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It's just the two of us and we spend between $100 and $150 per week. That includes household items like toilet paper, paper towels, razors, soap, deodorant, etc.
We do buy a lot of organic, free-range products, and I'm gluten free, so GF products can be pricey.
I'd like to try to get down to under $100 per week when SO starts school in the fall and our income drops, but I'm really reluctant to go back to eating non-organic foods. We don't have a Costco near us, but I really wish we did!
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our grocery bill is on the higher side--about $150 for me and my husband (LO hasn't started solids yet). we buy our meat and any produce we can from the farmers market, which really drives up the price. we also both love sweets, so there's probably too much spent on cake and cookies!
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We budget about $500 for the month. Usually one week a month we spend about $200 while stocking up on some stuff. Since we buy staples in bulk (quinoa, honey, pasta, coconut sugar, rice, oats etc) that is an expensive initial expensive, but then it lasts well over a month.
Then each subsequent week I try to plan around what staples we socked up on and try to keep the remaining weeks about $100. It's hard though!!
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We spend about $290/300 a month, so weekly, that'd be less than $100 ( $75ish). But, I only go once everyday 2 weeks.
Maybe very 2months, we will need more depending on the situation (birthday? Dinner party?) -
How do you guys spend so little? I'm really jealous. On just groceries we spend almost $200 a week. I typically only have to buy household products once a month and that's another $100. I'm clearly doing something wrong.
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I have no idea. I go to the grocery store 3-4 times a week and we probably only eat 1 dinner out per week and maybe 1 brunch, so I cook a ton. I don't have a car, so I can't buy that much at one time and I live less than 15 min walking from 3 different grocery stores.
I mostly buy organic, but I find that organic is way cheaper in my part of Europe than when I was living in the US. I barely look at the prices because they are so low.
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@lamariniere: I had the same experience when I was in Europe, I could walk to the store and I often did. The most I could carry is what I could put in the basket of my son's stroller.
I found grocery prices to be very high, in comparison to the US. I would pay close to $14 for two chicken breasts. Produce was cheaper and dairy products were the cheapest.
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Oh you should have asked how often people eat out as well! We have a $75 budget for eating out? Which means only 2-3x a month. If someone eats out 2-3x a week, then their grocery bill will be significantly less
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About 70 at target on household stuff and 100 at the grocery store. Me, DH and DS.
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We spend about $80 a week on food groceries, and about $30-$40 a week on eating out, as we love to go out to brunch on the weekends, or pick up dessert on a random weekday evening. We're probably going to curb that expense once LO arrives. We do purchase mostly organic meat, produce, and dairy products.
We do Walgreens/Target runs for toiletries and cleaning products once or twice a month, and spend between $60-75. I intend to reduce the impulsive lip gloss and nail polish buys on these runs, as they will be replaced by diapers and wipes.
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@TheReelDeal: I'm right there with you. I don't know how people spend so little on groceries!
We spend around $200/week for food, booze, paper goods.
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No idea....I really need to start budgeting. What tends to blow any sort of budget is when DH and/or I eat out for lunch.
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@yoursilverlining: I was not counting alcohol in mine! Oops. I always forget to count that since we don't buy it at the grocery store.
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I voted 150-200 but 100-150 would've been more accurate. I average around $140/week. The last two weeks have been high for us, around $180! I also buy a box of diapers a month from amazon.
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@looch: where were you in Europe? A good example here (Austria) are whole chickens. An organic one is around €12, and a regular one no more than €6...sometimes I even see 2 non organic chickens for €6! An organic chicken when I was living in NYC would have been like $20+!
Organic milk is just over €1 per liter so a gallon would be just under $4. I was paying around $4/half gallon for organic milk in NYC.
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About $200 a week. $100 at Costco and $100 at Trader Joe's (usually those are our main two stores that we shop at). We buy all organic milk/eggs/meat/produce.
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@MrsJacks:
My parents raise beef too, it's so great!!I think we average about $150 a week, we're a family of 4, with the girls everyother weekend.
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We're totally embarrassing.
We spend probably just under $200/week for two of us, and eat out way more than we should. But groceries are more expensive in Canada than the US, and that's literally everything we buy at the same time as groceries (prescriptions, toiletries, personal care products, and probably the odd item that's completely unrelated if we shop at Superstore and forget that I picked up a shirt or home decor item at the same time or something)
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@luckypenny: It is rough being paleo and trying to keep grocery costs down! I am looking at all these $100 tabs and I guess that's so imposible on paleo bc you cant buy cheap meals like spaghetti that stretch...Or tacos or something...It's so much fresh produce and meat. Let me know if you have any clever ways to cut corners!
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I spend between £60-90, usually around £85 for a weekly shop. This doesn't include DH's lunches, as he buys those separately each day.
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@lamariniere: I am not in Europe any longer, but I was right next door in Switzerland. They make a big deal about origin (the Max Haavelar declarations) and people will pay three times as much for Swiss raised products as ones from say, Hungary. It's insane.
I lived in NYC also for 6 years, and I shopped at the Fairway on 72nd and Broadway. Holy cow, that was an expensive proposition!
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@looch: I still haven't been to Switzerland, but it seems it may be more expensive in general than other Euro countries. Luckily two of the close grocery stores carry their own store-brand organics that are significantly less expensive than in the US. On another note, I think that after living in NYC for 5 years, pretty much everything else seems like a bargain ;-). The only time that I have been shocked by grocery store prices since then was in Hawaii, because they were even more ridiculous than NYC.
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@lamariniere: I think it is, that's why a lot of people border shop. Same products, less than half price. It's the gas that kills you though, in those situations, and the fact that you can only bring in 500 grams of meat. Such a difference from shopping in the US.
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@Mrs. Pen: This is very true! Especially for the two of us, we can usually find that eating out is about the same cost as a meal at home. We also spend a lot on lunches since my DH doesn't often leave any leftovers.
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@regberadaisy: My $100 includes all of those extras. We usually make one Costco trip a month to stock up on meat and fish, and then we end up stocking up on toiletries and paper products 2 or 3x a year. It's never the same stuff, but it all evens out. And we Ty to reduce the amount of paper we use. We don't use paper napkins, rarely use paper towels, never use paper plates, and we CD, so I rarely buy diapers. It adds up
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About 50. I shop sale cycles for usual stuff except meat, which is high as organic, but I get coupons sometimes. I get toilet paper for $20 for a 2 month supply from amazon and milk in cycles since she drinks organic.
I'm not crazy,lol, but I started a stockpile of toiletries and that helps til the next sale cycle. I love couponing because it's like gambling, but in a good way.lmbo My best ever was 17 items for $7.00 at Publix which was 8 cans of veggies, 2 Chex mix which I'll use for her party, 3 muffin mixes, 2 minute brown rice, 1 bottle of Clorox and 1 soft soap handsoap. I usually only get frozen veggies because I prefer those, but I got the canned on a whim.
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We're usually on the high end of $150-200 for 3 people, and I buy primarily organic produce and dairy. I am really selective when it comes to fish--in general, if it's farm-raised or from certain places, I won't buy it, so our fish purchases are expensive. We're mostly vegetarian (except for the fish, of course). Our bill includes most of our toiletries and paper goods, any dining out/prepared food, and an occasional bottle of wine.
@IRunForFun: We have a Costco membership and I don't view it as a cost-saving measure, but a time-saving one. The prices generally aren't much better (if at all) than what I can find in the grocery stores (if I try, which I'm not always willing to do!). However, it IS very convenient to have a huge stash of toilet paper, etc., on hand, and I'm currently willing to pay a small premium for that convenience. Also, Costco carries some organic stuff and they seem to be stocking more, but I still won't buy a lot of things there because they don't meet my requirements (I don't buy food made in China, for example, and I've seen granola bars there that were; and they carry only two kinds of fish that I'm willing to buy--the rest of it is farmed and/or not sufficiently sustainable for me).
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I voted over $250, but it's probably less than that. It's hard for me to calculate since I go to the grocery store 2-3 times per week and depending on our schedules I buy different types/quantities of groceries. We also eat breakfast at home and make our own lunches for the most part, so I spend more than average on groceries because of that but it saves us $ ultimately. Oh and of course we eat a TON of fresh produce, I can't even keep enough in the house at any time - so that definitely drives up our costs as well.
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There are 4 of us (the kids are 1 and 3) and we spend about $100 a week. Some weeks are less. I only buy organic milk and yogurt.
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@PrincessBaby: I try and find things we can use for leftovers. Here's a few: I'll buy a rotisserie chicken and use the meat for chicken taco salad. I also buy a large pork shoulder and slow cook it In water/vinegar. Since its a cheaper piece of meat that helps. And I try to only buy what veggies are on sale or at the farmers market.
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Only ~$40 this week! Woot!
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I voted wrong, can I take it back? haha. I usually spend $100-125 every TWO weeks. This includes formula & diapers.
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we spend about $120 a week for 2 people and a 65lb dog. It includes 7 days of breakfasts, 7 days of lunches, and 4-5 dinners with a meat for both of us, pet supplies (food, treats), toiletries and household items (cleaning, laundry, stamps). We eat out/take out probably 2 times in a week and either have a family function or eat with parents on sundays.
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