Current live in the city with access to Woolworths, Aldi and small boquite grocery stores.
Currently just my partner and myself, we mainly cook all our meals at home.
Haven't really set a grocery budget per week and have just been buying stuff as we need it.
Just wondering how much do you budget for grocery per week or any particular tips to make your money go further?
Mine is considerably more than the $35 per week than they allocate you you at nursing homes. About twice that. $5 of food per day is sufficient if you are living in an Asian country and eating the local cuisine, but a pitiful amount in Australia.
Yeah eating on a budget is quite hard when your household also has some odd restrictions.
But to each their own.
Family of three.
Budget is $150 but we average $110-120 per week. We live next to a Woolworths and they reduce a lot. So I go up most days and buy whatever is reduced for lunch/dinner. Fridge and cupboards are always empty but I spend less doing it this way than one large weekly shop (and then returning in the week for a top-up)
What did altomic say when you asked them?
I used to do a big shop once a week of around $150-$250
To which I found I wasted a lot of food as we may have had visitors come over or we may have eaten out and food was going off that I thought I was going to use to cook.
So now I go every 2-3 days and buy what I will use for the next 2-3 days and buy accordingly.
I've found I've saved money, saved on waste and have a greater variety of what we eat as it can be hard making plans on what to cook a week in advance.
We plan out dinners for the week. Shop Saturday and cook everything up Sunday. Family of 4 is between $150 and $200 a week.
Barely anything for 2 in Melbourne, Queen Vic market helps a lot with that. Do one shop on the weekend that lasts us the whole week and usually a bit into the next. Probably $50 - $100 depending on if we get anything fancy or have to replace some staples.
Just two of us, weekly spend on groceries comes up to about $80. $100 max when we expect guests.
If your definition of groceries includes everything (not only for meals), I'd spend roughly around $80-$100/week for two.
But we only spend roughly around $50/week for meal through out the week, providing you cook meals at home often.
I budget for $200 for the week for 2x of us. However we generally come in at max $150 for the week. This also includes basically anything that the supermarket sells that isn't food as well. Personal care products/cleaning and whatnot.
$100 to $150 a week, family of 4.
Buy as much on "special" as possible.
2 adults, cook most meals at home, bar for one dinner out per week on average.
We spend about $100/week including personal care, cleaning products etc.
Household of 1 here. I usually just eat out (usually cheaper for one person) so no real budget for groceries. The eating out works out cheaper (time and money) for me.
Vegetables from local vegi stall any time or from market at the closing time, some stores have specials for each day too