How much per week do you spend on groceries?

[DeBora4BobbyL]

How much per week do you spend on groceries? How many people do you feed in your household? Would you like to reduce that amount and do you think that is possible? What are some strategies that you have tried that have helped reduce your grocery bill?

[blessedmomof04]

I am feeding a family of 5. The youngest is 16yrs old. So I have all adults. I shop every other week. I save money by buying a 1/2 steer from a local farmer once a year. This saves me alot of money at the grocery store. I also know what my beef has in it.

[cau]

I spend about 900. to $950. a month. I feed 4 adults and 1 child. I recently started buying from Angel Food Ministries and I cherry pick a lot. With winter here I will make a lot of soups and cassaroles.;)

[barbszy]

I am spending between $100 and $150 a week for a family of 5. That includes a teen boy and an almost-teen girl.
I save money by buying more "ingredients" and fewer prepared foods. Also, meal planning helps me save money.

[RobertaD]

I'm spending on average $75 a week ($300 a month) for my family of 4 plus 2 dogs, cleaning, personal care and paper products. Kids get free lunch at school so that helps out also.

I meal plan, stock up on sale and use coupons which saves me $300 or more a month. I've started using Angel Food Ministries so I hope to be able to bring our grocery total down some.

Roberta

[Bilby]

$100-$150 per week on average, but I buy bulk meat to freeze so could spend $60 on that in 1 week but none for another 3 weeks.
Fruit, veg, milk and bread are ones that get done every 4-5 days depending on the season, summer is usually more fresh fruits etc.
That's 3 adults and 1 child almost 14, who eats like an adult.

We don't have coupons here for food by stores, I make mostly from scratch.

[cat lover]

I spend $50 a week on groceries. We grow a lot of our own veggies in the growing season and we don't eat much meat so that helps a lot. I make almost everything from scratch, and have a standing order on organic milk at the grocery for the sale week so I only have to get milk every other week and always a sale price. I also refuse to pay regular price for anything unless totally have a true need otherwise. I use coupons as much as possible and lately have been able to use quite a bit more as a BIL in the city now saves all he doesn't use for me. I always have several FREE coupons. Just this past week I had $15 in coupons for free items. I don't plan menus, but plan meals around what is on sale. So when something is a really great sale price I stock up then with a large amount of the items. Having a large walk in pantry to store items in helps also. I take advantage of having two processing plants near us that also supplies fish which has great prices too!

Even when there were 4 of us I never spent over $250 per month on groceries. Same ideas of saving that I do now, just in bigger ways then and our garden was much larger then also. We also in the city had a couple of salvage groceries that had great prices and as long as you used the items up within a couple months the products were fine. And don't forget the over stock section for meats, I was always able to pick up what we needed at that time in that section. I froze what we didn't need right away.

The money I spend now does NOT include all the animal feed we go through. That cost at least the same as our groceries.

[searching4]

I usually spend around $175 a week on groceries, that's two adults and two teenagers. Sometimes I can get it down more but sometimes it's higher. I think food costs more here in Canada than it does in the U.S. I seem to take spurts where I menu plan, use what's in the cupboard, plan around left-overs and bake and do really good but then I get lazy I guess and let things go...which in turn costs more money. Oh well, at least I'm trying to improve.

[RobertaD]

Will the price of groceries I'm now spending an average of $350 a month for my family of 4, 2 dogs including personal care, paper and cleaning products. So that's almost $90 a week now.

Roberta

[cat lover]

I no longer have a "grocery day". I pick up what we need when ever we go out. Still growing as much of our own food as possible and still shopping the processing plants. Same idea there; I buy what is on sale only. So sometimes I don't grocery shop for a couple weeks at a time now.

Have my lettuce, spinach, kale, sugar snap peas and some green onions all coming up in the garden already!