https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 31 May 2026 14:24:15 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-spend-a-month-on-food-groceries-lunches-restaurants#post-984448 Fri, 02 Aug 2013 10:03:00 +0000 lindseykaye 984448@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@regberadaisy: I shop in advance and freeze/stockpile our pantry too so it's hard to say how much what we <i>consume</i> totals for a month, but I figure I shop like this all the time so it evens out and my monthly total is what it is whether I eat my items that month or the next.<br /> We have a grocery budget of $220, eating out budget of $100. Any lunches we want to get during the work week come out of our own fun money budgets. Alcohol is not included ($40/month separate).</p> <p>The way I shop is why I can't really participate in the weekly $100 grocery thread. Some weeks my groceries are $50 in pantry staples with no meat. Sometimes it's $75 for tons of meat and fresh veggies but no staples like bread or milk. Works for us though :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-spend-a-month-on-food-groceries-lunches-restaurants#post-984396 Fri, 02 Aug 2013 09:49:18 +0000 mrskc 984396@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't know exact # this month since I can't see it on YNAB right now, but I think we spent $900 this month. About $600 on groceries &amp; costco and $300 eating out. </p> <p>Too much! I've been really trying hard to keep our food budget down. DH is off on summer break and home all day. He's eating more food and making a couple costco trips a week to buy more fruit. He is into peaches this summer and I estimated we spent over $100 on peaches alone over the last month! I can't wait for him to go back to work this month! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-spend-a-month-on-food-groceries-lunches-restaurants#post-984006 Fri, 02 Aug 2013 07:58:33 +0000 bisous 984006@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I said $600-$800. I haven't been tracking this to a T but I think we probably hover at $600 with four grocery trips at $75, usually 2-3 farmers market trips at $30 each. Plus all the takeout we have been getting lately. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-spend-a-month-on-food-groceries-lunches-restaurants#post-983864 Fri, 02 Aug 2013 07:14:39 +0000 Smurfette 983864@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>too much </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-spend-a-month-on-food-groceries-lunches-restaurants#post-983846 Fri, 02 Aug 2013 07:08:46 +0000 regberadaisy 983846@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@T.H.O.U.: awesome! I will subscribe to that one. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-spend-a-month-on-food-groceries-lunches-restaurants#post-983821 Fri, 02 Aug 2013 07:02:29 +0000 T.H.O.U. 983821@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@regberadaisy: I had started this similar thread. </p> <p>I will try to keep my receipts again this month and share! </p> <p><a href="http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/share-your-100week-grocery-list" rel="nofollow">http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/share-your-100week-grocery-list</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-spend-a-month-on-food-groceries-lunches-restaurants#post-983809 Fri, 02 Aug 2013 06:53:42 +0000 regberadaisy 983809@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@T.H.O.U.: I would love to compare receipts with those who only spend $400 each month! ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-spend-a-month-on-food-groceries-lunches-restaurants#post-983777 Fri, 02 Aug 2013 06:39:24 +0000 cmomma17 983777@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Way. Too. Much. Eating out has been crazy since LO was born and I haven't tracked so I don't know (or want to know) an exact number.<br /> Plan for August is $560 max on groceries, and $40 for eating out (which I hope is $0). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-spend-a-month-on-food-groceries-lunches-restaurants#post-983754 Fri, 02 Aug 2013 06:23:45 +0000 Dandelion 983754@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I spend about $130 a week on groceries...It used to be lower...I've been annoyed at myself for going to high.</p> <p>It's about to be lower, though, cause I'm about to eliminate junk from our food shopping, since I'm going to be eating like I already have GD starting now, and I don't want any temptation in the house. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-spend-a-month-on-food-groceries-lunches-restaurants#post-983747 Fri, 02 Aug 2013 06:19:16 +0000 T.H.O.U. 983747@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@regberadaisy: I agree, the freeze/buy thing is hard. I don't think I really stock up for more then a month though, even shopping at costco. </p> <p>I actually went way overboard with calculating price per lunch, price per meal at restaurant, estimate amount per week, etc. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-spend-a-month-on-food-groceries-lunches-restaurants#post-983351 Thu, 01 Aug 2013 21:16:35 +0000 junebugmama 983351@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@HLK208: I calculated too at one point and we were over $1500 per month!!! Isn't it crazy to think about all the money wasted.</p> <p>We are a family of 4 and are now between $400-$500 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-spend-a-month-on-food-groceries-lunches-restaurants#post-983339 Thu, 01 Aug 2013 21:10:45 +0000 regberadaisy 983339@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@PrincessBaby: haha our food budget totally includes beer! DH is German Irish, of course it includes alcohol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-spend-a-month-on-food-groceries-lunches-restaurants#post-983337 Thu, 01 Aug 2013 21:09:54 +0000 PrincessBaby 983337@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think in a normal week, since I am paleo and DH is fairly healthy and likes to eat fresh, non-carby/processed, we would spend about $300 a week including things like wine/beer. Which are important. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-spend-a-month-on-food-groceries-lunches-restaurants#post-983335 Thu, 01 Aug 2013 21:08:04 +0000 PrincessBaby 983335@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are in a temporary rental right now with a super tiny, supershitty kitchen (we're used to gas stoves and this is the spirally burner stove), and so we eat out most meals, and I'm embarassed to say that until we move into our house on Aug 19th, we've chalked food up to the cost of moving and we are spending an average of $100 a day on food:(</p> <p>We are boozers though so that includes alcohol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-spend-a-month-on-food-groceries-lunches-restaurants#post-983324 Thu, 01 Aug 2013 21:04:38 +0000 regberadaisy 983324@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@T.H.O.U.: it's hard because how do you calculate buying stuff on sale to freeze? Or when you take stuff out of the freezer?? I know some shop ONLY what they consume that week. That's not really how we grocery shop. We shop sales to stock up the freezer and pantry. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-spend-a-month-on-food-groceries-lunches-restaurants#post-983318 Thu, 01 Aug 2013 21:02:14 +0000 anbanan15 983318@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I voted less than $400 and that's mostly just for DH...I eat (out) at my parents a lot :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-spend-a-month-on-food-groceries-lunches-restaurants#post-983317 Thu, 01 Aug 2013 21:02:09 +0000 T.H.O.U. 983317@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@regberadaisy: $600 total is my budget too! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-spend-a-month-on-food-groceries-lunches-restaurants#post-983249 Thu, 01 Aug 2013 20:44:11 +0000 mlm2934 983249@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I should cry... I'm the only one that has voted over $1k, and I don't even have kids We eat out a lot... Actually is about $800 now since we moved to smaller town. Still SHAME SHAME!!! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-spend-a-month-on-food-groceries-lunches-restaurants#post-983218 Thu, 01 Aug 2013 20:35:33 +0000 regberadaisy 983218@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are just under $700 for 2 adults, one child, 3 meals a day. ILs also come over for dinner every Sunday night so add another 2 adults 4x a month. And that includes stocking up the freezer too and take out which was around $60 for the month.</p> <p>I think we can realistically take it down to $600. I'm OK with this number after starting the meal threads. I realize we eat a lot more than most people do with the much lower food budgets! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-spend-a-month-on-food-groceries-lunches-restaurants#post-983076 Thu, 01 Aug 2013 20:07:38 +0000 JessKas 983076@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We probably spend $400-600 a month on groceries. We eat almost all organic and the cost of living is high here! </p> <p>We spend maybe $50/month on average on eating out. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-spend-a-month-on-food-groceries-lunches-restaurants#post-983038 Thu, 01 Aug 2013 20:02:10 +0000 T.H.O.U. 983038@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So here is what we spent this month and here is what we plan to revise it to. </p> <p>Groceries - spent $600, budget $300<br /> Eating out dinners - spent $250, budget $200<br /> Lunches out at work - spent $100 budgeted $100</p> <p>So we spent almost $1,000 total but want our budget to be closer to $600 total. I hate food budgets because its always a trade off between eating out less but Increasing your grocery bill. Or a trade off with healthy foods versus cheap foods. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-spend-a-month-on-food-groceries-lunches-restaurants#post-982982 Thu, 01 Aug 2013 19:48:56 +0000 cheert16 982982@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Too much!! </p> <p>On my new budget it's the first thing Getting cut down!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-spend-a-month-on-food-groceries-lunches-restaurants#post-982981 Thu, 01 Aug 2013 19:48:18 +0000 Mrs. Pen 982981@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>About $500 for groceries and $100 for eating out </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-spend-a-month-on-food-groceries-lunches-restaurants#post-982975 Thu, 01 Aug 2013 19:46:59 +0000 Sweet T 982975@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ugh! We're usually between $650 and $700 each month. I can't wait to move somewhere with a lower cost of living!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-spend-a-month-on-food-groceries-lunches-restaurants#post-982938 Thu, 01 Aug 2013 19:40:52 +0000 Mrs D 982938@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I voted $400-600...here's the breakdown:</p> <p>-Groceries - 4 trips @ $60 per trip $240<br /> -Dinners out - 8 total (half nicer, half cheapy) $280<br /> -DH Lunch at Work (2-3/week) - $80</p> <p>Thats just $600...I think the dinners out is a little high though... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-spend-a-month-on-food-groceries-lunches-restaurants#post-982913 Thu, 01 Aug 2013 19:35:50 +0000 MrsH 982913@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A lot. We eat out a ton. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-spend-a-month-on-food-groceries-lunches-restaurants#post-982879 Thu, 01 Aug 2013 19:27:01 +0000 HLK208 982879@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>$400-500</p> <p>But that's since we have been budgeting. Before I looked at our food budget, it was around $1200 with all of our eating out, unnecessary Costco runs and a lot of premade processed foods. We ate out 4-5 times a week especially when selling our house (we couldn't make dinner at home for nearly 4 months because of showings). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-spend-a-month-on-food-groceries-lunches-restaurants#post-982830 Thu, 01 Aug 2013 19:16:58 +0000 Mommytotwois 982830@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A lot, too much, either way. We have been eating out a ridiculous amount (up to 4-5 times a week just on dinner) since DD2 has been born </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-spend-a-month-on-food-groceries-lunches-restaurants#post-982798 Thu, 01 Aug 2013 19:11:25 +0000 Mrs. Champagne 982798@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I put $600-$800 because we've been spending $400 on restaurants!! We are cracking down this month though (Well, trying to!) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-spend-a-month-on-food-groceries-lunches-restaurants#post-982768 Thu, 01 Aug 2013 19:06:43 +0000 Boheme 982768@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Too much lately :( </p>