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We spend about $250 a week for a family of 4. That figure including a some cleaning supplies. Dh spends about another $25-$75 a week for lunch depending on how often he eats out.

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I have never ever spent more than $150 in a trip to the grocery store.

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Posted by NervousNell

Posted by ali120206

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Is it bad that i have no idea what we spend?
We just go to the store when we need stuff and buy whatever we need.
I dont' even think we shop every week. Just at random.
I haven't a clue what we spend a week, a month, a year on groceries
And I would imagine it would be different all the time depending on what we are in the mood for that week.

Same here.

We also stock up on certain meats when they are on sale and freeze them.

I can go to the supermarket 3x a week and one day would just be for waffles and muffins.

And if you asked me what I spent at Target it could easily top $500 and up a month!

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I try to keep it at 130 a week for our family of 4. We rarely eat out any meals or even get coffee out. We do spend another $75ish on coffee and granola bars from amazon each month. I meal plan and I find that shopping once a month and sticking to only one store where I know the prices, products, quality help me keep my spending down.

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Family of 6 my shopping trip is close to $300.00 a regular grocery and then more for Costco items.

Then we still end up eating out/ordering in weekly....

I can't tell you how much freezer meat I toss a month. Its sad.

This week my husband and I did healthy direct it was 120.00 for me 125.00 for him and I spent 98.00 on Amazon fresh for the kids

I wanna barf

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2-250 per week on food for 4. It's way too much. We have meat (steak, chicken, or suasage) with every dinner, that gets expensive. We go through eggs, milk, and snacks like crazy with 2 boys.my older one is always in the fridge, my younger always in the pantry looking for eats. DH eats all meals from home too so it's a lot. Shop at Stew's, fairway , and shoprite

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That sounds pretty high. We're a family of 3 and we spend around $130/week on groceries (not including beer, which DH gets weekly from the distributor). I consider "grocery shopping" to be all the food, plus also cleaning supplies, and household necessities like toilet paper, tissues, detergents, etc. So, that $130/week usually is not JUST food. We do try to shop once every 2 months at Costco for certain things in bulk, like paper towels, some meats, etc. and spend about $80. That does help to keep our weekly groceries down a bit.

I will say, I think a lot of it has to do with WHERE you shop. I find that Shoprite has great sales, reasonable prices, etc. But places like Whole Foods, Stop N Shop, Fairway, even A&P tend to be much pricier. When I do shop at Stop N Shop, for the same exact items, I spend much more. My $130 weekly shopping is more like $160 - $180.

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Posted by Millie3

Posted by evrythng4areason

I budget $125/ week for a family of 3 plus a dog who gets cooked for

Dh buys lunch daily in the city, but I buy him weekly snacks for work to take in each week.

And we eat 90% organic!

How is this possible? Where do you shop? What do you buy? I need some tips

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Ive noticed grocery prices definitely increased over the past year or two. My weekly bill went up at least $50 per week buying mostly the same stuff. We are a family of 4 and with 2 growing kids and an active husband, they are eating constantly. I shop Sunday and by Friday cupboards are bare. I work full time so I cannot spend my entire weekend driving around LI to 3 different stores to save money. We spend about $200 per week but that includes non-food items like cleaning supplies, toiletries etc.

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That's pretty much what I spend but every 2 weeks. 2 adults and 2 little ones. I do my grocery shopping at trader joes for the most part, a few things at whole foods, and a couple of things at stop and shop. Oh and I only buy certain things organic, I usually follow the dirty dozen.

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Omg!! I spend $300 a month on my husband and I and its mostly meat and organic produce!

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So, since having DD (who is 5 months old), I have been doing all of my grocery shopping on peapod (too hard to grocery shop with her and I work so I dont want to spend the weekend food shopping instead of spending time with her) --- I like peapod because I can see what I am spending as I am "shopping" -- I then take things out or make different choices if I see that number rise higher than I really want to spend for the week. When I go food shopping and put it in the cart, I have no clue what I'm spending until I pay for it. So, just a suggestion that you may want to try an online service like peapod to help you budget/buy in a range that you are comfortable with instead of being surprised at the register.

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Does anyone have a good meal planning website they use?

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I don't even spend that much and we eat all organic.

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I don't know exact numbers- we don't shop weekly.
But, to save $$, we shop staples (rice/frozen items/snacks/cereal)at Aldi- we go every 2-3 weeks.
We only eat chicken/turkey/fish (no other meats)- so we get that usually at Costco in bulk. Including the fish. I portion it out and freeze. We go maybe once every 4-6 weeks.
I buy fruits and veggies from my local fruit/veggie cart (we live in LIC) based on what looks good and only for the next few days or it goes bad. We also grow tons of veggies in the summer- so that changes the bill.
I hit up Trader Joes maybe once a month or every other month.
I rarely step into regular grocery stores-- sometimes the keyfood by me when there are good items on sale.
I really don't buy excess- I used to do that and my bills were crazy and we wasted a lot of food. I stick to the same items most of the time. We try to bring breakfast/lunch to work most times- breakfast is either yogurt (when it's on sale) and fruit, or overnight oats or a breakfast bar & fruit or hard boiled eggs. Lunch is leftovers or sandwiches. snacks - I get nuts at Tjs, bulk items at Costco - like fiber one bars or fruit.
there are definitely weeks where I don't feel like doing a big shopping or I don't have time and end up spending more on takeout, prepared items from our local gourmet store....but in the end it evens out. Cleaning supplies and that kind of stuff is separate and I get at Costco or Amazon.

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We spend at least $250-300 each week. Family of 4. That includes paper goods, cleaning products etc..

I do buy a decent amount of organic and try to use some coupons.

My husband eats a lot he works out hard, lifts heavy etc so he eats a lot of protein.

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I'd say I spend about that per week for DH and I. Sometimes more, sometimes less, but that # doesn't sound astronomical to me at all. I shop mostly at Iavarone and North Shore Farms with occasional trips to Trader Joe's for snacks and BJs for staples. I very rarely go to a regular supermarket like S&S. Now that DD is eating more table food I mostly buy organic produce at Whole Foods (before I bought whatever was on sale at Iavarone or North Shore Farms).

I don't know where some of you guys are shopping or what you're eating to have such small grocery bills!

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Posted by luvbuffet

Posted by Millie3

Posted by evrythng4areason

I budget $125/ week for a family of 3 plus a dog who gets cooked for

Dh buys lunch daily in the city, but I buy him weekly snacks for work to take in each week.

And we eat 90% organic!

How is this possible? Where do you shop? What do you buy? I need some tips

Seriously!!

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