Food, how much does your family spend on food every month? How many people are in your family?

Question

In this monthly total please include money spent on groceries, snacks, school lunches, lunch while @ work, and money spent on going out-to-eat. I am trying to see if my family spends less or more than the average. DO NOT include money spent on non-food items evry month, that is, on items like shampoo, toothpaste, detergent, hand soap etc.

Answer 1

what are you running some kind of audit or something??

Answer 2

Myself, my wife and three kids spend $400 on groceries, $75 on school lunches, $200 on snacks and lunch at work and $200 eating out for a grand total of $875 per month.

Answer 3

How funny... i'm trying to budget my food spending and i see this question!

I think my family of 4 used to spend about 400.00 a month on food with a little more added in on eating out once a week. I decided to cut back on everything and i think we are down to 300.00 a month. I cut back on eating out (once a month) and no goodies (late night blizzards, cookies at the store, etc). I even bought butter at Costco so i have more for less, i started using up my bread flour and made my own bread for 4 days in a row. If we have treats, i make them (except the odd snicker's bar). And i don't do Starbucks unless its a SPECIAL event, like i'm taking out a friend or something.
I've also tried to save money by not driving as much, making homemade crafts, shorter showers, etc.

When you really need to budget and and can't cut the bills down, then try in other ways, like food, gas, eating out, coffees, treats.... you can really cut it down when you try!

Answer 4

well I have 2 kids at home and we spend 500 a month on grocery we all pack our lunches so there lunches are included in grocery money.I look up all the store adds and get the sale items from the stores and write them down and go to wal-mart and they give me the competive prices from all the differnt store and I use coupons.We only get pizzia maybe twice a month wich is 40 bucks.I save alot of money going thru all the adds and getting the sale items from other store.

Answer 5

My wife and I spend about $600 a month on groceries. I have a starbucks everyday which is a $60 a month habit. We shop at Central Market so it would be less at other grocery stores.

Answer 6

Me and 5 kids, and this is a shocker, I just realized now how much I spend, which is definitely gonna have to change, I probably spend almost a 1000.00 a month on food.

Answer 7

it is me my husband and my 17 month old son.

we spend about 80 a week and he buys pop everyday at work which is 1.00 per bottle

we eat out maybe 2 times a month

so maybe 360.00 per month
sometimes not even that, we dont eat much I only eat 2 times a day and he works 2nd shift so he is gone all day and he only east dinner not breakfast but our son east 3 meals a day but hes still a baby well a toddler almost but he dont eat much

Answer 8

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Answer 9

we have four kids, and we spend about 500 dollars a month on grocery.

Answer 10

Family of three......mom, 15yr old son, 10yr old daughter. Approx $400 per month.

Answer 11

3 of us we spend 500.00 per month