How much on groceries should one spend?

[yobarman]

Two part question:

1. How much do you think 3 adults... 2 male 1 female should be spending on a weeks worth of groceries? Assume breakfast, decent lunches and dinner is cooked every night and there is always somehin to snack on. This household wants to eat as healthy as possible. So now junk food, processed sugar, etc.

2. How much do you actually spend on groceries for your family per week? Say you waaaaaaana eat healthy but you end up going out every now and then anyway... kids dont eat sometimes and food goes bad.

 

[EngenZerO]

1. $100
2. Eat out all the time... So roughly 20 bucks, milk, eggs, bread, etc...

 

[dabuddha]

Can't answer the 1st question without more details

2nd question, for me and the wife, I spend around $60-70 a week in groceries.

 

[loup garou]

1) Around $175
2) Answered here.

 

[acemcmac]

I never buy more than I can carry. That pretty much keeps it to $30 in one trip. I go mabye 2x a month and eat out the rest.

 

[yobarman]

Originally posted by: dabuddha
Can't answer the 1st question without more details

2nd question, for me and the wife, I spend around $60-70 a week in groceries.

Which details you need?

 

[dabuddha]

Originally posted by: yobarman

Originally posted by: dabuddha
Can't answer the 1st question without more details

2nd question, for me and the wife, I spend around $60-70 a week in groceries.

Which details you need?

How big everyone is? What's your usual diet. Whose vegetarian who isn't. What other food limitations anyone has. etc.

 

[Hoober]

My wife, 2 year old son, and I spend approximately $700/month in groceries. We eat fairly healthy and use coupons. Approximately $150 of that is for 'eating out money' either lunch during the work week or dinner.

 

[DVK916]

Food is so expensive.

Think how much money the goverment could raise with a 7% sales tax on food.

 

[yobarman]

Originally posted by: dabuddha

Originally posted by: yobarman

Originally posted by: dabuddha
Can't answer the 1st question without more details

2nd question, for me and the wife, I spend around $60-70 a week in groceries.

Which details you need?

How big everyone is? What's your usual diet. Whose vegetarian who isn't. What other food limitations anyone has. etc.

all-meaters. we're trying to start eating very healthy and get into shape... so there would be a lot of fish, chicken and meat, purchases... lots of veggies, fruits, and stuff and low on the snack foods, sodas, candys, ice cream etc.

 

[habib89]

about $100/week or less, family of four (2 adults, 1 toddler, 1 infant)

 

[djheater]

For 2 adults and 3 children (8,4,1) we spend $750 a month or $187.50 weekly.
I'd say 80% of our diet is organic. We participate in a CSA and get a bushel or a half bushel of fresh produce weekly.

We look for whole grain foods, mostly unprocessed foods, organic foods, and foods without hydrogenated oils....

I think we eat pretty well. And we really don't spend an exhorbitant amount.

 

[yobarman]

Originally posted by: djheater
For 2 adults and 3 children (8,4,1) we spend $750 a month or $187.50 weekly.
I'd say 80% of our diet is organic. We participate in a CSA and get a bushel or a half bushel of fresh produce weekly.

We look for whole grain foods, mostly unprocessed foods, organic foods, and foods without hydrogenated oils....

I think we eat pretty well. And we really don't spend an exhorbitant amount.

That's what i need to set up. Do you have more info on this CSA (no idea what it is lol)

Id like to keep things healthy and nothin beats organic!

 

[Xcobra]

i probably spend an average of $80 on myself!!! :Q and thats for like a week or so...

 

[mrchan]

Organic is overrated.

 

[The Godfather]

1) Around $100 if you're an immigrant that has only 3 years residence so far, like me.
2) I'm not the man of the house, i just know what, when, where, on, why and how we spend our family's money all the time.

 

[dawnbug]

I would say $100 to $150 a week for three of you.

There are two of us and we shop every other week and spend $150 to $200 every two weeks.

 

[ponyo]

Depends what you buy. If you buy seafood stuff and lot of meats like steaks, it can get expensive.

We probably spend about $250 or so a week on grocery stuff.

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: yobarman

Originally posted by: djheater
For 2 adults and 3 children (8,4,1) we spend $750 a month or $187.50 weekly.
I'd say 80% of our diet is organic. We participate in a CSA and get a bushel or a half bushel of fresh produce weekly.

We look for whole grain foods, mostly unprocessed foods, organic foods, and foods without hydrogenated oils....

I think we eat pretty well. And we really don't spend an exhorbitant amount.

That's what i need to set up. Do you have more info on this CSA (no idea what it is lol)

Id like to keep things healthy and nothin beats organic!

It's community supported agriculture. Everybody has their own way of setting it up, basically you're buying a 'share' of a farm and get a portion of whatever it produces... sometimes they have mechanisms for going year round.. like our farm, they go to a produce market during the winter and buy in lots, then divvy it up for delivery... They deliver to a few sites and we drive over to pick it up, We really enjoy the system, however it's not for everyone.

Before we joined this, we had really good luck at some of the ethnic markets for produce, living relatively close to chicago, there's a lot of diversity.

You're gonna have to shop around.

 

[lokiju]

1.............
2 I just spent $188 on Sundays grocery visit but that will last myself and my SO a good two weeks, but about every two weeks we spend about that much give or take. We cook every night and always have some sort of meat, but we eat a lot of fish so that doesn't help keep the cost down.

 

[RossMAN]

coupons

 

[desteffy]

Originally posted by: djheater

Originally posted by: yobarman

Originally posted by: djheater
For 2 adults and 3 children (8,4,1) we spend $750 a month or $187.50 weekly.
I'd say 80% of our diet is organic. We participate in a CSA and get a bushel or a half bushel of fresh produce weekly.

We look for whole grain foods, mostly unprocessed foods, organic foods, and foods without hydrogenated oils....

I think we eat pretty well. And we really don't spend an exhorbitant amount.

That's what i need to set up. Do you have more info on this CSA (no idea what it is lol)

Id like to keep things healthy and nothin beats organic!

It's community supported agriculture. Everybody has their own way of setting it up, basically you're buying a 'share' of a farm and get a portion of whatever it produces... sometimes they have mechanisms for going year round.. like our farm, they go to a produce market during the winter and buy in lots, then divvy it up for delivery... They deliver to a few sites and we drive over to pick it up, We really enjoy the system, however it's not for everyone.

Before we joined this, we had really good luck at some of the ethnic markets for produce, living relatively close to chicago, there's a lot of diversity.

You're gonna have to shop around.

That sounds awesome :thumbsup:

I'll have to look into these.

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
coupons

It always seems that ho-hos and hot pockets have coupons... I'd be better off not buying those things and picking up some apples....

I do like the .10¢ and 10 for $10 sales that places around here run...

 

[Albis]

for two of us, we spend about 100 a week on food. that includes all the fruit we can eat and usually some good quality red meat

to cut costs, i normally shop at sam's club when i can on bulk items.

 

[BigPoppa]

$40-50/week is what I spend as a single college male. I cook pretty much daily. I maybe eat out 1 every other week. Lots of chicken, tuna, eggs, fruit, and veges. Eating healthy is really pretty damn easy, just don't buy what you don't want to eat.