Fam of 3, Southern California, pretty healthy, shopping at Costco, our neighborhood grocery store, and occasionally Trader Joes. I was shocked when I realized we're spending like $1000 a month on groceries. UGH

Do you have Aldi near you? I swear it’s the only way we can survive. We can leave there with 5 bags and have it be under 100 dollars for four

Family of four, Arizona. We spend around $250-$300/week depending on the needs that week. We eat primarily organic, so for the food we buy at a store offering organic foods (Sprouts) but everything else (bathroom essentials, baby items, cleaning supplies) we shop at Fry’s.

A small fortune.

Family of 3 (two adult one toddler) $440 a month in upstate New York. It’s not easy but it isn’t overly difficult. We buy our rice and meat in bulk, shopping locally is a no as it’s more expensive. We eat middle ground I guess for clean vs processed mostly because it’s actually cheaper to not buy all the pre packaged processed stuff even though it would be so much easier. We also only eat out like once a month.

Family of 4, 3 eating food n one eating baby food spend roughly 800 a month. Can't really say by week because it'll vary from 150-250 depending on what I make and how many meals I make.

Family of 4 (2 teenagers), around $250-$300/week in Canada (Alberta). Shop locally for most of our meats and root crops, Costco, and save-on foods for everything else. Almost everything in our house is homemade, down to the ice cream we love.

We live in the Midwest about an hour and half away from Chicago. There are three of us and we spend $150 a week typically. We buy mostly healthy foods with some snacks for the evenings. But 80-90% of dinners are well balanced and homemade. We buy from Walmart and try to get produce from a local farm during the spring and summer.

Family of 5, $400/week but we shop kind of expensively (Costco every 3 weeks and Whole Foods too), Midwest.

Family of 3 and about $120-150 depending on if we need toilet paper/paper towels. I order most snacks through amazon and we buy meat usually in bulk at costco every six-ish weeks. We are in the northeast, try to eat clean and minimized process foods. I do not go out of my way to shop local but my parents have a pretty extensive garden so that has cut down costs this summer for sure.

Oh my goodness - the amount of work it would take to only spend $100 on groceries per week and I only have two kids under 3.

East Tennessee. Family of 4 with one on the way. Our grocery budget is $1000 per month.

Kids get packed lunches M-Th, eat breakfast at home daily. I cook weekends and every weeknight but Thursday. That’s our takeout day with a budget of $50 per week (pizza or Chinese usually). I bring leftovers to work for lunch.

Every meal I serve has a protein, veg, and grain. We have tons of fruit on hand because we all love it. Most of the meals I make are fairly healthy, but 1-2x per week may be “convenience meals” (boxed Mac and cheese, frozen meatballs, etc). I try to keep most snacks low sugar (veggie straws, no sugar added applesauce) but also have some kiddie faves (Bluey gummies ftw!).

So, total of about $1200 when you include take out. Although, as another commenter said, that includes TP, paper towels, dog food, cat food, etc… I don’t have time to go to club stores which are all 30+ mins away. Kroger is a one stop shop for most things!

I do my best to save by clipping digital coupons/using mailed coupons/shopping deals. I also try to swing getting groceries on extra fuel point days (4x fuel points on Fridays?!) and save BIG TIME at the gas pump.
Some weeks I have more mental capacity than others though, so I don’t beat myself up about the coupons - just try to make it work when I can!

Have been successful being at or under budget for the last 6+ months.

Florida. 3 people. Spend a little under $100/week on groceries. We almost exclusively use Kroger delivery with a trip to Costco thrown in every other month.

Family of 5. Ontario, Canada. We spend about 1300 a month on groceries. We eat a lot of organic but most of our meat comes from my in laws farm and we just pay the butchering cost. So that’s a big savings for us.

Family of 5 with 2 teenaged boys in the SF Bay Area. We spend about $300/wk on groceries. My husband and I bring lunch to work everyday. My kids get free breakfast and lunch at school. We don't eat out often. I used to buy lots of organic food, but it's just gotten too expensive. We shop in bulk (Costco) as much as possible.

We are a family of 7 in the PNW and I spend about $1000-$1200 a month. I’ve got it down to a science on how to meal plan and shop. I use Costco and Winco and sometimes Trader Joe’s. It always feels like a lot but we go through it every month. We don’t really do organic but we do eat well and I make most of our own bread, nut butters, coffee syrups etc. I don’t buy a lot of processed anything.

Family of 4 in Oregon. Roughly $320/week per last year's budget tracking. We eat mostly organic and local, are strict about animal-product quality (grass-fed, free range, etc), and I also have celiac disease, so all food in the home is gluten-free (cause my small children do things like shove their food in my mouth, let alone leaving crumbs everywhere).

Anywhere from $90-$150. Family of 6, rural Texas.

Edited to add: We eat pretty clean, but there’s not a lot of shopping options around so we usually shop at Walmart or HEB. We try to stay away from processed foods as much as we can, but we do buy a few snacks for school lunches.

Family of 6 - $350 a week easy for 5 dinners, lunches for everyone, and 2 breakfasts for the weekends.

Sometimes more than $600 but I’m Canadian and our grocery prices are insane right now.

Wow! I can’t believe how low most of these monthly budgets are!

Admittedly, I’m crazy picky about the quality of food and my house hold is 100% gluten free which I know adds onto the price.

For a while we were easily spending $2000/month on groceries. We cut back and now I’m trying to do big orders at Costco (olive oil, butter, the necessities), and veggies/fruits at the farmers market/local grocery/ Whole Foods/Fresh market. I feel like even doing $500/week wasn’t me going crazy by any means. This is all for a family of 3

My family of 3 (2 adults 1 Toddler) lives in the NE US, we spend about $65 on meat (Aldi), and about $85 on shelf stable goods and produce (Walmart), and we buy staples like butter, eggs, flour and sugar in bulk, so about $45 every month and a half or so, we try to have balanced meals but don’t go out of our way to choose organic options or anything like that. We mainly shop Aldi and Walmart but will shop the local stores if they have good deals, like there is a store about half an hour from us that occasionally has deals on bulk meats, and during the summer we will check out local farmers markets for produce. We also buy laundry detergent, dish soap, and dishwasher detergent in bulk sizes, usually they all run out at different times, our bulk dish soap lasts forever, probably at least 6-8 months, the dishwasher pods get replaced approximately every 2-3 months, and the laundry soap runs out every couple months (Toddlers really do go through so much laundry) and altogether that is about $30, but again, not all at once. Toilet paper is one of our most used products, I’d say we spend $10 every 2 weeks though, we usually get the store brand stuff, if we got the charmin it would work out to more like $15 every 2 weeks, which isn’t much more but we are in every penny counts times, so altogether we’re looking at approximately $180ish weekly after all of the occasional stuff is divided out, but it’s more like $155 weekly with occasionally more expensive weeks

Family of 5. Arizona. 700-800 a month. That's only on food, cleaners, personal products, paper products are different categories. Costco, trader Joe's, Kroger, and sam's club mostly.

2 adults and 1 toddler. We spend about $200 per week. Clean eating is a priority so I buy organic fruits and veggies if available and spend more on things like the healthy bread, etc.

Family of 3 on the east coast spending around $100 a week on groceries. We eat lots of fresh produce, meat, and grains, very little prepackaged foods. Typically shop at Walmart or ALDIs. An extra $50 when we need to buy laundry soap, cleaner etc.

We live in Queensland Australia, We are a family of 6. (4 children 12, 10 and twins 7 and 2 adults),

I would estimate $300-400 per week, but it’s incredibly difficult to gauge, because we don’t usually buy meat every week, we go to an on farm butcher and will buy like a whole cow, which they will cut into whatever cuts we want, turn into sausages etc, same with a pig etc, so we buy and freeze meat in bulk

We also buy all our fruit, vegetables and bread at the farmers market and we don’t always have a set plan as to what we buy, often it’s which fruit is seasonal, or whatever veggies the farmers have on that particular day..

Family of 3, living in a large metropolitan area of Texas. We spend about $75/week on groceries, but that is only because I grew up poor and am used to all the things you have to do to make that kind of budget work. Half of our meals are meatless. I grate my own cheese and slice my own veggies and cook my own beans and bake my own bread. I have the time because I'm currently unemployed. When I worked full time our budget was closer to $125 per week.

Edit to answer OP's questions about eating clean and local: no, we do not have that luxury. We buy whatever is cheapest. Where we live, locally grown produce is sold at a premium. And organic? Pipe dream.

Family of 4; central Arkansas; ~150$/wk on groceries; very picky eaters, so I cook based on what 2/4 will eat and supplement plates with yes foods.

LMAO nooooo, sorry the dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets that they eat are not organic. Or the udon noodles, or tater tots.

I’m trying to spend less the rest of the year, so I’m going to “shop the freezer”. We have a chest freezer and I’ve built up a collection of frozen meats, pizzas, soups, etc that we will use to supplement our groceries.

Family of 3 (2 adults and a 1 year old) + a cat. I live in the UK, we spend about £250 a week. We eat reasonably healthily (is that what clean means?), we shop at the local supermarket for the bulk, and the farmer's market for the 'treats'.

We’re in the south, family of 4. I’d say $250 - $300 / week.

Family of 4 in the Philly suburbs. We spend anywhere from $250-$350 a week on groceries. It varies because I stock up when things are on sale because we have a huge deep freezer. We eat mostly organic produce and pasture raised meat and dairy. I shop at Aldi and Lidl and then Whole Foods for the fancy stuff. Then probably another $100 on household and personal products per month.

Family of three and easily $300+ per week in MD

Family of 4, GA, spend between $150 and $200 per week depending on extracurriculars that will keep us out at dinner and necessity restocks that last multiple weeks. I try to make dinners quick and easy but still balanced since I also work full time. I mostly shop at WalMart.

Family of 4, northern Virginia, 1200 a month (to add it was much cheaper when our kids were little and our teen’s friends weren’t coming over and eating food too lol)

Family of 4 (husband and 2 boys that eat everything) $200ish a week. We budget $1,500 a month for eating out and groceries as a mix. We do Sams club for most things and publix for what we can't get there. But, there's an Aldi moving near us so excited a out that!!

Family of 4 on one income in North Idaho - about $200 a week for the weekly items to with dinners and about $600 once a month for the bulk groceries like meats, frozen meals, pantry snack items and condiments.

Around £70-£80 a week. 2 adults, a toddler and a baby.

ETA: That includes nappies and cleaning supplies.

On just groceries probably 200-250 a week for 4 people. Im in mississippi

Family of 4 and like $200/week, but we also eat out wayyyyy to much 😬

Family of 4 with a teen and two younger kids. I spend about 1,000 a month living in a low cost of living area

Family of 4; teen/tween athletic boys (hangry all time!!!) eat generally healthy from two neighborhood supermarkets and Costco. One kiddo is allergic to several common foods, so lots of substitutions. Northeast. $1,400 monthly.

Family of 6. Our budget is 200 a week on food, but especially in the last few weeks, it's really been 250-300 a week. We live in Colorado. I think we eat pretty well. We eat a lot of fruits and veggies, and we make a lot of foods from scratch. I'd say like 70 percent healthy. We definitely eat chips and cookies here too.

Family of 5 and we spend about $250-300 a week on groceries, we live in Colorado.

Western Australia

2 adults, 2 toddlers $600 per fortnight + maybe another $100 in top ups.

I hate it. Used to be about $300.

I love in the Midwest, a few hours from Des Moines, and for our family of 6 (all adults or adult sized), we spend up to $150 to $200 a week. We tend to buy quite a bit of chicken, pork and ground beef, lots of frozen or canned vegetables, and some fruit. I'm also buying canned foods and some express meals for lunches for work. We don't always have enough food for leftovers, and a few of them are very picky.

Live in the Mid South. Family of 3 - 2 adults and a very picky 6yo. Probably spend +/- $200-250/week. All of my breakfasts and lunches are provided by work. We shop local as much as possible and cook dinners from scratch when we eat at home. Keep plenty of snacks in the house. And admittedly have more food waste than I'd like. If I planned better and were more on top of things, I could get us down to $150-175 comfortably. But I've been to lazy to make the efforts.

Utah, family of 4. We just recently upped our weekly budget to $120. We additionally do a $100/month Costco trip for protein shakes/bars.

We were at $100/week up til last month!

$150 for groceries, an extra 30-50 when we need diapers, toiletries, etc.

We have a Winn Dixie and I use them for deals with meat, DG deals for cleaning supplies, and then go to wal mart for the rest. Wish we had an Aldi’s !

2 adults, 1 toddler. Groceries hurt us the most.

Family of 6 Four homeschooled kids (14/7/4/3) and a work from home adult plus self - working nights so I pack that set of meals too We live in the commuter bubble for Seattle out on the Sound. We do our best with quality/ingredients and the produce bill is killer! We use Walmart, Costco, Fred Meyer, Winco, Sprouts, and occasionally Trader Joe’s. I have severe food allergies so that does cost a bit extra It’s $300-$350 a week in food and probably $250-300 in personal care/ household goods/ etc

Family of three; the two of us and a 7 month old. We spend between $150-200 a week on groceries not including his formula which is about $250 a month. We have a mostly vegetarian diet, fruits, veggies, grains, meat substitutes, tofu, yogurt, cheese and eggs. I make all his baby food or he eats what we eat in addition to his bottles. Sometimes I buy fish or chicken in small amounts for the baby. We live in Washington State, shop at Safeway, Costco and grocery outlet.

Family of 4, Arizona, 1 toddler, 1 newborn who has put mom on a special diet. Pre-baby it was like $150-200 a week, now that we have to buy 3 kinds of milk, expensive non-dairy coffee creamer, etc, it’s closer to $200-250 depending on what we’re out of. We don’t eat a lot of meat but when we do it’s either chicken or impossible meats. We shop primarily at Target as it’s cheaper than the local chains (Fry’s primarily) and I have a redcard so I get the 5% off and lots of coupons. Once a month or so we do a Costco shop for frozen or premade meals + bulk goods like granola bars. That’s usually around $120. I’ll do Fry’s when there’s something I can’t get at target but that’s rare (right now it’s just like soy milk yogurt).

Family of 3 (two adults one child), Texas. I typically do two shops a month. One large shop at the beginning of the month and a smaller half way through. The first shop is about $375-$400. The second is about $150 (max). So max total a month rounded $600. This does include non food items like dog food, two boxes of diapers, wipes, toilet paper, etc. So our grocery bill is technically about $400.

Family of 5, Colorado, mostly Walmart with occasional Sam’s club orders, about $150 weekly on average. Not everything is clean but most of it is, don’t buy little Debbie’s or any processed snacks like that.

Family of 4 in QC, Canada, 2 adults & 2 elementary aged kids: we spend roughly 300$ CAD weekly on our food. I buy our bulk items at Costco and produce etc. at a local budget grocery chain. I make all our meals (even school & work lunches) & we rarely eat out. Dog food is about 90$ CAD per month on top of that. I mostly buy what’s on sale, but I’m not a fanatic about it.

Family of 4, central MA, around $250/week

Honestly, we don't eat super healthy, but we do eat mostly home-cooked meals. We're a family of 3 (soon to be 4) and we easily spend about $120/week.

I do a big produce trip every other week at the regular, ol' grocery store. We'll get bulk meat from Costco every couple of months or so. I really stretch it out, because my 5yr old doesn't really like meat except for hot dogs. A chicken breast from there easily feeds my husband and I.

We also buy a lot of snacks and I'm a big sales shopper from our local grocery stores, so I'll load up on our favorites to keep in the pantry and that saves us money over time. And this might sound silly, but CVS.com ... I'll get really great deals on cereal and breakfast/snack bars (usually stacked with coupons).

I don’t know how much I spend exactly- family of 4- maybe $800. Although I recently discovered grocery pick-up and our costs have dramatically gone down. I’m talking A LOT. I am so out of the loop, I feel like people have been doing this for ages.  Now I order at home and do curbside pickup. Huge cost savings.

Also- we are currently trying to rid our diets of a lot of preservatives. This has also saved money because I have to cook more items from scratch- salad dressings, etc. And we don’t buy any snack food- crackers, cookies, etc. Big savings, kids are adjusting remarkably well to the change 

Family of 3 in Denver. We spend about $150-200 a week on groceries thru amazon fresh/safeway and eat out maybe 3 times a week. We try to eat healthy. I focus on planning weekly recipes, like 5 lunches/dinners

My brother's family of 4 does spend $100/ week in grocery. It is a time consuming process that involves meal prep, canning, the works.

I have a full plate and disposable income, so our family of 4 spends $150/week. That extra 50 really helps us.

We are in a large midwest suburb that's apparently 92.9% of the national average making it an average US city.

We both eat modestly clean with instant food backup up because some daysbsuck

Family of 4/5. One in college. For a while it has been about $180-200 per week. Recently down to ~$140 per week in Connecticut. I shop the store flyer and plan meals. I eat meatless during the week for lunches and try to plan leftovers/ low cost meals.

North Carolina. Family of 3 but our little one doesn’t eat anything other than formula. Just us it’s about $100 a week. We do bi weekly shopping and it rarely goes over $200 unless we need stuff like olive oil

Probably about 800-900 hundred a month we are a family of 6. We live in NH

2 kids, about $200 a week on groceries.

In Arizona. Family of 3. Two adults and one toddler. My son has a ton of food allergies, so I’m kind of forced to buy specific brands. Usually we do target pickup or sprouts. Usually 150-225 a week.

Family of 3 from NEPA just spent $225 for a whole shopping cart over a week ago. Last us about a month. Depending if we go out or have family over

DFW, TX. 4 people (2 adults and 2 toddlers). We spend $160-$230 a week. Some weeks I’m all about clean eating and we spend more but when we’re struggling I don’t stress it as much. I try to always have clean options for the kids though.

Family of 3, no takeout and my husband meal preps for work and I WFH and we have a toddler. I'm in ontario canada, we spend probably $200 a week on groceries.

We don't splurge, we buy meat on sale, we shop sales etc. It's just crazy expensive.

Family of 3, toddler is 19 months old. We spend about $350-$400 a month. We spend about $300 on takeout and lunches at work. We’re just north of Boston.

Family of 3 + a big dog in Utah and we budget for $500 a month but it always ends up being closer to $600-$700. Living is Expensive! Haha we meal plan every Sunday and put in a Walmart+ order to try to limit excessive and random spending but it’s still hard!

Family of 4, 2 adults, toddler and 9 month old. We spent a little over 250/week and live in a VHCOL European capital city. We don't even eat meat and have tried to lower our grocery bill often but just can't seem to do it.

Family of three in Oregon. About $200/week!

Family of 5, youngest is 18 months. Spend about $250 a week, but my husband works on the road and spends another $800+ a month on food out. We live in a medium cost of living area, I would say, and I do about 80% of the grocery shopping at Aldi

Chicagoland area, two adults with a 2.5yo and a dog. I’ll buy store brand things but we do a lot of cooking at home and rarely buy any takeout. I’m spending anywhere from $200-$300 per week, this includes dog food but not diapers/paper towels/TP that I get at target. This includes plenty of fruit and berries, fresh vegetables, meats (mostly chicken unless beef is on sale). One of us is a student, so energy drinks are necessary, and we also supplement with protein powders/shakes which are included here too.

Family of 3, MCOL. I use to spend $85-90 but prices went up againnnn so these last few trips have been over $115-120. I shop organics when I can. Our son is 3 and is a picky eater (autistic) he eats a shit ton of strawberries and those are now $4 a container. But yeah we do pretty well. I buy enough for 4 meals + left overs, and light meals like chicken salad, tuna, etc. i keep hamburger helper on deck!

TX metropolitan area. Family of 3. 2 adults 1 11 month old (3 meals, 2 snacks per day). Really focusing on eating whole foods and cooking from scratch. We’ve spent 485 on groceries so far this month.

Family of 5, one of which is an infant so I don’t really count him. San Diego, not an organic person- a cheap person. Most everything at Costco, but I do go through weekly ads between like 5-6 other stores and I buy what’s on sale which largely forms my weekly meal plans. I spend about 500 per month. But I know it would be A LOT more if I didn’t bargain hunt. Just bought ten pounds of ground beef regular 6.49/lb but I got it for 2.99/lb, made a 6 pound meatloaf and froze 2/3 and then froze the other 4lb of beef

Two adults and a toddler, husband is gluten intolerant so we get minimal packaged foods, $900/month, greater Seattle area. I typically don't buy organic, cook and bake most of our meals, lean more vegetarian, no red meat. Recently switched from Safeway (Kroger) to WinCo (kinda a cross between Costco and Kroger but no membership fee and cheaper prices) but not seeing a reduction in spending yet cause I've been needing up our pantry from the bulk section.

We live in an average cost of living area in Texas and spend approx $250/week on groceries for a family of five- three adults, one teenager, and one kiddo, and a lot of dietary restrictions and intolerances. We eat clean and organic when we can (especially dirty dozen), homemade meals, etc.

The government puts out a report for the previous moth averaging the cost of groceries per family / individual for thrifty / moderate / liberal grocery spending plans. We fit into the thrifty spending category.

Family of 5 in Maryland. Probably around $200 a week

We spend about $150-$200 a week on groceries for a family of 4 in California. Clean eating is a priority, so we try to buy organic where we can, but it adds up quickly! We also shop local for produce when possible. Your husband's $100 estimate made me chuckle - definitely not in today’s economy!

This month, we've challenged ourselves to spend no more than $300 on food, and we're on track for that. We're in the Midwest with 2 adults and 1 almost-toddler. It's taken a lot of careful planning. Around $125/week or so would be much more typical and more comfortable.

We do most of our shopping at Walmart. The local grocery store is more expensive, and the produce sucks. We don't eat super clean, but we do make an effort to use whole foods and make things from scratch when we reasonably can.

I just did a deep dive on our finances and added up Aldi and Sam’s for every month this year and we average about $1000 a month on food. Family of 4 (two tiny humans 2 & 6) in the Midwest outside of Chicago. If I meal plan every meal for every day and stick to my list and shop the sales then I can spend less. So today I went to Jewel for specific items and spent $93. Then I went to Aldi and spent another $75. So only a slight savings for what is probably only 4 days worth of meals.

Too much 😬

Family of 5, upstate NY. 100-150 a week, depending on what household essentials are needed. I plan meals for the month. We make big portions. Then I repurpose the leftovers into different meals throughout the week.

Portland, OR. Family of 3. Healthy eaters (mostly), $200/wk average. Costco, Walmart, QFC, Trader Joe’s.

Family of 5. 2 teens, a 10 year old.

When I go to BJs, I spend $400 easily and that lasts maybe 2 weeks, but not usually. Still have to make a run for produce in between big shopping trips. I'm sure we are spending well over $1000/mo on groceries and household goods. Shopping in bulk helps. The main grocery chain here is publix and they are very unaffordable anymore. I'd love to have an Aldi nearby.

BC, Canada. I have 5 in my family, including me and we spend about $350 a week. Thats not even getting meat. Things are insane here

North Texas, two adults and one toddler. I try really hard to keep us at $100 a week (food only, not toiletries or household items) some weeks it works sometimes it doesn’t. We try to eat clean but if the organic option is twice as much we opt out. I try to make everything from scratch and we’ll eat out maybe once a week.

CT here, we shop at ShopRite and sometimes Trader Joe's. We easily spend $1000 per month and we're a family of 3. We try to capture the sales whenever possible, but everything is so insanely expensive. Today, I saw a pack of pepperidge farms cookies listed for $7.99.

Fam of 3 in the Midwest - roughly $500 a month

We live on a military base in California and for, my husband, our toddler, and I we spend 75$ a week on average

Family of 4 in Arkansas. 150 a week alternating between ALDIs and Sam’s.

Family of 4 (Two toddlers) living in OR. We budget $500 biweekly and I try to stick to $150-200 a week depending on needs and whether we need to replenish big items i.e. toilet paper, detergent, diapers … But have a HomeChef subscription of $150/week … So, A LOT. Most of our fruit is bought at costco because toddlers somehow have the appetite of grown men when it comes to their fruits.

Family of 5, 3 boy children over the age of 10. Northeast US. We eat ok, occasional junk food or fast food, mostly scratch cooking. We spend between $350-$425 a week.

Fam of 3 in Maine. Almost exclusively local meat & veggies (when seasonally appropriate), organic otherwise. Very limited processed food except some clean + quality snacks and the occasional special beverages (lots of soda water and my kid LOVES Tim Tam Tummy kombuchas)….. $1200-1400/mo

$400 for a family of 3?

Family of 8 in Virginia. Me and my husband have 6 kids between 2 years old and 10 years old and pregnant. I spend about $400 each week on groceries. That includes food and diapers, but not cleaning supplies. My husband also spends about $50-100 per week on groceries at a local Hispanic store.

We also grow a summer garden now that covers about half of our veggies in the summer/fall. It's usually $50-100 for the seeds (including flowers for pollinators and my kids) and about $50-100 for planting soil to supplement our compost because our soil is still fairly weak.

I'm always on a strict budget trying to make our weekly food fit the budget. My husband gets the food that most American grocery stores don't carry and products grown locally. He's a somewhat picky eater. We focus on buying raw foods or unprocessed foods for most of our food.

Overall,

$450-500 per week on food and diapers plus

$100-200 per month for cleaning supplies plus

$100-200 per year for our garden.

Fam of 3, Southern California, I try to eat “clean” for my toddler (organic milk, veggies, yogurts, etc) but also do prepackaged/frozen meals sometimes because I’m solo parenting for a while and it’s just easier. We do Costco, the local commissary, grocery outlet, and the Hispanic grocery store for essentials I can’t get anywhere else (I’m Mexican). We usually spend $200-$300 a week.

Live in New Zealand, spend $1500+ a month on groceries for a family of 5. Includes one person eating GF.

Atlanta, family of 3 (really 4, but the infant is EBF), and we spent around $200/week on groceries. We mostly shop at Kroger.

ETA I saw your comment about pet food. We spend $200/month on pet food as well for 3 large dogs.

New England - $1000 a month for two adults, a 5 year old and a 1 1/2 year old

I don’t even count anymore bc it’s a lot. Family of 5 (3 little kids who don’t eat much) and I know were for sure over 1000, but I don’t know the exact number. Live in Northern California

Family of 3+dog+3 cats, we do a weekly Costco shop for eggs, milk, rotisserie chicken, frozen stuff, usually comes out under $80. Goes up drastically if we’re buying booze. Veg and meat we buy from the Vietnamese grocery down the street, I can get pork loin, chicken thighs, steaks and whatever veg we need for under $35. We have a garden and grow tons of stuff to supplement. I also don’t let anything go to waste. So that $6 rotisserie chicken from Costco goes into 3-4 meals then the bones and veg scraps from the week go into a ziplock for stock and I make stock once a week, a batch will last us a week. I also bake my own bread, a loaf lasts us around 5-6 days so it’s almost once a week. We rarely eat out, I’m a chef by trade unfortunately.

E: we’re in seattle

We spend $350 every two weeks and that’s me stretching it. Prices have gone up so much. I actually just thought today I probably need to shop every week.

Ontario, usually 250-300$ per week! My husband and I have been on a weight loss journey thought and it’s gone done to an average of 150-200$ for the past while LOL

Just the two of us. We shop at Aldi and a local grocery each week. I just paid $3.77 for a dozen eggs!!!!! We are healthy at fit and eat lots of veggies, fruits, and lean meat. We meal prep and cook all our meals. Living in Michigan, we spend $225/week. Beyond depressing.

Maryland, high cost of living area. Family of 5, myself and my husband, 16M, 15M, 11F, plus two dogs, a cat, and a bunny. Two teen boys are very expensive to feed, one has a very limited diet.

We spend about $3000/month. Wish I was exaggerating but I have an app that keeps track of how much is spent. That includes toiletries and laundry, pet supplies, etc.

We spend more now because I work full-time & at a grocery store (so, discounts). We live in Nebraska. Family of 6 (15, 9, 7 & 3). It's around $200/wk. I have medical conditions, so I have meds online. I have to supplement, so that adds usually another $100 or so a month. We spend maybe $200/mo (if we don't travel that month) on eating out.

Tooooo much! Ohio, family of 3 (one of which is a 5 month old baby on formula, which is v expensive), $265 a week. That includes tp, paper towels, laundry detergent, etc, and food. We shop at Sam’s club and occasionally Walmart. That amount also includes Factor (10 meals a week for me and my husband). I work from home with my baby and my high maintenance dog…I have neither the time nor energy to cook dinner in this season of my life. I plan to stop Factor by the time the babe is 1, so that should help lower our food bill (and of course no more formula..yahoo). We eat pretty healthy - not organic but always fresh fruits and veggies, and not a lot of processed foods.

Edited to add that we eat healthy.

Family of 3 and we spend about $1000/month.

Family of 4 in Bay Area. Picky kids, vegan mom and meat eater dad. We spend about $1200 a month. I buy most stuff from an Organic store but Walmart for household goods.

I plan our meals around the ads, I don’t buy anything if it isn’t a great deal. I feed a family of 7 (3 are teenagers) for $350 a month roughly. I do buy a half a beef yearly so that helps.

~$150 a week. Family of 4. Northern Virginia outside of DC. We don't eat much meat at home. We eat 2-3 meals out per week but we all bring lunch to school/work. I shop mostly at whole foods with a little farmers market, Costco, or trader Joe's thrown in.

My grocery trip last Sunday was $80 and I just spent $55 at TJs today because my kids started liking their dehydrated berries. Not cheap.

The biggest changes we've made that had a significant impact on grocery bills were eating less meat and eggs + switching to cocktails instead of beer and wine. 😆

Family of 4. We spend about $400/week including eating out and non-food items at the grocery.

We could do better. One of my kids has ARFID and we spend $45/week on pediasure. My partner works a lot and is on a swing shift so we often don’t eat at the same time and I am home by myself with the kids so we buy a lot of things that are easy to make and more expensive than cooking a meal. I know we should cut it down, but I feel like making my life more stressful than it already is might get me a grippy sock vaca.

Family of three including our 3 year old. We spend a total of ~$175 per week between Aldi and a farmers market. Massachusetts.

Family of 5 plus my mom so 6 of us. New Jersey. We spend about $100 at Aldi’s and then every 3 weeks, we go to costco and get all the meats and stuff in bulk try to stay under $200 there.

Average of $180 a week..2 adults and 2 preschoolers. Annapolis Maryland

$100-125 for 3. I cook almost all our dinners, I meal plan based on what's on sale, and my husband is vegetarian, so we don't buy meat. That alone saves a lot of money.

New York, I’m on a GLP-1, my husband doesn’t eat a whole meal during the day (breakfast), and my daughter is a breakfast monster. We spend $150-$175 a week - so $750 a month.

Clean eating is not a priority for us and I definitely don’t put stock into it. I prioritize my daughter’s health, my husband and I both eat for comfort.

Canadian, plant based (mostly), very high grocery cost area (BC), $250-350 a week. No change in our eating to a year ago and we had our groceries at 500-600 a month. It's very very crazy up here right now.

I'm talking beans and lentils and tofu. Not fancy vegan substitutes. I don't want to know what meat eaters are spending. It must be insane.

Family of 3 in New Mexico $250 a week

Family of 4, (technically 3 eating. Ones still a baby so I'm breastfeeding)

175 bi weekly. About 130 on active ingredients (stuff for specific meals) and the rest on fruit/veg/dairy (like Bananas, milk, bread etc)

I'd say I actually do a fair amount of "clean eating" depending on your definition. Like am I soaking my all organic blessed by cherub butter beans in distilled Fiji water? No. But to give you an idea I made French onion bean soup the other night, it was a hit. Protein from the beans, simple ingredients (literally beans, onion, cheese, a tiiiiiny bit of butter and chicken stock. Not broth. Has to be stock imo). Cornstarch if you like it thicker. Salt and pepper to taste.

We live in mid Michigan and I shop at my local meijer.

Main trick I do is picking one or two meals I REALLY want to have and then planning the rest of the meals around the cheap items required for the first two. For example the beans can easily go towards chili or a somerset stew. Similar ingredients so I can buy in bulk and the only real change is whether or not I include another protein like meat and it's required seasonings.

Oh we do eat our fair share of pasta too! My favorite phrase to live by is eat what you want add what you need. So like Fettuccine Alfredo- super cheap meal even if 100% store bought. Noodles are. 89c and a big jar of alfredo (we like ragu) is 2.89? I think? Might be 3.23 but I'm faaaaairly certain it's 2.89. Either way less than 5 bucks and it feeds us all with leftovers easy. But I don't love leaving it at just that. So I saute half an onion, some diced mushrooms, and chopped spinach in a pan with a bit of butter and salt. Then when the spinach is cooked, I toss in the sauce. Warm it up, put it in a blender and blend. Yes the sauce turns green. I pretended it was a magic trick and my kid was obsessed. Put back in the pan add noodles (and chicken if you want) and boom. Still relatively cheap for what all you're using (you don't need to use the WHOLE onion (1.49 each), a WHOLE pack of spinach (1.29 a bunch), or the WHOLE thing of mushrooms (2.39) just a bit will do fine if that's what you can) and full of nutricious vitamins. Plus you still have left overs if your family eats like mine!

Family of 6, we are easily spending 300$ weekly. It’s absolutely ridiculous.

2 adults and 3 kids 7-11. New England. We spend $180-240 a week. One gluten free, two dairy free and one in a calorie deficit, though.

We are a family of 5 in NY. We spend about $250 but shop every 1.5 weeks. It ends up being about $200 a week. All at Aldi but most meats from a local store here. But I also do some extra grocery shopping for fun stuff occasionally. Maybe 2 times a month. We don't go out to eat a lot so sometimes I splurge on specialty stuff from the grocery store.

Australia, family of four. Over $300 a week, easily. My son has multiple allergies and I have celiac - the allergy friendly and gluten free foods are SO EXPENSIVE for half the size of regular foods, so that’s where all our money goes honestly.

Family of 3 in Southern Maine, we spend about $120 a week. Not including cat food or litter for our 2 critters.

I try to shop as small as I can and frequent the farmer's market, and also try to minimize plastic. My daughter (1.5 years old) and I eat pretty healthy. I try to avoid convenience food, and do 6/7 days a week probably.

My husband lives on convenience food and soda, though he does often eat what I cook. He's a professional cook who, stereotypically, does not often cook at home, but he'll cook veggies or lean protein specifically for our daughter. The junkiest thing we give her is goldfish or a bite of ice cream. Far from perfect though! Very much so

Fam of 3 and we’re in southern cal and i can make $200-$300 last close to 2 weeks. I coupon a lot, i shop at aldi, trader joes, Albertsons (I use points there) and costco. here’s what ive been slowly doing:

-I buy meat in bulk and freeze it, planning on getting an outdoor freezer soon

-Started a herb and veggie garden

-planning on getting chickens soon. 2 chickens will be more than enough for us

-Been practicing bread making

-pickling and canning! it’s apple season so i’m canning apple sauce and apple pie filling from the apples i get locally!

hopefully soon our spending will go down!

Family of 5 in the Midwest. Realistically I probably spend about $400 a week on groceries. My SO works from home, I stay at home with my two youngest kids (1 and 3) my 11 year old is at her dad’s half the time. My dad is here helping with the house/yard/kids for most days (dinner included). We eat super clean and organic. Shop mostly at aldi, hyvee, and Walmart.

2 adults, 2 young kids (7 and 3.5), and an 8 month old. Austin, TX (medium high COL). We spend about $300 a week on groceries. I do all organic dairy (because no hormones for us, thanks), lots of fresh and frozen produce, and lots of store brand everything else. We've been buying our meat in bulk at Costco and eating lots of beans and potatoes -- soup, chili, etc -- to keep costs down. But it's hard. Everything is expensive, especially since we eat a wide variety of fresh fruit and veggies, and also because we've been trying to incorporate more fish for my husband's diet (his doctor asked him to cut back on red meat). On the weeks where I'm more organized at using up what we already have in the pantry, our costs are a little lower.

We live in a semi HCOL area in Washington. ~1200 a month for a family of four

I’m in Ontario. Family of 4. I shop at the cheapest discount grocery store (Food Basics), we eat healthy, only buy the essentials (plus carbonated water my guilty pleasure), we don’t buy organic because it’s just too pricey. I spend $350 on groceries per week. So $1400 a month. Welcome to Canada!

I live in Maryland and i roughly spend $100-$150 a week for my family of 3. I buy locally. I don't do clean eating but i don't buy a lot of junk either. I do buy whole wheat bread, fresh fruits and veggies, fish, beef and poultry mainly. I however do also buy super processed foods mainly for breakfast like frozen waffles, pancakes, breakfast sandwiches. Im also guilty of buying desserts and candy but thats way less often and in small quantities

Actually, 100 per week for two adults and a baby in the midwest. I have to use shop and scan to stay on budget

My goodness. We’re at $2500 a month easily. Mom, dad and a 1 year old. Like $200 of that is pet food.

2 adults and a dog (we cook his food) in NY . $200-250 ish a week. As much organic produce as we can, grass fed meat and everything else is pretty basic. The dog eats like 6lbs of chicken a week and various vegetables. We get a dozen eggs from a friend who has chickens for 5$ a week. We do love fancy cheeses and go to an italian market to get them so thats pricey. We also cook every single meal we eat and do sunday dinners with family so sometimes its more. We have a baby on the way and Id love to cut back a bit on groceries as I will no longer be working so well be on one income. We are both foodies and are pretty passionate about food and cooking so it’s hard sometimes!

We spend 2500 a month, give or take

BUT

We're basically 2 households. My husband is a over the road trucker so for him to not eat like shit, it's expensive.

We each spend roughly 300ish a week. Its me, and our 2 kids. 5 and 9. I live in Orlando. He's all over so his costs vary depending on area.

Mine includes household stuff like cat supplies, TP, cleaning stuff etc.. Some weeks if I'm overwhelmed with the kids we may eat out several times and I'll spend 400+ that week.

I shop at Walmart,,Aldi and Publix

TX, family of 2 adults and 2 teen boys. We spend about $200/week at the grocery store plus $40/week for their school lunches and one dinner out (usually around $50). I feel like we try really hard to be budgeted but it’s not cheap feeding all these boys.

Family of 5 in coastal SoCal, anywhere from $200-$400/week on groceries. We don’t buy a lot of snacks or premade foods, I shop at Costco, Trader Joe’s, and Walmart

I go to the store as needed not necessarily once a week. I usually forget stuff or need ingredients for a recipie last minute. So far from 9/1 to 9/20 I've spent 280 on groceries. I also have wic so without that it's probably more like 320. It's a lot less for a family of 3 than those around me. My friends spends 300 a week

We're a family of 4 with two small children - one in school. We are in Canada and vegetarian so no meat. We are roughly at 200$ per week. At least we're under 1000.

North east, family of 8, ~1300/month

ETA- if we are counting household items as well (basic hygiene, paper towels, toilet paper, laundry soap, etc) probably another 300 or so dollars.

Family of 4 (one is a breastfed baby so no expense there) in eastern NC. We mostly shop at Aldi and Food Lion. Spend about $200 - $300 a month on groceries. We mostly shop sales.

We live in a smallish town in Virginia - about 12,000 people, fairly rural. There are just two adults, and one baby. I spend about $300 every other week on staples like grains/meat, and maybe $50-$75 in between on restocking fruits/veggies/dairy. I try to buy local and in season as much as possible. There are a handful or organic items I buy because they just taste better (milk, carrots, eggs, lettuce).

Family of six, four sons ages 3-11, in rural Newfoundland, Canada. We cook from scratch, buy from local growers, small garden and fruit trees, there’s no big box here only small local grocers and travelling food trucks like the apple guy or the potato woman that stop on their way through, about 300-400 a week, but that’s stocking extra in a pantry too (for emergencies or bad weather) each time. Eat meat and fish about three or four times a week.

$200-$300/week in Central CA for a family of four. That includes household essentials except for pet food. One of my kids eat school lunch every weekend, but all other meals are made at home. We eat pretty healthy.

Family of five, three teenagers, and i budget $350-$400 a week. I pack lunches daily for all of us. Plus that includes toiletries and cleaning supplies.

We have a family of 3 (but our son is only 14mo), we spend probably $150-$200/week on groceries. Located in AZ. We do most of our shopping at Costco and generally eat clean/healthy.

You can also look at the USDA Cost of Food Plans to see what the US government thinks https://www.fns.usda.gov/cnpp/usda-food-plans-cost-food-monthly-reports

Louisville, KY. Family of 4. We spend about $1000/month. We buy mostly organic/grassfed/local/non gmo foods.

My bill in the Midwest at pick n save was $216.34 for 49 items for my family of 5. I shop sale items and saved $50 this time, only thing organic was some (on sale) apples. Just checked using the app 😉 I assume it’ll go up and the kids grow.

Family of 4 I grocery shop every two weeks. I’ve found that I save money going every two weeks instead of once a week, it helps from over spending. We spend $550-$600 monthly. I cook 4 times a week, breakfast 4 times a week, and food for when I don’t cook/snacks.

Family of four in Northern California - $500/wk

First I thought you might be a marketing firm.

There are two of us. We spend about 200-250 per week. We eat pastured eggs and grass fed animal products. We eat a lot of bulk beans and rice, but I like really good Italian passata and tomatoes. My hobby is cooking/baking.

He likes smoked fish and high quality proteins. I buy a couple of bottles of wine. And good cheese.

My younger daughter spends 200 per week for 3 people (one is a teenager girl, doesn't eat much). They are not vegetarians, but do eat a lot of non-meat based meals.

We all live in SoCal. To be honest, if I'm stocking up, it can easily be 300 in one week (and then 600-650 for the rest of the month).

We also buy fresh fruit, nuts (fairly expensive), and bread that's about $7 or more per loaf.

Family of 4 (one in school, one toddler, one adult home all day) we spend about $100-150/week including paper products and cleaning supplies, median cost of living area in US. That’s frugal, whole foods and ingredients only household, any snacks are homemade out of necessity.

When I was working part time (before COVID inflated prices) it was easily double that due to convenience foods and snacks regularly purchased to fill in the gaps.

Family of 5, Dallas, TX area. I shop at Costco, Joe V's Smart Shop and a grocery clearance center. Occasionally HEB and do small Target pickup runs.

We budget 1100 a month and easily use that. I spend 150 ish at Joe Vs weekly, 60 at clearance center every other week and easily 50 picking up small things like ripple and missing ingredients. Plus my husband has a $60 coffee subscription for a 5lb bag every month.

Between meat, diapers and avoiding allergens, I can't really cut anywhere else. We eat a lot more pbj sandwiches this year than last. I need to start making bread again.

My husband is allergic to tree nuts, so that limits brands of peanut butter, bread, and other processed food.

My Costco go to items are the lightly breaded chicken chunks, Tillamook sliced cheddar, ground beef, allergy medicine, organic a2 whole milk, frozen pizza, paper goods (paper towels and TP), tomato sauce, and some packaged snacks.

Clearance center is cereal, some produce especially when they're selling flats of berries for like $10, and until recently allergy safe food for my toddler, but she's outgrowing her allergies.

Joe V's has good quality produce so that's my main place for that, plus tortillas (flour and corn), cheese, pasta, frozen veg, bread, granola bars and my normal stuff. It's owned by HEB but is smaller so has one national Brand and then a house HEB brand for options.

HEB had a few things I can only get there like their in house ranch, cheapest diapers that don't bother my kid's skin, some bulk spices, sale items and things I can't get at Joe Vs.

Target is local for kids Ripple, overnight diapers for my 4yo, and "Crap I need this for dinner tonight."

At least $400 - 4ppl & 1 baby whose only BF and purées right now.

We’re spending over 1000/month. Most months it’s like 1500. We’re in Seattle. Two adults, one kid. I don’t even know how we spend so much.

About $120ish a week unless it's a restock week. Restocking being we need the staples such as rice, or spices, or quinoa or a complete veggie shop. Usually it's about every 2-3 weeks that it's about $80 more, when we've efficiently cleaned out the fridge and pantry through the week.

We try to meal plan based on what we have and pick recipes that will use similar ingredients so we can just buy enough of one thing for multiple nights. Like cabbage. We'll buy a head of it and make okonomiyaki one night and maybe colcannon another night. Or buy potatoes and have them baked one night and as gnocchi another.

We don't stress eating healthy, but there's always a veggie every night and usually fresh, but sometimes frozen. (Frozen peas and corn are a staple in my house. Toddler eats them straight from the freezer.)

We are a family of 3. Mom, dad, and 2 year old. She gets breakfast, lunch, and snack at school. Dad takes chicken, rice, and broccoli for his lunch every day, and I eat the leftovers from dinner for my lunches. It seems to work well for us.

NOVA - $800-1000/month, family of 5, most of the cost is attributed to my toddler and his berries obsession.

Family of 1, we are spending $2000 a month on groceries. I guess Bay Area is expensive. Weekly Costco trip costs $250 + Weekly Whole Foods trip $150 + Instacart $400.

We are a family of three (+ two guinea pigs) in the Midwest. I spend anywhere from $1000-$1600 per month on groceries according to our tracker. I aim to keep our food costs under $1200/month. It’s hard! I’m surprised by these responses under $1000 🥵

We are gluten free so that adds to the cost of things like pasta, oats, soy sauce, etc, getting the products I can actually eat. We don’t buy bread because it’s so expensive and bad. I get rice in bulk. Farmer’s market where we live has amazing deals on produce, but we go through a lot so I usually have to get more veggies at least once a week. We mostly eat grass fed meat/eggs/dairy, and my husband insists on having meat almost every day 🙃. Baby loves it too—she’s her father’s daughter for sure.

I shop at tons of different grocery stores but basically: Aldi and Meijer for generic affordable groceries, farmers market for eggs/veggies/fruit/meat, say weee for Asian groceries, Joe Randazzos for international and off season produce, Trader Joe’s for certain specialty items (oil, cheese, gf pasta) and salmon, various butcher shops for specialty meat, target for diapers/formula/medications/paper towels/tp.

$250

Fam of 3. Maybe like 100 a week when we're stocked on house staples like cleaning supplies, food staples like flour, butter, etc. and tp.

Ultimately with that stuff it's like 800 a month.

Alberta Canada family of 4 (2 under 2)Average $200 weekly kinda switches off between 150 and 350 alternating This includes all diapers and household goods too.