job and move to another state to be with him, and I'm not working, so, we have to be mindful of expenditures. Because he is so used to shopping for a family on a budget, he almost always does the grocery shopping. (I sometimes go with him on big trips or by myself for a small number of things.) Since I was only used to shopping for one and have really expensive tastes, I've joked that if I went grocery shopping alone, I'd probably want to spend a fortune on steak, shrimp, goat cheese, pine nuts, sundried tomatoes, and other fare that the kids wouldn't eat and would only last DH and me a couple of days! lol. 
We shop together about once every week and a half to two weeks. He pays for them 90% of the time.
We shop once a week and we alternate paying. It helps that right now we get paid opposite each other (him one week, me the next, etc.) Before he got a job, I paid for my groceries and he paid for his (we eat separately quite a lot and I eat a lot of foods he won't touch due to his fear of fruits and health food).
Our hope in the next year or so is to get a joint account to put a certain amount of money in from each of our checks and use that for bills and groceries. I think it's only fair to split the costs, since we both work.
When we're living together he pays usually. He makes more money than I do and he's the one doing the shopping. He usually buys groceries at the commissary of the military base he's staitioned at. I don't go since I'm Canadian and foreign nationals need special passes to go on base until we're married and it's not worth it just to go shopping.
We make our weekly meal plan and grocery list together so we're both on the same page and then he heads out. We shop weekly.
We do the shopping together, and whoever has the money is the one who pays, lol.
@Rachael432: This exactly! We have seperate accounts, but, for all intents and purposes, share our money
We each run out for stuff when needed, but try to do our "big" trips (to costco, or to stock up on stuff) together, we take turns paying (pretty much just whoever feels like getting it pays).
I do the shopping 95% of the time. Whenever he does it, he comes home with $200 worth of random meats, cookies and whatever was on display that caught his eye. He doesn't understand the concept of making a list of meals you want to make for the week, and shopping for those meals only. He just gets whatever looks good and we end up with a full fridge, freezer and pantry and nothing to eat.
The money comes from our joint checking account. We tend to operate with cards only. Some people like cash only.
I do all the grocery shopping or if he goes, he gets a list from me, so I'm essentially still the one doing it. We dont have a grocerry budget, but I always shop the sales for the week.
We do it together every two weeks. We are married so no need to split as it all comes from the same account. When we were dating we would usually divide up the cart and each pay half but we have always done the shopping together. That may change in the future but no kids and we both work full time so we usually go on Sundays.
I do all the shopping bc we would have nothing but junk if DH did the shopping. Our accounts are joint so there's no handing over a set amount of money. I go at least weekly bc I don't like to plan my meals out far in advance and we are always in need of fresh fruit and veggies etc.
All our bank accounts are joint accounts. But DH has credit cards and I don't, so he always pays for everything when we're together. If I'm going grocery shopping without him, I take his credit card. We usually do all the shopping together, but once in a while I go without him when I'm out and about with my mom--those are the times I ask for the card.
I do 99% of the grocery shopping, before we were married since we lived together I would pay about 1/3 of the bills since there is a huge disparity in what I make vs. what he makes. Basically I would save the grocery receipts for the month that I payed for, he would tally the bills and we would subtract groceries from my "rent/utility" total and I would write a check for whatever was left on that balance. One of my favorite things about being married is not paying rent anymore!!
Now that we are married, we have a joint account and credit cards, so I just take out whatever I need along the way. Usually I just pay with the credit card at the grocery store and we pay it off at the end of the month out of our joint account.
I usually make my FI shop for food, but SOMETIMES he drags me out by acting really sad and stating how he hates going alone. So I go with him....eventhough I usually just push the cart and give pretty much no input. His money is directly deposited into my bank account and has been for 3 years, so we both pay for the groceries in a sense. We don't split it...its just our money.
We both put $50 aside each paycheck and I take it and do grocery shopping with it. We go together 1-2 times a month for big items and take the car (we live in a busy city, so parking can be difficult during the week) and for smaller items (produce, fruit) I get as-needed on my walk home from work. I also shop the circulars, takes time, but makes SUCH a difference! I usually save 30-35% but once I get better I expect to save more!
And any extra JUNK (aka super fatty foods) my FI wants, he gets on his own. I'm not paying for that! He eats so much bad stuff and stays skinny! UGH!
If I let my husband shop we would be eating cookies, slimjims and spagehettio's. ha!
I shop, he pays. If I want something really random or stuff like special coffees , Ill use my own money. but for the most part, everthing made is for us, so its joint.
We tried structuring it out (putting $ in a joint account every month and using that) but it turns out we're just really lazy. So we just use our own personal accounts when we go. I still think our first idea would be good if we committed to it.
He goes more often than I do as there is a grocery store right next door to his work, but he doesn't get very much. He'll get our day to day items that we run out off (bagels, half and half, bananas, TP, chips, etc)
Whenever I go, I'll buy beef, poultry, fruits and veg, snacks, cereal, and anything needed for a meal that I'm planning, so my trips are more spendy.
We each put the same amount of cash in the grocery fund at th ebeginning of the month. After we purchase something we take the cash out of the fund and put the recipt in the container. That also helps us tpo be aware of what we are spending on food.
We have an ongoing list and both of us add items when we see we are almost out of something or need ingrediants for something we plan to cook.
Whoever has the time on any given day does the shopping. SO works from home and I work shift so both of us can make a trip to the store whenever we want. We live right downtown so we walk everywhere- the butcher, the produce store, the bakery etc.
I do the grocery shopping whenever we need something - if he comes with me we end up with so much crap - cookies, cake, icecream, chocolate etc etc! Sometimes I use my savings, sometimes I use our credit card that DH pays off.
I plan out our weekly menu and make a list, then I take his card and go buy it. I try to stay under $100. Once we are married it will be the same, but I won't have to ask for his bank card, LOL.
I do. He buys, I fly. Taking him along is torture heehee, and I have it down to a science.
We do it together. As a matter of fact we're going tonight...I always pay because he doesn't make any $ yet.
We have our money in our own accounts and on each paycheck we put a set amount of money into our joint account to pay for our bills and such. We are military so we use the money they alot for housing and food along with our combined money in the joint account to pay our bills together and buy groceries. I normally do the grocery shopping just because I am more picky about what we buy and I do most of the cooking. I will send him to the store on occassion though if it is only for a few easy things.
Not really a routine as such, but we try and do a big shop every month, then pick up perishable foods like milk/bread/veggies about weekly or when we need it.
I don't really mind doing the small trips with FI, but I really enjoy doing the big shops on my own, as I am focused and put only stuff we need in the trolley, and really think about offers to see if it's actually a bargain before buying it. Monies just come from our joint bank account, so makes no difference really who pays.
It's a cold hard calculated formula doing the grocery shop, not the easiest!
We both dislike grocery shopping so we take turns week about. When its my turn I go late at night, to save from heaps of people plus kids from the school I am teaching at following me around the aisles peering into my shopping cart!
We have a joint account which we use to pay.
We usually shop once every two weeks. I get paid weekly and my FI gets paid every other. He will usually pay that way :) We are in the process of combining and just having a joint account.
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