re: What's your monthly food budget?

We don’t keep track. We spend too much and I am the culprit

I try to keep it under $2,500.

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Family of 5. I don't even want to guess.

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Same here and fortunate that I don’t have to worry about it.

I have an account with mint.com that I setup, mainly to keep track of investment accounts and overall financial picture. You can create categories that will try to automatically sync and assign transactions to the correct category. If it doesn’t recognize it, you can set it to always assign a category in the future. It can be a great tool for budgeting food and groceries.

Before I got an espresso machine for Christmas I was spending $250-$300 just at Starbucks every month. I really don’t know what is spent on food every month but it’s a lot.

We spend about $750 a month. Have never purchased a cup of Starbucks coffee.

Family of 5 $300 per week groceries, $50 eating out.

I am afraid to add it up.

$600/month for groceries
$250/month for dining out

Grocery store, I spend about $600 a month. We try not to eat out, but when we do it is usually something quick and relatively cheap on the go. Family of 4, soon to be 5. My daughter doesn't eat a ton and she's almost 10. My son will be 5 soon and the baby on the way is a boy too. Ask me again in 10 years when I'll have a 10 year old boy and a teenage boy in the house. I'll probably have to take out a second mortgage to afford the groceries.