How much do you spend in groceries?

Boy I know what you mean. We have five in our family. I spend between $200 and $250 every two weeks. We also have two dogs and a cat. I try to use as many coupons as possible. I belong to a few websites that i read emails and stuff for points and a lot of them give you points or money for printing out coupons and redeeming them. The coupons help a little bit. I've been trying to find meals that are easy to make with very few ingredients.

There are two of us and we spend about 150 dollars a month. We would spend more but were on food stamps and we can only spend that much. We eat out a lot at fast food restaurants consequently. It sucks because this week we went to the grocery and the bagger forgot to put a bag of groceries in our cart and we lost string cheese, pepper jack cheese, and bagel dogs. That's about 15 dollars worth of groceries!

Well, I am a big boy, so I work a lot, which means I eat a lot, which means I spend a lot. In my apartment, it's only me, but I can easily spend at least $500 a month on myself. If the price of food wasn't so expensive, I this amount would go down slightly, or I can at least stock up more. Food is just too expensive, and I have a monster appetite because I am too busy, so I am always eating. To illustrate my appetite, I live in an apartment by myself, and I have two refrigerators (the second one is a mini fridge). Most of the things I buy, I would by in large quantities. To a normal person, this would last quite a while, but for growing weightlifters like myself, not very long. Especially, when I buy food from Costco, I load up. I blow 200 in there easily, buying the large pack items, which do not last very long for me. For example, I am a riceaholic, so I go through a 20 pound bag in a month. I buy enough meat for people to think I am throwing a party, when I say its for me. If my big fridge was more kind to fresh produce, it would look like I bought a garden, but I have to go with frozen. My worse offenders are water juice and milk since I buy gallons of these things and drink this stuff by the gallon. If you haven't met a person who drinks milk by the gallon, you just did. The milk is actually why I bought the mini fridge because it took up so much space in the big fridge, which means more food. Why do I buy enough food to last a year? I went back into lifting weights, and my goal was to bulk up more than what I am now (i am a horse). This meant I needed to eat more to grow, but I hit something of a growth spurt where I can easily pile on mass and muscle, and to keep up with that meant consuming more food than a family. I am always hungry now. What's funny is that the places I shop at, the people know me so they see why I buy so much food because I have gotten bigger or the aisles are smaller.

There are two of us and I spend 50.00 a week. Food prices are so ridiculous. I have tried to cut back by only eating two meals a day, but that does not seem to work. My husband is diabetic and has to have three meals a day. The prices of fruits and vegetables are horrible. Last week I saw peaches for 2.00 a pound. I am not sure why this is so, but in the state of Idaho we get taxed on coupons.

Going to the grocery store is scary because of how expensive things are! Prices go up more than our income does and it kind of hurts. The good thing is that I live with my parents and so I will help them with some of the shopping. I do more of the personal care shopping I suppose like cleaning supplies, bathroom supplies, etc. There are times I will go to the grocery store myself and purchase items, and it seems like before you know it you spent $100 at least. Groceries are probably bought anywhere from 1 to 2 times a week, and I can just imagine how expensive that gets. We are better than we were years ago. We used to spend about $300+ on a shopping trips about 5 years ago, so I guess it's a nice thing that we are one a budget now. It's not even worth it to to a normal grocery store for most regular supplies. It's better to go to a club store on items that will last you a long time when possible. We shop there every few months. Either way, it's expensive.

Well at the beginning it seems that isn't too much, but when you calculate all the money you spend in those little groceries then you see that it's a lot, in my house we are 5 person, my wife, me and the kids (5 years old, 1 year, and 3 month old) right now, we spend more money on the kids foods. After calculating we start looking groceries in other places where are less expensive or we just try to buy wholesale, with this at the beginning it seems to much when you pay, but its enough quantity for good time.

That's true. Goods are becoming more and more expensive these days especially the food. Anyway, there are ten of us in our household. And monthly, we spend like 15,000 php for groceries. So that's like $330 that doesn't include the occasional food that we buy. It's really really expensive coupled with the bills. We spend like almost $500 dollars for our house. With regard to saving, my mom is thinking about minimizing on the purchases of non-food stuff like clothes, shoes, etc. We're also cutting our electricity by not using lights and not ironing some of the clothes.