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 2012-05-10 12:36 PM in reply to: #4201851 |
Champion  7233    |  Subject: RE: How much do you spend on groceries per week?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. Thats about where I am, and I live in a US east coast city. Open market is where I get most food. normal for me is around 20 a week give or take (just me). Weeks when i need to buy cleaning stuff, or cooking things like oil/spices it goes up a bit, but thats the norm. Going out will add a bit on that. |
| 2012-05-10 12:43 PM in reply to: #4201646 |
| 43 | Subject: RE: How much do you spend on groceries per week? 2 adults and a 6.5 month old who is just starting solids (we're doing baby led weaning so she's just eating real food, no baby food) and our bill can be anywhere from $80 to the shocking $160 it was this week. The average is probably around $110 or so, as other people have mentioned it depends on the meat in the freezer situation. I'm breastfeeding the baby who has a milk allergy, so I cook everything (including bread, my granola for breakfast, etc) from scratch and we rarely eat out to ensure that I don't accidentally get some milk. |
| 2012-05-10 1:21 PM in reply to: #4201646 |
| 301 | Subject: RE: How much do you spend on groceries per week? Family of two here, our grocery bill is between $80 - $120 a week. It's $80 a week in the summer when we get farm fresh veggies from our CSA and closer to $120 in the winter when we've got to buy veggies each week. We only eat high quality meet that is cage free/free range and antibiotic/hormone free. We try our best to buy organic but that can be hard in the upper mid-west in the winter. We haven't been willing to take the plunge and buy organic milk...yet. We eat out maybe once a week. We both work from home and eat a made from scratch meal most of the week for lunch with a few cold cut sandwiches thrown in for good measure. |
| 2012-05-10 2:38 PM in reply to: #4201646 |
Master 2485 Atlanta, Georgia | Subject: RE: How much do you spend on groceries per week? Family of four: $275/wk and kids' lunches are included in tuition. I eat Campbell's Chunky for lunch 4-5days/week(I'm in a rut...help me, please!) so it's not my fault. Shopping is divided 75/25% between Kroger and Trader Joe's. Big contributor is fruit, which we eat quite a bit of - prices have gone up bigtime - so $30-40/wk is about typical. Stuff for 4 dogs is also in that total.. |
| 2012-05-10 3:01 PM in reply to: #4201646 |
Master 3127 Sunny Southern Cal | Subject: RE: How much do you spend on groceries per week? I don't know for sure, but leaving the store having just dropped $100-$200 on groceries isn't at all uncommon. As long as the savings is going in the right direction, I don't worry about it too much. I'd rather aim to cut expense on things like the water or phone bill than on the food that we eat. No doubt, everything keeps going up, though, and especially since the economic pain of the past few years slowly subsides. |
| 2012-05-10 3:19 PM in reply to: #4201646 |
Master 6595 Rio Rancho, NM | Subject: RE: How much do you spend on groceries per week? $200 to $300 for us. We, generally, have a triathlete and three grown men (at times two of those three men are hockey player$). I alternate between Trader Joe's and Sunflower and buy mostly organic when I can. I buy very little "processed" stuff and usually make everything from scratch. (Oh and I double up two of our meals each week for a family at church) |
| 2012-05-10 3:35 PM in reply to: #4201900 |
Master 4118 Toronto Bronze member | Subject: RE: How much do you spend on groceries per week? ratherbeswimming - 2012-05-10 10:04 AM 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. We spend about the same on average - except I LOVE meal planning! Each week i pick a set of recipe and I make up a list and take inventory and try to use things we already have but I like to cook so i am willing spend and buy fresh things. I also aim to only buy what i know I will use so i am not too big on buying in bulk unless its an ingredient i know i will use multiple time. I know we could spend less but I do really enjoy cooking and trying new things so i don't mind buying specialty ingredients as well as fresh things ... |
| 2012-05-10 4:29 PM in reply to: #4201900 |
Extreme Veteran 875 Issaquah | Subject: RE: How much do you spend on groceries per week? ratherbeswimming - 2012-05-10 7:04 AM 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. +1 for the relish site - I was very skeptical when my wife signed us up, but after the first week I thought that was the best use of $7/wk we had. Some surprisingly good recipes on that site. As far as weekly groceries: ~$250/wk for a family of 4 |
| 2012-05-10 5:17 PM in reply to: #4203299 |
Sensei Sin City | Subject: RE: How much do you spend on groceries per week? I have no clue. I'm glad we earn enough that we can get what we want, and not have to worry about budget... BUT, we are smart shoppers. We don't splurge on steaks/lobster/booze, expensive organic stuff, etc... Lots of "regular" veggies and fruit from the standard mega marts, lots of chicken and fish. Not a lot of money on treats or junk food. It's sort of tough to tell, becuase I can get a lot of bulk items from Sam's. I got a couple 25-30 lb bags of rice, for example. That week I may spend 300-400 bucks, but then I don't get rice for another 10 months. |
| 2012-05-10 5:19 PM in reply to: #4203378 |
Sensei Sin City | Subject: RE: How much do you spend on groceries per week? I like the stuff at whole foods and the like... BUT, it's hard to drop $9/lb for some chicken salad, when I can make a ton of it at home for the same price. |
| 2012-05-10 5:54 PM in reply to: #4201646 |
Champion 7547 Albuquerque, New Mexico Bronze member | Subject: RE: How much do you spend on groceries per week? I average $30-40/week for just myself, and that includes a fair amount of fresh fruit/vegetables. We were really good economizing for a family of 6, with monthly food budgets on the order of $500-600. Not quite as much fresh stuff then. |
| 2012-05-10 6:40 PM in reply to: #4201646 |
Expert 1037 Portland, OR | Subject: RE: How much do you spend on groceries per week? My husband and I tend to be between $60-$90 per week, depending on how much I plan on cooking that week (sometimes I cook like 6 meals at a time and freeze leftovers to last me for a while). Most of the cost comes from my stuff, since I always get lots of produce, fish, and turkey. I think if my husband was shopping just for himself, it would be more like $25/week because he sticks to pb&j, cereal, and basic pasta primarily. We're moving to Portland in a couple weeks, and I'll be interested to see how our shopping bill changes. We'll do a lot more shopping at the farmer's market, so we'll see! |
| 2012-05-11 6:09 AM in reply to: #4201646 |
| Bronze member | Subject: RE: How much do you spend on groceries per week? Family of 4, 2 adults, a 4 yr old daughter and 6 year old son here. It seems like we usually have one stock up week of around $150-200 dollars then the next week is just fruit and veges to fill in - around $40-$60. My in-laws gave us a side of beef for Christmas (strange gift I know |
) so we save some money there. My daughter is the only milk drinker of the family so we only buy a small half gallon.| 2012-10-01 6:24 AM in reply to: #4202004 |
Master 2701 Salisbury, North Carolina | Subject: RE: How much do you spend on groceries per week? TriAya - 2012-05-10 10:35 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. Being a Pop-Tart connoisseur myself, I feel ya ! Hey, pm me your address and your fav. flavor(s) and maybe I can send you several boxes. Seriously. Wait, will customs/perishables be a prob. ? Don't know, whadda thk ? Back to the OP... about $175-200 when both my college kids are here. Obviously WAY LESS, $75-100 total, while they're in school. Edited by tri42 2012-10-01 6:24 AM |
| 2012-10-01 6:25 AM in reply to: #4201646 |
Extreme Veteran 626 South Florida | Subject: RE: How much do you spend on groceries per week? Family of 6 with 3 teenage boys we spend at least $500 but I really don't want to know. |
| 2012-10-01 6:50 AM in reply to: #4201646 |
Champion 14571 the alamo city, Texas | Subject: RE: How much do you spend on groceries per week? only 2 people in my house, half my grocery bill is produce and meat (at least). about $100 per week. according to mint, about 100-125 on restaraunts/fast food per week as well. i strive to pack my lunch every day...my husband goes out most days. i should start packing his lunch for him ;-) |
| 2012-10-01 8:25 AM in reply to: #4434455 |
Champion 34263 Chicago | Subject: RE: How much do you spend on groceries per week? I'd guess for the two of us, both ironman training, our bill is at about $100 a week. It's gone up considerably since we started on the paleo diet. Fresh food is much more expensive in Chicago than processed food, and gone are the days of just throwing together a spaghetti dinner with a 99-cent box of noodles and some cheap marinara. We bought $250 worth of meat recently in bulk, which should keep our shopping trips less expensive for a while. It costs a LOT to eat healthy! |
| 2012-10-01 8:27 AM in reply to: #4201802 |
Pro 4824 Houston | Subject: RE: How much do you spend on groceries per week? jgaither - 2012-05-10 8:32 AM 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. Everything he said. We are a family of six and about $175-$200/wk which has gone up significantly the last 6 months. I can remember when it was $140 a week and we had seven then and that one was a big eater. We eat breakfast for dinner at least one night a week which is quite cheap, I also make 2 quiche's every other week, another cheap meal. |
| 2012-10-01 8:49 AM in reply to: #4434574 |
Master 1376 Chicago | Subject: RE: How much do you spend on groceries per week? mr2tony - 2012-10-01 8:25 AM I'd guess for the two of us, both ironman training, our bill is at about $100 a week. It's gone up considerably since we started on the paleo diet. Fresh food is much more expensive in Chicago than processed food, and gone are the days of just throwing together a spaghetti dinner with a 99-cent box of noodles and some cheap marinara. We bought $250 worth of meat recently in bulk, which should keep our shopping trips less expensive for a while. It costs a LOT to eat healthy! My wife and I live in Chicago and we spend between $100-125 per week. As Tony said everything in Chicago costs more. Besides the extra cost for fresh food, their are all these hidden taxes. For example if you buy an 8 pack of gatorade they hit you with a $.10 tax for the plastic bottles. You don't get it back if you recycle. All those little hidden taxes add up. |
| 2012-10-01 8:52 AM in reply to: #4201646 |
| Iron Donkey 38643 , Wisconsin | Subject: RE: How much do you spend on groceries per week? With 3 young, hungry, growing sons, it's sometimes over 150 bucks a week, and that's not "splurging" but rather the staples! Milk is costly, and so is cereal. |
| 2012-10-01 11:27 AM in reply to: #4201646 |
Master 2802 Minnetonka, Minnesota Bronze member | Subject: RE: How much do you spend on groceries per week? A LOT less now that my son went off to college. Maybe $150 for a family of 3 and a big dog, but my wife travels some and we eat out or order in at least once or twice a week. |
| 2012-10-01 11:56 AM in reply to: #4434574 |
Queen BTich 12411 , | Subject: RE: How much do you spend on groceries per week? mr2tony - 2012-10-01 9:25 AM I'd guess for the two of us, both ironman training, our bill is at about $100 a week. It's gone up considerably since we started on the paleo diet. Fresh food is much more expensive in Chicago than processed food, and gone are the days of just throwing together a spaghetti dinner with a 99-cent box of noodles and some cheap marinara. We bought $250 worth of meat recently in bulk, which should keep our shopping trips less expensive for a while. It costs a LOT to eat healthy! Yes. Ugh...makes me sick to think about! We dropped $140 at Whole Foods on Saturday: 2 chickens to roast, 2 packs of bacon, veggies. That's not counting what we had bought at another store, where some items would be cheaper (mostly veggies). I'd say we spend about $200ish a week. Some weeks more (the WholeFoods weeks), some less (in between trips). We try to only go 2, at most 3, weeks a month. Don't usually have to buy a ton of meat, as I still have deer leftover from last season and tons of seafood. |
| 2012-10-01 12:49 PM in reply to: #4435107 |
Elite 4344 | Subject: RE: How much do you spend on groceries per week? Comet - 2012-10-01 12:56 PM mr2tony - 2012-10-01 9:25 AM I'd guess for the two of us, both ironman training, our bill is at about $100 a week. It's gone up considerably since we started on the paleo diet. Fresh food is much more expensive in Chicago than processed food, and gone are the days of just throwing together a spaghetti dinner with a 99-cent box of noodles and some cheap marinara. We bought $250 worth of meat recently in bulk, which should keep our shopping trips less expensive for a while. It costs a LOT to eat healthy! Yes. Ugh...makes me sick to think about! We dropped $140 at Whole Foods on Saturday: 2 chickens to roast, 2 packs of bacon, veggies. That's not counting what we had bought at another store, where some items would be cheaper (mostly veggies). I'd say we spend about $200ish a week. Some weeks more (the WholeFoods weeks), some less (in between trips). We try to only go 2, at most 3, weeks a month. Don't usually have to buy a ton of meat, as I still have deer leftover from last season and tons of seafood. I remember that you taught me to substitute the name Whole Paycheck for Whole Foods. |
| 2012-10-01 2:13 PM in reply to: #4201646 |
Champion 7821 Brooklyn, NY | Subject: RE: How much do you spend on groceries per week? I’d say generally we spend about $125 a week on groceries for my wife and son and 8. I think food in general, like most things, is a little more expensive around here. I also admit that I probably buy more pre-packaged things that I need to since I prepare lunch for everyone every day and I try to save myself some time in the morning/evening by reducing prep time. For example, it would be cheaper to buy the giant container of hummus and a bunch of carrots and cut the carrots down into sticks and portion the hummus out into Tupperware but it’s time consuming, so often I’ll get the bag of “baby” carrots and the single-serving hummus containers. |
| 2012-10-01 3:34 PM in reply to: #4201646 |
Extreme Veteran 3177 | Subject: RE: How much do you spend on groceries per week? My wife and I spend anywhere from 80-150 a week on groceries and other household staples. Add in the once a month (or 6 weeks) cosco trip where we spend another 100 on bulk food items and it adds up. A lot of our bill comes from Dairy (we eat a lot of cheese/yogurt and drink a lot of milk/cream in my coffee) and produce. It is not unusual for us to spend $70 dollars of a $100 dollar trip on apples, bananas, grapes, peppers, green beans etc etc... Between my wife and I and one of our dogs we go through approximately 22 apples a week right now It is mostly healthy eating and we could spend a lot more and in the summer, when we hit the farmers markets, a lot less, but it is worth it to us. (we also do not worry about the meat cost as neither of us eats much meat except occassional fish or my wife eats chicken. The fish we have is all the stuff I catch and freeze throughout the year so that cuts back on costs too) |
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