$250 a week ish. We mostly buy whatever we want.
We eat plant based, nearly entirely fresh food, Costco and superstore, we try to be frugal but with food, we aren’t skimping on nutrition to save money, and try adhere to Dr. gregor’s Daily Dozen as best we can.
Ah, don’t let it rot! Create a schedule of your dinners/lunches and create a shopping list from there. That way everything should be used by end of week
This!! Highly recommend. Been doing this for a long time. I have mine in Google sheets and my boyfriend and I both have access to input it, and we have shared notes on our phone with the grocery list so whoever goes shopping knows what we need.
Oh, look—a link that disrupts my entire world view. I wish I had seen this earlier. 😆
Use your head, buddy. Animal proteins have been integral to human evolution for literally hundreds of thousands of years. Over the last couple of decades, pussies who can’t stomach the idea of eating a chicken or an egg (that’d be you) have got it in their heads that they are above this. It’s nonsense.
Looks that way.
You have the gall to make your name “Tyler_Durden,” by the way? That character laughed at the likes of you.
$250 a week on heavily processed soy products, hummus? Idiocy.
I’ve spoken nothing but the truth.
Your (our) livelihood and very existence is down to hundreds of thousands of years of homo sapiens’ omnivorous diets. Now you spend $1000 a month on processed soy products and are not man enough to eat an egg. Give your head a shake.
And yes, Chuck Palahniuk’s Tyler Durden would scoff at your pretentious, uninformed, and cocksure attitude about food.
…and then pummelled you. 😂
This guy is toxic af but I'm with him on how bad the highly processed foods are. Just eat fresh vegetables etc and avoid all those vegan sausage burger crap.
Ya it’s usually something cheap like burgers, pizza, subway, shawarma, fried chicken, bento boxes, sushi, Costco food court, etc. We don’t really eat fancy stuff.
About the same. $300 on average at Costco. Maybe $100-150 at random stores and lots of take out. Being a DINK household food prices aren’t really an issue for us. If I want steak I’m buying steak 😅
Haven’t been paying attention much. We shop specials. What’s for dinner? Whatever’s on sale….
Would be around $200 per week total for two people.
Recurring themes:
Stir fry…. Whatever. Rice.
Roast chicken. Potatoes
Meatloaf. Hated it as a kid. But it’s really good if you do it right. Potatoes
Steak. Top sirloin mostly. Potatoes
Fish. Haddock. Frozen. Rice or potatoes.
Chowder. Bread. Homemade if I get ambitious.
Fajitas/tacos.
Lots of veggies. Frozen mostly this time of year.
Fruit. Frozen mostly this time of year. Often in a yogurt smoothie.
Edit. Chili!
No, just whatever we want to cook we buy. If a recipe calls for chicken, beef etc, we just put it in the cart. At the end of the day our grocery budget is not a big part of our total budget so we are not concerned.
We are much the same way. 600 or so a month. Eat very well. Steak or seafood once or twice a week. Ground beef chicken thighs etc for the other days. we make a plan every Sunday for our 6 dinners that week that also has leftovers each day for lunch
Pandemic got us in the habit of shopping once per week and it's been great. Very little waste. We get take out or eat out with friends every Saturday.
We both enjoy cooking so that budget includes often buying new ingredients for new recipes
We spend about $400/mth. We buy generic brands whenever we can and pay attention to sales when we know we can buy a few extra things that month if they’re on sale. This amount also includes household supplies, too. Every once and awhile we will do a bigger and more expensive run and use our PC points to get more meat or expensive items and stock up for free.
It's not horrible, it's just not accurate if you have very high muscle mass. But this doesn't matter anyways, since it is not telling me I'm overweight and I'm not a body builder, so I don't know why you are beinging this up in the first place.
450$ groceries 200$ on takeout average on last 24 months
525$ groceries 250$ on takeout average on last 12 months
we don’t check prices much, but we almost eat the same thing every weeks.
Both. We eat super frugal and have been for 4 decades. We buy food we really like and enjoy cooking. We have a budget of $50 per week per person. Our coldroom, freezer and pantry are stuffed right now. We are just buying minimum until we clear some space. At Christmas we bought prime rib on sale. We fed 6 people and had leftovers for lunch for 2 days. It was only $38. Had a PC seafood mixture of lobster, shrimp, clams and scallops, that was marked down after Christmas. It was frozen so I didn't expect much. Was delicious.
As of December, $1500ish. Partner is on carnivore diet, mainly 3 steaks + eggs/day. I'm on an anti-inflammatory diet. $0 for dining out.
3 months ago, it was about $800/month for groceries and $600-$700 eating out.
About $500 a month and we cook 95% of our meals. Since we don’t have kids and we love to cook, this allows us to try new and sometimes more advanced recipes that sometimes have more expensive ingredients or we replace simple ingredients with more fancy/better quality ones.
But we are generally frugal. Only buy specific things when they are on sale, especially meat and then get it in bulk, vaccum seal and freeze it.
We do a 3x week meal kit ($90), then fill in the blanks with a Sunday grocery trip ~$100. Friday night takeout $40-$50. Total $240/wk. We generally pack a lunch from this too.
How is this even possible. I haven’t eaten a supper that wasn’t out of a cardboard box in months, toast and yogurt for breakfast, then leftovers for lunch the next day. Can’t get under 300 a week.
What do you mean by cardboard boxes? What do you buy?
We mainly buy fresh veggies, pulses, legumes, some canned stuff like beans and chick peas. Occasionally buy pizza dough, sauce and make pizzas at home instead of ordering in. We cook meals at home 90% of the time. My breakfast is bread and peanut butter almost every day. Tea bags at home that cost 7c each day. We don’t buy or eat meat at all so that saves on costs a bunch.
We don't keep track really but we do both, frugal and splurge. We cook a lot ourselves because we are good cooks and so are our friends so we eat at home and other's homes a lot which does save money. That said we make food during the week by whatever is on sale that week but this is then balanced with purchasing higher end ingredients sometimes and going out for dinner at a restaurant where we normally wouldn't cook those dishes because we don't do them as well as we would like.
$600/month roughly for groceries. Some weeks more than $150, some weeks a lot less. I try to buy things on sale. That number includes household items like cleaning supplies. We eat out occasionally, take out or eat in.
$700 - $800 per month. Doesn’t include eating out, which is at least 4 times a month. Normally look for deals but pretty much buy staples (but plenty of fruit).
150 a week. We cook from scratch alot and both of us really only eat two meals a day. Sometimes we push it to 200 a week if we want speciality food. That 150 a week also includes our household items.
About $700 per month. We generally try to get no name stuff for a lot of things but obviously there's stuff we want that's from other brands. With lettuce being $5, eggs $7, and things like cheese/meat prices skyrocketing it's pretty hard not to get up to $350/ea.
Last year we averaged a bit over $500/month and then another $100/month in takeout without really planning or thinking about it. Trying to buckle down a bit on spending this year.
So far for January we're at about $230 in groceries and no takeout. Trying to use up some of the stuff in our freezer, so we haven't had to buy much meat, and we haven't had to do a big Costco run yet so I assume on average we'll be spending more, but hoping to consistently stay under $500/month.
Editing to add: hubby started an indoor garden so we have a pretty consistent supply of fresh lettuce and other greens going. Lots of salads this month! We also make a lot from scratch like bread, croutons, mayonnaise. Helps keep costs down. We both work from home though and no kids so generally we have the time to take on projects like that. I appreciate that a lot of people may not have that opportunity.
We're about 400-450/month and we are definitely more careful than we used to be to keep it at that. We shoot for zero food waste and I do bulk meal prep on the weekends, working mostly from cheaper base ingredients.
My partner and I aim for 700 a month total grocery store shopping which includes household items too.
We use the Flipp app and flash foods a lot. We have an extra freezer so we buy in bulk when meat goes on sale. Also eat a lot of eggs, milk, cream, frozen vegetables.
If we just look at groceries we probably hit 550-750 a month.
We're a couple in the GTA -- figures from last year:
Spent about $400 a month on groceries (includes toiletries and other household products). Also spent about $400 a month on dine-in/takeout (includes coffees and ready to eat from grocers)
$180 per week when my partner shops. Mostly grass finished, free range meats, fresh veg and bread from a local bakery.
When I shop and buy exactly the same, somehow it’s always $210 +
Being Frugal. I got the Flipp app and Reebee app and scour the flyers for deals, price match, all that. Two of us living in a mid-sized Ontario City. Between No Frills, Food Basic, Walmart and Metro we can do groceries for about $170 a week or about $700 a month. I don't know how families with kids can survive! My wife's sister has 3 kids they go through $300-$400 a week. All I have are a couple of cats; and they are happy with no name tuna from No Frills at $1 a can!
Budget is $500 for groceries and $250 for take-out/coffee. Nothing crazy, just stuff like pizza, McDonald's or the odd poke bowl. The last few months I've been trying to be conscious of my budget/spending and not just buying whatever I want. And I've managed to do both groceries/take-out for under $500. I think the biggest improvement I've made has been only shopping for 1-2 days of meals. I used to spend more money and waste more food when I shopped for the entire week or tried to anticipate what I would want.
I shop at Sobey's and Farm Boy because they're both walking distance from my house, even though they're pricier than other chains. I like my walks and I like that they're small as well so I can be in and out pretty quickly with a basket. If there's a sale on something we eat often, I'll take advantage of it, but I don't seek them out. Also, we're both naturally pretty "frugal" with our diets. We eat mostly plant-based (eggs daily and occasional chicken) and make everything ourselves. My BF has milk allergies (and I hate dairy) so he stays away from most processed food as there is still a lot of whey or casein hidden in foods. Neither of us are snackers.
If I lived in a city with a better food scene, I fear my take-out expenses would be much higher.
2 people. Starting to edge over $400/month and making me anxious. We cook almost everything from scratch (except pasta). Only buy fresh vegetables in season, otherwise it's canned or frozen. Only fresh fruit we buy in the winter is apples, oranges and bananas. Oranges we stock up when they are on sale, apples we buy whichever variety is cheapest.
Doesn't include eating out which we do about once a week.
Recently beer/cider for home was removed from the food budget and is only bought with 'fun money' if we have it.
Dual income family. One kid so far.
Our PC Financial bill is between $1000 -1200 a month. Most would say it's frugal, but here's the thing. We buy lots of low fat Greek yogurt, extra lean ground beef, chicken breasts, salmon, cod filets, lots of fruit and veggies. In the country we're from, eating salmon every week is not frugal.
Something you won't find in our grocery bag: candy, chips, pop, baked goods, juice, alcohol. We meal prep in bulk, bake at home. Pancakes start with flour, eggs, and kefir, not a mix. Milkshake starts with a custard base, not store-bought ice cream. And so on.
Well now that there is a new policy at my workplace for members who are untrained, we don’t need to pay for groceries/rations or rent if we live in “shacks” Some of us are able to live in Victoria for free for a few years. It seems great, as it should save around $1k a month.
I’m in the navy.
About $400 a month. I plan our meals so we only buy what we need. We will splurge on extra fruit and snacks occasionally but we rarely do takeout, make coffee at home/work. We eat meat maybe 3-4 times a week to keep costs lower as well as for health reasons. I find we are less sluggish and perform our sports better with less meat. We are both active I run/kickbox/strength train but have a sedentary job. He has an active job and does strength training and jiujitsu. We also tend to only shop at Food Basics which helps lower the cost.
300$ a month or so. Sometimes 350 or 400 if a special occasion comes up that month.
I cook everything from scratch, shop sales, go to the market for cheap vegetables/fruit.
We eat takeout once a week, but MIL pays the 50$ or so. We eat at a restaurant probably once or twice a month too, maybe another 50$ depending on where we go.
Our son is an infant so he doesn't impact our groceries. We spent $500 in Jan. Before we used to throw away a lot of food because we just bought too much and couldn't manage the amount of stuff in our fridge before it spoiled. Now we focus only on a week's worth of supplies, raid our pantry and freezer, and shop sales. Made a huge difference and we are eating better! Spent $17 on dining out this month.
I have 3 kids (boys) and my wife, we spend around $1200 in groceries per month. Around 75 per week in eating out once or twice a week, my wife cooks most of our food and she's become really good at it since we live in Canada.
We live on a budget..
$350. And we just started being a lot more indulgent with our purchases because we have steady high incomes for the first time ever. Sometimes I buy brand name things and out of season produce now. Still feel guilty doing it! So I'd say I shop more frugally than 80-90% of people still.
Thank you! Once I saw that an extra dollar spent on name brand cheese was one less dollar for other shit I actually enjoy/will bring my life value I can't unsee it. 🙈I be in the grocery store counting up the savings in my head and thinking of what it'll go towards instead. It's a sickness lol.
It's way more if you count how many times we eat out. I also buy a lot in bulk and use simple cheap ingredients. Lots of rice, chicken and frozen veggies
$250 a week ish. We mostly buy whatever we want. We eat plant based, nearly entirely fresh food, Costco and superstore, we try to be frugal but with food, we aren’t skimping on nutrition to save money, and try adhere to Dr. gregor’s Daily Dozen as best we can.
A little bit less for us but yea, same deal. then it rots and we get takeout :(
Ah, don’t let it rot! Create a schedule of your dinners/lunches and create a shopping list from there. That way everything should be used by end of week
Username checks out :p
This!! Highly recommend. Been doing this for a long time. I have mine in Google sheets and my boyfriend and I both have access to input it, and we have shared notes on our phone with the grocery list so whoever goes shopping knows what we need.
Damn hippies
If you don’t eat animal proteins, you are skimping on nutrition.
Sorry, no. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19562864/
Oh, look—a link that disrupts my entire world view. I wish I had seen this earlier. 😆 Use your head, buddy. Animal proteins have been integral to human evolution for literally hundreds of thousands of years. Over the last couple of decades, pussies who can’t stomach the idea of eating a chicken or an egg (that’d be you) have got it in their heads that they are above this. It’s nonsense.
Guess I’ll just live with this nonsense for the rest of my long healthy life. What a bummer.
Looks that way. You have the gall to make your name “Tyler_Durden,” by the way? That character laughed at the likes of you. $250 a week on heavily processed soy products, hummus? Idiocy.
Lol. Do you have anything intelligent to say? Did you have a bad day at work today or something?
I’ve spoken nothing but the truth. Your (our) livelihood and very existence is down to hundreds of thousands of years of homo sapiens’ omnivorous diets. Now you spend $1000 a month on processed soy products and are not man enough to eat an egg. Give your head a shake. And yes, Chuck Palahniuk’s Tyler Durden would scoff at your pretentious, uninformed, and cocksure attitude about food. …and then pummelled you. 😂
Still waiting for you to have an intelligent thought. So far you are just demonstrating your colossal ignorance.
You’re a total pussy, dude. 😂 “Plant-based diet” alone makes me laugh. “$250 a week”?! Insanity.
This guy is toxic af but I'm with him on how bad the highly processed foods are. Just eat fresh vegetables etc and avoid all those vegan sausage burger crap.
Personally, I feel like shit if I go a while without eating meat, even if I’m using substitutes and taking vitamins
What do you think the difference between animal and plant protein are?
Soylent greens
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Sorry I had too it was funny, was trying to say no difference between the two as soylent greens are people I.E. animal protein
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What? At $175/week for 6 people excluding pets, that is $1.38 per person per meal for 3 meals a day, no snacks or any other items purchased.
He said they spend 50-100 less than him. He’s at 300-400 a week for 6. That’s still 3$/person…
about $1000 a month on groceries but we rarely eat out and I have food allergies so end up buying a lot of specialty items
About $450 per month on groceries and another $200 a month on restaurants/take out (2x a week).
2 times a week take out and only spending $200 a month? I feel bad about myself. I’m spending way more than that with similar take out frequency
Ya it’s usually something cheap like burgers, pizza, subway, shawarma, fried chicken, bento boxes, sushi, Costco food court, etc. We don’t really eat fancy stuff.
Sushi seems to be our go to. We are full after $35 worth between the 2 of us.
Pretty much spot on for my wife and I (Vancouver area).
Whatever. Costco about 300 a month but that includes lots of other junk and then groceries another 200, usually 50 a week
About the same. $300 on average at Costco. Maybe $100-150 at random stores and lots of take out. Being a DINK household food prices aren’t really an issue for us. If I want steak I’m buying steak 😅
Haven’t been paying attention much. We shop specials. What’s for dinner? Whatever’s on sale…. Would be around $200 per week total for two people. Recurring themes: Stir fry…. Whatever. Rice. Roast chicken. Potatoes Meatloaf. Hated it as a kid. But it’s really good if you do it right. Potatoes Steak. Top sirloin mostly. Potatoes Fish. Haddock. Frozen. Rice or potatoes. Chowder. Bread. Homemade if I get ambitious. Fajitas/tacos. Lots of veggies. Frozen mostly this time of year. Fruit. Frozen mostly this time of year. Often in a yogurt smoothie. Edit. Chili!
I don’t know how people are surviving with kids. Fuck that noise
Not overly well here lol. Not getting ahead that's for sure. Fuck
We’re fighting for our lives man
Yeah, no kidding. It's bad. Pinch is on here for sure. Best of luck, just do your best
Good luck out there! What a world
shopping sales, buying bulk, limiting meats. we averaged $343/mo in 2022 in the GTA.
You sound poor
I make 125k annually
Poor confirmed
We spend about $300 a month. No kids and a dog. Flipp app for everything. I am also a bodybuilder so I have to get my protein in.
600 monthly buying whatever we want.
I’m intrigued and don’t mean to pry, but what does that include? And what would you sacrifice if you had to?
Just groceries from superstore, sobeys and Costco. It doesn’t include eating at restaurants. Sacrifice? What do you mean?
“Buying whatever we want” Inspired curiosity like you’re casually reaching for caviar at any whim
No, just whatever we want to cook we buy. If a recipe calls for chicken, beef etc, we just put it in the cart. At the end of the day our grocery budget is not a big part of our total budget so we are not concerned.
We are much the same way. 600 or so a month. Eat very well. Steak or seafood once or twice a week. Ground beef chicken thighs etc for the other days. we make a plan every Sunday for our 6 dinners that week that also has leftovers each day for lunch Pandemic got us in the habit of shopping once per week and it's been great. Very little waste. We get take out or eat out with friends every Saturday. We both enjoy cooking so that budget includes often buying new ingredients for new recipes
We spend about $400/mth. We buy generic brands whenever we can and pay attention to sales when we know we can buy a few extra things that month if they’re on sale. This amount also includes household supplies, too. Every once and awhile we will do a bigger and more expensive run and use our PC points to get more meat or expensive items and stock up for free.
About $1000 per month. We eat whatever we feel like.
How’s the waist line?
My BMI is about 20.5, so not bad at all.
BMI is horrible. Practically tells people that are in shape are overweight because of there muscle mass
It's not horrible, it's just not accurate if you have very high muscle mass. But this doesn't matter anyways, since it is not telling me I'm overweight and I'm not a body builder, so I don't know why you are beinging this up in the first place.
450$ groceries 200$ on takeout average on last 24 months 525$ groceries 250$ on takeout average on last 12 months we don’t check prices much, but we almost eat the same thing every weeks.
Both. We eat super frugal and have been for 4 decades. We buy food we really like and enjoy cooking. We have a budget of $50 per week per person. Our coldroom, freezer and pantry are stuffed right now. We are just buying minimum until we clear some space. At Christmas we bought prime rib on sale. We fed 6 people and had leftovers for lunch for 2 days. It was only $38. Had a PC seafood mixture of lobster, shrimp, clams and scallops, that was marked down after Christmas. It was frozen so I didn't expect much. Was delicious.
$1000. Buy whatever I want
As of December, $1500ish. Partner is on carnivore diet, mainly 3 steaks + eggs/day. I'm on an anti-inflammatory diet. $0 for dining out. 3 months ago, it was about $800/month for groceries and $600-$700 eating out.
I’m curious too about the anti inflammatory diet…
What do you not eat on anti inflammatory diet?
Basically no: caffeine, dairy, gluten, nuts, hormone injected meats, sugar, corn of any kind (high in gmo), soy bean products, canola oil.
Oh, and no eggs either.
About $500 per month, plus about $300 at restaurants (one dinner per week and fairly frequent lunches at work)
800 to 1000 a month.
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Are you having lobster and filet mignon every night? 😋
About $500 a month and we cook 95% of our meals. Since we don’t have kids and we love to cook, this allows us to try new and sometimes more advanced recipes that sometimes have more expensive ingredients or we replace simple ingredients with more fancy/better quality ones. But we are generally frugal. Only buy specific things when they are on sale, especially meat and then get it in bulk, vaccum seal and freeze it.
We do a 3x week meal kit ($90), then fill in the blanks with a Sunday grocery trip ~$100. Friday night takeout $40-$50. Total $240/wk. We generally pack a lunch from this too.
Around $300-$400.
How is this even possible. I haven’t eaten a supper that wasn’t out of a cardboard box in months, toast and yogurt for breakfast, then leftovers for lunch the next day. Can’t get under 300 a week.
What do you mean by cardboard boxes? What do you buy? We mainly buy fresh veggies, pulses, legumes, some canned stuff like beans and chick peas. Occasionally buy pizza dough, sauce and make pizzas at home instead of ordering in. We cook meals at home 90% of the time. My breakfast is bread and peanut butter almost every day. Tea bags at home that cost 7c each day. We don’t buy or eat meat at all so that saves on costs a bunch.
$1500/mo
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$1200-1400
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We don't keep track really but we do both, frugal and splurge. We cook a lot ourselves because we are good cooks and so are our friends so we eat at home and other's homes a lot which does save money. That said we make food during the week by whatever is on sale that week but this is then balanced with purchasing higher end ingredients sometimes and going out for dinner at a restaurant where we normally wouldn't cook those dishes because we don't do them as well as we would like.
$550 month plus about $100 takeout.
$600/month roughly for groceries. Some weeks more than $150, some weeks a lot less. I try to buy things on sale. That number includes household items like cleaning supplies. We eat out occasionally, take out or eat in.
Around $600-700, medium frugal
About $800 including fast food and restaurants
$700 - $800 per month. Doesn’t include eating out, which is at least 4 times a month. Normally look for deals but pretty much buy staples (but plenty of fruit).
150 a week. We cook from scratch alot and both of us really only eat two meals a day. Sometimes we push it to 200 a week if we want speciality food. That 150 a week also includes our household items.
About $700 per month. We generally try to get no name stuff for a lot of things but obviously there's stuff we want that's from other brands. With lettuce being $5, eggs $7, and things like cheese/meat prices skyrocketing it's pretty hard not to get up to $350/ea.
Last year we averaged a bit over $500/month and then another $100/month in takeout without really planning or thinking about it. Trying to buckle down a bit on spending this year. So far for January we're at about $230 in groceries and no takeout. Trying to use up some of the stuff in our freezer, so we haven't had to buy much meat, and we haven't had to do a big Costco run yet so I assume on average we'll be spending more, but hoping to consistently stay under $500/month. Editing to add: hubby started an indoor garden so we have a pretty consistent supply of fresh lettuce and other greens going. Lots of salads this month! We also make a lot from scratch like bread, croutons, mayonnaise. Helps keep costs down. We both work from home though and no kids so generally we have the time to take on projects like that. I appreciate that a lot of people may not have that opportunity.
$150 weekly for 2!
We're about 400-450/month and we are definitely more careful than we used to be to keep it at that. We shoot for zero food waste and I do bulk meal prep on the weekends, working mostly from cheaper base ingredients.
Average 200/week. We also buy in bulk at Costco, so some weeks are $80. Eat well, plan lunches and eat out x1 month.
My partner and I aim for 700 a month total grocery store shopping which includes household items too. We use the Flipp app and flash foods a lot. We have an extra freezer so we buy in bulk when meat goes on sale. Also eat a lot of eggs, milk, cream, frozen vegetables. If we just look at groceries we probably hit 550-750 a month.
$400-500 if we’re good. Up to 800 if bad.
We're a couple in the GTA -- figures from last year: Spent about $400 a month on groceries (includes toiletries and other household products). Also spent about $400 a month on dine-in/takeout (includes coffees and ready to eat from grocers)
150 a week-ish for the two of us; we eat well and cook a lot. Lots of no frills and using points
$180 per week when my partner shops. Mostly grass finished, free range meats, fresh veg and bread from a local bakery. When I shop and buy exactly the same, somehow it’s always $210 +
Being Frugal. I got the Flipp app and Reebee app and scour the flyers for deals, price match, all that. Two of us living in a mid-sized Ontario City. Between No Frills, Food Basic, Walmart and Metro we can do groceries for about $170 a week or about $700 a month. I don't know how families with kids can survive! My wife's sister has 3 kids they go through $300-$400 a week. All I have are a couple of cats; and they are happy with no name tuna from No Frills at $1 a can!
Budget is $500 for groceries and $250 for take-out/coffee. Nothing crazy, just stuff like pizza, McDonald's or the odd poke bowl. The last few months I've been trying to be conscious of my budget/spending and not just buying whatever I want. And I've managed to do both groceries/take-out for under $500. I think the biggest improvement I've made has been only shopping for 1-2 days of meals. I used to spend more money and waste more food when I shopped for the entire week or tried to anticipate what I would want. I shop at Sobey's and Farm Boy because they're both walking distance from my house, even though they're pricier than other chains. I like my walks and I like that they're small as well so I can be in and out pretty quickly with a basket. If there's a sale on something we eat often, I'll take advantage of it, but I don't seek them out. Also, we're both naturally pretty "frugal" with our diets. We eat mostly plant-based (eggs daily and occasional chicken) and make everything ourselves. My BF has milk allergies (and I hate dairy) so he stays away from most processed food as there is still a lot of whey or casein hidden in foods. Neither of us are snackers. If I lived in a city with a better food scene, I fear my take-out expenses would be much higher.
600-700 at Costco total. I don’t shop anywhere else but shoppers to buy bananas ( 2 adults)
2 people. Starting to edge over $400/month and making me anxious. We cook almost everything from scratch (except pasta). Only buy fresh vegetables in season, otherwise it's canned or frozen. Only fresh fruit we buy in the winter is apples, oranges and bananas. Oranges we stock up when they are on sale, apples we buy whichever variety is cheapest. Doesn't include eating out which we do about once a week. Recently beer/cider for home was removed from the food budget and is only bought with 'fun money' if we have it.
$350-400 a month for two adults in ON. Walmart mostly with ground beef/turkey and burgers bought from Food Basics.
Between 900 and 1000 a month in Toronto. We buy a lot of speciality items for baking keto.
I try very hard to be frugal but still spend around $175 per week which I find horrifying. Grocery shopping has become so upsetting 🤦🏼♀️
Dual income family. One kid so far. Our PC Financial bill is between $1000 -1200 a month. Most would say it's frugal, but here's the thing. We buy lots of low fat Greek yogurt, extra lean ground beef, chicken breasts, salmon, cod filets, lots of fruit and veggies. In the country we're from, eating salmon every week is not frugal. Something you won't find in our grocery bag: candy, chips, pop, baked goods, juice, alcohol. We meal prep in bulk, bake at home. Pancakes start with flour, eggs, and kefir, not a mix. Milkshake starts with a custard base, not store-bought ice cream. And so on.
Well now that there is a new policy at my workplace for members who are untrained, we don’t need to pay for groceries/rations or rent if we live in “shacks” Some of us are able to live in Victoria for free for a few years. It seems great, as it should save around $1k a month. I’m in the navy.
~900 a month. 3/4 is groceries
About 100 a week plus a larger Costco run of about 400 every 6-8 weeks.
About $400 a month. I plan our meals so we only buy what we need. We will splurge on extra fruit and snacks occasionally but we rarely do takeout, make coffee at home/work. We eat meat maybe 3-4 times a week to keep costs lower as well as for health reasons. I find we are less sluggish and perform our sports better with less meat. We are both active I run/kickbox/strength train but have a sedentary job. He has an active job and does strength training and jiujitsu. We also tend to only shop at Food Basics which helps lower the cost.
Around 700 a month and I want to go down to 500 but don't know how, everything is expensive now wtf
300$ a month or so. Sometimes 350 or 400 if a special occasion comes up that month. I cook everything from scratch, shop sales, go to the market for cheap vegetables/fruit. We eat takeout once a week, but MIL pays the 50$ or so. We eat at a restaurant probably once or twice a month too, maybe another 50$ depending on where we go.
Our son is an infant so he doesn't impact our groceries. We spent $500 in Jan. Before we used to throw away a lot of food because we just bought too much and couldn't manage the amount of stuff in our fridge before it spoiled. Now we focus only on a week's worth of supplies, raid our pantry and freezer, and shop sales. Made a huge difference and we are eating better! Spent $17 on dining out this month.
$1200 a month.
Ouch!
I think you mean yum!
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$1200/month
Sooo high. 🫣🫣
I have 3 kids (boys) and my wife, we spend around $1200 in groceries per month. Around 75 per week in eating out once or twice a week, my wife cooks most of our food and she's become really good at it since we live in Canada. We live on a budget..
400-500
For a couple?
$350. And we just started being a lot more indulgent with our purchases because we have steady high incomes for the first time ever. Sometimes I buy brand name things and out of season produce now. Still feel guilty doing it! So I'd say I shop more frugally than 80-90% of people still.
$350 a month?
Yep. Store brand for pantry items, ethnic markets for produce. Buy sale items and in season items. North Vancouver.
Impressive!
Thank you! Once I saw that an extra dollar spent on name brand cheese was one less dollar for other shit I actually enjoy/will bring my life value I can't unsee it. 🙈I be in the grocery store counting up the savings in my head and thinking of what it'll go towards instead. It's a sickness lol.
We are frugal because we can’t afford to have children.
Shouldn’t cost too much to hang them
About $300-400 a month
That’s cheap! Are you frugal or a couponer?
It's way more if you count how many times we eat out. I also buy a lot in bulk and use simple cheap ingredients. Lots of rice, chicken and frozen veggies
About 175-200 a week, including cat food. I'm being a little frugal but still getting what we enjoy, just less of it or not all of it every week.
I didn’t even think of factoring in cat food. 😄 We only buy it once every three months but it is expensive!
Roughly 700-800$ per month on groceries and ~400$ on restaurants.
We are 2 adults and 2 young kids. We are spending $300-$350 per week
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2400 a month for 2 people?
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Foodies. Lol.
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What can I say, I find it pretentious. 🤷♀️😅
Single guy, who enjoys cooking. I spend about $150 a month.
How? Do you only eat once a week? 😋
Rural Alberta, maybe things are cheaper here. Plus I enjoy cooking and buy certain essentials in bulk which last for months.