| 5/18/2024 10:28:28 PM Appliedvalueinvestor |
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| Curious about your food budget at $800 with 2 kids.. |
| 5/19/2024 6:02:35 AM sertra2002 |
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| One kid is grown up and moved out, so it’s just 1 kid. And $800 was a gusstimate. I’ve bumped it to 1200 which is more closer to actual I think. Thanks |
| 5/20/2024 4:25:09 PM Ikeh89 |
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| $1200/mo for food? What are you buying? My family of 4 is $400/month. Lol. I feel like $1200 would be steak every night. |
| 5/21/2024 10:19:46 AM BirdNole |
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| Ours is ~$1,300/month for a family of 4. We eat really healthy / organic though. Meats, fruits, veggies ... it's insanely expensive and we are in a MCOL small city. |
| 5/21/2024 4:40:43 PM sertra2002 |
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| Lekh89 - $400 for groceries would mean you are eating out a lot instead ? Eating steak every day at home is still going to be cheaper than eating out. |
| 5/22/2024 8:56:45 AM Ikeh89 |
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| @sertra - we go out to eat once a week. 2 times a month to little ceasars at $18/visit, once to taco bell at $10-15, and once to a Chinese buffet at $31. Our monthly restaurant budget is $75 for the entire family to go out. We meal plan for the whole month at the beginning of the month. We are just disciplined and look for deals. I wish we could post pictures on here to show our monthly meal calendar. We have a meat for the main meal at least 90% of the time. |
| 5/22/2024 9:00:59 AM Ikeh89 |
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| Oh and we bought a 1/2 cow in October for $1500. That meat will last us for 1 year, so add $125 to the $400, so $525/month. My wife reminded me of this to add. |
| 5/24/2024 12:32:38 AM Appliedvalueinvestor |
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| Ours is $1200 per month for family of 4. We also eat 4 times a month in restaurants.. Chipotle, Mods are most common outings for us with Italian or Thai Restaurants in between.
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| 6/3/2024 11:18:51 AM girlnextdoor |
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| Another data point: my family of 4 (2 adults 2 small kids) spent ~$950/month total on food in 2023. MCOL. ~$720/month grocery and $230/mo dining. Although "grocery" includes everything bought at grocery stores or Costco, because we don't break out receipts in our tracking (so there's a bunch of random other Costco purchases, OTC medicines, diapers/pull ups, cleaning supplies, gifts, etc. technically in there too). So maybe closer to $600-650/month in true grocery food. |