How much do you spend on groceries per week?

Family of six:  $900/m grocery budget.  About $150/m for eating out. 

Kinda hard with two teenage boys and a triathlete in the house

Family of 5 - $200 week.  That includes 2 triathletes, 2 girls, and one 2 year old tank.  I abuse the Commissary and get as many manufacturers coupons as well as all the coupons just for the military.  If I didn't have to buy pullups/diapers for 2 kids, we would be down to about $150 a week.  

We do not eat out much, maybe once a week.  

family of five, about $250/wk before eating out (we eat out once maybe twice a week for dinner and take lunch every day).  We buy all fresh fruits and vegetable and all organic too.  $500?????  You eating gold?  

I live in Houston though and cost of living (which DOES translate to groceries) is lower here.

In Columbus, IN, our family of 5 was spending about $150/wk on groceries.  This includes some pretty good couponing by my wife... on the order of about $30/wk. It also included 5 gallons of milk per week.

In Beijing It's closer to $200 a week and we plan on eating out 2x a week, and I eat out for lunch every day.

We eat all organic or try to.  Any eat a lot fo veggies/fruit but $500 seems too high for me.  I include toilet paper, deodorant, soap, etc in this as well.

$50-$75 a week, family of just me.

I usually eat out ~one dinner a week and ~a few salad lunches a week are purchased at the work cafeteria. But otherwise I cook almost every meal at home and make leftovers. 

$20 for one person. If I eat out or order in a few times a week, that'd be $40 total.

If I really scrimped, planned very carefully, hit the open-air markets early in the morning I could pay $8/week.

About $120/wk for myself and the boyfriend.

We usually use this website: www.relishrelish.com For $7 a month, you get a new list of recipies weekly, pick a few, and it generates a recipe list and shopping list. (if anyone reads this and signs up, PM me for my full name and use me as your referral source). I hate menu planning, and this keeps me buying what we need when we need it.

It doesn't work well with special diets, like vegan, gluten free, etc - though it does have recipes that offer those, just not a large variety.

ETA: They have a bunch that are $12 for 4 servings.

geauxtri - 2012-05-10 9:51 PM

TriAya - 2012-05-10 7:49 AM

$20 for one person. If I eat out or order in a few times a week, that'd be $40 total.

If I really scrimped, planned very carefully, hit the open-air markets early in the morning I could pay $8/week.

That must not count for international import of Pop-Tarts?  lol

One (small) box of Tarts, IF they're available here, is $11.

2 adults and a 4 year old, about $75/wk

TriAya - 2012-05-10 9:35 AM

geauxtri - 2012-05-10 9:51 PM

TriAya - 2012-05-10 7:49 AM

$20 for one person. If I eat out or order in a few times a week, that'd be $40 total.

If I really scrimped, planned very carefully, hit the open-air markets early in the morning I could pay $8/week.

That must not count for international import of Pop-Tarts?  lol

One (small) box of Tarts, IF they're available here, is $11.

Those better be some caviar filled tarts! 

I have no idea, and honestly don't want to know... I am bliss in my ignorance. 

True story:  

My wife stops at the store a few nights ago to pick up a couple of things we need.  She usually does one "big" shopping trip a month, so a few times during the month she need to run in and pick milk, bread, some produce, that kind of stuff.

So anyway she comes home and is unloading a few things and holds up a bag of grapes and asks me "how much do you think this cost".  I sized it up, held it for weight, and I shoot back "$2.50"  She proceeds to laugh, tell me I'm out of touch and say "try $8.25"  

Thank God she does the shopping!