What do you spend on groceries?

[bruinsmaniac]

Originally Posted by bb356

Nothing like having a tight wife !!!

[Kim473]

30% too much

[FishingMOM]

Originally Posted by glen1971

x2... But I do know that the first Tuesday of the month with the 15% off helps alot.. And she does alot of coupon cutting and point saving.. Her last bill was $63 and had a truck full!!! I told her that there was no way I would have known about any of the savings she finds..

She is talented in her shopping. many of us women are.
On saturday I spent $52.50 for 732.00 retail worth of Brand new clothing at a retail store. (not a thrift store)

[jim summit]

About $400.
Have a large garden, process our own meats,pork,moose,
deer. This being outdoorsmen forum, don't you guys eat wild game?
My beef is organic,lean, and it's called moose..

[WCTHEMI]

Originally Posted by great white whaler

so the average family of four ,spends one weeks wages on food per month....can only imagine how much its going to cost in ten years,,around $2500 per month just for food ,terrible time to bring kids in to the world.

I'm sure it will stay roughly the same percentage of your paycheck.

[rhuntley12]

Usually over $100 a week for the two of us. Don't know how people can feed kids on 100 a week.

[FishingMOM]

Originally Posted by rhuntley12

Usually over $100 a week for the two of us. Don't know how people can feed kids on 100 a week.

Actually it isnt hard.
No crap.

Examples:

Bowl of cereal (rice crispies, cornflakes or cheerio's) M-f
Eggs on weekends or pancakes/waffles

school lunches
1 apple sliced up
1 orange peeled
Jam sandwich or lunch meat
2 yogurts
some cheese and crackers

Dinner
Meat
starch
veggies


weekends we do a roast in the winter months. that makes left overs.
Whole bird also makes pot pies and soups.
Meatloaf
buy my rice in the huge bags they last 1 yr.
Buy the day old bread most of the time at 50% off. Goes into freezer.
Day old bread can be used to make stuffing.
Veggie ends can be used in soup stock so can chicken bones and such.
Never shop at co-op. Very rarely at safeway unless they have a deal on that is worth getting.
He also likes hard boiled eggs in his lunch

[ishootbambi]

Originally Posted by Ken07AOVette

300-400 per week

Kids are bloody expensive. Having 2 teenagers sometimes means there are 3-4 teenagers.

no kidding. we have 4 which means 6-8 a lot of nights. we are averaging 1500=2000 a months around here. i keep telling robin that if she would just quit feeding them all so well they would find somewhere else to hang out...... damn woman likes the title of supermom though.

[eastcoast]

Originally Posted by ishootbambi

no kidding. we have 4 which means 6-8 a lot of nights. we are averaging 1500=2000 a months around here. i keep telling robin that if she would just quit feeding them all so well they would find somewhere else to hang out...... damn woman likes the title of supermom though.

my grandfather used to say the same thing jokingly to my grandmother all the time, if you keep feeding them they will keep coming back.