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Post by maryland on Apr 8, 2016 1:36:51 GMT
A lot! But I have teen girls, so we go through a lot of food in our house! They get home from school and you would think they haven't eaten in days. I wish I still had the metabolism of a teenage girl where I could eat and eat and not gain a pound.
I am so stressed out every time I go to the grocery store and they ring it up. Food is so expensive, especially for the healthy stuff (fruits, vegetables, fish). But that may just be our area.
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Post by maryland on Apr 8, 2016 1:42:08 GMT
I'm a SAHM who loves grocery shopping so I go every day ... I have the time I plan out my dinner meal in the morning and then buy the ingredients plus any other stuff I need for breakfasts, lunches, paper products, cleaning products etc ... I am in the camp of believing that good quality food is important ... I cook from scratch six days per week so I don't feel guilty about how much I spend ... my family of four needs to eat well Saturdays we usually go out or get take-out Sharing a dollar value probably wouldn't be helpful because I'm in Canada and everything is more expensive here I tend to go most every other day. I don't like to defrost meat (I am not very successful when I try), so I just buy it the day we use it. We are on a really tight budget, so we have to make due with cheap meals these days. Kind of frustrating! I do well with sticking to a budget, even going to the store often. But it's just 2 miles away, so pretty easy!
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Post by 16joy on Apr 8, 2016 2:26:16 GMT
1. My 2 biggest money wasters when it comes to groceries is food waste and failure to meal plan. 2. If your family eats beans and the bean is not in season, use dried beans prior to using canned. You can cook them in the crock pot to prevent your home from heating up in the summer. 3. If you have a large farmers market in your area, you can get some deals on large quantities. Two weeks ago, I bought 50 pounds of red potatoes for $10.50. (I bought them for a shelter). You would have to be deliberate to use them. A neighbor, friend or family may split them with you. I think they sold onions in 25lb bags cheap too. 4. SAMs has a lot of large cans ( number 10 cans, I think) of several things. The tomato sauce is one aNd I believe it is organic. You could make probably 4 batches of spaghetti with it and it is about $4. They have jalapeños and pepper rings in large jars too. I'd spend some time alone making notes of things that May help you lower your bill. Look into the price of the huge container of peanut butter if that's your boys' jam. The big box of microwave popcorn used to be cheap as well. 5. Take a cooler to the ballpark for your water bottles. 6. Someone on this board listed a generic recipe for muffins and several options for making into different muffins. I've yet to try this, but it's on my list. 7. Start thinking of snack ideas that you can make at home so you don't get into the processed snack food trAp($$). 8. Costco has organic pre sliced apples in individual bags that is enough to split between two people.
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Post by joblackford on Apr 8, 2016 5:16:45 GMT
There's just 2 of us, adults, in our house, but we spend $500-$800 per month on food and other grocery store items. That amount also includes all eating out. Some months the eating out portion is higher, some months the grocery portion is higher but the total is fairly stable. I keep track of how much we have spent month by month but I don't budget or meal plan. Our normal supermarket bill is ~$100 but if we go to Costco or a specialty grocery store for Japanese foods we tend to spend a lot more without reducing our normal weekly bill. We only shop once a week as a rule and try not to waste.
We ask for eating out gift cards for Xmas but we also consider eating out to be our main source of fun so we eat out fairly often. Hubby is on the road for work a lot, often for all meals except dinner, and carrying food with him isn't always practical, so that adds to our costs.
My hubby recently shared a link to a great website called Budget Bytes and I got her cookbook from the library. The recipes seem to be simple and nutritious but she lots of tips for controlling costs. I tried her chili recipe and it was delicious!
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Post by lorieann13 on Apr 12, 2016 4:35:39 GMT
So this thread got me interested in what I spend and what I buy.
Today for a weeks worth of groceries I spent $164.36. Yesterday I spent $10 on 4 packs of ground turkey as it was on sale for $2.50 each. I had chicken in the freezer (6 chicken breasts). If I needed chicken that would have added $8-12 to the amount. I still need to get green beans so that is going to be $2-2.50.
I didn't need milk this week.
Everything I bought was needed for the meals for the week (breakfast, lunch, dinner) and snacks. The only extra was ice cream for both dh and I and dd (lactose free)
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Apr 12, 2016 4:42:35 GMT
We've spent about $60 the last two weeks--we are committed to empty the freezers right now!
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Post by peaname on Apr 12, 2016 12:14:33 GMT
$1,000 for a family of five which includes one teenage boy and two grade school aged boys. This does not include paper products or cleaning products or toiletries but I spend very little on those, less than $75/month. I shop at Aldi for the most part and pack lunches. We rarely eat out. I've tried to cut it but it's not realistic for us. We are on the East coast.
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Post by 1lear on Apr 12, 2016 13:54:09 GMT
I really need to work on my grocery budget. This past weekend I spent $530.00 at the grocery store. BUT, it was at the Safeway going out of business and everything except meat and alcohol was 30% off. I used coupons and stocked up on a lot of paper products, hair products, cleaning supplies and pantry items so we should be set for awhile. Usually, I spend about $200/week.
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Post by debmast on Apr 12, 2016 14:23:57 GMT
There are 3 of us at home (DH, Me & 15 year old DD). We probably spend $500/$600 or so. We buy a lot of produce which can be pricey.
We also give grocery $$ to DD#1 (19) who is away at college. She gets $300 a month for groceries & gas
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Post by dulcemama on Apr 12, 2016 17:13:50 GMT
We have 350$ budgeted for groceries (food only) each month. If we can fit eating out into that, we will go out once in a while. We buy very few snack foods out of this budget but all 3 of us get an allowance so if we want snack foods, we have to buy them for ourselves.
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