How much should it cost to buy food each month for two people?

Answer 1

200-300 if you plan effectively. You should watch for sales and cook meals not buy prepared foods. Avoid the junk food, that is what runs the bills up.

Answer 2

A rabbit could last you a month? Yeah, okay. One rabbit will only garner you about a pound of meat, give or take. Here's what you do: buy yourself a large freezer or two, and hunt. One deer won't last you six months, and one rabbit might last you two days. I don't care how sparingly you eat. You simply will not have the nutritional content in one rabbit to last a month. Anyway, hunt as much as you can, and freeze the meat. Fishing, too. Fish freeze well, and you can keep them for months if necessary. Buy a few chickens and a rooster, build a good chicken coop, and you'll have a supply of eggs. You'll also have the option of eating the chicken, too. Growing vegetables isn't as easy as the infomercials for the Topsy-Turvy Tomato Trough make it look. They show smiling women pouring a little water on the plant, and all of a sudden these women have dozens of red, ripe tomatoes. Not at all the way it happens. Farming is hard work. There's a reason few people do it any more. Odds are, you'll put a lot of effort into it, and only get back a meager harvest. I'd suggest that you do garden, though, but in addition to that, you find ways to supplement your gardening and hunting. How? Well, find some local gardeners, poulterers, and butchers who don't add a lot of chemicals to their meat, and learn to barter with them. If you grow a big garden of tomatoes, and your other gardener friends grow potatoes, beans, and peppers, you can all barter to have a variety. If you have eggs, and your butcher friend has ground beef, swap some eggs for the beef. If you've got the ability to make soap, as you said, try trading it for some chicken. That's how it worked fifty or a hundred years ago. People did what they could, and traded for everything else. If that's what you want, go for it... But you might find that the extra little cost for organic meat is enough to offset the amount of work (and potential monetary expenditure) of hunting, fishing, and gardening.

Answer 3

How much it SHOULD cost is sort of irrelevant.

Good plain healthy food if you harvest wild edible things, have no money, and REALLY know how to cook and what to do when poor. It still takes 2 or 3 dollars per day per person. SO, at least $100.

My wife and I buy organic food at Whole Foods and we fugure $400 a month to feed us both. We both buy about 25% of our food out though. Not included in the $400.

If you harvest acorns and amaranth, and bake bread, cook Indian style with rice and just a touch of meat. Its very cheap to eat. And can be good and healthy. I had a roomamte from Iran once, He fed us both on like $30 a week I think. We weren't that poor, its just that he always cooked amazing meals for almost nothing.

Answer 4

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How much should it cost to buy food each month for two people?

Answer 5

We had a challenge a few months ago to see how little we could spend on food. No take-out or delivery, just whatever was in the pantry, fridge, and freezer. And it makes you creative. All we bought were dairy products. So it came to about $130. It was a fun challenge.

However the next month we had to restock everything!

Answer 6

I cook in most of the time and eat 90% organic. I spend $400-$600 per month.

Answer 7

It really depends on what you eat and how much you eat out. Also all the other stuff like tp that you throw in the cart. $120 to $680.

Answer 8

3 to 4 hundred

Answer 9

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Answer 10

Theres just my husband and i. I usually spend 400 a month.