How much do you spend a month on groceries?

Sadly, I spend close to $200 a week for a family of 7. That includes cleaning products, diapers, formula, etc etc. What scares me is that 4 of my children don't even eat a whole lot yet. I have 5 year olds who eat 1 full serving between the 2 of them, a 2 year old who eats perhaps a quarter of a serving, and a newborn still on formula. I know things will change as I don't have to buy diapers and formula, but I will have to buy more food. Right now it's not so bad. I'm on a program to recieve free milk, eggs, peanut butter, cereal, and baby formula. I supplement the formula with a generic brand that costs me less than $40 a month, so that's all I'm spending on that. I buy the cheap diapers, $7 a package, and still have 2 kids in those. I shop at a wholesale club and buy meat in bulk, then do the remainder of the shopping at Walmart super center as I found they are the cheapest. I wondered recently what I'll do when all my kids are gone, because I'll be clueless as to how to shop and cook for only 2 people!

$500 a month?! Damn I wish! In our house there is myself, my husband, two teens, 4 cats and 2 dogs LOL and we spend close to $1000 a month on groceries BUT that includes EVERYTHING (dog/cat food, laundry items, cleaning supplies etc etc)

$500 a month for 6 people, you deserve a gold star!!! That means you're spending about $21 per week per person - $3 a day WOW! How do you mange to feed a teenager on $3 a day. Please share your tips. There are 4 of us in my household and 1 dog and I'm averaging about $1000 a month. I'm doing something very, very wrong. I buy in bulk, I stay away from processed foods, I don't buy named brands, we use cloth towels instead of paper towels, I use coupons (but usually they don't have coupons for non processed foods), I buy on sale and I still spend a heap of money. Please share your shopping methods. I'm glad to know that someone has got a great system to save money on groceries.

My mother spends a lot of money in a month. I think that she spends around what you spend or probably a little bit more. There is me her oldest daughter, then she has three other kids, and our grandmother and then her. So that's six people in all. She buys milk a lot of my youngest sister and then this other milk for my grandmother.

There are 7 in my family...we have 14, 13, 10, 9, 6 and myself and my boyfriend. We spend anywhere between $200-$300 per week on groceries. This typically doesn't count the cleaning supplies (which we buy once a month) BUT it does include toilet paper and necessities like that. We look for the cheapest deals possible and if we can buy in bulk, we will. Any deals that are 10 fo $10 we typically use (especially on bread) because it gives us 10 loaves of bread for dinners and sandwiches and could last us almost 2 full weeks. I have seriously thought about doing the coupon clipping but I don't know where the best place to get those are as we only get the newspaper on Saturdays and Sundays. Any information on that would really help me out as well:D

It is just my fiance and myself.We go shopping every 2 weeks when we get paid.We buy food that will last about 2 weeks, but we still will pick up food though out the week small things. About $ 150 for the 2 weeks. $ 25 on pet stuff . And little trips over 2 weeks about $40 .

In our house, there is me, a teen aged daughter the man folk and three large dogs. We spend about $250 per month. I do not buy dog food, I worked at an animal shelter so I haven't bought dog food for about a year and we still have enough stock to last another 6 months. Thank goodness!

Hello Hockeygal I'm a student and I'm living in the faculty campus and I live with other 4 colleges and we eat together, so is hard to say how much I spend on food. But I think a little hard I believe that I spend around 100$ per month only on food. Sometimes more, sometimes less, it depends were we eat or if we all eat together. Take care and have a great day ScarFace

we go grocery shopping about every other week and usually spend about $300 per month to feed a family of 4. you seem to do a pretty good job with your family. any tips to share with the rest of us?

There are 6 in my family. Three teenage boys, one 7 yr old girl, my hubby and myself. I also run a daycare and provide the food for the day. I spend $200 a week on groceries. It is rediculous the amount I spend and by the end of the week, we are scrambling for something to eat.

I spend about $400 a month for 3 people, give or take. That includes most of our toiletries and cleaning supplies. I feel like that is more than I should spend, and I wish I could pare it down a little more. But I feel like I am already pinching every penny I can.

Because we are only four in our family and we are all grown up, our grocery bills just amount to at least 1500 pesos (roughly 34USD) per grocery day. We do groceries every other week, so sometimes it's 68 USD per month or 102USD, depending on how many weekends the month has.

Here lately we have been spending between $500 - $700. The prices are getting crazy and some thing I can't cut back on. I have 4 kids (2 are teens)but my expensive on is my dad. He has a bad heart and is on a special diet so it gets pricey quick.

We have 2 adults, 2 children and 1 cat in our house. i spend on average $150-$175.00 a week on groceries. That tallies up to approx. $600-$700.00 per month!