Grocery budget for a family of 3?

[puffkin]

Omg, those prices are ridiculous! I'm not sure where you live, but my groceries are about 1/2 that price.

I was going to say the same thing. I don't buy a lot of those things, but I know the prices at my store and easily could get the same stuff for half that price! Especially the Alexia fries, which I do buy frequently!

 

[sherry7]

OP here. Just a little update, since it's related to this thread I started. On Friday morning, I discovered that our deep freezer door was open, and had been for several days. It was jam packed with food, and I estimate we lost at least $700-800 of food.

Anyway, I'm upping the food budget to $400, since we had to throw out everything in the freezer. I made a trip to Sam's Club today to buy ground beef, chicken, pork loin, a bag of fish, frozen fruit for smoothies, etc. I'm still sick just thinking about the amount of (previously) frozen food that we had to throw out on Friday.

 

[robinb]

OP here. Just a little update, since it's related to this thread I started. On Friday morning, I discovered that our deep freezer door was open, and had been for several days. It was jam packed with food, and I estimate we lost at least $700-800 of food.

Anyway, I'm upping the food budget to $400, since we had to throw out everything in the freezer. I made a trip to Sam's Club today to buy ground beef, chicken, pork loin, a bag of fish, frozen fruit for smoothies, etc. I'm still sick just thinking about the amount of (previously) frozen food that we had to throw out on Friday.

That really stinks Sherry .

 

[sherry7]

That really stinks Sherry .

Yeah. On the bright side, I've been saying that I needed to empty the freezer, clean it out, and reorganize it. At least that got done, lol.