How much are we spending on groceries these days?

Just wondering!

Last year we were living in NY with my parents so it was a whole different ballgame, buying and cooking for my whole family and Loey wasn't really eating real foods then. We recently moved back to San Diego, so now it's Loey (almost 2), DH, me, and those 2 babies in my belly!

How much is everyone spending on groceries/week?

How many people are eating?

How many meals are made at home?

Where do you shop?

Do you buy organic?

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For us, it looks like we're spending about $150/week.

It's 2 adults (but I'm pregnant with twins) and 1 child.

We all eat breakfast and dinner at home 7 days/week. We all take our own lunches 5 days/week, eat at home 1 day and then usually takeout for 1 lunch meal/week.

We shop at a combination of Ralphs (like Stop&Shop), Trader Joe's and Whole Foods... with occasional trips to the farmer's market.

We try to do organic where we can, but we've been on a pretty strict budget lately so unfortunately our proteins have really not been organic

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How much is everyone spending on groceries/week?
$100 roughly...depending on what I buy

How many people are eating?
2 adults and 1 toddler

How many meals are made at home?
Breakfast-always at home
Lunch-mostly out (maybe bring from home once or twice a week)
Dinner-5 days we eat at home

Where do you shop?
Stop&Shop mostly but buy some things at TJs

Do you buy organic?
Certain items such as eggs, milk and chicken.

Message edited 10/11/2011 2:41:26 PM.

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How much is everyone spending on groceries/week?
I'm including diapers, wipes, cleaning stuff, and toiletries in this number. I would say around $150 per week, some weeks are under, some are over. I've done it on $80-100 per week, but it's not pretty. It can be done, though.

How many people are eating?
2 adults and 3 children, but one child eats adult size portions (he's almost 11.)

How many meals are made at home?
All of them. Very few exceptions.

Where do you shop?
I shop around for the sales. Lately it's been a combo of ShopRite, Pathmark, and Target.

Do you buy organic?
No.

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How much is everyone spending on groceries/week?

We spend roughly $40-60 per week

How many people are eating?
2 adults

How many meals are made at home?
Breakfast-always home - usually hard boiled eggs and a banana for DH. For me a muffin or shake both that I make for myself.

Lunch-always from home

Dinner- At least 6 days at home, we rarely eat out or get take out.

Where do you shop?
Trader Joe's for bulk of it. Produce from Best Yet, milk & eggs from BJ's or Costco (we buy 2 dozen eggs at a time)

Do you buy organic?
Sometimes, it depends on what it is and what sales are going on.

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We spend about 170-220 depending on the sales.

There are 2 adults and 2 children in my family.. but I almost always have a day or 2 during the week where I find myself watering the soup (so to speak) for unexpected visitors. My 15 year old nephew spends every other weekend with us.

I cook almost every meal for our family - breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert. The kids buy lunch from school 2-3 times a week and Rob's boss buys him lunch 1x per week. We also will get bagels for breakfast once a month and will buy breakfast sandwiches maybe once every few months. We eat at my MIL's most Sunday evenings and get invited out to parties or dinner probably 3-4 times a month... although that REALLY slows down in the colder months.

I shop at the farm stand at the corner and the Farmer's Market (until November), Stop & Shop, Best Yet and Cornucopia Natural Foods.

I used to buy a lot more organic when I was working.. but budget cuts have effected the quality of food I buy. I try to buy mostly local, fresh produce. I ALWAYS buy organic milk and almond milk. I get my eggs at the Farmer's Market.. but everything else is what's on sale or reasonably priced.. that means I don't get organic meat or poultry. My BF is a fisherman so we will get fresh fish when it's caught! I make a lot of stuff from scratch so I can at least control what goes into our foods as much as possible.

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We probably spend about $100-$125 a week on groceries. But including other food (restaurants, alcohol, snacks at work) we spend $500-$650 a month total on food.

That is just for 2 of us.

I usually make breakfast, lunch and dinners. However, once or twice a week DH goes out for lunch and then on weekends, we sometimes go out for both lunches and dinners depending on how busy we are and what is going on.

Our two regular stores are Stop&Shop and Sam's. We also do a monthly trip to Whole Foods.

We don't buy enough organic. We only started getting into it recently and we buy certain items when we can. DH sometimes gets organic coffee and cereal. I buy some organic fruits and vegetables as well as canned beans and canned tomatoes. I really need to start trying to buy organic dairy and meat as I hear that is the most important thing to go organic on, but the choices are expensive and slim.

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How much is everyone spending on groceries/week?
$100 roughly...depending on what I buy

How many people are eating?
2 adults

How many meals are made at home?
Breakfast-always at home
Lunch-60% of the time I bring from home... order out the other 40%...DH 90% eaten at work (but he's a restaurant manager)
Dinner-DH and I eat together 3 days a week - one will be out, the other 2 are home. Most other nights I eat home

Where do you shop?
Stop&Shop

Do you buy organic?
Usually just chicken.

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I spend around $80 a week on groceries (that's including diapers and toiletries)

1 -2 adults and 1 toddler

Breakfast I bring to work from home
Lunch I bring to work from home
Dinner at home 5 nights a week

I shop at Stop & Shop and occassionally Old World (a gourmet market) for some specialty produce, bread, and cheeses.

I don't buy organic.

**I'm about to move in with my BF and I imagine my weekly grocery bill will increase to about $100 per week. Right now I cook for 2 about 2 - 3 times per week, but once we're living together I'll be cooking for 2 adults every night.

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How much is everyone spending on groceries/week?
about $80. sometimes more, sometimes less depending on what i'm cooking that week

How many people are eating?
just DH and I

How many meals are made at home?
breakfast, lunch and dinner is all made at home monday- friday. it's rare that DH buys lunch at work. during the weekends, we'll usually go out to dinner one night.

Where do you shop?
i shop the sales, so i go to a bunch of different stores. trade fair, stop and shop, best yet...

Do you buy organic?
i try to buy organic as much as possible but it gets a little expensive.

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How much is everyone spending on groceries/week?
I usually spend $150ish every 2 weeks or so.

How many people are eating?
2 adults and 1 baby

How many meals are made at home?
I eat all 3 meals at home since I'm a SAHM.
DH buys breakfast and lunch most days and has dinner at home.
We get take out 1x/week and go out to eat 1x/week.

Where do you shop?
Western Beef for meat/dairy and H Mart for produce.

Do you buy organic?
Only certain items, so not 100% organic

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I shop every two weeks when dh gets paid. I spend around $200-250.

That is for 2 adults and 1 ds.

I shop at stop and shop or shoprite

I cook 5 out of 7 nights

I buy nothing organic

I buy apple juice and bacon and diapers at BJ's.

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How much is everyone spending on groceries/week? We spend no more than $90 a week. This includes cleaning supplies, paper towels, and napkins.

How many people are eating? 2

How many meals are made at home? We eat breakfast at home every day. DH buys lunch. I buy lunch maybe 1-2X a week, if at all. We eat dinner at home about 4 nights per week.

Where do you shop? Stop & Shop

Do you buy organic? We don't buy any organic products, unless it's cheaper than the regular product. (I know that's unusual, but one time the organic milk was less expensive than what I usually buy, so I bought the organic one).

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Just realized who you were since you changed your avitar - I can't believe how big Loey is getting! I always follow your food posts - sorry just had to comment - time does fly!

To answer your question, it is hard to tell because I do a food coop split with my cousin so that is about $25 every other week pre-paid. I did a HUGE shop and stocked up on antibiotic free meats and household cleaners, etc. at BJ's for about $300 a month ago and expect that to last me awhile. I typically still spend between $100 - $150 a week at the store but go 3 out of 4 weeks a month on average. DH and I tend to buy beer at the store so that adds to it.

So I guess if you add that all in, I would say $75 of the BJ's shop + $50 coop + $400 store = $525 per month for just me and DH.

We eat almost all organic, antibiotic free, etc. I love to cook so I am always stocking up on ingredients and a full pantry/freezer makes me happy.

We eat 5-6 dinners per week at home, all breakfasts and prob 6 lunches. I also pay for my household cleaning products (and tp, paper towels, etc.) and cat food/litter in this amount.

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I would say we average about $200 a week. Just groceries - I'm not including going out at all. I shop mostly at Stop & Shop, but also go to Trader Joes about once a month and Costco once a month.

We are two adults and two toddlers.

Breakfast - the kids and I always eat at home. DH buys breakfast once or twice a week on his way to work. We go to the diner every other week for breakfast.

Lunch - the kids and I always eat at home (or I provide their daycare meals). DH buys lunch 5 days a week. Once a week I usually take the kids somewhere for lunch.

Dinner - The four of us have home-cooked meals 6 nights a week, once a week we go out or get takeout.

About 50% of the produce/dairy I buy is organic. Maybe 25% of the meat. I only buy organic meat when it's on sale.

ETA milk and eggs are always organic. Not always organic cheese or yogurt though.

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How much is everyone spending on groceries/week?
Between $90 - $125 a week...depending on what we need that week.

How many people are eating?
2

How many meals are made at home?
Eeverything is usually made at home with the exception maybe 1 or 2 nights a week we may go out to eat.

Where do you shop?
waldbaums and keyfood

Do you buy organic?
nope

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How much is everyone spending on groceries/week? I average about $125 a week. We hit BJs about every 2 weeks and that is usually about $75 but the bulk of that is diapers and wipes.

How many people are eating?
2 adults and one toddler

How many meals are made at home?
Almost all. I bring breakfast and lunch everyday day. Dh is a SAHD so he eats what is in the house. I cook dinner pretty much every night. We might do take out 2x/month.

Where do you shop?
Stop and Shop and BJs

Do you buy organic?
No

Re: How much are we spending on groceries these days?

How much is everyone spending on groceries/week? we average about $150 and we buy mostly organic.


How many people are eating? usually 3 adults, one toddler, and at least one young girl a few times a week

How many meals are made at home? I would say 6 dinners, 5 lunches for dh, 6 or 7 breakfasts, and all meals for the kids.

Where do you shop? we shop for produce at a local farm stand, and Whole Foods, Hannaford (supermarket), and Fairway

Do you buy organic? I buy most things organic. all dairy for Luce, eggs, meats, bread. veggies and fruit depends. it's all local/organic or minimally treated stuff. pasta and rice varies. cheese we buy from a cheesemonger. not necessarily organic.

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Message edited 10/12/2011 12:02:28 PM.

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awww! congrats on the ! how exciting!!!!

How much is everyone spending on groceries/week? $80-$100

How many people are eating? 2 adults and 1 toddler

How many meals are made at home?
an average of 5 nights of dinners cooked from the ground up with 1 night of leftovers or going out to eat. i buy lunch at work. i am looking to bring in lunch from home but cant get on the ball fast enough now that we have a newborn and a toddler that goes to school 3 days a week( her lunches are prepared by myself or dh)

Where do you shop? Lately ive been going to wegmans b.c they have a wide variety of organic and natural foods. they are certainly not the cheapest but they have everything i need in one store. i do not have time to go to multiple stores

Do you buy organic?
i always do organic dairy- milk, yogurt, eggs. From time to time i buy organic meats ( mostly chicken) . my goal is to buy all organic grass fed meat/chicken and at the sametime reduce our meat intake so that it wont be so expensive. as for veggies, i only really do organic carrots

edited to add that this includes breakfast at home ( cereal, eggs etc) and some lunches( normally leftovers) fr dh who works from home some days

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How much is everyone spending on groceries/week?
$100-150

How many people are eating?
3 adults, a toddler and a teen girl every other weekend

How many meals are made at home?
All meals made at home, we go out to eat maybe once a month

Where do you shop?
Stop & Shop (peapod if I need to stick to a strict budget)
Fairway for all natural chicken and organic meats
Trader joes-produce

Do you buy organic? Mostly organic

Fairway is a little far for us so I try to go once a month and stock up on our protein

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How much is everyone spending on groceries/week?

About $80

How many people are eating?
2 adults and 1 toddler

How many meals are made at home?
six dinners, two breakfasts and about four lunches
Where do you shop?
Walbaums. Whole foods and Costco once a month
Do you buy organic?
We do milk, chicken, fruit and veggies. Flour, beans, etc. We don't do read meat or eggs or some diary like cheese.

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How much is everyone spending on groceries/week?

About $80

How many people are eating?
2 Adults (1 infant but I shop for her sep.)

How many meals are made at home?
3 a week.

Where do you shop?
Pathmark, Walmart

Do you buy organic? Not really .. Just concious things.. Not Ubber fattening foods..

We buy our daughters food organic.