This was our first month budgeting our groceries/eating out. I set our food budget at $600. We've spent $595 bucks so far!
HAHA. we have plenty of food in the freezer still that will probably last us til the end of the year.
I really wanna go grocery shopping though. 
I'm out of bacon!! And I need some veggies too.
Do you have a food budget? How good are you about not going over?
pear / 1639 posts
Not really. When I go, I just know what we need, and only buy those things, nothing extra. Plus I look at the coupons before I go to make sure I don't miss a really good buy!
honeydew / 7968 posts
we do have a budget. it's pretty high. (like over $1,000 high) and we always exceed it. we eat out a lot. we'll have to cut down on it when our kids come.
coconut / 8305 posts
No.... but we definitely should! We spend WAY too much on food! lol
apricot / 498 posts
We have a grocery budget then an eating out budget. I even have a booze line item. When we get close we totally start to eat out of the pantry and freezer!
hostess / wonderful persimmon / 25556 posts
Our grocery budget is high for us right now because of my husband's allergies - $400/mo. We then have an eating out budget of $100, which we don't always use.
ETA: we don't go over. We will eat sandwiches, beans, rice, etc if we hit our limit!
hostess / wonderful honeydew / 32460 posts
@mediagirl: wow. $500 total for the EIGHT of you?! I'm impressed! I don't think we've ever not gone over a budget we set for ourselves. 
eggplant / 11824 posts
We don't really. We tried having a budget for food, but we always went over. We spend probably about $500-$600 in food, $200 in booze and another $200-$300 going out to eat/takeout. I wish it was less, but good food is expensive, so it is what it is.
hostess / wonderful persimmon / 25556 posts
@chopsuey119: oh my. Phone spell check goof. I fixed it! Haha there are only two of us. That would be amazing to feed 8 on $500!!
hostess / wonderful persimmon / 25556 posts
Also, I should add we up that number a bit for holidays, especially if we are hosting.
pear / 1861 posts
Yeah, abot $200 a month. I do pretty good since I coupon and get chicken on sale (HATE buying meat!). Also use the Crockpot a lot. You should check out Southernsavers.com. I think I saw you said you live in GA (me too!) and it's great for matching coupons.
Not that you asked, but I always share.LOL
hostess / wonderful watermelon / 39513 posts
Not yet but we definitely need to make one and plan our meals by the week!
hostess / wonderful honeydew / 32460 posts
@MsMamaBear: wowowow. will check out the site! 
thanks!!
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21628 posts
We have a budget of $300 a month for two of us. That includes dog food and house hold items. I usually don't go over the budget.
bananas / 9118 posts
Not really a set budget, we usually estimate around $100 a week for groceries and eat out about 3x a week- so roughly $550 a month I guess as a total. Some weeks are more, some are less, it varies with how I'm feeling too.
cantaloupe / 6669 posts
We don't have a set budget but I know what is too much. Our "budget" consists of what bills we have, what other obligations we need to account for, and then "leftover." So much of whatever the "leftover" is that week goes to food, and it varies. I kind of use a "Cringe Meter" at the check out... if I cringe when they tell me the total number, it's too much! That can be anywhere from $60-$100 weekly. That's just groceries - thankfully DH gets a per diem for eating out and I eat out at work probably twice a week, so eating out isn't a huge expense for us.
coffee bean / 40 posts
We don't have a set budget but if we did we would never be able to stick to it. Where we live the food is really expensive and for just two people I probably spend $800 a month, and we eat out a lot so maybe double that figure.
cantaloupe / 6791 posts
We go to the grocery store every 2 weeks and we try to spend about $100, so $200 per month. We also probably spend about $100 a month eating out.
wonderful pear / 26210 posts
I need to set one, I go grocery shopping at least twice during the week and we do a big shop on the weekend. Problem is the grocery stores never really have huge sales, the prices are the prices and that's a bummer. Coupons also don't exist, so there's not much I can do to save that way. On the flip side, we save a lot in eating out and takeout...our options are very limited so we're forced to eat at home.
wonderful clementine / 24134 posts
We are around $300/month for groceries and another $200 or so (usually more) on eating out. We are working to cut back on the eating out budget, but it usually just results in the grocery budget going up.
grapefruit / 4554 posts
We spend around $100 a week on groceries for the two of us, that includes all of our meals as we bring our lunch to work with us.
nectarine / 2504 posts
We don't have a food budget but I do try and limit our meals outside of the home to once a week (usually on Friday nights) and I pack our lunches for work. I think in general we spend around $60-$100 a week on groceries. We try and buy locally so generally prices are a little more than produce at the supermarket.
grapefruit / 4671 posts
We don't have a food budget, lord knows we would never stick to it and I would just end up feeling guilty all the time. We are however going to make a concerted effort to eat out way less.
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