I try to keep it under 200 USD. Single person so it’s a bit easier. Buy meat and non perishable food in bulk when I can. Things like milk get bought sooner.
Two adults, one small child: About $400 on just groceries in a high CoL area.
Eating out is expensive, maybe another $400 a month.
Can you estimate how much it’d be without eating out?
Like… $450-500? It’s a pretty big difference.
$500/mo. Single person, SE USA. I eat 2 meals per day and a snack. Cook all of it except for one treat meal per week.
I should add, that price might be a tad high, as my grocery bill includes things for the household like laundry detergent.
Less than $100 just to feed myself.
I haven’t eaten at a restaurant in years and most of my meals are cooked by me using the cheapest ingredients I can tolerate.
70€ (83$) food, 30€ (35$) drink. (Caffeine addiction)
I eat less than 1kg* per day, try to only buy food so it’s overall 2€ per kg of a meal, so it’s 62€ per month, with a monthly treat that’s 70.
Edit: Thinking about it, less than 1kg of food per day was perhaps too low, considering that realistically wouldn’t even be half of my recommended energy intake. Maybe the extremely high soda intake I used to have was just to balance that out? Anyway, since I switched to other drinks a month ago I probably eat way more.
It’s very impressive that your food in average is 4€/kg. Do you eat meat?
Not regularly. It’s a twice a month thing at best.
I aim for less than $500. In Canada, so…
It’s a lot of pork, beans, rice, frozen veggies, unsweetened Coconut not-milk. I buy some store brand junk food too I’ll admit. The sausage and cheese addiction inflates costs too. Fresh fruit usually I just get banana, kiwi, and watermelon sometimes if it’s on sale. I buy some frozen fruit but it’s much less than veggie. I don’t need the calories.
It’s insane that in Canada it takes me $400-$600 a month for 1 person to eat basic, but non-processed food. 2 meals a day, basic breakfast of eggs and a meat with maybe cheese, and a dinner of a protein and veg and maybe rice. I cook everything from scratch including bread and use everything, like bones for broth, etc. It’s getting impossible for low income Canadians to even hope to eat relatively healthy, but at least the shareholders get bonuses every year…
I help my roomie out who is on AISH he’s autistic enough to qualify but before he moved in it was a lot of bulk barn dry pasta, rice, beans and then no name brand pasta sauce cans supplemented with food bank :( I only charge him $450 for rent so he can eat better now.
Yeah it’s not good.
I would say just food maybe 800-1000 swiss francs. And then 400 for other necessities like toilet paper, trash bags etc.
Tbf that went down in the last 2-3 months since I stopped eating dinner for 5-7 days a week. No, not to save money, I am intermittent fasting so I only eat breakfast and lunch. More lunch though. So I guess most money now goes towards dinner for my partner. So we spend maybe 600-800 now.
I don’t have a food-only budget, but our “supermarket + food” spending for 2 humans and 2 cats last year was ~280 euros per month. That includes takeout/delivery but not restaurants, cleaning materials, catfood (but not the vet), alcohol, snacks.
Probably about $600 a month for 2 adults, fancy eating a couple times a month and fast food maybe 4 times a month.
2 people, about €300 spent in grocery stores monthly, with the caveat that both of us get some level of food at work.
About 400€ sometimes for special occassions i go obove it but not much. Highest is about 500€ i spend on food in a month and that was due to a BBQ party.
100€ each week is my set limit for groceries For me and my partner
i cook farts and it costs $8
185 euro a month
Includes any form of eating out and mostly organic groceries.
Usually around $300/month:
- $50/month on bagels, my favorite food that I eat way too much of
- $120/month on other food at home like salads, homemade fried rice, and chicken nuggets
- $30/month on snacks like pretzels (it’s an addiction sadly)
- $100/month on going out to eat
Currently it’s about 160€ per month. One person in Germany. Potatoes and air fryers are a godsend
Potatoes and air fryers are a godsend
I could live off french fries and chicken wings for the rest of my life and convince myself it’s healthy because I cook them without fat.
Air fryers are the heckin’ best. I don’t even notice a huge difference in how my tater tots taste.
