Good times

diymirage said
It is, shall we say, interesting?

I have 3 kids and 1 wife and between the 5 of us, we spend roughly half on groceries of what you just quoted

Now, my oldest will be 13 next month so the other two don't eat too much, but it's still a big difference

I see we both live in Michigan, FWIW, I shop at meijers

I wonder if my family eats our more then yours, that could skew the numbers, but we really don't do that a lot iether

I'm not sure where it all goes to be honest, we are starting to track it closer this year due to how high it seems. I was lumping all food into that total, whatever my credit card spit back as groceries and restaurants. We were shopping at Kroger and Sam's Club primarily, since Kroger is the only thing close to us, however, we have recently switched to the local Target. Their meat is considerably cheaper, and usually cooks up better and their produce is also cheaper and lasts close to twice as long as Krogers. The best part is, you order online and they bring it all to your car! Super convenient. We eat dinner out at a sit down joint occasionally, maybe twice a month tops, but we do grab lunches and quick dinners occasionally. Our kids are both into sports and have practice 5 days a week, they get home from the bus stop at 4:45, which is also when I get home from work, and 2 of the days each week they both have to be at their practices by 5:30, so it's cutting it close as is. We try to cook at home those early start days, but it's hard to squeeze a meal in unless we crock pot something, so we do hit Jimmy Johns or Subway and eat in the car instead of at home. That adds up fast, 3-4 sandwiches at either place is easily $25-30, do that 3-4 times a month, there's an easy hundred bucks plus. Breakfasts are usually eggs, which are now insanely priced and we easily go through 3-4 gallons of milk a week. Somehow we drop an easy $350-400 a month at Sam's in addition to that as well.