Currently it's about 160€ per month. One person in Germany. Potatoes and air fryers are a godsend

$40 (CAD) / Day

A bit expensive, but I'm both autistic and rather picky. I'm paying for my mental health there, not just food

Generally I'll spend $15 on breakfast, $3 on a waterbottle at work, $20 for lunch, and sometimes I'll buy those discounted meals made with offcuts and leftovers from Sobey's. Around $10 - $15.

On my days off I eat whatever I have available in my pantry when I remember to eat.

Single person and I do almost all of my own cooking. I average $500 - $600 a month.

Food alone? Varies, but around 1000-2000 EUR equivalent. Sometimes more, such as during holidays.

Family of 6, Norway.

I spend about $200/month just for myself. I cook breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Take lunch with me to work everyday. I eat very very plain food (ie rice and chicken every day). With grocery prices up, I cut out a lot from my diet to keep around $200/month. No beef, no fresh fish, no fruits, no yogurt/kefir.

Meat: chicken, turkey, tuna fish, eggs and egg whites Veggies: kale, collard green, frozen veggies, tomatoes Carbs: rice, pasta, sweet potato, canned beans, peanut butter, granola bars, cereal Fruit: I admit I bought a bag of apples recently Dairy: milk, mozzarella cheese

I go to the gym regularly and drink 1-2 protein shakes per day.

Kind of embarrassing that I live on such a restricted boring diet, but at least I cook for myself, stay within budget, and stay away from processed foods/ snacks.

$320USD/mo. for healthy, organic food for one person. It could be less, maybe 75% of that. I've been considering making changes, but I like what I like.

I'm going grocery shopping today, in a couple of hours, as it happens. I shop once per week.

I'm paid bi-weekly with $1,200 USD going toward groceries from each paycheck

Granted we're a very large family though inflation these past few years hasn't helped

We live in central NC, USA

Left to my own devices it'd be about $100/month.

Rice, beans, pasta, peanut butter, oatmeal, and then whatever fruit and vegetables are cheap.

With the social life included, there's more expenses. Did dinner out last week for $60 (a nice local Thai place). Ordered a pizza with a friend who was feeling down and watched Star Trek together for like $30.

Other non-rice meals with my partner can also be more expensive. We air-fried up some potatoes and vegan "meat" last night and it was good.

There's an app called "too good to go" that lets you get cheap food near the end of day. It's stuff the restaurant or grocery was going to have to throw out. Sometimes you get like four slices of pizza for $4, or a platter of Korean food for $6. Seems good and not enshittified yet.

I'm in NYC, for context.

Single person, I probably could get by on $150 a month, but I eat out frequently, so I spend about $300 a month. This is in San Diego.

Two adults, one small child: About $400 on just groceries in a high CoL area.

Eating out is expensive, maybe another $400 a month.

Wife and I try to keep it under $250/week, so $1000/month.

currently i dont have to worry so its up to ~300€ (including takeouts)
But its probably more like 150€-200€ (including takeouts)
in case i worry i can probably get to 60€-80€ by mainly eating noodles or something (no takeouts)

That said: i share my finances so this is mainly just guessing how much i need
Also i get free food at work currently and dont have an expensive taste

January was $1262 in AUD. I eat a fairly meat based diet with ribs, pork belly, eggs, butter, and good coffee. I would consider it reasonable for myself, my partner, and my cat. That also includes other household things like cling wrap, dish liquid, and so on, so actual food cost is probably more like $1000-1100. In USD that is $697-767, so well under $200 per week. Also my meat is top grade Australian beef, widely considered some of the best in the world, and the butter is grass fed cow butter. I work 20-25 hours per week and can support my partner and myself on my pay and my partner's disability payment.

I pretty much only eat cereal for breakfast, a small frozen meal and fruit cup for lunch, and only rarely eat dinner so I think I spend around $100 a month on food.

I get $298/month to spend on food and I am usually out of money a week before the end of the month.

5 person household, all adults now, mostly physically active. Probably 4k a month all-in.

That includes some booze, not much eating out and is paid by all of us so average 800 / month per person, but not evenly spread, kids are more frugal and do meal prep for lunches and husband and I spend more, and feed all of us once a day at least. Not much junk food, buy ingredients not premade things and I do have a garden.

$500/mo. Single person, SE USA. I eat 2 meals per day and a snack. Cook all of it except for one treat meal per week.

I should add, that price might be a tad high, as my grocery bill includes things for the household like laundry detergent.

70€ (83$) food, 30€ (35$) drink. (Caffeine addiction)

I eat less than 1kg* per day, try to only buy food so it's overall 2€ per kg of a meal, so it's 62€ per month, with a monthly treat that's 70.

Edit: Thinking about it, less than 1kg of food per day was perhaps too low, considering that realistically wouldn't even be half of my recommended energy intake. Maybe the extremely high soda intake I used to have was just to balance that out? Anyway, since I switched to other drinks a month ago I probably eat way more.

Just below 900 euro per month

In Denmark

Household of 4

We have estimated about 6000 dkk per month or 200 dkk per day

I never counted but I don't think it's much, eyeballing it I'd say less than 200€. I live alone in Spain and I cook almost every meal.

I could count it and see.

for one person, about USD$200/mo. $40-$60/wk depending on sales, etc.

Central Florida.

4-500 per month, family of 3, Slovakia

I've now averaged 276€($327)/month as a single. Before it was 624€($740)/month. Northern Europe.

I aim for less than $500. In Canada, so...

It's a lot of pork, beans, rice, frozen veggies, unsweetened Coconut not-milk. I buy some store brand junk food too I'll admit. The sausage and cheese addiction inflates costs too. Fresh fruit usually I just get banana, kiwi, and watermelon sometimes if it's on sale. I buy some frozen fruit but it's much less than veggie. I don't need the calories.

I don't have a food-only budget, but our "supermarket + food" spending for 2 humans and 2 cats last year was ~280 euros per month. That includes takeout/delivery but not restaurants, cleaning materials, catfood (but not the vet), alcohol, snacks.

About 40 to 50 a week, so about 220 ish for one person

I could shrink it down to 20 a week if I just eat chicken, rice, and bok choy, but I've been trying to challenge myself to meal prep a different meal every week

Usually around $300/month:

• $50/month on bagels, my favorite food that I eat way too much of
• $120/month on other food at home like salads, homemade fried rice, and chicken nuggets
• $30/month on snacks like pretzels (it's an addiction sadly)
• $100/month on going out to eat

About €350 per month for two people. This is in Germany, where food is relatively affordable compared to other high-income European countries.

2 people, about €300 spent in grocery stores monthly, with the caveat that both of us get some level of food at work.

Around 300-400€ for one person and two cats.

On average between 400 and 450 euros. I live alone, do home cooking (mostly), vegetarian or vegan and I rarely look at prices when I shop groceries. Only if the final amount is surprisingly high I look at the receipt and will adjust my decisions next time.

We are at about $800 monthly for 5 and snacks for the 5 babies that my wife watches. I'm not including eating out because that's about $300 for Friday date nights with the wife, special treats, and occasional eating out on the road.

Cooking and packing these days extra meals would only change the grocery bill by about $30-50..

Around £100.

The small print: That includes delivery charges and all other household and hygiene supplies that can be bought at a UK supermarket.

Around $200 CAD on groceries, and maybe $50 CAD on takeout (the local pizza place has a combo that feeds me for about 3 days). No more than $300.

About £600 a month for two adults and one medium sized dog. Some shared stuff that my (adult) kids also use like cooking oil, milk, washing powder etc. also use. They buy their own meals and snacks to cook themselves.

Thats cooking from scratch majority of the time, gluten free, which costs more.

Probably around $200-250 depending on the month. I spend $20-40 per grocery run, and shop twice a week most weeks. It was higher when I first moved because I was buying the bulk staples that I just keep stocked (rice, vanilla, salt, etc, gave all of it to my old room mate when we moved), but it's gone down since. I think I spent about $400 the first month, $300 the second, and it's probably gonna go down again in the next couple months.

I used to spend $80/mo, but that's when eggs were $1.29 for 18, spam was $2 a can, and milk was $1.50/gallon.

sigh That wasn't even "Back in my day" that was like 6 years ago. Fuck these prices.

I guess about 1000 € for two adults and a small kid

I would say just food maybe 800-1000 swiss francs. And then 400 for other necessities like toilet paper, trash bags etc.

Tbf that went down in the last 2-3 months since I stopped eating dinner for 5-7 days a week. No, not to save money, I am intermittent fasting so I only eat breakfast and lunch. More lunch though. So I guess most money now goes towards dinner for my partner. So we spend maybe 600-800 now.

This feels like a post made to shame people who spend more than online randos deem "necessary", so I'll just say $80/month for 2 people.

$300-$350 for 2 people.