re: Food Budget

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Meh, my household averages about 70/ week with 2 adults and a kid.

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This is insane. Props to y’all for pulling it off.

I feel like I’m a good saver and shopper. Eat leftovers often. Don’t go out to eat much.

But just to put your numbers in perspective.. let’s say you consume 40% of that $70/week while your wife and kid consume 60%. That’s just slightly more than $120/month for yourself for all meals. That’s crazy.

Just off the top of my head, I probably spend $20/month on milk at the grocery store, for myself alone. Again, props to y’all. Wish I could save at that level.

There are plenty meals that we cook that end up being about $1 per meal for dinner. Maybe $1.50 if you add some sides


Stir fry chicken or beef
Tacos
Mexican bowls
Grilled chicken w/veggies
Burgers
Pork chops w/veggies

Add in about $0.50 for breakfast (3-4 eggs and 2 pieces toast) then sandwiches or leftovers for lunch and we are easily under $5/day per person

I need to look into less costly markets. Kroger guy as well. Sam’s actually has great meat prices and we switched to store brand vegetables. We eat a lot of fish, which is more expensive but worth, IMO. I personally hate eating out but the wife enjoys a good date night(I include babysitting in this figure as well). What really gets us is alcohol. No grain products but wine. Just bought our first box of wine and it was really good.

$1,000/month is my goal.

Haha. Combined adult weight is 280ish. No we just eat a lot of food. Wife and I both swim a lot and eat a lot to replace calories. We go through 5 dozen eggs/week.

I don’t feel so bad, my neighbor told me they spend over $3k/month on food and eating out.

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Well, aren't you just a benevolent overlord?

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Yea that came across shitty.

I meant the extra money is put towards entertainment. Whether that's going to the zoo or a movie or whatever.

I dont need any extra entertainment, but the rest of the family does.

I will say the only reason we keep it so low is because 1) we dont eat out for lunch at all, dinner very rarely 2) we dont drink hardly at all anymore, 3) our foods are basic. We cook fresh vegetables/canned veggies and the meat is whatever is on sale.

It's boring but it works. We are young and decided we would put more into housing so our kid could be in a great school district, retirement can be maxed etc.

Just giving you a hard time.

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We are young and decided we would put more into housing so our kid could be in a great school district, retirement can be maxed etc.

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Very, very smart. Especially maxing out retirement early.

Family of 6: $1200/month grocery (includes food and consumables)

Also buy 1/2 a cow every 6-8 months.

Food is very important to me, I'd rather cut money elsewhere.

Just 2 of us are pushing $800 to $850 on a regular basis, that's groceries (although most of my household stuff is rolled into that, cleaning products and whatever else she needs to keep things going) and eating out. We feed the (adult) kids and grandkids a lot, though.

I've been tracking every dollar spent for the last couple years, and we average just under $800/month combined on groceries & eating out.

This includes me eating out for lunch at work 3-4 days per week.

Family of 4 with 2 kids under 10 as well.