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No, I have a weekly budget. It includes all meals (packed lunches), snacks, beverages, and some incidentals like dish soap. It doesn't include diapers. I aim for under 100/week, but 120 is my cap. We're a family of 4.

We have a biweekly grocery budget that includes everything (toothpaste, paper towels, eggs). I use Peapod (Stop and Shop delivery service) which allows me to look at deals and meal plan based on what's cheap. I just completed it for the next two weeks and the total was about $120.

I don't think I could handle calculating that! I did once calculate how much my breakfast (eggs and potatoes scramble) cost vs my husband and son (granola and yogurt) to make sure I want spending way more on me just because I am picky.

One thing that works for me is to budget how much I'll spend on meat for the month and then buy it in bigger packages since that is one of the more expensive things that costs less in bigger quantities. They way I have a variety of cheap meat in the freezer for meals. That also makes it harder to calculate per meal though.