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We shop at Whole Foods and spend about 6-700/month.
We eat out quite a bit though.. I don't even wanna know how much we spend eating out.

Ugh this is currently my pet project. We've always shopped exclusively at Whole Foods because eating organic (especially meat) is very important to us. But our bills have crept up from average of $150/week to $180/week last month and we had to change things around because that's insane. We tried a different store this weekend that's not organic, but mostly local, fresh produce and spent only $105. We were psyched but I'm not comfortable with their meat sourcing, so we might look into a meat CSA and this market-type grocery store and see how things shake out.

$300-$400.

@Coco Bee: Yep that's the other option, WF for meat and this other place for produce and staples (although then we're eating non-organic produce, which is also not ideal). Someone told me this week that TJ's does have organic chicken for $5/lb, is that not true? I was going to check it out this weekend for meat since I've never looked for it there.

We spend about $400-$500 on just two adults but we do bring our lunch to work and only eat out on the weekends. Actually that might not be as accurate of an amount since that number usually has other items that we buy at the grocery store like health & beauty and household items. So maybe it isn't so bad?

we also don't eat out that much anymore -- once a week at the most, so i don't think 1k is too bad for a family of 4 in ny!

We spend $300 a month for two adults. I'd say we're healthy eaters. I try to cook healthy meals. We eat out twice a week at least.

We spend about 300-350 for two adults. I don't eat much meat, but DH will not eat meals without it! We go out to eat more than I'd like to, but at this point in my pregnancy I'm too tired to cook. I just ate a pint of raspberries for dinner.

We spend $360 but we eat out 3-4 times...a week. Yuck. That is horrible to admit. However, I'm not the best cook and DH only eats steaks and burgers...I won't make that every night.

I think a bit depends if you just look at groceries versus groceries plus eating out. Groceries we spend about $300 and we eat out way too much and probably spend about $300. We have tried to tweak things and eat out less but that really does increase our grocery bill.

It's probably around $800 for food and booze, not counting eating out or formula for LO (which is an extra about $105/month). I don't really want to know the exact figure, to be honest...but it can't be much less than that. I don't shop at Whole Foods at all, but we do shop at high quality local markets; sometimes things are cheaper there, sometimes not. We eat a really fresh diet of organic meats and some organic veggies/some not organic veggies. Very, very little processed foods. I eat a lot of fish, which can be pricey. We also drink a lot of wine lol

300 ish? We try to eat very healthy, but DH does eat a lot of chips. Other than that, we eat fresh foods, healthy grains, meat at almost every dinner and maybe 1/3 of lunches....
I just got on board with Safeway's online coupon thing and it rocks. I only buy things on sale or things that are always cheap--I meal plan around what is on sale. I go to the store with a rough list like "2 veggies, 2 fruit, 3 meat, chips, milk" not "asparagus, bell pepper, apples, oranges, chicken, lamb, ground beef"
I am very careful with our grocery money.
We almost never eat out anymore, maybe once a month.
We don't eat fast food unless we're driving to see his family (full day drive, and we go about 2x/year).

Two adults, no pets, 1 newborn. We don't buy any baby stuff at the grocery story, but that does include toiletries and cleaners.

DC area, so prices are fairly high, but nothing like when we lived in Honolulu.

I shop mostly at Wegmans, Safeway, Giant, and Target, and sometimes other stores.

We probably spend about $200 a month. I'll make dinners and then we eat left overs for a couple nights. Plus our families live in the same town, so we have dinner with them sometimes. We also hunt and use the deer meat to make our own hamburger and brats and such, so we don't have to buy those kind of things.

Wow, some of you have really low budgets!

We spend $600 - $700 per month for groceries, household items, formula/diapers, pet food, and health/beauty items. It's all in the same budget, so I'm not sure what portion is just groceries.

ETA: This is for two adults, a toddler, an infant, and two giant dogs. And we eat out 1-2 meals a week.

400-500/month for the 2 of us. I shop at FreshDirect (delivery servcie) and sometimes Trader Joe's/Whole Foods for speicific things. FD is pretty $$$ but not anymore $$$ than other grocery stores in NYC. I cook 4 dinners a week, plus 4 lunches for both of us out of that budget.

We probably eat healthier than average. Our budget is a hundred a week for groceries and a hundred a month for eating out. Nowadays our budget is so tight since food is getting really expensive here in Hawaii, so we have been playing around with farmer's market and Costco instead of the grocery store to keep stretching our money.

I think we spend probably around $100 a week.