re: How much do you spend a month on food?

Damn. And I thought my 600 was bad

I think it depends on what you buy. We have a family of four and spend probably $3k plus. We buy only organic fruits and vegetables so that makes a difference. We don’t buy what most would call easy meals. It’s fresh ingredients and meats etc. That number also includes dish and laundry detergents and paper towels and toilet paper etc. All I know is I’m spending at least 30% more than I was 3 years ago. Maybe more.

I'm at about 2200ish

family of 5(plus mil lives with us but has own apartment but eats with us alot)....we spending atleast 2500-3000 min.

$60-100 ish a week, so $240-400 a month.
But I’m single and only eating two meals a day. Haven’t eaten out during the week in a while. Normally make some meal prep for $60 per week. Only time I’ll go over $60 for the week is if my buddies want to go eat over the weekend.

Family of 4, 2 late 50s, one 84 and one 14. About $800-$1000 a month. Mostly eating out. That includes staple items like laundry detergent and toilet paper. Remove those costs and its probably 10-20% less.

Includes alcohol. Not a lot but a 12 pack or so a month, maybe 4 bottles of cheap wine and maybe $100 bottle of brown water.


What amazes me is that every grocery store I go in is packed and every restaurant is packed during normal meal times. It would seem that one or the other would not be packed full of people hunting and providing....but they are.

It seems to me that at least once a month we have an event which requires a couple of hundred bucks for one meal, either at a restaurant or from the grocery store. We spend about $500 on a three day, 2 night camping trip.

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I must be on the privileged list, because I have no fricking clue.

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That ain't privilege, thats simply being out of touch with current affairs and poor money management. It would not be possible to reconcile an account of any sort without having some idea of where the money went unless you are just a poor manager of your life's business. I'd would hazard to say Elon Musk has a lot of money, someone in his pay has an idea of how much he is spending on food. He may not have a clue but someone on the payroll does. Having a rough idea of what something costs is not the same thing as having an exact number...if one reconciles a bank or credit card statement they will, unless they are dumber than a sack of hammers, have a rough idea of where their money is going. If they ain't reconciling statements the sack of hammers is far smarter...

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Total for just groceries from 1/9-2/9: $2040

I don't even want to look up eating out.

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this is us. i usually spend 400ish at sams a week. 3 boys will do that.

prolyl spend atleast that eating out too

i recently looked at our 2023 credit card spending and it came out to about $16k between groceries, wal mart, and eating out. that's crazy because it sure doesn't feel like that much! you really can't go to a grocery store without spending $100.