Maybe he thinks food is cheap

hey s, I definetly side w/ you @ about $90. There are only two in my household now & still the grocery bill can go over $100 if I need cleaning supplies etc.. heck lysol is $5 a can alone & we're stocking up on things like that these days. |:)

I think that YOU are right. You two both need some form of special diet food, and special diet food costs money. unfortunately good food in general costs money, and the only stuff that doesn't cost anything is the stuff people get at the foodbank. LOL I think that you need to spend what you need to to ensure that you and your husband eat properly.

I pay $80.00 to $100.00 a week and there is just me and my dogs. It does include non food items.

Well I guess that depends too on how many people are in the family. My family would not be able to get by on $60 to $70 a week, and probably not even 80 or 90. I spend about $150 per week for my family of 5. Of course if I really had to spend under $100 I could do it, but it would take a lot of planning, menu creating, scanning the sale papers and clipping coupons, I do some of that, but I don't have the time to make a profession out of it. There are weeks I do better than others but typically it is about $150 a week, and I get to keep what ever money I don't spend on food, and I still spend that much food is not cheap. I went to Aldis which is the cheapest store around the other day and the only meat I bought was 3 pounds of hamburger, and I bought a coat for my son for $12.99 and my bill was 94 dollars. That was basically for cereal, milk, cottage cheese, taco shells, the grond beef, the coat, orange juice, some bagel bites and a few other things. Take your hubby with you to the store and tell him to buy what he wants not looking at the prices just what he thinks you guys would need for one week of meals, then take him to the check out and watch his shock.

I think it's more realistic to say $80-$90 a week if you ask me, because food is really expensive these days! But also because toiletries and other household necessities (paper towels, toilet paper, cleaning supplies, feminine stuff, etc) adds up extremely quickly as well. I live in a 2 person household, so we probably only spend about $45 a week on groceries, but I'm sure it's a different scenario for your household.

i think that the most important thing is keeping the pair of you healthy. i have just translated the higher figure into pounds and it isn't much really - you could do it on benefits. however you can get more veggies cheaper if you buy tinned ones (not exactly the same but fine for cooking) and frozen ones.

It depends on how you shop it you can do it or not. I feed a family of 5 on around $200 a month. I do this by buying in bulk and then take a vacuum food sealer and package it into smaller meals. We spend another $50 or so a month on non-food items. It can happen but you need to coupon clip and look out for bargains. I don't know what kind of offers are made in your country but if you are trying to save money and eat cheap the best way to do it is stocking up on sale items, things rotate on sell and for the first few weeks you may eat a lot of certain items but if you buy lots of things that are on sale and you have coupons on top of it you can get things for pennies on the dollar and sometimes free. I like shopping on double coupon days myself and try to stretch our food dollars as much as I can. The best I ever did was get over $200 worth of groceries for just over $35. Matter of fact I wrote about it that day when it happened. When I buy food I only buy things that are on sale. Very rarely do I buy something that isn't on sale, if a craving has hit and I got to satisfy it.

you are my SIL thought we could get by with $140 for 2 weeks I looked in fridge to day to cook somethign for tonight hmmmmmmmmmmmmm they had only provided for 6 meals dumplins , spam and Chili what are we going to do for next week! stave I guess for we havent any money to buy any more no one gets paid till the 30th

Well, it costs me anywhere from 50 to 60.00 per week to feed my daughter and myself and that does include toilet paper and soaps etc. The difference between my situation and yours is that you are trying to feed 2 different people with 2 different diets. It is not farfetched to imagine that it would cost 80.00 or more per week in your situation.

Too buy fresh foods every week is a great expense. I usually only buy organic foods, and other products, and it is just me and my husband and i usually spend about 150.00 a week but that is for everything...food and non-food products.

My husband is the same way. He thinks that it won't cost that much to have enough groceries for the entire week. That it would only cost about $50-70 a week. But I am with you on this one, that it would cost somewhere between 80-90 dollars a week. Without even the non food items.

It depends where you shop. I have a friend of mine who shops at Albertson's (a major chain store) and she says she is lucky if she spends 100.00 a week. Another friend of mine and I shop at Wal-mart and we are able to get our bills down to 50.00 a week. It depends on what you buy. For my non-food items I go to Sams Club and buy in bulk. Most of the time my friends and I go half and it has saved us money. For fruits and vegetables if you can go to Wal-mart they are cheaper and stay fresh longer. Also, if possible buy frozen vegetables they are cheaper as well. Here are a few web sites I go to to look for recipes. dlife.org (this is American Diabetes Association site) cook.com has a lot of recipes that do not use many ingredients. look up frugal cooking and there are recipes there as well.

Hi friend here in my city in india cost of food items, rice, wheat, sugar, edible oils rise by 20% every week, fruits are so costly, they are almost poison due to the heavy coat of insecticides, vegetable cost is too high.. but we have to eat, me and my wife both are diabetic, we prefer milk, milk produts in addition to vegetables and things made from wheat.. Thanks for sharing. Welcome always. Cheers. Professor

My girlfriend lives in the same area you do. I am sure you are right about the money. I don't have anything that would effect my diet except to eat healthy anyway. My husband who is a full blown diabetic and on insulin daily has to have 3 to 4 snacks a day plus his meals. It is an very expensive illness to do all this. I have to watch the carbs in everything I purchase for him, I try not to have to many sweets in the house...But his snacks for what he has to eat, he won't eat fruits or vegetables. Some nurse dietician told him he could eat turkey lunch meat so he will roll up like 3 to 4 slices of lunch meat for a snack. so I am buying 2 to 4 lbs of lunchmeat for him to snack on a week plus, 100 calorie under 20carbs snacks. His snacks alone can run my grocery bill 20 to 40.00. He could make it cheaper but refuses to change his diet. So our grocery bill is almost always 150.00 a week. he takes his breakfast and lunch, and his two snacks to work plus diet cokes, plus I will always make him a 0 calorie flavored water drink like peach tea. if I was by myself, I could probably get by with 30 to 40 a week. I eat totally different than him. except for our dinner meal. I deffinately know what you are going through! Hopefully since you live there maybe the farmers market opening at the Forks will aid you. My girlfriend took me there when I visited her in Canada. Good luck prices seem to be going up everywhere on everything as the gas increases.

I hope that he is right because this is going to be better for your wallet.But as i read your description it sounds that your calculations are closer to reality.

Well, what my husband and I tend to do since it is just the 2 of us, is buy our larger products in Bulk somewhere if we can, like Meat, Toilet Paper, etc. and when we really need these, so then weekly what we only need to buy is items such as salad fixings for my lunches, and fruit and stuff like that. We do usually try and plan ahead and that way we find our money stretching a little further as well. Personally what we spend depends on what we need, but we are trying to try and stick more to an organized budget for sure.

i think you are right as you obiviously do the shopping and now the prices of essential commodities are rising,maybe if he is adament then you should cut one of his foods....

I'm not sure who would be right cause I don't know the prices where you live. I do like to shop at places like Aldi and Walmart and Target to get lower prices than the actual grocery stores. I do shop at the grocery stores some though and try to buy stuff when it's on sale. I like to use coupons too to save money. I don't go shopping each week so I really don't even know how much we spend each week if I break it down. I just go shopping for food and things when we need it...not each week though.

If you can get what you need at either price that one would be right. That also must include what you need for your health. You do need a special diet to keep from getting diabetes. He needs to understand this. Have a great day.

Depending what you buy and if they items are on sale or you use coupons could have a big bearing on your grocery bill. Watch out on your intake of to many fruits per day, since fruits are a natural sugar. I have the same problem and have to watch my fruit intake as I love fruits also.