I spend about $2,200 on a family of 4 and I really don't budget or plan meals very well at all so I think this is probably a choices thing on your part. If I did it properly I could probably get away with $1,500 a month. Not a critique though, if you have the money and that's what you want to spend, more power to you.

That sounds like a you problem. I spend $400/month and that would be a lot lower without an obsessive cycling habit which necessitates eating about double the calories of a more sedentary individual my size.

Like please share a receipt that shows how you spent $325 for one week's groceries. $43/day?? Maybe you're eating fresh fish every meal?

I don’t understand how you can spend so much. Even with inflation we (family of 4, cooling all meals at home) are at less than 800€/$ per month.

And we eat meat nearly all meals.

Groceries are definitely my biggest pain point today. In 2018, for a family of 3, we used to spend about $120 to $150 per week in groceries.

Justed check July, and we spent over $1400 in groceries. That's from Walmart, not Whole Foods or some such. And we're in a low to medium COL city.

Sure, we could cut back to more staple stuff(more beans, less meats) if needed, I'm just illustrating how much the price of things have increased!

325/week ?? You live in a big city? We spend that for a family of 5 but we don’t buy a lot of snacks….

Groceries? That seems insane. I rarely eat out when I'm not traveling and I would be surprised if I spent a third that when I was home and don't especially go for cheap food.

Inflation’s bad but it hasn’t gotten _that bad_ yet. If you’re spending $1300 per month for groceries for _one_ person you’re surely getting high end, organic everything.

We spend less than that for a 4-person household in San Francisco. We buy at Costco, Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, and the Asian markets. I think meat and fruit are our biggest expenses. If we only ate eggs and vegetables, spending would be much lower.

That's for one adult eating 3 meals at home, 2 eating 2 meals at home, and 1 eating 1 meal at home.

As many other have pointed out, that seems bonkers. We’ve spent $1,128 in the past 30 days for 6 people and that includes back-to-school supplies, some sports equipment for fall sports. We buy mostly organic fruits and vegetables, milk, beef, and chicken and have a meat protein in every meal. Even that seems absurd. We use Costco for everything we can, a weekly trip to Walmart to fill out the smaller things, and Sprouts for veggies and fruit.

If you’re paying that much for groceries, one trip to Costco or Sam’s Club will probably pay for the membership.