How much per person?

[cjscully]

I'm normally not one to strictly budget food. I'd rather work 15 hours a day, use candles instead of electric lights and walk to work so I can eat good satisfying meals than slash a food budget to the point where I can't afford to cook the kinds of food my wife and I like to eat.

However, several of the posts on this thread got me to considering trying to find ways to cook the kinds of foods we like for less money. I just need a target to shoot for.

What is a good low cost per person to shoot for?

[kork13]

Just the estimate that I use, $100/mo per person. Whether I'm on my own (like now), or when I was living with 2 roommates, I found that estimate to be a reasonably good one for monthly food costs. Sometimes more, sometimes less, but typically in the ballpark. That does exclude the additional cost of eating out though... So if you eat out regularly, there will be higher costs.

[SnoopyCool]

Around here? $1 per day

[cjscully]

OK.

$100/month. Three meals/day for thirty days?

$1/day?? Three meals a day?? I want to know what you're eating or where you get your food!

I guess I should have worded my question a little better. I was looking at more like cost per person per meal. Dinner for $3 per person, Breakfast for 50 cents per person, that kind of thing. Maybe no one manages it that way...

[briandownie]

I know that prices vary depending on where you live but if my wife and I can put on dinner for 2 adults, three if you count the way I eat, for about $5 I think we're doing pretty good and we eat pretty well too.

Healthy meals, meat main course, veggy, potato/rice/pasta. No desert on that budget but we never eat it anyway.

My waistline can't take it.

Brian

[xdarata]

For me, food should be useful to get energy so that it can perform tasks better life. Second, the food should make our bodies healthy. How much budget should be allocated for meal, it depends on the combination of our income with the need for energy and health. In essence, the budget must maintain a balance of both factors. It is also not excessive.