monthly/daily grocery bill, how much per person?

[lcjc800]

monthly/daily grocery bill, how much per person?


just food store items, consumables only, no tobacco, alcohol, personal care products or house hold items.
How much do you spend per person, per month or day.
this isn't for the eat out/restaurant crowd, but the breakfast ,lunch and dinner from home people.
let me know how many people your buying for too, because the cost may be less for bulk, or if you're single and buy in bulk.
do you prepare large meals for future use like chili or sauce and portion it for storage.
thanks for your input, I think it's important to know these things as I'm trying to get a figure that's real. I go for about 8-10 bucks a day per person, being myself only in the house but tend to make big pots of stuff and portion it out and give some to my friends and daughter(s) on occasion.

[rob2001]

I never figured it out to the dollar. I'm guessing around $100.00 to $150.00 a week, depending on what I decide to make for meals. Thats for the wife and I. But I could do it much cheaper.

[dlab]

For me and the wife it comes to $7.41 per person for a normal week of mostly organic/natural/local food from our Your Dekalb Farmer's Market.

I could go cheaper if we went to Kroger and bought the cheapest items in the categories we usually buy. If we bought the same quality items (organic/natural/local/etc) at a regular supermarket we'd spend more than double.

[oneleftnut]

I'm single and grocery store for the week is like $50 bucks. Approx $6.67 a day

[playsarobin]

Is that $7.41 per DAY or WEEK? Good grief I'd be all over that price. I need to re evaluate

[cajone5]

Grocery store once a week for about $70-80 for me (single). I shop at whole foods and pretty much just buy organic. That comes out to a little over $10 a day at worst. Doesn't sound too bad to me :)

[JamesT]

We buy most everything at Trader Joe's. Not including wine we spend under $7 per day. I do get 1 o 2 free lunces a week.

[sausagefingers]

$100 per week for 3, so about $15 per day.

edit: thats $5 per person per day.

[bwires]

I'd say between $10 and $12 per day, although it seems like more. That's for a family of 4 including a 17 year old daughter and a 15 year old son that is a bottomless pit!

With football in the fall and lacrosse in the spring - it's neverending I tell ya!

[dlab]

Is that $7.41 per DAY or WEEK? Good grief I'd be all over that price. I need to re evaluate

Well, it requires careful planning and maneuvering.

- It takes me two hours every weekend to get my butt over to the farmer's market and back to my house with the groceries.
- Only about 20% of our purchases come in bottles/cans/boxes.
- No soda. No cookies/crackers/cereal. No junk food.
- Sundays I cook a lot so we have lots of leftovers (big tub of chili, spaghetti and meatballs, a curry or stew...)
- Lunch always consists of leftovers.
- We try to have a "no-meat" day every week.
- Stock - I make my own when we have bones from something else.
- Hummus - if you have a food processor it's super easy to make. It's pretty healthy too, we usually eat it with bread/pita/tortillas and raw cucumbers, carrots and celery.
- Soup - soups are delicious and filling... I've been loving this one lately: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtYfJONfI90

In the summer we spend a little bit less bc of our garden.


EDIT: Sorry, I see what I did there :facepalm

Per person, per day.

[mattball826]

lots of money. 3 sons ,2 on football team one in comm college. my kids eat my gear funds. been this way since they were 10

[playsarobin]

Well, it requires careful planning and maneuvering.

- It takes me two hours every weekend to get my butt over to the farmer's market and back to my house with the groceries.
- Only about 20% of our purchases come in bottles/cans/boxes.
- No soda. No cookies/crackers/cereal. No junk food.
- Sundays I cook a lot so we have lots of leftovers (big tub of chili, spaghetti and meatballs, a curry or stew...)
- Lunch always consists of leftovers.
- We try to have a "no-meat" day every week.
- Stock - I make my own when we have bones from something else.
- Hummus - if you have a food processor it's super easy to make. It's pretty healthy too, we usually eat it with bread/pita/tortillas and raw cucumbers, carrots and celery.
- Soup - soups are delicious and filling... I've been loving this one lately: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtYfJONfI90

In the summer we spend a little bit less bc of our garden.


EDIT: Sorry, I see what I did there :facepalm

Per person, per day.


No worries! I went back and a simple assumption on my part would have yielded the same answer.. Just wanted to make sure.

We're going to begin doing slow cooker meals (leftovers for lunch the next day) to help spread our dollars a little further. My wife and I both work full time, I have a second job and she's a full time student as well. Throw two kids in the mix and it gets a little dicey sometimes. Eating out is WAY too convenient, it just adds up to entirely too much money and unhealthy living. Not to mention when your son asks "Why do they cook at home? We don't.." its time to evaluate your day to day lives.

Sometimes it is simply easier to let someone make the meal and clean up. Other times its just a better decision to do all that at home when able.

[cratz2]

I never figured it out to the dollar. I'm guessing around $100.00 to $150.00 a week, depending on what I decide to make for meals. Thats for the wife and I. But I could do it much cheaper.

This for me as well, but mostly in the $100 - $125 range. And yeah, I could do it cheaper.

[lcjc800]

pretty interesting so far, and I had forgoten about teenage eating habits......

[shane88]

1/ don't know

2/ don't care

[lcjc800]

thanks for the update Les

[Hogan/Guitars]

1 person. Usually about 150 a week but it depends what I load up on. Yesterday I bought veggies,4 small haagen daz ice cream,chee$e,etc...you know,good stuff. My bill was $235.

Thats 33.57 a day. wtf.

[neil99]

Family of 5, kids 9,7,4. Approximately $3.50 per person/day. My wife is a Vegetarian, so not a lot of Meat on the bill, steak or chicken once a week. Lots of Pasta and Veggies, eggs etc. We tend to eat on the healthier side, very little snack/crap food like cookies etc.

[whitecadillac]

Interesting exercise. I am single. My best guess is $100-$150.00 per week or $14.00 plus per day. Ouch. Little in the way of processed foods, meat from a butcher, a fair bit of stuff from a small Italian grocer. I eat most week day lunches out but cook a proper dinner at least five nights a week. I would make a very good catch if anyone is looking. ;)

I am going to keep track over the next 7 days and edit accordingly.

[Fendegibs]

The wife and I spend about $120 per week on average, so that works out to about $8.57 per day. Interesting way to think about it...I've never looked at it like this before. This will definitely make me think twice about buying lunch out!

[dmw319]

300 per month for me and my wife.

comes out to $5 per person a day