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Title: How much do you spend a day on food?
Post by: hicaniplay on January 23, 2015, 12:17:17 pm
Just browsing links and clicked on a bit with a free cookbook for meals based around eating on $4 a day. Link here: http://www.leannebrown.com/

Which reminded me of this guy who ate on $1 (plus coupons): http://www.grocerycouponguide.com/articles/eating-well-on-1-a-day/

So, curious, how much would you say you spend on food everyday, per person?
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Post by: Skyenkit on January 23, 2015, 01:50:04 pm
Sometimes a lot especially during fridays we do barbecue. But most week days we eat left overs which is doesn't cost a lot.
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Post by: timvolley on January 23, 2015, 03:28:39 pm
since im single I eat out a lot so it is hard to figure the true number out
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Post by: almorin on January 23, 2015, 05:15:57 pm
Over the years I have seen food prices double and triple.  It seems there is "no limit" to how far food prices will go.  In our family, we spend quite a bit on food.  But, I have never sat down to figure out how much we spend.  I am just glad that we are able to eat and to satisfy cravings every now and then as well as to "go out" should we decide to.
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Post by: squirrelgirl44 on January 23, 2015, 09:21:34 pm
I do not spend a lot of money on food. For breakfast I eat things like oatmeal. I take my lunch to work, if I'm in a rush it might be a frozen dinner. Sometimes leftovers. A dinner for my daughter and I usually costs maybe 8-12 dollars, and will last at least 2 meals.
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Post by: ancmetro on January 23, 2015, 09:39:54 pm

     Try to get my meals free!
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Post by: ancmetro on January 23, 2015, 09:43:36 pm
 By going to the local soup kitchens and food banks, I save a lot of money that I use for other things.
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Post by: kewl4reals on January 23, 2015, 10:50:11 pm
Just browsing links and clicked on a bit with a free cookbook for meals based around eating on $4 a day. Link here: http://www.leannebrown.com/

Which reminded me of this guy who ate on $1 (plus coupons): http://www.grocerycouponguide.com/articles/eating-well-on-1-a-day/

So, curious, how much would you say you spend on food everyday, per person?
                       i hope  less than   three  dollars
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Post by: surveygrabber on January 24, 2015, 12:26:12 am
I spend most of my time on food on my free time, especially, on weekends. I'm home most of the time during those days.
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Post by: kapeh12 on January 24, 2015, 10:00:51 pm
Hard to tell these days as I've been making more of an effort to buy meats on sale and freeze them for later, and stock up on fruits/vegetables when they are in season and can or freeze them.  Plus increasing my summer garden and can or freeze that too.  With all that, I'm sure I'm spending a little less than I used to, but I haven't gathered enough data to figure out a new average.

In fact this winter, I took a "squirrel" approach - in stocking up on food before winter hit, and planned to eat mostly what I stocked up with, and minimal shopping at the store - only those items that really don't preserve well.
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Post by: lucky382001 on January 25, 2015, 07:47:36 am
It really varies because we also eat food we can from the garden. I could only take a guess at this point. Thanks for the links though.
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Post by: lhz123 on January 25, 2015, 09:03:06 am
In weeks day we always cooked at home around $20 a day but in weekends its cost more and sometimes we eat outside.
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Post by: sharonpatri55 on January 25, 2015, 10:01:16 am
I'm not sure of a dollar amount, but I will say not much. I take a lunch with me to work, which is a tremendous savings, and most often eat home-cooked meals at a low cost.
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Post by: hicaniplay on January 25, 2015, 12:06:19 pm
Yeah I have no idea how much we eat either. We stockpile *a lot*.
We spend a lot, and are blessed enough to not have to pay attention to the budget that closely. For the most part we buy whatever is on sale though, and then make meals from that plus the stockpile (which is apparently how you are supposed to do it, just like kapeh12 did over winter).

But in any case, it's got me curious, so I think I'm going to start a food diary - like you do when dieting? - only at the end instead of tracking calories I'll look up food prices. If I really get into it, I might scan receipts, so I'll know actual prices, but for the first month I'll probably just take a guess from a list what the price was :P
For me, I'm terrible at accounting, so I dunno if I'll finish it to share, (so don't hold your breath for it lol) but if I do I might post next month knowing an amount. :D
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Post by: nmbrown863 on January 25, 2015, 02:56:29 pm
We spend about $50 weekly on groceries. Eat out maybe once every 3 weeks or so.
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Post by: vickysue on January 25, 2015, 03:16:32 pm
 I buy meats in bulk and then wrap them into pound to two pound packages and freeze them. It saves a lot of money. I go to a distribution center that sell all of the extra that does not go on the trucks cheap. like I can buy a butternut squash for a $1.50 and it will weigh about 3 lbs. where in the store it is $1.58 a lb. costing me $6.00.  I can save a lot on everything I buy. I buy for us and dad. We eat good but cheap.
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Post by: madeara on January 25, 2015, 03:25:41 pm
I don't spend money on food.  I live at home and eat my mom's cooking.  Eating home cooked meals saves quite a bit of money.
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Post by: nguzman1 on January 25, 2015, 04:02:00 pm
That is interesting, I usually spend about 20 dollars a day 10 for lunch and 10 for dinner.
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Post by: davidh121 on January 25, 2015, 08:17:29 pm
I don't think in terms of days, but I guess my family and I spend $600 to $800 a month on food expenses. Things do seem to get higher, but there are somethings (including eggs) that just seems essential items to always have on hand. We also periodically like to go out to eat.
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Post by: mary33716 on January 26, 2015, 08:35:36 am
depends what i am making so are expense some are not cant really give a price
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Post by: mjdoug03 on January 26, 2015, 09:00:40 am
We eat at home so a lot so our costs are relatively low.
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Post by: Skyisbluetoday on January 26, 2015, 09:31:30 pm
I try not to spend to much everyday, close to $50 for the week!
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Post by: ShadeTree on January 28, 2015, 10:46:15 am
I have no idea, but I know that it is very low. With the way things are for me, especially even more so now, I would say that it is far below $1 per day as many times we don't eat or what we do eat is very small and combined together would be a decent meal for just one person. And we don't have coupons to use either, and no food assistance. We just have to deal. And let me tell you, it is not an easy thing to work a stressful job and a physically tough job when your stomach is telling you it needs something to eat, even just a couple of saltines, but you've nothing to offer it.
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Post by: aharr1 on January 28, 2015, 12:06:52 pm
I have been trying to budget lately and i think i got it down to about only 35 bucks a week, which is a lot better than i was doing before.
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Post by: camellia0 on January 29, 2015, 08:08:46 pm
I spend between $5-10 a day eating out. Unfortunately I'm so busy at work that I'm too tired to cook and eating out is the quickest way to do this. I need to change this habit.
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Post by: tuyetmai on January 29, 2015, 08:17:24 pm
We have a big family so I think if we divided out everyone eat around $4 each day I guess.  But some day we eat out so that not count. :)
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Post by: Getinonthis on January 29, 2015, 09:24:10 pm
When I do spend it's usually around $5 to $10 per day.
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Post by: tantricia44 on January 31, 2015, 12:10:56 am
Too much & ends up going to waste cuz my frig/freezer died!
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Post by: bungholiotgn on January 31, 2015, 08:42:01 am
I normally try and just buy groceries (usually spend around $150 for a months worth) because I always get the BOGO deals and coupons. Try to make my trips as cheap as possible.
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Post by: Cuppycake on January 31, 2015, 05:30:15 pm
We buy most of our food from the farmer's market. It is a bit cheaper there but buying all fresh foods is expensive.
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Post by: raven1114 on January 31, 2015, 11:32:00 pm
We spend a out 800 a month.
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Post by: rpse1927 on February 01, 2015, 07:01:57 am
I cant put a price what I spend on food a day as its different each day
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Post by: dsawan on February 01, 2015, 07:14:54 am
20-30 per week so about 4 plus forage for food outdoors.
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Post by: darkxtsuna on February 03, 2015, 01:35:21 am
I spend about 15-30$ a day on food depending on what I'm getting sometimes per a week I only need about 60$ max, No fast food though sometimes.
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Post by: PGS28 on February 03, 2015, 05:07:53 am
I've been eating more take out then I'd like to lately, not good for my calories budget or my financial budget.  But I've been taking it easy compared to what I spent last year.
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Post by: newmom2814 on February 03, 2015, 05:09:34 am
We dont eat out very often.. probably 2 times a month, other than that we spend about 75$ on food a week? So whatever that comes out to
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Post by: PGS28 on February 03, 2015, 05:13:20 am
Just a tip: many dollar trees carry name brand based foods.  I spend at least $40 a month on food from there for myself and my kids and it REALLY helps. 
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Post by: braggin on February 03, 2015, 05:29:25 am
We spend about $10 day per family member for food. We eat very light breakfasts and lunches but have large dinners with dessert including meat, potato or pasta, large garden salad, fresh veggie like broccoli or cauliflower, iced tea and dessert. The dinner meals can get quite pricey, particularly if the meat is steaks from Costco (yummy!)

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Post by: missplaymate618 on February 03, 2015, 05:38:13 am
Recently I've been cooking meals at home and I coupon, but before that I would spend 8-9 dollars per person to eat when we would eat out. But I spend about 30.00 on groceries a week if that.
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Post by: BOSSLADYNELLY on February 03, 2015, 06:38:31 am
Well i think it depends on the number of people staying a my house... its me and my son and my mom and my brother now since i have a 1 year old i have to spend about $100 on food but thats for him and us. As a 23 year mom i feed it easyer to cut back my food and give to him
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Post by: mrisha on February 03, 2015, 07:39:24 am
I don't buy food on a daily basis.  I like to buy in bulk, don't like trying to go around or being bumped by other shoppers.
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Post by: ljrjess69 on February 03, 2015, 12:49:22 pm
humm i dont know relly....not very much.......
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Post by: natashaspy on February 03, 2015, 01:04:15 pm
No real clue, never averaged the daily amount.  I spend close to 500 a month as my hubby only gets paid once a month.
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Post by: Tresbn00 on February 05, 2015, 08:31:15 pm
I went to both of the links that you had supplied and was delightfully surprised. I read just a few excerpts from the dollar a day link and skipped to the end of the thirty one day challenge-what a great ending.  I actually chuckled and was motivated big time. I was ecstatic at being able to download the four dollar a day cook book and will be reading it during my limited free time. So many people think that the secret to getting ahead is to make more money without realizing that, too often, they increase their expenses to match their income. Fusion cash has taught me how to be cognizant of both sides of a penny through a greater appreciation for every cent earned. My lunches come to about one dollar and fifty cents per day, dinners about three dollars and breakfasts are under a dollar.
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Post by: colbtrist on February 06, 2015, 05:06:31 am
I would say that I spend at least $10 a day, but that is for a family.