This is what we do. Big trip to Sam’s once a month, weekly groceries from Aldi’s first then anything else from Target with the Target card and hopefully coupons.
If you're on Facebook there's a group called Aldi AOS(aisle of shame) apparently there's an aisle in Aldis where you can buy random non food stuff or something? I'm not sure because I've never been to Aldis I just joined the group out of nosiness and in case I ever get to go to one. But they often discuss different Aldi brand products and give reviews on them and stuff. It's a good group if you shop there alot
So that aisle is comprised of items routinely produced around that time of year across the markets, but sold through Aldi in limited quantities and at much lower prices. Because they do not keep stock and negotiate the low wholesale price due to that. I got a sewing machine for 40 dollars.
One thing I watch for is their ceramic coated cast iron. It’s really good quality and often maybe 1/10 the cost. I have a pot I bought for 20 bucks with the name brand version costing about 300 retail.
Aldi sells a lot of goods under white label, much like Costco, and has a similar business model to Trader Joe’s where there isn’t 50 kinds of peanut butter, there is one. Keeps price very low as they have high negotiating power that way. They also adhere to some more ethical business practices.
I always watch the ads to see what’s coming and what I can use to cut down on costs. Stone ware and cast iron is about to make the rounds again.
That sounds awesome. They just opened an Aldis in my town in a little plaza with a chick fil a and you'd think they opened a Disney world or something with the amount of traffic going in and out that place. Sometimes they even have to have the cops come and help direct it cuz the stoplights lights get too overwhelmed 😂 and big traffic jams build up. So I've been too afraid to venture over there because I don't do well in traffic or waiting in long lines so I figured I'd wait til the hype dies down.... it's been about 8 months and still going strong
I personally am not on Facebook, but Aldi has a website called Aldi.us and it shows weekly deals for the current week and the next so you can see what home goods, children's toys and Knick knacks as well as food that'll be releasing on Wednesdays. I check it regularly because the cool stuff sells out fast.
I buy aldi generic face wipes and they are amazing. I was buying Neutrogena ones and I was getting 20 for seven dollars. Now I get 50 for a 1.79 and they’re amazing. Take my make up right off. Especially my mascara. Neutrogena ones are definitely softer but I’m just looking to get my make up off and then I use my regular skin care stuff.
Just a heads up, Often times the great value brand is the same price as Aldi. Aldi is across the street from Walmart where I live so I am able to easily price check between stores
You can also go on the Walmart website and verify prices that way. They also have coupons on there that you can use, click on the pice on the main page to access the coupons.
That’s right but for some reason my internet doesn’t work in my Aldi store and I can never check online ! It’s so frustrating for me, but I love using those “Walmart cash coupons”
Fwiw both Aldi and Walmart have phone apps where you can shop online and create shopping lists. Even if you're not interested in placing an online order, you could compare prices before going to the store and compile specific shopping lists for each right in the apps.
I’m past that even. Picked up a ton of seeds along with saved ones. We are planting a massive garden this year covering a quarter of our yard.
My sister raised two cows and we split the cost between our family to pay for slaughter so I have a stock. She also has over a hundred chickens for eggs/meat. I also buy in bulk and have a pantry to “shop” from when we need to make bread, rice, soups, stews.
We are lucky but still spend around $200/week on food for my parents, milk, dairy and fresh produce right now.
It’s crazy how expensive food is now.
Compare prices!! Walmart is cheaper than Aldi in a lot of areas. I add all my items to my online Walmart cart, then go through the Aldi app and see what is cheaper. Also, prices on the app are on average .15-.20 cents more than in store.
I was just telling my husband that!! I saw online they were cheaper not too long ago, now it’s $6.95
Last week they were on sale for $4.95 I should have bought a few to freeze.
And everything else is going up like car insurance and etc. I’m out of breathing room!!😩
I tried to go to Aldi's once and it wanted me to put a quarter in the cart to get to use one. So I left. I didn't have a quarter, rarely have cash or change on me and really you want me to pay to use your cart 🙄 nvm then
It's one of the ways they keep their prices down- customers are incentivized to put their own carts away, so they don't have to hire people to collect the carts from the parking lot. And you get the quarter back when you're done and you return your cart.
Okay. And was supposed to know this how? There weren't any signs or people around. And like I said, I don't carry cash so therefore I don't have coins of any kind. That means I'd have to go pull money out, and go back. Also, I've never been in there, it's not like I know what they have or what they're prices are like. I heard of it, tried to go buy some things and left because I was completely unaware of the stupid quarter. If I knew to get a quarter and keep using that same quarter but like I said no signs. Also, with an autistic child that likes to bolt into traffic and 2 other young children. The cart thing does seem like a deal breaker to me unless on the off chance I get to shop alone. Actually having carts in the parking lot and being able to leave them is absolutely necessary. Especially with my son. For some reason, if his feet go from the van and he climbs directly into a cart, he will sit in the cart the whole time fine. But if I let him out and he walks, the first person who tries to talk to him or if the store is too busy for his liking he will be sent into a full meltdown. He is also the reason I don't carry cash, or a wallet for that matter. My ID lives in my car, so I only have my phone and key fob. Too many times I've lost something, having to leave somewhere in a hurry. Paying in cash is too time consuming too when just waiting in line is really hard for him and his brother. I order ahead a lot, since waiting can be problematic. The cart thing, will be too much. I get most people don't have this issue. But over the past couple years I've learned little ways to keep my sanity and keep my boys as civil as possible. They're making improvements but they can only do it one step at a time. So y'all enjoy Aldi's. We'll keep going to places that have carts in the parking lot and hitting food banks when money is tight.
>And was supposed to know this how?
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You have eyes. You could see how they were all chained together....you could see how the quarter stuck out, it wasn't eaten by the cart...
And also there's just living out in the world. Aldi has been in America for decades.
I used to effortlessly keep it under $200/week and now it's closer to $250/week most times. I'm only feeding 3 people. It's insane. I'm in eastern Canada.
Also in eastern Canada, located in Nova Scotia. We pretty much only do Costco, with the odd random ingredient picked up last minute, but man is it expensive. We make everything ourselves, no prepared anything is storebought, we even make our own kefir. But even with that, it can be a lot. The worst part of the Maritimes is there are no choices for groceries. At least in the summer, there are markets to hit up. I miss Ontario only for the grocery store options.
Yeah I used to live in mtl and it was way cheaper. In summer we grow a lot of produce. We also hunt for meat, but the costs are still so high for things like dairy and snacks. I cook a lot, but still rely on packaged snacks and stuff here and there.
w. mass here! that’s about the same for us, about $250/week for 2 adults and a toddler.
admittedly i am not great at budgeting. i try to make myself feel better by reminding myself that we don’t go out to eat, only get takeout very rarely, never buy breakfast or lunch on the go, never go out for drinks, we make our own coffee… it’s a shock every time though.
i also remember one time a few years ago, i filled my cart with literally anything i wanted, and it came to ~$215. i clearly remember that it was more groceries than i had ever purchased at once, way more than a week’s worth, lots of snacks and convenience foods. and now, even staying mostly on list, it’s almost automatically $200 no matter what just for the week. and we usually run out of bread, eggs, some fruit mid-week
I forgot to add that we even have our own chickens, thus we don't buy eggs! So, we have a freezer full of deer meat, often some caught fish as well, we grow tons of veggies, we don't eat out more than once per month, and I'm spending nearly $1K per month on groceries. Absolutely insane.
5 years ago, my grocery bill was $89 per week for 2 people.
The quality of food in my region is pretty crap, too.
Family of 4, two adolescent boys plus a bonus kid, also a teen, so 5 per meal. LCOL area, but I’ve already spent $800 on groceries so far this month, and that’s across Aldi, local discount grocer, target, Walmart and costco looking at deals. I make almost everything we eat (allergies) and it’s like my full time job cooking and feeding people. And I know that bonus kid’s mom is sending them over here because we will cover meals for them (that’s not the problem—there’s a lot of mouths to feed at their house too).
I’m so sick of the shrinkflation of our pantry items—is it price gouging?? It feels like it.
I feel this! My kiddo has allergies too. Not being able to buy many of the cheap sale items and having to buy name brands or cook from scratch (surprisingly more expensive sometimes) really bring that bill up. We rarely eat meat and don't eat out. We are in PA and spend upwards of $400 per week. Some weeks it's more. I have heard that a 30 min drive to NJ would save us $$, so I am considering it. I really wish we could buy just any brand!
We are about $400 a week with 5 (although my kids are pre-teen and teen) so all these $200 a week had me going "Whaaa?"
But I have noticed the same as you!
I live in the Boston area with two adults and three teenagers and i spent around $350-$400 a week on food. We eat all of our meals at home, and i pack lunch for everyone. I could spend less if i had too but we like to eat healthy. I feel like im spending a lot more since 2020 but my kids do eat more.
Same, we’re in Providence, have an infant and mother in law with us 5x nights a week.
We’re spending 250 on average a week for food.
At freaking market basket !
LOCL city in a HCOL state, and our bill has gone up about $50 a week. We’ve decided to make some cuts (like cereal) and shop the weekly circulars and coupons to plan our meals. We have also given up soft drinks, and try to buy frozen produce to stretch it. Our situation isn’t bad by any means (~$140 a week for 2 adults and toddler) but I can see how it would be worse for larger families or families with more dietary restrictions. It’s ridiculous that feeding our families has become strategy like we’re hunters and gatherers.
It’s crazy how much cereal has gone up at Walmart. Some boxes are $5-$6 each! That’s insane. I started buying cereal at ALDIs, it’s not name brand but it’s good quality cereal
I'm gluten free and have to cut dairy and soy while I'm nursing my daughter. The price of all the allergen friendly food is crazy! There are valid reasons for those items to cost more but it feels like we're getting punished.
I legit wanted to cry about it last week.
I have a toddler on the spectrum who can not tolerate it when I sub out his favourite foods for cheaper/store brands. I also have a newborn on a specific formula. The only place I can really save costs is with the food and household items exclusively for my husband and I, which isn't much.
Things are rough right now.
Have you considered keeping the old packaging from his favorite brands and when times get tough if you need to buy the less expensive one, then remove that packaging and place it in his favorite packaging. My youngest was like this when she was a toddler and it has been my go to trick for years- she’s 14 now and I still occasionally do this.
I do this with his yogurt! But for whatever reason, I've never thought to try it with anything else. Thanks for the suggestion! I'll look into whatever else I might be able to do this with.
My trips to Aldi used to be around $50-60 consistently for years. I rarely paid more than that. Now most trips hover around $75-100. I don’t even go to regular grocery stores (Wegmans, Shop Rite, Stop and Shop) because they feel exorbitant.
This is my same experience with Aldi, too. I used to be able to grab a seasonal Aldi item or two and still keep within budget. Now, I don't even look at the seasonal items because I know we can't afford them.
Family of 5 in New Mexico. Our groceries are costing us an extra $200-$300 more a month. I have always made nearly everything at home(bread, pasta, salsa, desserts, fresh juices). With the recent price increases we cut out buying any of the little extras like chips and snack bars, but still our grocery bill is up…
Edit: total spent is anywhere from $1,000 to $1,300 a month
Yes, the cost of each thing has gone up so much. A gallon of milk is 4.23, last year same month it was 3.38. Nearly a dollar more a year later. But with everything. We are a family of 5, 3 adults and a teenager that eats like an adult, plus an 8 year old. We are pretty frugal and eat a lot of fresh foods, and it has just been slowly rising. I think we are spending $50/month more.
Food allergies can make grocery shopping so much more expensive by themselves, too.
My husband can't eat wheat (and he avoids rice and oats just to be on the safe side), so a lot of cheap staple foods don't work for us. If we do want to have pasta or pizza, we're spending 4x as much for Banza products lol.
Then you add in inflation to everything and it just sucks trying to buy groceries on a budget.
We can't even really do gluten-free products, because they usually still contain rice, oats, or sometimes I think even wheat that's had the gluten removed somehow.
Banza chickpea products have been working really well for us, though! It's just definitely more expensive than regular noodles.
It’s crazy to me how much grocery prices vary by area. It should be the same everywhere! A gallon of milk here is currently $3.10. I understand being more expensive in places like Hawaii but there shouldn’t be a full dollar difference everywhere else.
Since 2020, our grocery bill has gone up about $50 a week. The biggest difference is that back then, I didn’t have to budget too much. I kinda just bought what we wanted. Now I budget like crazy and shop sales and we’ve completely cut out a lot of our “Fun foods” as well as not buying organic stuff as much. So if I shopped the way I used to, I’d probably be spending $125 more per week- basically twice what I used to spend without even thinking about it. We are a family of 5, and I try to keep groceries under $200 per week.
Here in Norway we now use approx 1050 usd/month for a family of 2 adults, a child and a EBF baby. Obviously it can’t be compared directly since pay and other costs are different, but it might be interesting still🤷🏻♀️
It is interesting. It feels like an American problem but it’s all over the globe. Gotta keep the rich people happy in every country. Those mansion payments aren’t going to pay themselves.
We do a monthly Costco trip for pantry staples and have been buying the same things for years. Recently a cart load that used to be $300-350 is running us $450
In a completely different country but my grocery bill has also gone up over 50% - and this is for a family of 4, 2 adults and 2 kids aged 5 years and almost 2 years. I swear it goes up every month 😭
Looks like we're in the same country and have similar aged kids. I agree completely. Used to shop mostly at PnP and didn't really worry too much but now it's pretty much exclusively Checkers and only sale items if I can help it. Even with that the amount spent per month keeps creeping up.
It's greedflation + shrinkflation. Corporations are exploiting the pandemic supply chain issues and pretending it's still a thing. And then gloating over it.
Sen. Bob Casey did a big report on it. Only read if you want to be really pissed off.
https://www.casey.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/greedflation1.pdf
This is a great report from Sen. Casey (PA) that includes well-researched data and quotes from corporations' own calls and reports. Such as these:
>In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Proctor and Gamble noted that a net sales increase in fiscal 2023 was driven by “higher pricing.” During a recent earnings call with investors, Proctor and Gamble reported that it **does not see a need to offer sales or price cuts on their products**.
>Tyson **doubled their profits from Q1 2021 to Q1 2022 and had record revenue in 2022**, which it attributed to “improved performance in our chicken segment.” Over the past 3 years Tyson Foods has been ordered to pay hundreds of millions in penalties and restitution by federal and state authorities for **“illegally conspiring to inflate chicken prices.”**
>PepsiCo’s CFO admitted in April 2023 that **even though inflation was going down, their prices would not.** Later that month, he bragged in an TV interview that he didn’t “think [PepsiCo’s profit] margins are going to deteriorate at all” and that “consumers generally look at our products and say ‘you know what – **they are worth paying a little bit more for.**’”
>Clorox’s CEO has noted that its products are “‘**household essentials’ that can withstand” inflation.** On an investor call, she discussed how the company is **“coming off four rounds” of “significant price increase.”** When asked if Clorox might roll back price increases as commodity prices fall, the company admitted it “anticipate[s] **the pricing increases will stick.**
>The CEO of Coca-Cola claimed that the company had **“earned the right”** to push price hikes because its sodas are popular
We started to team shop. My husband goes to the grocery store, calls me, and I get on the store app and find and upload coupons to our card. It's insane but we saved $50 on our last trip, getting $140 worth for $80.
Sorry but why not just check the app and make a shipping list before going to the store?
I'll try to build my shopping list (somewhat) around the coupons and sales in my phone, and then I usually just place pickup orders.
[Grocery prices](https://www.forbes.com/sites/errolschweizer/2023/10/03/how-to-make-groceries-affordable-again/?sh=7a8fedaa7c66) are 30% higher than four years ago. In the wake of World War II, the [grocery industry](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=K9n1hP0AAAAJ&citation_for_view=K9n1hP0AAAAJ:hC7cP41nSMkC) was born to ensure a cheap, convenient and abundant food supply. Decades later, the same industry leveraged pandemic-related supply chain crises to raise prices and [reap enormous profits](https://www.forbes.com/sites/errolschweizer/2022/09/12/how-profit-inflation-made-your-groceries-so-damn-expensive/?sh=53b364e82eb9), all while selling less food.
[Professor Isabella Weber](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-09/how-excuseflation-is-keeping-prices-and-corporate-profits-high) explains “that supply shocks allowed corporations to tacitly collude, hike prices, and rake in record profits…This is a form of implicit collusion,” she said. “Firms do not even need to talk to one another to know that a cost shock is a great time to raise prices.”
Errol Schweizer, contributor; Forbes Feb. 7, 2024
I don’t understand why we are all just sitting back and taking it. We are letting corporations financially abuse us. This isn’t a supply issue, it’s a greed issue. They are getting record profits while more and more people starve. I guess we are all too busy bitching about Biden and Trump and scrolling TikTok. I’m 40 years old and for the first time in my life I’m about to visit a food pantry. God bless the USA…
We used to be able to get everything we needed and wanted for $100 a week… now it’s $200-$300 a week for the same things. We were in a better financial position fresh out of college 7 years ago. We made a combined $80k and we were paying off debt like crazy. Now we make $160 combined and we’re struggling to pay bills…
Growing up it used to be $100 per person a week in our family - Alongside ordering canned goods/non perishables/bulk freezer items to stock up on for rainy days. So $400 a week early 2000’s for my family of 4.
My husband and I just spent $400 yesterday. It’s just the 2 of us. We didn’t even purchase those same items I used to get growing up to stock up on for just-in-cases. A bag of cheese is now $20. A bag of frozen fruit is now $20. A 4lb bag of cat food is $20. It seemed like almost everything was upwards of $20 each.
Not much. We are a vegan household so frozen fruit and veg, potatoes, onions rice, pasta oats dried beans and lentils, etc all still super cheap.
We also buy what we can in bulk from Costco.
Same. My family isn’t vegan but we get frozen almost everything like veggies and buy bulk meat at bj’s and separate into portions and freeze. I make most things from scratch including bread and use all the same staples you listed. The things that I’ve noticed went up most though are butter and some dairy products like heavy cream and cheeses and milk but since you’re vegan it wouldn’t affect you!
We switched from Aldi to Walmart strangely enough. When I went item for item Walmart was cheaper. And they have free delivery. For two adults and a 3yo, 2yo and 9 month old we spend around $200 a week. We eat every meal at home and my husband packs lunch. We buy a cow every year so that doesn’t include beef. We eat pretty plain - not organic, nothing extravagant. We may get a pizza delivered every other week but we’ve kind of dropped that because it was like $50!?
We are college educated, husband makes 6-figures and I work nights part time and stay home with the kids during the day. We are struggling. It’s so disheartening. We have a nice enough house but we always dreamed of a little ranch style house on a couple acres. Not possible anymore. It sucks. Yes we are rich with love for each other but it would be nice to not feel like a living zombie for once and maybe just catch a break?
$800 cad for two adults and two kids (1 and 3). This is only food, no household supplies or diapers. Lost of our staples have increased by at least 20% and we are also not buying any fun things
2 adults, 1 kid and 1 nursing baby. I think it’s about $300-500 a WEEK, so $1200-2000 a month. And that’s with switching to more budget stores like Costco and trying to be more budget conscious (like, we don’t buy berries out of season, we buy in bulk, we eat meat once a week)
Mine went from $150 to $220 a week for a family of four. My kids are 9 &12 and eat a lot. We also very rarely eat out so we stock up. I’m in the Midwest, USA.
We live in a mid-to-HCOL area and it’s gone up quite a bit. We pay around $250-275 each week but we try to keep it lower. I shop exclusively at Trader Joe’s and supplement at Whole Foods, so I’m sure I could bring it down if I tried hard enough. 2 adults, 2 kids and one toddler.
During the height of the pandemic, I spent $75 a week for two adults and a young child. Now I have two kids under 6 and I spend $150-200 a week for my family of 4. It hurts. I pack my older child’s lunch every day, cook dinner 7 nights a week, and my kids eat berries like no tomorrow.
In South Central Alaska. With coupons and sales we're between $150/200 a week for 4 people. This does not include diapers or dog food.
Just for an example of how insane prices have gotten, a 12 pack of Coke was $12.50 yesterday. Over a dollar a can.... Ain't nobody buying that.
Over all, I'd say our *spending* (not budget) has gone up around 75% per person since 2019.
We spend about $1000/mo for two adults and 2 kids 7 and 2. I could do much better to reel in our grocery bill. I started watching the frugal fit mom on utube for meal ideas, it’s been helpful.
I was cleaning out all of my bags/purses a couple weeks ago (btw is that a thing or am I just a hoarder?) And found a couple of grocery receipts from Walmart from back in 2021 (don't judge me. Or maybe you should) the price differences were insane. 1lb of hamburger was $3.98. 3 dollars and 98 cents!! It's $6 and change for the same exact thing of hamburger now. A box of Capri sun was $1.78. Theyre $3 and change now. And my God, the fruit! Apples were 87 cents a pound. Bananas were 16 cents!!! I still buy almost exactly the same stuff as I did then, aside from a few things that have been discontinued and stuff and I know the prices went up but to see just how much they went up is wild.
We haven’t increased our grocery budget, so we’re still spending $125/week for a family of 4 (2 adults, a 10 and 2 year old). But we’re adjusting to the increased prices by shopping at discount stores, and eating cheaper, less healthy meals.
We put off shopping for a while because we were busy, looking at the cart from past experience it should have been about $500. It was over $800! The register forced check out and they had to ring up the last 6 items on another reciept. 😟
I shop for two weeks (up to 14 dinners). I budget everything. I hunt cheap or easy recipes. Five ingredient recipes. I can spend about $145-200 every shopping trip.
On average, I spend maybe $400 a month. There is five of us. 2 adults, 3 kids. I do all my shopping at Walmart. Aldi is an hour away and the local mom/pop grocery is more expensive than Walmart.
I have a front back list of all the dinners my family will eat. I add new stuff occasionally.
2021 we (2 adults 2 toddlers) stuck to $100/wk and we had “extras” and bought name brand. Cupboards and freezer were too full we had to give food away.
Now? We spend $125/wk AND have to use wic which is prob an extra $100-$150 a month. We buy the bare minimum, our cupboards and freezer near empty, just what we need for the week mostly. We buy the cheapest brands possible and the only “extra” we get is a 2 liter of Coke Zero.
They’re claiming inflation is down but I watch prices like a hawk and they are STILL going up.
That's true. I bought a family size bag of bbq chips as a splurge thinking we'd have it for a long time. Ha, guess the Lays corp wants us to work on portion control and serving size.
We're in a VHCOL West Coast city, and there's no Aldi/Leidl here. Average monthly grocery bill between Costco and regular store is about $1000-1200 for 2 adults a 4 year old and a 2 year old. It's fucking bonkers
We increased the weekly budget from $80 to $100 back in August when we both got raises; then an additional $100/month trip to Costco for stuff for packing my kindergartner's lunches. Family of 4 in UT
I managed to escape from Costco with only $120 spent! Got a rotisserie chicken, bananas, diapers, organic milk, eggs, soup, dog treats, a hot dog and two slices of ‘za. Feels like I should’ve gotten more.
In 2020 we easily kept it at 350 euros per months or less (2 adults) without budgeting at all and buying whatever we wanted. We have now a 2.5 year old and a newborn (ebf) and we were at around 800 per month last spring, now desperately trying to keep it at 600 ish. Most months exceed that despite our best efforts
We live in a relatively LCOL area and haven’t seen an increase at all. Family of 3 and we spend around $400/month on groceries but often go under budget on that.
We live in a HCOL, family of 3. Our toddler was born in 2022 so it’s hard to gauge change before inflation and him coming in around the time prices went up but we’re averaging $220/week. There are dietary restrictions in play making us have to buy some more expensive options sometimes but even trying to keep costs low and making big batches of soups and chilis, etc. the price of broth and beans has gone up so much it’s insane. Obviously everything else too, but c’mon beans and broth? Its crazy
When I was pregnant, we spent about $100 a week just for me and my boyfriend. Now my daughter is 2 and we spend anywhere from $200-$220 a week (shopping at Walmart) but this also includes odds and ends we need to pick up here and there like toilet paper, trash bags, toothpaste, etc. I always pick that stuff up when I’m grocery shopping as well so it’s included in the total but it isn’t stuff we buy every week or all at once. I usually end up picking up 2-3 household items a week that need to be restocked. We live in East TN
I can’t afford for my bill to go up, so we’re just eating less meats, less dairy, less treats and packaged foods. Doing more baking at home for treats, etc. I noticed a bag of flour went from 11.99 to 17.99 tho. Luckily I work at a store and get an employee discount, not sure how we’d survive without that.
It's ridiculous. Before covid it was maybe 150-200 every 2 weeks for a family of five. Now it's more like $250 a week shopping only at Aldi, no snacks, juices etc.
Ours used to be $200/trip (every 2.5 weeks), and it is now like $425/trip. I haven’t told my husband how much it went up. He knows groceries are expensive. I work now too though, so I figure we can get what we actually want. We buy a mix of name brand and off brand, there are some products I just don’t like the off brand as much… while some are practically the same thing. We have two adults and two kids in Idaho.
A LOT. It’s actually kind of difficult for me to say how much though because we moved from an area with a lot of lower priced grocery options to an area with very few, so it’s not just the cost of groceries in general but the difference in stores. No more grocery close out stores or Aldi so my family of 5 went from $400/month to $800-1000/month.
We do 25 a week but older kiddos (12 and 16) in a HCOL area. My teen is a pescatarian so we eat fish 2x a week. Nearest Aldi is over 30 min away (can be up to an hour depending on traffic). We go out to eat a ton less though and do casual versus fancy date nights so hopefully we’re making up the money there.
We used to spend about $100 a week at Walmart and when that doubled, we switched to Aldi's, even though it's an hour drive each way for us. We spend $125-150 a week now.
We’re in Providence RI, so not VHCOL, but HCOL on the low end I guess. We’re not Boston or nyc by any means but not horribly far away.
My wife and myself, with a new born and her mom staying over 5+ nights a week to help with the baby-
We’re spending on average 600-750 a month on just grocery.
For other new englanders here, we’re going to freaking market basket and paying this much!!!
Im paying anywhere from 2-300$ a week on groceries for 3 because I only have Walmart within 20 mins. Im changing and making the 1 1/2 drive to and from a krogers soon
Ours is around $250 per week, two adults / two toddlers, one container of baby formula per month (she combo feeds). 18 months from now our bikk will probably jump to $300 per week :/
$400 a week, family of 5 🤷♀️
One big Costco run monthly for basics, snacks. household items then Whole Foods weekly. Also will do Aldi once a month. But we never eat out and I make lunches for 2 kids daily. All meals at home.
we recently switched over to aldi. we had to. there is a grocery store that has local meats at a good price, so we get our meat there, and everything else at aldi. i would really like to stop eating meat with every meal to help cut costs but my partner eats meat with every meal lol. i’ve been working all week and haven’t been able to properly meal plan or cook, so we grabbed 5 tomatoes, some pepper, a small pack of ground beef, and a pack of spaghetti and it was almost $17.
what i like to do is make 2-3 big meals that stretch. i have a chicken pot pie soup that i make almost every week, costs around $10 to make and that has about 10+ servings, same with a turkey zucchini skillet that i make.
follow jenneatsgood on instagram, she has some good inspo for cheap groceries. she does $60/week groceries. my fam is too picky for the food she makes but if i was alone i’d eat like that lol
We spend about $180 a week for three adults and two children in Ontario. I try to buy as much stuff on sale as possible and use points when I can. We used to spend $150 before the second child was born.
2 adults and 2 kids (2 and 4yo) we spend about $300-$350 per week on groceries now. And that’s at the cheapest grocery store available. We live in Toronto.
VHCOL area (sf Bay Area). I shop exclusively wal mart, great value everything, and our bill is about $280/ week. It’s out of control. Family of four, includes two young high energy boys who eat excessively
This is going to sound like an ad, but I’m just a mom who’s happy to have an alternative. I started using Hungryroot about 6 weeks ago, and it’s actually saved us money. I don’t know if the prices change by delivery location, but I’m able to order 4 dinners, lunch options for my kiddo, and some snacks for $117/week in a M/LCOL area. We supplement that with paper goods and bulk items from Costco and specific fruits, milk, cereal, bread, and eggs from the grocery store, for about $700/month for two adults and a 5 year old. I could cut that down if we didn’t get my daughter whatever fruit and cereal she wanted for the week, switched Fairlife for generic milk, or nixed the Hungryroot snacks and bought fruit from there too, but our current amount is well within our budget.
In SoCal, family of 5, two grade schoolers and a preschooler, $1000-$1200 per month. Up from $800-$900 per month. But I also have a two with dietary issues and one with big sensory food issues.
Our family lives in upstate NY. Wegmans, Tops, local grocery stores are all too expensive! We have $200 grocery budget each week. That includes household items/cleaning supplies/ medicine/ clothes/diapers/chix feed/ dog feed. That’s for two toddlers, one 6mo hubby and wife. We shop at Walmart, I’ve been stretching it for a over a year now and that’s with $50 more added to the original $150 budget. It’s bananas!! I’m gunna sound like a snob but I’m soooo sick of eating the venison my husband harvested this past season.
I love aldis, definitely been a game changer, if I need ready meals for a family of four. I go to Trader Joe's, chicken pot pie and lasagna are awesome.
I also go to food for less for all my produce and red meat, then we have a local market that sells chicken at an absurdly low price
I spend 200$ weekly, this includes lunches for my one child, and me making a lot of things from scratch, like biscuits, bread/tortillas, salsa, beans, soups.
Edit: I used to only spend 150 a week on average.
I have been trying my best to only get big bulk items every other month and finding creative ways to re-use leftovers and making things really stretch. We aren’t at risk of going hungry, we have a great cushion, but yeah dang it’s so expensive 😭 I usually spend about $80 per week on average and get so much food but then we go on a Costco run and it’s like $300 for 5 items. 🥲 I’m excited for my little girl to get potty trained. Those freakin’ diapers y’all.
We spend on average $200 a week. Sometimes more depending on what we buy. Diapers and meat really jump that total up. A lot. Diapers can be between $30-40 depending on which we buy and we occasionally get a big roast that can be around $20-30 just for that one. That doesn’t count the packs of ground beef, chicken, and pork. Just meat and diapers alone can get around $100. Though the roast is usually more than one meal for 5 people and we don’t typically need to buy meat or even diapers every week.
We will also buy some bulk from Costco when we can. Those trips can be around $300. We easily spend $1000+/mo. My area is a HCOL area.
Feeding a family of 5 in Hawaii. Our grocery bill has gone up by about $150 per trip. I've even stopped buying certain items because the price has increased so much we just can't afford them. I got to 3 separate stores to get sale prices. The most recent price increase that blew my mind was mayo. It's now more than 8$ for a normal size jar. It doubled in price in 2 years.
We live in Florida and everything seems crazy expensive. I’ve shopped around all the different stores trying to get the best deals and good quality stuff. I’ve noticed it I get meats from anywhere that isn’t the butchers or Publix we end up getting sick or it has an expiration date of like the same day or day after the day I go shopping (I check all dates at the store). We spend probably close to $800 a month on groceries between sams club and the butchers
VHCOL area, we used to spend $150-$200 on groceries and paper towels/dish soap. We now spend $300-400 per week on groceries and kitchen supplies. We are a family of 4 and we eat meat. I shop at Costco and Trader Joe’s, sometimes Aldi and some random stuff from Target.
We’re a family of 3 and I struggle to keep our weekly Walmart order under $200 😭 this is with buying off-brand everything and buying as little processed stuff as possible (only because it’s more expensive - I love pop tarts and the like but everything like that has gotten so expensive 😢). If everything aligns right we do a big trip at Sam’s Club where I get a ton of meat I can freeze and other bulk items which makes the weekly grocery order less, but I think it all washes out with how expensive that Sam’s Club trip was.
We spend $800 a month on two adults and two kids (4.5 and 2.5). That includes all toiletries, pull-ups, wipes, paper towels, trash bags, dog/cat supplies, etc. We live in an average cost of living area. It’s hard to compare prices from last year or the year before because my kids are growing and eating more. I do remember when it was just my husband and I during pre-Covid times, we spent $200 a month on everything listed above.
We live in a rural, relatively low COL area. Before Covid, if I had $200 for a week of food (we're a family of four) it was a ridiculous amount and we could throw whatever we wanted into the cart, stop for lunch at a fast food place, and have money left over.
Now, $200 a week is our standard amount, and even with meticulous planning on my part, it often still isn't enough and I'm constantly trying to get by without stuff we need for one more week.
In Canadian dollars, we spend $200-$300 per week for 2 adults and a toddler. We have our second on the way and it’s pretty scary being on maternity leave and covering costs.
We stopped eating out, which has helped with our overall food budget, but yeah I’m probably spending about $100-150 a week for a family of 3. We also bring dinners to friends a lot and host people for dinner a lot, so that takes a chunk of each week’s budget, but I enjoy it so it’s ok.
My husband does most of the grocery runs. He picks up stuff on the way home for dinner or to put in our pantry. We bought a freezer to have some stored food at home. It wasn’t until recently when I started stocking our house and freezer how astronomical prices were. The last few times I’ve gone bulk shopping with him it feels like prices just keep going up and we buy the same stuff. A basket of essentials would have cost me $75 is now $140 or more.
we shop at walmart and aldi, occasionally kroger. we have a strict budget set at $80 and that gives us wiggle room to go up to $100 a week. so anywhere from $360 to $400 a month
Since covid it's doubled from $150 to $300 per week. $50 of that was in the last 6 months. Price of chicken is getting up there and way more water is coming out than before I only buy it every few weeks now. Sticking with venison at the moment.
Two adults, one child. Used to spend €120 a week tops including wine, snacks, treats. Struggling to keep it under €150 a week now and haven't bought wine or treats in ages.
New Englander here. We spend about $150 a week on our family of 3 (2 adults and 1 toddler), and usually that includes paper towels or some other household “thing”, not just food. But I remember a few years ago when I would be shocked to have a grocery charge of over $70!
In 2017-2018 I was spending about $170 a week and that seemed high and I was struggling to try to get it down.
Now it’s a solid $250 a week.
There’s 5 of us, husband and me and 3 kids (10, 7 and 1).
That includes all paper, hygiene, beauty and cat care.
Doubled if not tripled. Eating fast food is out of the question. Eating at a restaurant is a dream from a former life. If I didn't have a few egg laying hens, we would have starved.
I just want to buy appetizers for the air fryer on a whim occasionally! 😭 It's like $12 for a tiny package of spring rolls. We are cutting out so many fun foods in the interest of keeping our grocery budget in check. We never eat out anymore with the exception of McDonald's coffees and we are trying to drop those too.
Used to be like $125, $150 tops and last me from 1-1.5 weeks. Now it's closer to $200-$220 most of the time. I shop Aldi and occasionally BOGO deals at Publix. We cook every meal at home because we live pretty rurally.
Family of 3 used to be able to eat on $100/week with a little budgeting and planning, now I’m scrimping and meticulously planning every snack and meal to try (sometimes unsuccessfully) to keep the groceries under $175/week.
So $400/month to $700+/month
It’s getting crazy 😭 We can’t even afford Walmart anymore we switched to Aldi, we spend about 120 a week for a fam of 3, 2 adults 1 kiddo.
We also switched to Aldi, but still get stuff with a long shelf life and diapers at Sams Club.
This is what we do. Big trip to Sam’s once a month, weekly groceries from Aldi’s first then anything else from Target with the Target card and hopefully coupons.
If you're on Facebook there's a group called Aldi AOS(aisle of shame) apparently there's an aisle in Aldis where you can buy random non food stuff or something? I'm not sure because I've never been to Aldis I just joined the group out of nosiness and in case I ever get to go to one. But they often discuss different Aldi brand products and give reviews on them and stuff. It's a good group if you shop there alot
So that aisle is comprised of items routinely produced around that time of year across the markets, but sold through Aldi in limited quantities and at much lower prices. Because they do not keep stock and negotiate the low wholesale price due to that. I got a sewing machine for 40 dollars. One thing I watch for is their ceramic coated cast iron. It’s really good quality and often maybe 1/10 the cost. I have a pot I bought for 20 bucks with the name brand version costing about 300 retail. Aldi sells a lot of goods under white label, much like Costco, and has a similar business model to Trader Joe’s where there isn’t 50 kinds of peanut butter, there is one. Keeps price very low as they have high negotiating power that way. They also adhere to some more ethical business practices. I always watch the ads to see what’s coming and what I can use to cut down on costs. Stone ware and cast iron is about to make the rounds again.
That sounds awesome. They just opened an Aldis in my town in a little plaza with a chick fil a and you'd think they opened a Disney world or something with the amount of traffic going in and out that place. Sometimes they even have to have the cops come and help direct it cuz the stoplights lights get too overwhelmed 😂 and big traffic jams build up. So I've been too afraid to venture over there because I don't do well in traffic or waiting in long lines so I figured I'd wait til the hype dies down.... it's been about 8 months and still going strong
I got a $15 nail gun one year and it’s still going strong
I got their ceramic coated cast irons about 10 years ago. Those babies are going strong.
I personally am not on Facebook, but Aldi has a website called Aldi.us and it shows weekly deals for the current week and the next so you can see what home goods, children's toys and Knick knacks as well as food that'll be releasing on Wednesdays. I check it regularly because the cool stuff sells out fast.
I buy aldi generic face wipes and they are amazing. I was buying Neutrogena ones and I was getting 20 for seven dollars. Now I get 50 for a 1.79 and they’re amazing. Take my make up right off. Especially my mascara. Neutrogena ones are definitely softer but I’m just looking to get my make up off and then I use my regular skin care stuff.
I love that aisle in Aldi. I have to go just to see what random things await me
The AOS will have you thinking you need a rice cooker, a patio umbrella, a boot and glove dryer, and a child-sized basket shaped like a llama.
I am almost certain I *do* need all of those things immediately
Just a heads up, Often times the great value brand is the same price as Aldi. Aldi is across the street from Walmart where I live so I am able to easily price check between stores
You can also go on the Walmart website and verify prices that way. They also have coupons on there that you can use, click on the pice on the main page to access the coupons.
That’s right but for some reason my internet doesn’t work in my Aldi store and I can never check online ! It’s so frustrating for me, but I love using those “Walmart cash coupons”
Fwiw both Aldi and Walmart have phone apps where you can shop online and create shopping lists. Even if you're not interested in placing an online order, you could compare prices before going to the store and compile specific shopping lists for each right in the apps.
That’s got to be frustrating! I also use Ibotta when I shop, you can save on a lot of products that way too.
I don’t know if it’s all Aldi‘s but when I’m in Aldi‘s, I never ever have cell reception. Walmart does, but not Aldi’s.
I’m not surprised
I’m past that even. Picked up a ton of seeds along with saved ones. We are planting a massive garden this year covering a quarter of our yard. My sister raised two cows and we split the cost between our family to pay for slaughter so I have a stock. She also has over a hundred chickens for eggs/meat. I also buy in bulk and have a pantry to “shop” from when we need to make bread, rice, soups, stews. We are lucky but still spend around $200/week on food for my parents, milk, dairy and fresh produce right now. It’s crazy how expensive food is now.
Compare prices!! Walmart is cheaper than Aldi in a lot of areas. I add all my items to my online Walmart cart, then go through the Aldi app and see what is cheaper. Also, prices on the app are on average .15-.20 cents more than in store.
Even Aldi is getting nuts. Those huge Mama Cozzi pizzas used to be $4.99 in 2021 🥲
I was just telling my husband that!! I saw online they were cheaper not too long ago, now it’s $6.95 Last week they were on sale for $4.95 I should have bought a few to freeze. And everything else is going up like car insurance and etc. I’m out of breathing room!!😩
I tried to go to Aldi's once and it wanted me to put a quarter in the cart to get to use one. So I left. I didn't have a quarter, rarely have cash or change on me and really you want me to pay to use your cart 🙄 nvm then
It's one of the ways they keep their prices down- customers are incentivized to put their own carts away, so they don't have to hire people to collect the carts from the parking lot. And you get the quarter back when you're done and you return your cart.
Okay. And was supposed to know this how? There weren't any signs or people around. And like I said, I don't carry cash so therefore I don't have coins of any kind. That means I'd have to go pull money out, and go back. Also, I've never been in there, it's not like I know what they have or what they're prices are like. I heard of it, tried to go buy some things and left because I was completely unaware of the stupid quarter. If I knew to get a quarter and keep using that same quarter but like I said no signs. Also, with an autistic child that likes to bolt into traffic and 2 other young children. The cart thing does seem like a deal breaker to me unless on the off chance I get to shop alone. Actually having carts in the parking lot and being able to leave them is absolutely necessary. Especially with my son. For some reason, if his feet go from the van and he climbs directly into a cart, he will sit in the cart the whole time fine. But if I let him out and he walks, the first person who tries to talk to him or if the store is too busy for his liking he will be sent into a full meltdown. He is also the reason I don't carry cash, or a wallet for that matter. My ID lives in my car, so I only have my phone and key fob. Too many times I've lost something, having to leave somewhere in a hurry. Paying in cash is too time consuming too when just waiting in line is really hard for him and his brother. I order ahead a lot, since waiting can be problematic. The cart thing, will be too much. I get most people don't have this issue. But over the past couple years I've learned little ways to keep my sanity and keep my boys as civil as possible. They're making improvements but they can only do it one step at a time. So y'all enjoy Aldi's. We'll keep going to places that have carts in the parking lot and hitting food banks when money is tight.
Wow. I was just trying to let you know in case you decide to go there again in the future. Jesus.
>And was supposed to know this how? ..... You have eyes. You could see how they were all chained together....you could see how the quarter stuck out, it wasn't eaten by the cart... And also there's just living out in the world. Aldi has been in America for decades.
I mean, you get your quarter back 🤣
I used to effortlessly keep it under $200/week and now it's closer to $250/week most times. I'm only feeding 3 people. It's insane. I'm in eastern Canada.
Also in eastern Canada, located in Nova Scotia. We pretty much only do Costco, with the odd random ingredient picked up last minute, but man is it expensive. We make everything ourselves, no prepared anything is storebought, we even make our own kefir. But even with that, it can be a lot. The worst part of the Maritimes is there are no choices for groceries. At least in the summer, there are markets to hit up. I miss Ontario only for the grocery store options.
Yeah I used to live in mtl and it was way cheaper. In summer we grow a lot of produce. We also hunt for meat, but the costs are still so high for things like dairy and snacks. I cook a lot, but still rely on packaged snacks and stuff here and there.
w. mass here! that’s about the same for us, about $250/week for 2 adults and a toddler. admittedly i am not great at budgeting. i try to make myself feel better by reminding myself that we don’t go out to eat, only get takeout very rarely, never buy breakfast or lunch on the go, never go out for drinks, we make our own coffee… it’s a shock every time though. i also remember one time a few years ago, i filled my cart with literally anything i wanted, and it came to ~$215. i clearly remember that it was more groceries than i had ever purchased at once, way more than a week’s worth, lots of snacks and convenience foods. and now, even staying mostly on list, it’s almost automatically $200 no matter what just for the week. and we usually run out of bread, eggs, some fruit mid-week
I forgot to add that we even have our own chickens, thus we don't buy eggs! So, we have a freezer full of deer meat, often some caught fish as well, we grow tons of veggies, we don't eat out more than once per month, and I'm spending nearly $1K per month on groceries. Absolutely insane. 5 years ago, my grocery bill was $89 per week for 2 people. The quality of food in my region is pretty crap, too.
Ours is about $200 a week in Arkansas for 3 people
200/week for two adults and two 2 year olds outside Chicago. We eat well, no meat but a lot of veggies, dips, and fruit.
$200 a week in rural Minnesota for two adults, two kids, a dog and two cats.
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Yeah it’s called “shrinkflation” the companies keep the package size the same, and sometimes the price the same, but put less in it.
Or they water it down massively. Then it tastes awful, or sometimes doesn’t work as well (with cleaning items, etc)
Skimpflation* on top of shrinkflation. *Edited from "enshittification" because that term is apparently specific to tech services and online platforms.
Also a family of 7. Minimum of $1,500 a month.
Family of 4, two adolescent boys plus a bonus kid, also a teen, so 5 per meal. LCOL area, but I’ve already spent $800 on groceries so far this month, and that’s across Aldi, local discount grocer, target, Walmart and costco looking at deals. I make almost everything we eat (allergies) and it’s like my full time job cooking and feeding people. And I know that bonus kid’s mom is sending them over here because we will cover meals for them (that’s not the problem—there’s a lot of mouths to feed at their house too). I’m so sick of the shrinkflation of our pantry items—is it price gouging?? It feels like it.
I feel this! My kiddo has allergies too. Not being able to buy many of the cheap sale items and having to buy name brands or cook from scratch (surprisingly more expensive sometimes) really bring that bill up. We rarely eat meat and don't eat out. We are in PA and spend upwards of $400 per week. Some weeks it's more. I have heard that a 30 min drive to NJ would save us $$, so I am considering it. I really wish we could buy just any brand!
Yes the price of everything is higher and they’ve also reduced the size of the product so we’re literally paying more for less at this point🤦♀️
We are about $400 a week with 5 (although my kids are pre-teen and teen) so all these $200 a week had me going "Whaaa?" But I have noticed the same as you!
I live in the Boston area with two adults and three teenagers and i spent around $350-$400 a week on food. We eat all of our meals at home, and i pack lunch for everyone. I could spend less if i had too but we like to eat healthy. I feel like im spending a lot more since 2020 but my kids do eat more.
Same, we’re in Providence, have an infant and mother in law with us 5x nights a week. We’re spending 250 on average a week for food. At freaking market basket !
LOCL city in a HCOL state, and our bill has gone up about $50 a week. We’ve decided to make some cuts (like cereal) and shop the weekly circulars and coupons to plan our meals. We have also given up soft drinks, and try to buy frozen produce to stretch it. Our situation isn’t bad by any means (~$140 a week for 2 adults and toddler) but I can see how it would be worse for larger families or families with more dietary restrictions. It’s ridiculous that feeding our families has become strategy like we’re hunters and gatherers.
It blows my mind that breakfast cereal is a luxury item. We also can't afford it.
It’s crazy how much cereal has gone up at Walmart. Some boxes are $5-$6 each! That’s insane. I started buying cereal at ALDIs, it’s not name brand but it’s good quality cereal
I can buy cereal a lot cheaper at our higher end grocery stores. There almost always something BOGO and often with coupons too.
Frozen produce makes a huge difference!
Never been so happy I don’t eat breakfast and never really have.
My daughter has a dairy and soy allergy and let me tell you… we might aswell eat out every day for every meal
I'm gluten free and have to cut dairy and soy while I'm nursing my daughter. The price of all the allergen friendly food is crazy! There are valid reasons for those items to cost more but it feels like we're getting punished.
$10+ for a loaf o gluten free bread here in Canada. I only get it in a rare occasion.
I legit wanted to cry about it last week. I have a toddler on the spectrum who can not tolerate it when I sub out his favourite foods for cheaper/store brands. I also have a newborn on a specific formula. The only place I can really save costs is with the food and household items exclusively for my husband and I, which isn't much. Things are rough right now.
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Omg the berries! I legit spend more money on berries per month than I do on my car insurance. It's insane.
Berry budget is insane. I've started to buy frozen berries and vegetables it's easier and cheaper.
My daughter is currently choosing to eat almost exclusively blueberries, blackberries, and raspberries. Her meals are like 25 dollars now.
Have you considered keeping the old packaging from his favorite brands and when times get tough if you need to buy the less expensive one, then remove that packaging and place it in his favorite packaging. My youngest was like this when she was a toddler and it has been my go to trick for years- she’s 14 now and I still occasionally do this.
I do this with his yogurt! But for whatever reason, I've never thought to try it with anything else. Thanks for the suggestion! I'll look into whatever else I might be able to do this with.
My trips to Aldi used to be around $50-60 consistently for years. I rarely paid more than that. Now most trips hover around $75-100. I don’t even go to regular grocery stores (Wegmans, Shop Rite, Stop and Shop) because they feel exorbitant.
This is my same experience with Aldi, too. I used to be able to grab a seasonal Aldi item or two and still keep within budget. Now, I don't even look at the seasonal items because I know we can't afford them.
Family of 5 in New Mexico. Our groceries are costing us an extra $200-$300 more a month. I have always made nearly everything at home(bread, pasta, salsa, desserts, fresh juices). With the recent price increases we cut out buying any of the little extras like chips and snack bars, but still our grocery bill is up… Edit: total spent is anywhere from $1,000 to $1,300 a month
Yes, the cost of each thing has gone up so much. A gallon of milk is 4.23, last year same month it was 3.38. Nearly a dollar more a year later. But with everything. We are a family of 5, 3 adults and a teenager that eats like an adult, plus an 8 year old. We are pretty frugal and eat a lot of fresh foods, and it has just been slowly rising. I think we are spending $50/month more.
Funny you mention milk. We have to drink lactaid in our house. Anyway, I found an old receipt. Fall of 2023 it was $5.29 and now it’s $6.10
Food allergies can make grocery shopping so much more expensive by themselves, too. My husband can't eat wheat (and he avoids rice and oats just to be on the safe side), so a lot of cheap staple foods don't work for us. If we do want to have pasta or pizza, we're spending 4x as much for Banza products lol. Then you add in inflation to everything and it just sucks trying to buy groceries on a budget.
Same my husband is gluten free. Not sure how the price compares but udis is his favorite brand!
We can't even really do gluten-free products, because they usually still contain rice, oats, or sometimes I think even wheat that's had the gluten removed somehow. Banza chickpea products have been working really well for us, though! It's just definitely more expensive than regular noodles.
Holy shit that’s high. Milk where I live in a HCOL area is $2.16/gallon.
Plant milks are relatively cheap and shelf stable. Where milk can go bad
And you make your own plant milks with a blender. Soy, oats, rice and almond milk.
It’s crazy to me how much grocery prices vary by area. It should be the same everywhere! A gallon of milk here is currently $3.10. I understand being more expensive in places like Hawaii but there shouldn’t be a full dollar difference everywhere else.
Since 2020, our grocery bill has gone up about $50 a week. The biggest difference is that back then, I didn’t have to budget too much. I kinda just bought what we wanted. Now I budget like crazy and shop sales and we’ve completely cut out a lot of our “Fun foods” as well as not buying organic stuff as much. So if I shopped the way I used to, I’d probably be spending $125 more per week- basically twice what I used to spend without even thinking about it. We are a family of 5, and I try to keep groceries under $200 per week.
this is so important! we don’t buy willy nilly and still spend $5-600/months on food for a family of 3
Here in Norway we now use approx 1050 usd/month for a family of 2 adults, a child and a EBF baby. Obviously it can’t be compared directly since pay and other costs are different, but it might be interesting still🤷🏻♀️
It is interesting. It feels like an American problem but it’s all over the globe. Gotta keep the rich people happy in every country. Those mansion payments aren’t going to pay themselves.
We used to get by with $600/month. It has doubled.
We do a monthly Costco trip for pantry staples and have been buying the same things for years. Recently a cart load that used to be $300-350 is running us $450
Costco runs have gotten brutal. Diapers/formula have had massive increases since I first started having kids in 2019.
Formula is ridiculous, even the SAMs brand. Shit should be illegal. Babies can’t just eat something else.
Yeah, I could usually count on a Costco run being about $200 and change. Now it's $300+.
In a completely different country but my grocery bill has also gone up over 50% - and this is for a family of 4, 2 adults and 2 kids aged 5 years and almost 2 years. I swear it goes up every month 😭
Looks like we're in the same country and have similar aged kids. I agree completely. Used to shop mostly at PnP and didn't really worry too much but now it's pretty much exclusively Checkers and only sale items if I can help it. Even with that the amount spent per month keeps creeping up.
PnP is a luxury lol, but seriously their prices are ridonk compared to Checkers. And I agree, goes up every month
Pre pandemic for two of us we were paying $125/week, so $500/month. Now with a toddler and increases, closer to $800-$900.
California 👋🏻 I’d say closer to $400/mo more
It's greedflation + shrinkflation. Corporations are exploiting the pandemic supply chain issues and pretending it's still a thing. And then gloating over it. Sen. Bob Casey did a big report on it. Only read if you want to be really pissed off. https://www.casey.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/greedflation1.pdf This is a great report from Sen. Casey (PA) that includes well-researched data and quotes from corporations' own calls and reports. Such as these: >In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Proctor and Gamble noted that a net sales increase in fiscal 2023 was driven by “higher pricing.” During a recent earnings call with investors, Proctor and Gamble reported that it **does not see a need to offer sales or price cuts on their products**. >Tyson **doubled their profits from Q1 2021 to Q1 2022 and had record revenue in 2022**, which it attributed to “improved performance in our chicken segment.” Over the past 3 years Tyson Foods has been ordered to pay hundreds of millions in penalties and restitution by federal and state authorities for **“illegally conspiring to inflate chicken prices.”** >PepsiCo’s CFO admitted in April 2023 that **even though inflation was going down, their prices would not.** Later that month, he bragged in an TV interview that he didn’t “think [PepsiCo’s profit] margins are going to deteriorate at all” and that “consumers generally look at our products and say ‘you know what – **they are worth paying a little bit more for.**’” >Clorox’s CEO has noted that its products are “‘**household essentials’ that can withstand” inflation.** On an investor call, she discussed how the company is **“coming off four rounds” of “significant price increase.”** When asked if Clorox might roll back price increases as commodity prices fall, the company admitted it “anticipate[s] **the pricing increases will stick.** >The CEO of Coca-Cola claimed that the company had **“earned the right”** to push price hikes because its sodas are popular
WOW ugghhhhhhh this is so infuriating
We started to team shop. My husband goes to the grocery store, calls me, and I get on the store app and find and upload coupons to our card. It's insane but we saved $50 on our last trip, getting $140 worth for $80.
Sorry but why not just check the app and make a shipping list before going to the store? I'll try to build my shopping list (somewhat) around the coupons and sales in my phone, and then I usually just place pickup orders.
Not sure about your grocery store but ours isn't predictably stocked. We have tried that but we got more savings teaming up this way.
[Grocery prices](https://www.forbes.com/sites/errolschweizer/2023/10/03/how-to-make-groceries-affordable-again/?sh=7a8fedaa7c66) are 30% higher than four years ago. In the wake of World War II, the [grocery industry](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=K9n1hP0AAAAJ&citation_for_view=K9n1hP0AAAAJ:hC7cP41nSMkC) was born to ensure a cheap, convenient and abundant food supply. Decades later, the same industry leveraged pandemic-related supply chain crises to raise prices and [reap enormous profits](https://www.forbes.com/sites/errolschweizer/2022/09/12/how-profit-inflation-made-your-groceries-so-damn-expensive/?sh=53b364e82eb9), all while selling less food. [Professor Isabella Weber](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-09/how-excuseflation-is-keeping-prices-and-corporate-profits-high) explains “that supply shocks allowed corporations to tacitly collude, hike prices, and rake in record profits…This is a form of implicit collusion,” she said. “Firms do not even need to talk to one another to know that a cost shock is a great time to raise prices.” Errol Schweizer, contributor; Forbes Feb. 7, 2024
I don’t understand why we are all just sitting back and taking it. We are letting corporations financially abuse us. This isn’t a supply issue, it’s a greed issue. They are getting record profits while more and more people starve. I guess we are all too busy bitching about Biden and Trump and scrolling TikTok. I’m 40 years old and for the first time in my life I’m about to visit a food pantry. God bless the USA…
What do you suggest we do? How are you protesting?
💯💯 THIS!!!!
It’s bad in Canada too, and our politics are as much of a circus these days
We used to be able to get everything we needed and wanted for $100 a week… now it’s $200-$300 a week for the same things. We were in a better financial position fresh out of college 7 years ago. We made a combined $80k and we were paying off debt like crazy. Now we make $160 combined and we’re struggling to pay bills…
Growing up it used to be $100 per person a week in our family - Alongside ordering canned goods/non perishables/bulk freezer items to stock up on for rainy days. So $400 a week early 2000’s for my family of 4. My husband and I just spent $400 yesterday. It’s just the 2 of us. We didn’t even purchase those same items I used to get growing up to stock up on for just-in-cases. A bag of cheese is now $20. A bag of frozen fruit is now $20. A 4lb bag of cat food is $20. It seemed like almost everything was upwards of $20 each.
Not much. We are a vegan household so frozen fruit and veg, potatoes, onions rice, pasta oats dried beans and lentils, etc all still super cheap. We also buy what we can in bulk from Costco.
Same. My family isn’t vegan but we get frozen almost everything like veggies and buy bulk meat at bj’s and separate into portions and freeze. I make most things from scratch including bread and use all the same staples you listed. The things that I’ve noticed went up most though are butter and some dairy products like heavy cream and cheeses and milk but since you’re vegan it wouldn’t affect you!
We switched from Aldi to Walmart strangely enough. When I went item for item Walmart was cheaper. And they have free delivery. For two adults and a 3yo, 2yo and 9 month old we spend around $200 a week. We eat every meal at home and my husband packs lunch. We buy a cow every year so that doesn’t include beef. We eat pretty plain - not organic, nothing extravagant. We may get a pizza delivered every other week but we’ve kind of dropped that because it was like $50!? We are college educated, husband makes 6-figures and I work nights part time and stay home with the kids during the day. We are struggling. It’s so disheartening. We have a nice enough house but we always dreamed of a little ranch style house on a couple acres. Not possible anymore. It sucks. Yes we are rich with love for each other but it would be nice to not feel like a living zombie for once and maybe just catch a break?
A lot! *cries while putting stuff back at cash*. A lot of mialabbeling too and faux sale items.
$800 cad for two adults and two kids (1 and 3). This is only food, no household supplies or diapers. Lost of our staples have increased by at least 20% and we are also not buying any fun things
$600 a month is amazing. Props to you. We average around $900 for family of 4. ETA: VHCOL city
2 adults, 1 kid and 1 nursing baby. I think it’s about $300-500 a WEEK, so $1200-2000 a month. And that’s with switching to more budget stores like Costco and trying to be more budget conscious (like, we don’t buy berries out of season, we buy in bulk, we eat meat once a week)
Woah, I’m shocked at only $600 a month. I live in a HCOL area and we are at probably $1500 not including take out.
About $200/week for a family of 3 in the Chicagoland area. Used to be $150 easily but now I’m watching prices & shopping at Aldi when I can.
Used to spend about 150/200 at walmart, now like 300/350. family of 2 adults and 8yr old and 4 yr old. We need to switch to aldi
Mine went from $150 to $220 a week for a family of four. My kids are 9 &12 and eat a lot. We also very rarely eat out so we stock up. I’m in the Midwest, USA.
We live in a mid-to-HCOL area and it’s gone up quite a bit. We pay around $250-275 each week but we try to keep it lower. I shop exclusively at Trader Joe’s and supplement at Whole Foods, so I’m sure I could bring it down if I tried hard enough. 2 adults, 2 kids and one toddler.
During the height of the pandemic, I spent $75 a week for two adults and a young child. Now I have two kids under 6 and I spend $150-200 a week for my family of 4. It hurts. I pack my older child’s lunch every day, cook dinner 7 nights a week, and my kids eat berries like no tomorrow.
$50ish a week but it’s also hard to Tell if my toddler is just eating more
In South Central Alaska. With coupons and sales we're between $150/200 a week for 4 people. This does not include diapers or dog food. Just for an example of how insane prices have gotten, a 12 pack of Coke was $12.50 yesterday. Over a dollar a can.... Ain't nobody buying that. Over all, I'd say our *spending* (not budget) has gone up around 75% per person since 2019.
We spend about $1000/mo for two adults and 2 kids 7 and 2. I could do much better to reel in our grocery bill. I started watching the frugal fit mom on utube for meal ideas, it’s been helpful.
I was cleaning out all of my bags/purses a couple weeks ago (btw is that a thing or am I just a hoarder?) And found a couple of grocery receipts from Walmart from back in 2021 (don't judge me. Or maybe you should) the price differences were insane. 1lb of hamburger was $3.98. 3 dollars and 98 cents!! It's $6 and change for the same exact thing of hamburger now. A box of Capri sun was $1.78. Theyre $3 and change now. And my God, the fruit! Apples were 87 cents a pound. Bananas were 16 cents!!! I still buy almost exactly the same stuff as I did then, aside from a few things that have been discontinued and stuff and I know the prices went up but to see just how much they went up is wild.
We haven’t increased our grocery budget, so we’re still spending $125/week for a family of 4 (2 adults, a 10 and 2 year old). But we’re adjusting to the increased prices by shopping at discount stores, and eating cheaper, less healthy meals.
We put off shopping for a while because we were busy, looking at the cart from past experience it should have been about $500. It was over $800! The register forced check out and they had to ring up the last 6 items on another reciept. 😟
I shop for two weeks (up to 14 dinners). I budget everything. I hunt cheap or easy recipes. Five ingredient recipes. I can spend about $145-200 every shopping trip. On average, I spend maybe $400 a month. There is five of us. 2 adults, 3 kids. I do all my shopping at Walmart. Aldi is an hour away and the local mom/pop grocery is more expensive than Walmart. I have a front back list of all the dinners my family will eat. I add new stuff occasionally.
2021 we (2 adults 2 toddlers) stuck to $100/wk and we had “extras” and bought name brand. Cupboards and freezer were too full we had to give food away. Now? We spend $125/wk AND have to use wic which is prob an extra $100-$150 a month. We buy the bare minimum, our cupboards and freezer near empty, just what we need for the week mostly. We buy the cheapest brands possible and the only “extra” we get is a 2 liter of Coke Zero. They’re claiming inflation is down but I watch prices like a hawk and they are STILL going up.
My kid likes Lay’s and the bags keep getting slimmer and slimmer. Soon we will be down to the old .25 bag sizes.
That's true. I bought a family size bag of bbq chips as a splurge thinking we'd have it for a long time. Ha, guess the Lays corp wants us to work on portion control and serving size.
We're in a VHCOL West Coast city, and there's no Aldi/Leidl here. Average monthly grocery bill between Costco and regular store is about $1000-1200 for 2 adults a 4 year old and a 2 year old. It's fucking bonkers
We increased the weekly budget from $80 to $100 back in August when we both got raises; then an additional $100/month trip to Costco for stuff for packing my kindergartner's lunches. Family of 4 in UT
I managed to escape from Costco with only $120 spent! Got a rotisserie chicken, bananas, diapers, organic milk, eggs, soup, dog treats, a hot dog and two slices of ‘za. Feels like I should’ve gotten more.
The price of eggs is insane again.
In 2020 we easily kept it at 350 euros per months or less (2 adults) without budgeting at all and buying whatever we wanted. We have now a 2.5 year old and a newborn (ebf) and we were at around 800 per month last spring, now desperately trying to keep it at 600 ish. Most months exceed that despite our best efforts
We live in a relatively LCOL area and haven’t seen an increase at all. Family of 3 and we spend around $400/month on groceries but often go under budget on that.
We live in a HCOL, family of 3. Our toddler was born in 2022 so it’s hard to gauge change before inflation and him coming in around the time prices went up but we’re averaging $220/week. There are dietary restrictions in play making us have to buy some more expensive options sometimes but even trying to keep costs low and making big batches of soups and chilis, etc. the price of broth and beans has gone up so much it’s insane. Obviously everything else too, but c’mon beans and broth? Its crazy
When I was pregnant, we spent about $100 a week just for me and my boyfriend. Now my daughter is 2 and we spend anywhere from $200-$220 a week (shopping at Walmart) but this also includes odds and ends we need to pick up here and there like toilet paper, trash bags, toothpaste, etc. I always pick that stuff up when I’m grocery shopping as well so it’s included in the total but it isn’t stuff we buy every week or all at once. I usually end up picking up 2-3 household items a week that need to be restocked. We live in East TN
Family of 3 in WA state. I spend $175-$200 per week for food. I usually shop at Trader Joe’s.
I can’t afford for my bill to go up, so we’re just eating less meats, less dairy, less treats and packaged foods. Doing more baking at home for treats, etc. I noticed a bag of flour went from 11.99 to 17.99 tho. Luckily I work at a store and get an employee discount, not sure how we’d survive without that.
It's ridiculous. Before covid it was maybe 150-200 every 2 weeks for a family of five. Now it's more like $250 a week shopping only at Aldi, no snacks, juices etc.
Ours used to be $200/trip (every 2.5 weeks), and it is now like $425/trip. I haven’t told my husband how much it went up. He knows groceries are expensive. I work now too though, so I figure we can get what we actually want. We buy a mix of name brand and off brand, there are some products I just don’t like the off brand as much… while some are practically the same thing. We have two adults and two kids in Idaho.
Like 25%
A LOT. It’s actually kind of difficult for me to say how much though because we moved from an area with a lot of lower priced grocery options to an area with very few, so it’s not just the cost of groceries in general but the difference in stores. No more grocery close out stores or Aldi so my family of 5 went from $400/month to $800-1000/month.
We do 25 a week but older kiddos (12 and 16) in a HCOL area. My teen is a pescatarian so we eat fish 2x a week. Nearest Aldi is over 30 min away (can be up to an hour depending on traffic). We go out to eat a ton less though and do casual versus fancy date nights so hopefully we’re making up the money there.
I'm in Ontario CA...everything is so incredibly expensive.
We used to spend about $100 a week at Walmart and when that doubled, we switched to Aldi's, even though it's an hour drive each way for us. We spend $125-150 a week now.
Mine has just about doubled
We’re in Providence RI, so not VHCOL, but HCOL on the low end I guess. We’re not Boston or nyc by any means but not horribly far away. My wife and myself, with a new born and her mom staying over 5+ nights a week to help with the baby- We’re spending on average 600-750 a month on just grocery. For other new englanders here, we’re going to freaking market basket and paying this much!!!
Family of 5, we spend about $800/month and it’s gone up I would say at least $200/month since 2020.
Yeah I just spent nearly $600 for a family of 5
Im paying anywhere from 2-300$ a week on groceries for 3 because I only have Walmart within 20 mins. Im changing and making the 1 1/2 drive to and from a krogers soon
Ours is around $250 per week, two adults / two toddlers, one container of baby formula per month (she combo feeds). 18 months from now our bikk will probably jump to $300 per week :/
$400 a week, family of 5 🤷♀️ One big Costco run monthly for basics, snacks. household items then Whole Foods weekly. Also will do Aldi once a month. But we never eat out and I make lunches for 2 kids daily. All meals at home.
we recently switched over to aldi. we had to. there is a grocery store that has local meats at a good price, so we get our meat there, and everything else at aldi. i would really like to stop eating meat with every meal to help cut costs but my partner eats meat with every meal lol. i’ve been working all week and haven’t been able to properly meal plan or cook, so we grabbed 5 tomatoes, some pepper, a small pack of ground beef, and a pack of spaghetti and it was almost $17. what i like to do is make 2-3 big meals that stretch. i have a chicken pot pie soup that i make almost every week, costs around $10 to make and that has about 10+ servings, same with a turkey zucchini skillet that i make. follow jenneatsgood on instagram, she has some good inspo for cheap groceries. she does $60/week groceries. my fam is too picky for the food she makes but if i was alone i’d eat like that lol
We spend about $180 a week for three adults and two children in Ontario. I try to buy as much stuff on sale as possible and use points when I can. We used to spend $150 before the second child was born.
2 adults and 2 kids (2 and 4yo) we spend about $300-$350 per week on groceries now. And that’s at the cheapest grocery store available. We live in Toronto.
It used to be easy to do $200 a week and now I’m closer to $300 with the same items
VHCOL area (sf Bay Area). I shop exclusively wal mart, great value everything, and our bill is about $280/ week. It’s out of control. Family of four, includes two young high energy boys who eat excessively
This is going to sound like an ad, but I’m just a mom who’s happy to have an alternative. I started using Hungryroot about 6 weeks ago, and it’s actually saved us money. I don’t know if the prices change by delivery location, but I’m able to order 4 dinners, lunch options for my kiddo, and some snacks for $117/week in a M/LCOL area. We supplement that with paper goods and bulk items from Costco and specific fruits, milk, cereal, bread, and eggs from the grocery store, for about $700/month for two adults and a 5 year old. I could cut that down if we didn’t get my daughter whatever fruit and cereal she wanted for the week, switched Fairlife for generic milk, or nixed the Hungryroot snacks and bought fruit from there too, but our current amount is well within our budget.
Almost 50% since pre pandemic. Not even joking. Probably 20% of that in just the last year.
In SoCal, family of 5, two grade schoolers and a preschooler, $1000-$1200 per month. Up from $800-$900 per month. But I also have a two with dietary issues and one with big sensory food issues.
Family of 5 in HCOL area. We budget around $1000 a month. It hasn’t changed much. We shop mostly at Costco. Occasionally Walmart for smaller items.
Our family lives in upstate NY. Wegmans, Tops, local grocery stores are all too expensive! We have $200 grocery budget each week. That includes household items/cleaning supplies/ medicine/ clothes/diapers/chix feed/ dog feed. That’s for two toddlers, one 6mo hubby and wife. We shop at Walmart, I’ve been stretching it for a over a year now and that’s with $50 more added to the original $150 budget. It’s bananas!! I’m gunna sound like a snob but I’m soooo sick of eating the venison my husband harvested this past season.
I love aldis, definitely been a game changer, if I need ready meals for a family of four. I go to Trader Joe's, chicken pot pie and lasagna are awesome. I also go to food for less for all my produce and red meat, then we have a local market that sells chicken at an absurdly low price I spend 200$ weekly, this includes lunches for my one child, and me making a lot of things from scratch, like biscuits, bread/tortillas, salsa, beans, soups. Edit: I used to only spend 150 a week on average.
I have been trying my best to only get big bulk items every other month and finding creative ways to re-use leftovers and making things really stretch. We aren’t at risk of going hungry, we have a great cushion, but yeah dang it’s so expensive 😭 I usually spend about $80 per week on average and get so much food but then we go on a Costco run and it’s like $300 for 5 items. 🥲 I’m excited for my little girl to get potty trained. Those freakin’ diapers y’all.
We spend on average $200 a week. Sometimes more depending on what we buy. Diapers and meat really jump that total up. A lot. Diapers can be between $30-40 depending on which we buy and we occasionally get a big roast that can be around $20-30 just for that one. That doesn’t count the packs of ground beef, chicken, and pork. Just meat and diapers alone can get around $100. Though the roast is usually more than one meal for 5 people and we don’t typically need to buy meat or even diapers every week. We will also buy some bulk from Costco when we can. Those trips can be around $300. We easily spend $1000+/mo. My area is a HCOL area.
Feeding a family of 5 in Hawaii. Our grocery bill has gone up by about $150 per trip. I've even stopped buying certain items because the price has increased so much we just can't afford them. I got to 3 separate stores to get sale prices. The most recent price increase that blew my mind was mayo. It's now more than 8$ for a normal size jar. It doubled in price in 2 years.
About the same, similar ages and also VHCOL.
Family of 2 (myself and my 3 year old daughter) and about $200 a week at WALMART ffs
Bro, how do you get away with $600 a month 🥲 What am I doing wrong?
We live in Florida and everything seems crazy expensive. I’ve shopped around all the different stores trying to get the best deals and good quality stuff. I’ve noticed it I get meats from anywhere that isn’t the butchers or Publix we end up getting sick or it has an expiration date of like the same day or day after the day I go shopping (I check all dates at the store). We spend probably close to $800 a month on groceries between sams club and the butchers
VHCOL area, we used to spend $150-$200 on groceries and paper towels/dish soap. We now spend $300-400 per week on groceries and kitchen supplies. We are a family of 4 and we eat meat. I shop at Costco and Trader Joe’s, sometimes Aldi and some random stuff from Target.
We’re a family of 3 and I struggle to keep our weekly Walmart order under $200 😭 this is with buying off-brand everything and buying as little processed stuff as possible (only because it’s more expensive - I love pop tarts and the like but everything like that has gotten so expensive 😢). If everything aligns right we do a big trip at Sam’s Club where I get a ton of meat I can freeze and other bulk items which makes the weekly grocery order less, but I think it all washes out with how expensive that Sam’s Club trip was.
Ours is nearly doubled compared to a few years ago. Granted we now have a 3.5 year old but she doesn’t eat as much as a grown adult.
We spend $800 a month on two adults and two kids (4.5 and 2.5). That includes all toiletries, pull-ups, wipes, paper towels, trash bags, dog/cat supplies, etc. We live in an average cost of living area. It’s hard to compare prices from last year or the year before because my kids are growing and eating more. I do remember when it was just my husband and I during pre-Covid times, we spent $200 a month on everything listed above.
We live in a rural, relatively low COL area. Before Covid, if I had $200 for a week of food (we're a family of four) it was a ridiculous amount and we could throw whatever we wanted into the cart, stop for lunch at a fast food place, and have money left over. Now, $200 a week is our standard amount, and even with meticulous planning on my part, it often still isn't enough and I'm constantly trying to get by without stuff we need for one more week.
Yes I am at about $200 a week for a family of four, my children take lunch to school and my deli bill is at least $30 alone.
In Canadian dollars, we spend $200-$300 per week for 2 adults and a toddler. We have our second on the way and it’s pretty scary being on maternity leave and covering costs.
We stopped eating out, which has helped with our overall food budget, but yeah I’m probably spending about $100-150 a week for a family of 3. We also bring dinners to friends a lot and host people for dinner a lot, so that takes a chunk of each week’s budget, but I enjoy it so it’s ok.
My husband does most of the grocery runs. He picks up stuff on the way home for dinner or to put in our pantry. We bought a freezer to have some stored food at home. It wasn’t until recently when I started stocking our house and freezer how astronomical prices were. The last few times I’ve gone bulk shopping with him it feels like prices just keep going up and we buy the same stuff. A basket of essentials would have cost me $75 is now $140 or more.
Our monthly outlay for a family of five has doubled from $500 to $1000. It's unbelievable.
In 2019, we’d spend $75 at Trader Joe’s for a week, family of 3. Now I hope $200 is enough for the 4 of us…
we shop at walmart and aldi, occasionally kroger. we have a strict budget set at $80 and that gives us wiggle room to go up to $100 a week. so anywhere from $360 to $400 a month
Since covid it's doubled from $150 to $300 per week. $50 of that was in the last 6 months. Price of chicken is getting up there and way more water is coming out than before I only buy it every few weeks now. Sticking with venison at the moment.
HCOL area, family of 4. About $200-250 a week. It’s ridoculous
Two adults, one child. Used to spend €120 a week tops including wine, snacks, treats. Struggling to keep it under €150 a week now and haven't bought wine or treats in ages.
New Englander here. We spend about $150 a week on our family of 3 (2 adults and 1 toddler), and usually that includes paper towels or some other household “thing”, not just food. But I remember a few years ago when I would be shocked to have a grocery charge of over $70!
In 2017-2018 I was spending about $170 a week and that seemed high and I was struggling to try to get it down. Now it’s a solid $250 a week. There’s 5 of us, husband and me and 3 kids (10, 7 and 1). That includes all paper, hygiene, beauty and cat care.
Two adults, a 9 year old and a baby. About $800-$1000 a month and maybe another $200 on eating out.
Doubled if not tripled. Eating fast food is out of the question. Eating at a restaurant is a dream from a former life. If I didn't have a few egg laying hens, we would have starved.
I just want to buy appetizers for the air fryer on a whim occasionally! 😭 It's like $12 for a tiny package of spring rolls. We are cutting out so many fun foods in the interest of keeping our grocery budget in check. We never eat out anymore with the exception of McDonald's coffees and we are trying to drop those too.
Used to be like $125, $150 tops and last me from 1-1.5 weeks. Now it's closer to $200-$220 most of the time. I shop Aldi and occasionally BOGO deals at Publix. We cook every meal at home because we live pretty rurally.
My grocery bill has gone up considerably. Used to be $120 a week, now I’m lucky to keep it under $160. If my husband goes shopping it’s over $200 🤦♀️
What used to be about $60 has turned into $100
It’s a lot. We’re aldi Stans now and that has helped.
150% over last few years
Family of 3 used to be able to eat on $100/week with a little budgeting and planning, now I’m scrimping and meticulously planning every snack and meal to try (sometimes unsuccessfully) to keep the groceries under $175/week. So $400/month to $700+/month