How much money do you spend per month on food (groceries and eating out)?

Recently moved in with my girlfriend and feel like I’m constantly swiping my card 🙄. Here’s ours below:

- Groceries: $300/month
- Dining: $400/ month

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My wife and I had a good month last month. We spent $1,000 between eating out and groceries. We usually spend >$1,200

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Sounds about right....

We spend around $600 (about ~$150 per week for two of us) on groceries and probably another $800-$1000 on average eating out. Going out to a nice Friday night dinner is our “thing,” so we don’t mind splurging. And healthy groceries are so expensive compared to other things 🤯. I guess it doesn’t help we have all of our groceries delivered. My SO and I are both comfortable with how much we spend though (and contribute equally), so it’s definitely important to be on the same page.

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Agreed. My groceries for two are about the same. Eating out is cheaper, but we don’t drink much when out for dinner.

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That sounds about right for groceries. We spend the same for two people maybe a little less.

Bay area for 2
~$400-500 monthly groceries
~$500-600 monthly food delivery or eating out and treating friends to dessert and whatnot

We don’t really restrict our spending here and could probably do better but it works us. Mostly shop Asian grocery, Costco and Whole Foods.

Bay Area, Family of 3.. about $1000 on groceries and $150 on eating out ..

My fiance and I have made an experiment to save money, getting takeaway once in a 2 week period. We spend about $300 on groceries for 4 mouths, and less than $100 on eating out

I live in Kips Bay and I spend about $200 a month on groceries. $500 on food and I eat out almost everyday or do take out giving myself $15 a meal 😄

usually finding hole in the wall spots and going to Chinatown foten haha

About $1000-2000 a month on eating out. Single foodie in Houston. 300 ish on groceries

4 people NY and can’t do less than 350/400 a week. Is crazy I know but idk how others are doing $400 a month!

2 ppl

$550/mo groceries
$200/mo takeout/restaurants/drinks
= $750/mo total on food

I spend about $100 on groceries and $100 on eating out per month for myself only. I shop at Lidl for part of it. Then anywhere else I use things like Ibotta, Shopkick also and I usually have grocery store gift cards stored up from when I previously maximized the rotating category on groceries for 5%

$350-400/month on groceries
~$75/month on eating out
Family: 1 adult, 1 elementary kid, 1 toddler
Sometimes it’s 2 adults

Single male living in Boston
> $200 a month on groceries
> $350 a month at restaurants

The $350 a month at restaurants… seems a bit high now that I’m looking at it

3 people (2 adults and 1 toddler), it used to be $300 per month from Monday through Fridays and another 100-150 for the weekends for the whole month, now $400 with the hello fresh stuff and 50-100 random. max monthly is 500.

$1300-1500 for a family of 3 on groceries and $100 on eating out

Meal prep (M-F) = 480
Dining out (Sat-Sun) = 600
Ad Hoc Grocery = 200

Total of 1,280 a month

$400 month groceries
$200 month eating out (twice a week)

I’m single in LA, about $200/month groceries, $400/month dining out and drinking

We spend $150-200 a week of groceries and another $150 a week on dinner out. Groceries are just more expensive now!

Two people and a toddler average $1300 a month combined groceries/eating out. Average COL area.

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