How much do you spend a month on food?

amother

↑ Ebony

Thu, Aug 29 2024, 9:29 pm

amother Burntblack wrote:

How can you afford that? Your income must be high. I definitely recommend trying out Aldi or Walmart - you can save so much. If you’re buying deodorant and paper towels at a Jewish store (not sure if you are based on your post), you’re spending much more than you need to.

If you’re wealthy and have money to spare, buying everything at Jewish stores is a nice thing to do. I’d shop there fully if I was rich.

My income is not that high but definitely a large percentage is spent on food... we're a lot of people, mostly adults, and have more people for Shabbos. People spend 1000 dollars on a family of two so it makes sense that we spend close to four times that amount. We also buy a lot of vegetables, fruits, whole wheat, sourdough...

I buy paper towels and deoderant etc at Wal Mart but I do spend on delivery.

I think if I would be super frugal I could go down to 2500 (make my own challah, dips, etc) but not sure if I could go much below that.