re: What types of things do you eat for dinner? Curious how everyone deals with food prices.

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But yeah... prices are up. At the beginning of the year, my monthly budget for groceries and household conumables was $800/month. It is now $1,150/month.

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This is what kills me. I used to get pissed if we were spending over $1200 because it meant we weren’t watching our budget and buying excess.

Now our strict budget is $1200 and I don’t think it’s possible to go lower without an extreme “beans and rice” kind of grocery list.

For the OP’s main question:

Meal Tonight:
1) Golden Platter chicken nuggets ($13/pack at Costco - get about 5-6 meals out of it depending on the kids. We all ate some tonight. I had five. So, $3/person)

2) Frozen sweet potato fries ($10/pack at Costco. About $1/serving).

3) 1lb bag of broccoli ($6-$8/4 lb pack at Costco. So $2)

4) Rice ($1)

5) Honey Mustard ($.25)

We call this “Chick Fil A” rice bowls and it’s good for nights when we don’t have much planned. About $6-$8 for the meal? Fed four people.

Meal two nights ago:

1) Turkey Meatballs (2 lbs ground turkey, sleeve of ritz, little apple sauce, pecorino cheese, seasoning, green onions, herbs from the garden. Not sure how much this but I’d estimate around $15)

2) Fusilli with olive oil, garlic, and pecorino (Around $4)

3) Honey carrots (carrots, butter, honey - say $4?)

This meal is around $20-25 but it feeds us two nights plus a few extra meatballs for my lunch today.

Tacos
Jambalaya
Pot Roast
Pulled Pork
Cold cut poboys

I cook most days or cook enough to have leftovers. Just my husband and myself at this point. I plan meals around protein that is on sale and buy enough for the freezer for future meals.

Prices are crazy but I’m not spending much more than I used to .. I just plan better and little to no waste anymore.

It's some variation on soups, sandwiches, and pastas (or their leftovers) for every meal. Three hungry teenagers who will eat anything not nailed down--this food thing is getting tough.

We still eat pretty well, quality wise. We cut back on the overpriced dining out and started cooking more. We've done quite a few YouTube recipes....pausing the video as needed throughout the preparation. Protein breakdown - salmon once a week, beef twice, and chicken usually 4x.

I know most of you can not do this, but those that are single or married and you have work from home jobs, consider leaving USA.

I know that sounds crazy but there are so many better places to live that are a 1/5 of the price. You can save so much money, have a higher quality of life and retire 20 years sooner.

I spend about $150 a month for my girlfriend and I. We eat very clean and 80% of that is for steak, chicken, rice, fruits and vegetables. All food is from local farmers, not mass produced big chain food.

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I spend about $150 a month for my girlfriend and I. We eat very clean and 80% of that is for steak, chicken, rice, fruits and vegetables. All food is from local farmers, not mass produced big chain food.

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Not sure if you want to share but what country are yall in?

Made Chicken / Sausage Gumbo Saturday and paid $3.99/lb for Chicken THIGHS!

At this rate "cheap" gumbo will be more than seafood gumbo just a few years ago.

Lots of chicken and pork. You can still get pork tenderloin at sams for like $9 and we get 2 meals out of them.

I only buy steak now when it's on clearance.

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Grocery prices have gone up a lot. Restaurant prices not as much.

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First sentence is true. Second is false. I find restaurant prices insane these days.