How much do you spend on food each month?

[DrKym]

over 700 for the hoomans and nearly 400 for the critters.

[Crazy-Cat-Lover]

We spend roughly $600.00 per month on groceries for a family of 4. That includes diapers, toiletries etc. We spend $20.00 on dog food per month and $60.00 on cat food every 2 months.

[beeniesmom]

I sent you a few meatless recipes.

[jackie]

I think about 70 euros a week.

[BitsyNaceyDog]

I have no idea how much we spend each month on food. Justin does the bills/ budget so he probably has some idea what we spend, but I have no clue. We don't eat out too often. We always make a menu for the week before going to the store. A lot our animals eat fresh fruits and vegetables and that adds into our grocery bill. The animals tend to share our weekly menu though- if we're having broccoli that week, so are they.

By simply me going to the store rather than Justin saves us a lot of money. I can't ask Justin to stop at the store for anything. I take a list to the store and stick to it. If Justin goes to the store he comes home with a lot of things that weren't on the list and we don't need. Justin's a sucker for 'buy one get one free" sales, and we rarely need any of the things that are on those sales. Justin once came home from the grocery store with 2 boxes of popcorn, they were "buy one get one free". (We eat popcorn, maybe a couple times a year.) I kid you not, a couple weeks later Justin was at the grocery store and another brand of popcorn was "buy one get one free" and he came home with 2 more boxes of popcorn.

[caseysmom]

I think we probably spend upwards of 1500.00 a month

[Lori Jordan]

I spend about 400.00 every two weeks at a grocery store,Then probably a hundred dollars in between on touch ups.

With all the animals,5 dogs,6 cats and a rabbit i spend around 400.00 a month on them sometimes even more,And that dont even include the vet bills in a month.

[IRescue452]

Wow, our family of 6 doesn't spend that much. What do you eat, steaks every night?

[sandragonfly]

for the family of 20, I spend approximately $200 monthly; $50 for me and $150 (including fresh fruits, meats, treats and chewing toys) for my fur/fin/fuzzkids.

once for almost a week and half before I've lived on breads with cheese cream dips (nothing beats cheese!!!) and water because I was sick of almost every food I could think of - I hate to eat (same food within few weeks, junks, candies) and I rarely go out eat.

[Catlady711]

Hubby & I get paid Bi-weekly but our budget is based on a weekly system.

$90 per week/$360 per month for the regular grocery stores and also an additional $10 per week/$40 per month for Sam's Club which we go to once every 3-4 months. With that money we buy not only our food, but toilet paper, cleaners, laundry products, and any eating out we may do which is about once a month and our horrible soda pop addiction.

The cats have a separate budget of $32 per week/$130 per month. Most of the time that covers the food and general vet visits (I get a big discount by working at the hospital) we do go overbudget if any of the cats gets sick and requires more vet care or I find a sale on litter because I can't get that from work I have to get from the pet store and I usually buy like 100lbs at a time .

[critter crazy]

Wow, our family of 6 doesn't spend that much. What do you eat, steaks every night?

Are you responding to my post??

If so then no we dont eat steak every night. Not even close. But food is the one thing that I do not go cheap on. Of all things in the world, I always make sure we have plenty of food in the house. I grew up Poorer than dirt, I know wat it feels like to go hungry, my kids will never experiance that! I make sure of it!

[sirrahved]

I think I spend about 60-70 a week on groceries (hard to split up because I shop at walmart... lots of non-grocery items on the bill. We also spend about 200 a month eating out.

[jennielynn1970]

I went food shopping the other day, and spent $92. That should last me the next 2-3 weeks. At least for the basics. If I need fresh veggies or something random, I'll go get that in between. I make a lot of soups, stews, casseroles etc... I'm the only one here, and I'm not a big fan of left overs, so I do freeze the soups etc... If there is a good sale on frozen pizza (my latest craving, besides grilled cheese), I'll buy it (Totinos was $1.00 each ). I eat a lot of veggies and beans too. Lots of protein w/out all the meat. I think what cost me the most is making sure I have breakfast and lunch for work.

I definitely spend more on cat food than my own food. Nutro runs $16.00 a bag, and that lasts the cats in the main part of the house a little over a week, if that. Then there's canned food cause Honeybun has like no teeth, and eats a lot of that. I just bought canned food the same night as I did my food shopping, and the canned food came to $85.00. That should last about a month. I think. 9 of the 11 cats eat canned food (two ignore it). I buy dry food separately and the same with litter. I get comments about "how many cats are you buying for" just with the canned or the dry... I can imagine the looks I'd get if I bought canned, dry and litter all together. The budget couldn't handle it anyway, lol. Thank god for credit cards too, lol.