MS, that’s a lot to spend on groceries. We only spend 4800-year.
Yeah, I wish we could get ours down. Our daughter still lives at home so that factors in some, but she's hardly ever here so it's not a big part. The $9100 includes wine and beer, which we should cut back on. For the most part we only have a couple drinks on weekends, but we have a couple boxes full of wine corks. When I look at those boxes and assume $10-15 spent per cork (we have cheap tastes) that's a lot of money! I've been tryng box wines lately, so no corks for evidence.
We do splurge a lot on things like colossal scallops, fresh tuna, lobster, and occasional rib eye steak. But I'm betting a good portion of our grocery bill is on junk food (chips, cheese, snacks, etc.) and frozen dinners. I also spend a lot on cold cereals, coke, and bottled tea.
We usually spend between 5-10k on travel.
I just have a "recreation" category that includes any travel costs like hotels, air flights, trains, or whatever. But it also includes going to movies, getting massages, hiking passes, mass transit tickets, zoo tickets, etc.
Most of our traveling is local, driving within a few days from home. Our last big trip was to Fairbanks, Alaska in 2016. We went to Puerto Vallarta in 2011, a road trip to the US southwest in 2010, road trip to the Canadian Rockies in 2009, and Kauai in 2008. Generally one big trip every 1-3 years going back from there.
We've been focusing on saving money for retirement the last few years, and have been dealing with health issues with our mother's, so we've been staying closer to home.