How much do you spend on food?

[Josefein421]

I know prices have been going up. And I’ve been more liberal with my groceries as I’ve taken up more cooking and baking as a hobby but man shit gets expensive and I’m eating 3,500-4,500 cals a day. You guys eating 5,000+ a day must really be paying.

I’m at around $200-$225 a week and most of that is free range chicken breast/eggs and grass fed ground beef. Things like roasts or particular ingrediatents like molasses thy I bought last week obviously drive cost up (fucking $7 a jar to use 2tbs lol)

What do you spend on your staples? Meat, rice, fruit, veggies, eggs/whites?? I think I can do $125-$150 for just staples and not free range.

 

[PRorER]

$200-$225 for me and my fiancée per week

-New York Strips, 93/7 Ground Beef, a ton of Chicken Breasts, Eggs from farmers stand. Carbs mostly potatoes, rice, oatmeal, spinach/spring mix, sourdough

If we go out to eat add like $50-60 on that weekly total but I’ll always go out on a night a special is going on

 

[chooch]

This is one of the best edits of living in Mexico. We can go to the butcher and get a couple pounds of chicken and steak and some $50. At the fruit stand we can get a shitload of fruits and veggies for maybe $15-20.

 

[tenny]

great thread idea, its been done before, but......it IS time for a new one.

i try to stay hyper vigilant with saving money and deals....im no stranger to buying
marked down meats, and cook them immediately. i'll buy bulk as well to save that way.
i try to hit farmers markets, would rather give to the community than some super chain.

i didnt realize how good the prices and avalibilty were on seafood when i lived on the east coast.
i would get snapper for 4.99 a pound....now.....forget it, 14...15...16 a pound.

but, on a whole.....200$ to 250$ a week. i never eat out, except for an occasional pizza.

 

[traininsane11]

Just for myself I’d say £100-£150/week (including whey) and that’s buying 0 big name brands, 0 organic or premium type goods and all Aldi’s own brand stuff (Aldi is the cheapest supermarket in the UK).
No fish, no steaks in fact bare minimum red meats and buying offer/savings stuff whenever possible

Foods not cheap sadly

 

[tenny]

Just for myself I’d say £100-£150/week (including whey) and that’s buying 0 big name brands, 0 organic or premium type goods and all Aldi’s own brand stuff (Aldi is the cheapest supermarket in the UK).
No fish, no steaks in fact bare minimum red meats and buying offer/savings stuff whenever possible

Foods not cheap sadly

Aldi here too.....pretty cheap. and they have pretty good meats.

 

[Flocci]

last time i checked, around $225-250 a week

 

[traininsane11]

Aldi here too.....pretty cheap. and they have pretty good meats.

I honestly think the quality is just as good as any of the more premium supermarkets and much better value across the board. They often do really good specials with the meat too

For a long time there was a stigma of being looked down on as poor if you shopped there and now it’s like the busiest supermarket there is

 

[Thehulk95]

Even at peak offseason for me which was at 6600 cals a day I managed to keep it under $125 per week. If you have a Costco business center near you (or even a restaurant depot potentially) it is a game changer. I can get a 40 lb box of trimmer chicken tenderloins or breasts in the $1.49-$1.69 per lb range, lean ground beef at $5 a lb, and then I’ll buy as much in bulk that I can there and stick to the regular grocery store for the little stuff.

 

[hawkmoon]

90,000 yen a month or about $600 usd. This is food only, not protein powders etc.
Food is still relatively cheap here - good thing as I'm retired

 

[tenny]

90,000 yen a month or about $600 usd. This is food only, not protein powders etc.
Food is still relatively cheap here - good thing as I'm retired

thats pretty good.....but what are your staples??

 

[Siggy]

I spend a lot weekly, too much on food. I dont have a figure atm.

Its on me though, I dont like to cook. The only things I cook are a lot scrambled eggs, thats absolutely it.

But time is money too and I spend zero time cooking so theres that.

 

[OldTimeLifter]

About $200 a week on just the food part of the grocery store bill. What’s sad is 5 years ago it was only
$120 q week. That’s for my wife and I. when food was cheaper, when my 3 large sons were at home and growing, and growing it was $250 a week.

 

[hawkmoon]

thats pretty good.....but what are your staples??

Chicken, some steak, fish, eggs, rice, pasta, mochi, granola, pineapple, bananas, avocados, oats, frozen veggies and fruits, EVOO, MCT oil, curry and sweet and spicy sauces for the chicken, etc.

Skinless chicken breast, which I eat more of than anything is 95 yen per 100 grams, so about $2.80 per pound.
Rice has gotten expensive so we started buying cheap California rice (lol) at 2000 yen per 4kg - domestic is 2x that now.

 

[buck]

Chicken breast runs about $2.6-3 lb. I eat 200+ grams of animal protein a day so that runs me about $8 a day. $1-3 a pound for veggies, some fruit is cheaper so another $6 at most. Bulk rice potatoes etc aren't expensive a dollar $1-1.5 lb. A loaf of good 8 grain bread can be $4-5 a loaf. All told probably$120-130 range most weeks. If am buying a lot of herbs/spices then add sme more dollars for the week. But i really don't track it as i don't need to. I have cooked all my meals since the 1980's except for at most 2 meals a week. Made spinach feta quiche last night be eating that a couple more nights this week. Taking my 2.99 chicken breast and grinding it in my food processor tonight burgers and meat balls are likely on the menu as that is a lot cheaper then paying 6-7 dollars a pound for ground chicken which it tends to run around here. I grind it and clean the processor takes way less then 5 minutes. When things are on sale i stock up. That is how i roll!
Beer of wine comes from my entertainment fund!

 

[Ber_tren]

Around 300 to 400 every two weeks but I live in Cali so everything is pricy

 

[Zamun]

Damn guys. Seeing these numbers here are crazy to me.

I’m doing well financially, and if I spend more than $80 a week on food for myself I start stressin.

 

[tenny]

Damn guys. Seeing these numbers here are crazy to me.

I’m doing well financially, and if I spend more than $80 a week on food for myself I start stressin.

we some big boys.....we need food!!!

and dont eat like birds.

 

[Cv215]

Probably under 100 because I don’t eat enough to grow muscles.

 

[tenny]

Chicken, some steak, fish, eggs, rice, pasta, mochi, granola, pineapple, bananas, avocados, oats, frozen veggies and fruits, EVOO, MCT oil, curry and sweet and spicy sauces for the chicken, etc.

Skinless chicken breast, which I eat more of than anything is 95 yen per 100 grams, so about $2.80 per pound.
Rice has gotten expensive so we started buying cheap California rice (lol) at 2000 yen per 4kg - domestic is 2x that now.

do you cook with mct oil???