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Less than $400!
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Right at $400 usually.
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A lot.
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Too much lately
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I put $600-$800 because we've been spending $400 on restaurants!! We are cracking down this month though (Well, trying to!)
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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
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$400-500
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).
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A lot. We eat out a ton.
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I voted $400-600...here's the breakdown:
-Groceries - 4 trips @ $60 per trip $240
-Dinners out - 8 total (half nicer, half cheapy) $280
-DH Lunch at Work (2-3/week) - $80Thats just $600...I think the dinners out is a little high though...
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Ugh! We're usually between $650 and $700 each month. I can't wait to move somewhere with a lower cost of living!!
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About $500 for groceries and $100 for eating out
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Too much!!
On my new budget it's the first thing Getting cut down!!
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So here is what we spent this month and here is what we plan to revise it to.
Groceries - spent $600, budget $300
Eating out dinners - spent $250, budget $200
Lunches out at work - spent $100 budgeted $100So 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.
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We probably spend $400-600 a month on groceries. We eat almost all organic and the cost of living is high here!
We spend maybe $50/month on average on eating out.
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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.
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!
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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!!!
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@regberadaisy: $600 total is my budget too!
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I voted less than $400 and that's mostly just for DH...I eat (out) at my parents a lot
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@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.
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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:(
We are boozers though so that includes alcohol.
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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.
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@PrincessBaby: haha our food budget totally includes beer! DH is German Irish, of course it includes alcohol.
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@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.
We are a family of 4 and are now between $400-$500
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@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.
I actually went way overboard with calculating price per lunch, price per meal at restaurant, estimate amount per week, etc.
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I spend about $130 a week on groceries...It used to be lower...I've been annoyed at myself for going to high.
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.
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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.
Plan for August is $560 max on groceries, and $40 for eating out (which I hope is $0). -
@T.H.O.U.: I would love to compare receipts with those who only spend $400 each month!
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@regberadaisy: I had started this similar thread.
I will try to keep my receipts again this month and share!
http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/share-your-100week-grocery-list
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@T.H.O.U.: awesome! I will subscribe to that one.
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too much
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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.
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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 & costco and $300 eating out.
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!
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@regberadaisy: I shop in advance and freeze/stockpile our pantry too so it's hard to say how much what we consume 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.
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).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
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