klacey1
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Feb 19, 2008
We spend about $120-150 for two adults a week. That includes food groceries and household items like paper towels and TP, but not toiletries. We shop pretty much exclusively at Stop & Shop, with trips to Whole Foods or Trader Joes maybe once every other month. The Whole Foods trips are typically for "special" meals and are much, much more expensive and the Trader Joes trips are for horseradish, organic BBQ sauce and dark chocolate.
I'm sure we could do our regular shopping cheaper, but like PP, we pay for the quality we want for our everyday meals and consider it money completely well spent—free range chicken and eggs, grass-fed beef, wild-caught salmon, organic/local produce and dairy...There are so many other areas we'd be willing to skimp on before the ingredients that fuel our bodies.
Our dining out budget is separate. We both work from home—my SO eats lunch at home essentially everyday, and I'll eat out one lunch a week. Dinner out is probably once or twice a month together, and once or twice a month separately with friends or family.
I'm sure we could do our regular shopping cheaper, but like PP, we pay for the quality we want for our everyday meals and consider it money completely well spent—free range chicken and eggs, grass-fed beef, wild-caught salmon, organic/local produce and dairy...There are so many other areas we'd be willing to skimp on before the ingredients that fuel our bodies.
Our dining out budget is separate. We both work from home—my SO eats lunch at home essentially everyday, and I'll eat out one lunch a week. Dinner out is probably once or twice a month together, and once or twice a month separately with friends or family.