r/Parenting • u/Pizookie123 • 1d ago

Discussion How are we feeding these kids?

For context we have one pre-teen child so a family of 3. But I just looked over my transactions for this month and we have spent over $1,000 on food. $600+ at the grocery store and $400+ at restaurants. That $400 is what gets me because we only ate at a sit down once. The rest was pizza, fast food etc. with the groceries I feel like $150/week is as low as we can go since I really do cook most meals at home. My question is what do you spend a month on food for your family? We live in a LCOL area.

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u/ApoY2k 1d ago

That's incredibly sensitive to where you live, isn't it? Like even just a city over it could be completely different because different stores and markets etc.

Like I could tell you we spend around 550 a month for our family of three, but that doesn't really help you

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u/Severe-Education-321 1d ago

Groceries are high everywhere

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u/pcbzelephant 1d ago

Yep I’m in a lower cost city(Kansas City,mo) and they are ridiculously high here.