Considering we eat a well rounded healthful diet, I guess I’m doing pretty darn good! I think I’ll pocket the difference! What do we buy with $100 per week? Using the “thrifty” category, our family budget could be $196 per week, $850 per month, or $10,200 per year. Just for kicks, I calculated our suggested family budget using the USDA Food Plan Worksheet. Over the last 6 months we’ve averaged $100 per week, $433 per month, or $5,200 for the year. This has obviously upped our grocery bills, but not as much as I had initially expected. We buy whipping cream 12 quarts at a time, prepackaged meats, and even diet soda. In January, Christian was put on an extreme Ketogenic diet to treat his Epilepsy and now I find myself purchasing things I never imagined. Our 4th child was born in 2015 and I began buying even more produce than before. I spent $4,900 those years, or $94 per week. The budget this year was $4,500 per year or $86 per week. I do have records from this time period on. I estimate our grocery budget was under $3,900 per year or $75 per week. We ate more healthfully than when I couponed, but continued to spend approx. Because I had more time than money at that point, I kept a very large garden and canned a lot of produce. Husband was furloughed during the recession and we had just bought our first home – great timing on that one! We expected him to lose his job any day and we preemptively cut expenses as drastically as possible.
Family of 5 average grocery bill plus#
I don’t have specific records from this time, but I remember trying to keep our grocery budget under $2,340 per year, or $45 per week for the two of us, plus our baby. I also got into couponing, although, I wasn’t very good at it. Around this time I got serious about budgets, saving, and tracking expenses. We had our first child in 2007 (9 months and a couple weeks following our wedding). I pretty much just went to the store and picked up whatever looked good – ha! If I had to estimate, I would say we spent $3,700 per year or $70 per week for the two of us. In fact, we had no grocery budget and did not keep track of expenses (gah!). I have no idea what our grocery budget was then. Besides, it is a good excuse to put lots of cute pictures of my kids in a blog post! I thought instead of just giving you our current grocery budget number, it would be fun to walk you through how that number has changed based on the size of our family, our circumstances, and our eating habits. Our grocery budget includes lots of hospitality meals to friends and family as well as a good many Christmas, birthday, and other occasion gifts.Even so, our yard produce constitutes only 1/10 of our produce intake.
Family of 5 average grocery bill Patch#
Besides a medium size vegetable patch we have 2 mature and 5 younger fruit trees, a medium size raspberry patch, and an asparagus patch.
The number does not include the cost of growing our garden.We live in the Midwest where grocery prices are fairly reasonable.We eat a well rounded whole foods diet but do not eat organic.He does not go out to eat for lunch unless it is a company event and therefore paid by the company (smile!). Our budget includes all of Husband’s meals at work.We tend to go out to eat once twice a year. Going out to eat (even getting a pizza or going through the drive through) is very rare. 2 adults, a 10 year old, a 6 year old ( with a very special prescribed ketogenic diet), a 4 year old, and a 2 year old. What you need to know about our grocery budget number: Well, it is about to get VERY real here, but before I give you our detailed grocery budget number, I want to preface it with a few points. Do you like to peak into other’s grocery budgets? I know I do! Money spending and saving is a topic I enjoy chatting about with my friends -I’m so grateful my friends indulge my wierd ways! I always learn something and come away with an idea or two to try.
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