What's your shopping bill?

[Tyler]

How often do you go shopping and what's your average shopping bill?

For myself, I usually go shopping about twice a month, and spend around $100 each time.

(If you live with others/family you should mention how many)

[NOCHEF&JUSTLOVESFOOD.YUM]

I live with my brother and his girlfriend. We take turns cooking, so I go shopping probably 3 times a month $100 or so each time. ( Does NOT include the wine bill) :)

[PigsnieLite]

Pigsnit goes shopping once a week. Sometimes I go wid him but usually he prefers to go after work, becuz if Im shopping wid him, I put all sorts of *crap* (he calls it *crap* anyway) in the cart. Like while he is picking his baguettes, I load the cart up wid frozen pizza, tater toots, ice cream, rotiseerie chickun, potater crisps, cheez doodles, wintur socks (you can never haf too many wintur socks!), Italian sausage & huge flitches of bacon. Usually he is too embarrassed to return the stuff to the proper aisles (I leave the cart next to him & disappear) so he just buys everything & cusses at me in his head, hahaha! Sometimes the bill goes to 200 quids But he does buy a lot of eggs! :)

[Semigourmet]

WAY TOO MUCH! It is just my husband and myself. We probably spend about 360 a month roughly.

[PigsnieLite]

Its not always £200 a week, it just gets there sometimes, when I go insane, hahaha! Usually its just £100 or so a week. And there are only 2 of us in the house.

[Liketobake]

When I was in London everything seemed very expensive. I had a 10 dollar (Canadian equivallent milkshake there). Canada seems to be much less expensive then England.

[Davey]

I live with my girlfriend, and our bill is about $100 per week. She tends to buy the higher quality or organic food. That really runs the bill up quickly. Me, I like to spend my money on good wine and steak.

[supercooker28]

I am from Canada and my bill is $100 dollars a week for myself. Mainly i buy organic veggies, fruit, buffalo meat, free range chicken.

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[piffy]

OMG my husband and I spend anywhere from $600-800 a month! I cook a lot from scratch and buy a lot of fresh veggies. Where am I going wrong? We buy wine on ocassion but not that often!

[Big Daddy's House]

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[LuvsToCook]

For me, We usually spend for about 80 - 100 dollars for two weeks. We are only 2 but, I'm wondering why a lot of you spend 100 for a week. We usually buy veges, and fish and a little of meat.

[saltworks]

well im about to leave on a 1 month trip to africa and my girlfriend and i are not buying groceries for a month before we leave to try and eat all the food in the house. we get fresh vegetables from the local farm every other week. it's amazing what you can scrounge up

[abi_csi]

I used to spend up to £100 per week (yes liketobake England is expensive). Now I spend £15 per week on an organic fruit and veg box and then probably about another £30 on breads, rice pasta, dairy products and a little meat.

[Kaneer]

With three of us in the house and quite a lot of things to get the shopping bill does go up to $200 a month. I still think we are under control.

[saltworks]

my girlfriend and i spend $200 a month and we shop at an inexpensive natural food store (Trader Joe's) and have CSA (community supported agriculture) vegetable box.

[Darkginger]

There's just my husband and me, and we spend around €200 every two or three weeks on a 'big shop', topped up with the usual milk, eggs, fresh bread etc. in between. In the summer we grow some of our own vegetables (with varying degrees of success), and my husband goes shore fishing, so that cuts down on expense - plus I enjoy going foraging for wild food (mussels, razor clams, fungi, samphire, wild garlic, that sort of thing) when it's in season - somehow free food tastes just that bit better!

[Max Sutton]

I grocery shop every Friday morning and usually spend about $70.00 each week. I'm shopping just for me.

[40 years experience]

My family of five doesn't spend that much. We don't buy a lot of processed food and rarely
buy expensive meats. We shop sales. I only buy chicken and ground chuck on sale. It freezes great. However I would never freeze a good steak. That does reduce the quality.
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[raffaello tamagnini]

Normally i go one time each month for the stock....and Every week i use to go to the market to buy the vegetables and fruit in order to eat these always fresh

[victorladra]

I am here in the Philippines, my shopping bills are always around 5000 pesos monthly or $100. including the milk of my son, and my beers as well. LOL

[simonaskitchen]

Hi! I live with my daughter and I go shopping twice a week, ate supermarket and I generally spend Euro 50,00! But it depends on what I buy: if I buy beef or fish I spend much more! greetings from Italy, Simona

[Cuisinette]

I live with my boyfriend and his son, shopping twice a month @ no more than $85 a trip. The child is eating the most.
I am very frugal and can cook a dish out of nothing. Close to none gets in the waste basket.

[airsidelimo]

i dont like shoping much

[Darkginger]

i dont like shoping much

But do you like eating? Shopping is usually necessary before cooking, unless you go fishing or hunting, I suppose...

[wulaishishei]

I lived with myself and my bill is 50$ a week for shopping.I buy vegetible and food every day to keep them fresh.I spent most of money on enthusiasm.

[wulaishishei]

But do you like eating? Shopping is usually necessary before cooking, unless you go fishing or hunting, I suppose...
Go to resturant also can get food,although it will cost more money.

[Ishantgupta]

I can't share my shopping bill its too much because my shopping bill exceed $400 in a month it includes my all expenses but not my electricity bill or house rent.

[QTTg]

twice a month
about $100 once

[ryancooks]

My wife and I are in California and spend $600 a month consistently. We shop once a week. Not sure where it all goes, but we do a good bit of cooking!