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re: Can your family of 4 keep your grocery bill to 4200/yr?
Posted on 10/31/25 at 10:26 am to LSUFanHouston
Posted on 10/31/25 at 10:26 am to LSUFanHouston
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Can your family of 4 keep your grocery bill to 4200/yr?
We could survive on 4200/yr but it wouldn't be how a family with a working man with a good job should be living.
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Posted on 10/31/25 at 10:28 am to LSUFanHouston
quote:Holy cow. Teenage boys maybe?
Absolute minimum, I spend $800 per month.
Posted on 10/31/25 at 10:32 am to Vacherie Saint
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I'm not sure he's suggesting that 4200/yr is enough to cover all groceries
It is enough. This has been demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Posted on 10/31/25 at 10:35 am to LSUFanHouston
we spend about 100-125 a week for just groceries in our family of 4 and thats 2 kids under 5.
we dont do a whole lot of junk foods in our house and no soda. mostly water and some juices for the kids.
we dont do a whole lot of junk foods in our house and no soda. mostly water and some juices for the kids.
This post was edited on 10/31/25 at 10:41 am
Posted on 10/31/25 at 10:36 am to SlowFlowPro
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You're not going to get much meat (especially fish) on that budget.
Then they shouldn't be eating fish. They can wait till Boston Butts go on sale for .99 cents/per pound like I do.
Posted on 10/31/25 at 10:41 am to Jon A thon
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That's just absurd. We are a family of 4. We do eat out a few times a week with all the kids activities. But we spend ~$200 a week on groceries and could certainly cut that back. For instance, I went shopping instead of the wife last week and cut that down to $150. At $200 a week, that's about $900 a month. I could use the remaining $1,600 to $2,100 (to meet your 2,500 to 3,000 a month) and have $50-$67 bucks a day to eat out on top of the groceries. To the original point, $4,200 a year would be very tight. But we also aren't a low-income family and haven't practiced being frugal for some time.
For the record $4200 in a month would be at the highest end but we are typically around $3000-$3500 for dining/grocery store.
Of course my number is what we spend at the grocery store which includes stuff other than food, like laundry detergent, deodorant, wine, ect.
$200 a week to me seems absurd.
Posted on 10/31/25 at 10:50 am to Robin Masters
quote:Damn!
But we spend at least $2500-3000 at the grocery store every month.
Shopping Fresh Market for a family of 8?
Posted on 10/31/25 at 10:52 am to LSUFanHouston
Hell no. We probably don't even stay under $350/wk.
Posted on 10/31/25 at 10:58 am to LSUFanHouston
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Absolute minimum, I spend $800 per month.
When Mrs. Axe and I got married and combined households, we had five kids total. Four teens and one almost-teen.
We kept our grocery bill to $600 a month with a family of seven, and often fed their friends too. And this was recently, not 20 years ago. Just four years ago, we still had four of them living with us.
You could budget better.
Posted on 10/31/25 at 11:03 am to Robin Masters
quote:By comparison, we run about $175/wk. Just two of us. But that total includes more expensive brand items, steak, snowcrab, prepared meals, etc. plus about $15/wk in dog food for our bottomless pit ShihTzu. If it were important, we could easily cut that to well less than $150.
$200 a week to me seems absurd.
Posted on 10/31/25 at 11:14 am to LSUFanHouston
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Avg household size is 4. That’s $350 per month for groceries for a family of 4.
I spend that alone
Posted on 10/31/25 at 11:17 am to LSUFanHouston
4200 a year would be tough
But can be done
But can be done
Posted on 10/31/25 at 11:23 am to LSUFanHouston
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I am cheap AF when grocery shopping
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Absolute minimum, I spend $800 per month.
You could be cheaper.
Posted on 10/31/25 at 11:24 am to Cosmo
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Eggs or cereal for breakfast Sandwiches for lunch Dinners that make enough for leftovers the next day. Red beans, lasagna, chili, gumbo, stews, pork chops, etc
Only sick Rebublicans expect our poor people to live like this.
Posted on 10/31/25 at 11:38 am to SlowFlowPro
quote:Meat is definitely off the menu for anyone living on a little over $1k.
If they primarily went to the most lower class version of veganism, possibly.
You're not going to get much meat (especially fish) on that budget. Even chicken is approaching $3/lb at most stores.
You're going to also need to stick to canned veggies and fruits. The fresh version of both will be way too expensive.
Posted on 10/31/25 at 11:39 am to LSUFanHouston
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Can your family of 4 keep your grocery bill to 4200/yr?
Impossible
Posted on 10/31/25 at 11:49 am to BuckI
quote:Weekly specials on whole rotisserie chicken run $2.50
Meat is definitely off the menu for anyone living on a little over $1k.
Posted on 10/31/25 at 11:54 am to NC_Tigah
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By comparison, we run about $175/wk. Just two of us. But that total includes more expensive brand items, steak, snowcrab, prepared meals, etc. plus about $15/wk in dog food for our bottomless pit ShihTzu. If it were important, we could easily cut that to well less than $150.
My wife spends more than $175 per week on wine.
Posted on 10/31/25 at 11:57 am to stout
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Nope. Walmart sells a 10 lb bag of chicken leg quarters for $6.
Two of those would get a family of 4 through a few weeks or maybe the whole month depending on other meals.
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