Probably around $800USD/mo for two of us in Canada, not including eating out and takeout.
So that would be 4 L of milk and 5 lbs of chicken at Loblaws...
Seriously, every time I go to Canada, I find the grocery prices fairly shocking for milk and meat.
I live in a LCOL area, so milk is $2.50/gallon USD , and chicken is $1.99/LB USD for boneless skinless breast, and 69 cents/lb USD for chicken legs.
I am curious what people on this site spend on groceries (food/beverages) each month. Our household of 2 spends approximately $540/month excluding household stuff like laundry detergent, paper products etc. I don't have a set budget, but I get the staples and the occasional splurgy item.
Also, when this topic comes up among friends and family, I find that the male partner is the one who typically does the shopping. I love to shop; my wife not so much!
How about you?
I'm amazed at the lower figures here, wondering how!
We eat almost exclusively at home, averaging just under $1000/mo for 2. That includes alcohol, mostly organic veggies, and pasture raised meats. Health is #1 so we go for quality whenever possible.
When we do eat out it's while traveling, so that goes under our travel budget.
The doggo gets a little kibble in the morning (just in case there is anything in there she needs) with her chicken broth, pasture raised eggs and supplements but her main meal is organic pasture raised meat, chicken (sometimes wild caught fish) with organic vegetables. She eats more grass-fed beef, pastured raised eggs and organic chicken that I do.
Chuck, if you have Winco nearby nobody can beat their prices and the quality is good. I have found Walmart to have crappy quality where I live. Our grocery prices have skyrocketed in the past two years like everything else in the West.
Wow. I am curious, do you people eat every day? haha.
We budget $1500/month for the two of us for groceries (this includes wine and paper products - anything we can buy at the grocery store), and we are right at this number for this year. Last year we were just under (about $1,450/month).
As far as food we cook at home, we definitely buy quality food, but it's not caviar and lobster. I could cut this in half but that would be a LOT of beans and rice, which ain't happening. An eye-opening thread.
It is not a competition, just curiosity I am sure on behalf of the OP. I certainly find the contrast interesting. We fall right in the middle, and I think we eat very well. Good (If not the best) cuts of meat, pork and chicken, fresh vegetables and fruits etc. We could cut back or spend more if we wished but choose not to. Prices also vary in different parts of the country. Another good metric would be what percentage of one's monthly income goes to food and other items one gets from grocery stories, paper, personal and cleaning products etc. In our case it is about 4% - 5% depending on the month.
One comment is that if we ate like Aaronc879 claims, assuming he/she is using packaged or canned soups and packaged meatballs and sauces, as to make one's own meatballs would defiantly cost a lot more, I would be dead by now as the amount of salt in those items are 8-10x my daily allowance as a result of my heart issues. I cannot remember the last time we had any soup that was not made from scratch by my DW.
I don't know if salt is a bad thing or not. Based on a few people I know, they salt potato chips and have no health problems and they are over 70. My DW almost died when her sodium level dropped dangerously low and her doc made her use more salt. Personally, I don't put salt on anything except on the outside of a beef brisket i am about to put on the smoker.
I don't know if salt is a bad thing or not. Based on a few people I know, they salt potato chips and have no health problems and they are over 70. My DW almost died when her sodium level dropped dangerously low and her doc made her use more salt. Personally, I don't put salt on anything except on the outside of a beef brisket i am about to put on the smoker.
You should go to LCBO and see their shocking prices of booze!
Beef is very expensive here IMO. Pork combo chops can get as low as $1.47/lbs (USD) and their pork tastes so much better (to me) than in the US.
You don’t want to know. We don’t eat out at all unless traveling and prepare all our meals from scratch at home. We eat like kings at home - high quality great food is something we happily splurge on. In other words we don’t try to save money on groceries.