How much should it cost to feed your family?

**Tree0164** · 08-17-2004, 11:33 PM

Re: How much should it cost to feed your family?

I am below it... we spend about $300-$350. Family of 5- 3 boys under 6.

**sdc2027** · 08-18-2004, 08:38 AM

Re: How much should it cost to feed your family?

Family of two adults- Thrifty program(290$)- we beat that easily by $100

**nate** · 08-18-2004, 09:53 AM

Re: How much should it cost to feed your family?

Originally posted by Tree0164

I am below it... we spend about $300-$350. Family of 5- 3 boys under 6.

That's amazing!

Congrats.

**terry1156** · 08-19-2004, 05:21 AM

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Great link! Thanks for sharing.

**pschale** · 01-17-2005, 08:27 AM

Re: How much should it cost to feed your family?

We are below that . I usually spend about $300-350 for food, cleaning, toilteries and paper products for a family of 4.

**Lori63** · 01-18-2005, 02:07 AM

Re: How much should it cost to feed your family?

I spend less than the thrifty plan, with three growing boys (16,13 and 9). My cost includes non food items also.

**mom-from-missouri** · 02-08-2005, 11:19 AM

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I spend around $40 a week for groceries 3 children 8, 6 and 6 yrs and myself. I do most of my shopping at our local aldi store. about 2 times a year, I got to a nearby town to the amish store, and get my flour and sugar in 50 lb bags. it is so much cheaper, and i put into airtight containers in the freezer, and it keeps fresh and bug free. i usually get my meat when it is marked down(go early in the day). i also have a garden. i visit the day old bread store. This $40 a week also includes my childrens school lunches, which i pack. but, we do order pizza one night a week-at a whopping $20. Latley the girls have wanted to make their own pizza, so I am trying to enforce that idea buy giving them the money we saved for their bank account.

**Tree0164** · 02-09-2005, 03:23 AM

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I posted my $300-$350 almost 6 months ago. Food has gone up since then and my 6 yrs old is eating alot more. The last two months my food bill has been averaging $375 this includes some other stuff you buy at the grocery store as well.

**pschale** · 02-09-2005, 07:27 AM

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Food has gone up but I have still managed to keep the food bill down to $300-$350 including things like toiletries, paper products, laundry, etc. I do this by making my own cleaning products and using cloth napkins, rags to clean with. I use paper towels to drain food only and most of the time I can use a colander instead.

**gypzye** · 02-21-2005, 09:13 PM

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Fascinating.

For my family of 2 (me and FH) the thrifty plan is $290. I'd say, generously, we spend $50 a week at the store. Probably every third week we have a bill more like $75 and every once in a grand, grand while we hit $100--that's usually when I've run out of all the staples like canned veggies and pasta or we're buying specialty spices for a new dish--but that's really rare. So without poring over our bank statements, I'd say we're keeping it at about $250 for the two of us.

Which is funny, because I was easily spending $300/month on just ME before he came along.

**aukxsona** · 05-08-2008, 02:15 AM

Broken Link

**LuxLiving** · 05-08-2008, 01:41 PM

United States Department of Agriculture - Home

search 'thrifty plan' and look for the 2007 one.

**Tree0164** · 07-21-2009, 01:58 AM

My food bill has gone up to about $500-$600 a month compared to 4 years when I posted. Now I have 3 boys under 10 and they are starting to eat more and more.

**MonkeyMama** · 07-21-2009, 05:36 AM

http://www.cnpp.usda.gov/Publications/FoodPlans/2009/CostofFoodMay09.pdf

Last time I looked these numbers were insane (like 50% more than we spend - even on thrifty plan).

We still come in about 20% under the thrifty plan. Which I still find interesting because I wouldn't describe our grocery shopping as way thrifty, by any means. We try to cut costs, but we also splurge plenty on our food.

How much should it cost to feed your family?