About how much do you spend on your family for groceries per month?
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March 5th, 2013
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Two adults. Probably $400/mo
There are three of us, I probably send $750 a month.
Two in the house, probably $250 to $300 a month.
I am feeding four adults on approximately $350 a month. We spend another $50 or so on non-food grocery items.
Two adults, one tween, one child, two cats. Between $700—$900 per month, including other grocery store items like cleaning supplies and such.
2 adults $500—$600 a month. $30—$50 on nonfood items included in the number.
3 Probably $800. It’s hard to say, because my wife often makes meals for my daughter and her family.
@YARNLADY has a point. Sometimes I go buy things at the grocery store and a chunk of the money is spent on laundry detergent, toilet paper and so on. So its really hard to calculate how much goes to actual food.
Guessing, because I probably spend between 150 to 175 a week on actual food for 3 adults. So it would be about 600 to 700 a month. But if you include Toiletries and detergents and soap it will probably reach 900. If you include the fact that two adults buy lunch out 20 days a month. You can add another 400 a month. So for food. Anywhere from 1000 to 1100 a month. Divide between 3 it would average about 350 per person per month.
Family of 5 (2 adults, 1 adolescent, 1 toddler, 1 baby).
We spend about $800 in food (that includes baby formula) and probably another $200 in other products (toiletries, diapers, etc) a month. We might actually spend a little bit more on foo, but I think that’s pretty close.
We live in Australia, expensive!!! For 2 adults $500—$600 per month. I would about $50 of that is non food products. And keep in mind, we eat very little meat and no smoking or alcohol.
Four of us in Australia minimum $1000
Folks after me bring up a good point…
Our amount also includes non-edible items like paper towels, laundry detergeant, toilet paper, house cleaning supplies, trash bags.
Three adults (me, an 18 year old and a 21 year old). I shop twice a month and spend about $250 each time. I might make an in-between trip or two during the month and spend an additional $50–80.
I forgot to add that my monthly shopping bill increased by about $40–50/mo after I got a cat.
So: 2 Adult + 1 growing kitty = $450/mo
Does StarBucks count? I spent $600? there last month for myself and friends. I probably only spent $25 at the grocery store since I have mainly been ordering in or eating out. In the USA you can eat very cheaply if you choose to.
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2 adults ~ 4 kids ~ 22 20 17 15 ~ and occasional friends after school ~ I spend about 1000.00 a month ~ I am working on cutting that down!!
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