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Originally Posted by WestRace
I live by myself and my monthly food cost is about $500 dollars conservatively. I don't know whether that's high or low. So if you have a family of four, that could easily be around $2000 dollars? For comparison, my monthly mortgage for a modest house is only $1250, which means potentially a house hold food budget will be a lot higher than their mortgage and since the mortgage is fixed, due to inflation, the food cost/mortgage will just going higher and higher in the future.
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I track it monthly to the penny. Here is mine broken down by 'grocery store' which includes food, but also household items such as toilet paper, toothpaste, deoderant, home cleaning supplies, etc. and 'restaurants' which includes eating out. This is for a family of three - myself, my wife, and our 4 1/2 year old child. Ignore May of both years as we were out of the country most of those months, hence the lower costs.
01/2018: Groceries - $759.06 Restaurants - $265.68
02/2018: Groceries - $736.04 Restaurants - $273.78
03/2018: Groceries - $952.17 Restaurants - $423.85
04/2018: Groceries - $730.40 Restaurants - $320.25
05/2018: Groceries - $356.05 Restaurants - $79.33
06/2018: Groceries - $927.22 Restaurants - $350.53
07/2018: Groceries - $769.12 Restaurants - $303.41
08/2018: Groceries - $819.65 Restaurants - $305.54
09/2018: Groceries - $983.93 Restaurants - $360.98
10/2018: Groceries - $658.66 Restaurants - $328.69
11/2018: Groceries - $814.01 Restaurants - $232.45
12/2018: Groceries - $748.92 Restaurants - $280.25
01/2019: Groceries - $657.19 Restaurants - $301.71
02/2019: Groceries - $706.13 Restaurants - $265.86
03/2019: Groceries - $910.51 Restaurants - $312.50
04/2019: Groceries - $803.47 Restaurants - $238.55
05/2019: Groceries - $176.15 Restaurants - $55.73
We buy all of our groceries at the local supermarket, with exception of meats and fish. Those we get monthly at either Earth Fare, Whole Foods Market, or The Fresh Market - which is a bit more expensive but much higher quality.