My weekly grocery bill for a family of four is under $100.
How much, and what kind of beef does this include? For how many meals?
How much chicken? Ham? Turkey? Pork?
How many dozen eggs? Gallons of milk?
Just to be clear....you’re purchasing 3 meals/day, for 7 days, for a family of four? If not...how many meals/week does this 100.00 buy?
We shop at Aldis. Almost everything is made from scratch, although we do cheat with some things.
4-5 gallons of milk. Two loaves of bread. Bag of potatoes every other week or so. Our main protein is chicken. Most weeks a dozen eggs. Rice. Noodles. Salad makings.
Sunday dinner is roasted turkey breast or pork loin - about $7. Roasted potatoes and carrots. Or pork stew. That leaves enough leftovers for one more meal - usually lunch on Mon or Tue, although the stew lasts a couple meals.
Tue is tacos (I have taco salad). Wed is something like chicken noodle soup or chicken casserole. Thur is date night for the wife and I - the kids have grilled cheese (and ham slice) and french fries. Fri is meatballs and rice. Many of the meals will have steamed broccoli (the only green veggie the girls will eat).
Mon and Sat is “fend night” where we go through leftovers or you pick your favorite. Sometimes that is fried chicken (banquet frozen). Sometimes frozen battered fish. Sometimes just baked fish. Or just about anything else.
Breakfast is typically waffles (from Sam’s pancake mix - bag lasts a month or so). Wife has oatmeal or cottage cheese and mandarin oranges. Sometime scrambled eggs. Sometimes french toast. Sometimes just peanut butter toast.
Lunch is leftovers, or peanut butter sandwiches, or ham luncheon meat. Or (frozen) fried chicken. Or scrambled egg sandwich.
“Date night” runs us about $20-40 depending where we go. I guess I should include that in the food budget. And about every two months a trip to Sam’s to pick up a bag of frozen chicken breast, pancake mix, shredded cheese. Hamburger every other time. With other odds and ends (laundry soap, etc) it runs about $200. So adding up weekly Aldis run, “date night,” and Sam’s, we are under $150 a week. We could cut out date night and be close to $100.
Admittedly, the price of things is going up. And a lot in many cases. Eggs were under a dollar. Now they are nearly $1.50. Milk has gone from around $1.80 to $2.50. But we are still under $100 a week for everything but date night. Not much longer I’m afraid.