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Currently it's about 160€ per month. One person in Germany. Potatoes and air fryers are a godsend

$320USD/mo. for healthy, organic food for one person. It could be less, maybe 75% of that. I've been considering making changes, but I like what I like.

I'm going grocery shopping today, in a couple of hours, as it happens. I shop once per week.

Single person and I do almost all of my own cooking. I average $500 - $600 a month.

$40 (CAD) / Day

A bit expensive, but I'm both autistic and rather picky. I'm paying for my mental health there, not just food

Generally I'll spend $15 on breakfast, $3 on a waterbottle at work, $20 for lunch, and sometimes I'll buy those discounted meals made with offcuts and leftovers from Sobey's. Around $10 - $15.

On my days off I eat whatever I have available in my pantry when I remember to eat.

Food alone? Varies, but around 1000-2000 EUR equivalent. Sometimes more, such as during holidays.

Family of 6, Norway.

I spend about $200/month just for myself. I cook breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Take lunch with me to work everyday. I eat very very plain food (ie rice and chicken every day). With grocery prices up, I cut out a lot from my diet to keep around $200/month. No beef, no fresh fish, no fruits, no yogurt/kefir.

Meat: chicken, turkey, tuna fish, eggs and egg whites Veggies: kale, collard green, frozen veggies, tomatoes Carbs: rice, pasta, sweet potato, canned beans, peanut butter, granola bars, cereal Fruit: I admit I bought a bag of apples recently Dairy: milk, mozzarella cheese

I go to the gym regularly and drink 1-2 protein shakes per day.

Kind of embarrassing that I live on such a restricted boring diet, but at least I cook for myself, stay within budget, and stay away from processed foods/ snacks.

Left to my own devices it'd be about $100/month.

Rice, beans, pasta, peanut butter, oatmeal, and then whatever fruit and vegetables are cheap.

With the social life included, there's more expenses. Did dinner out last week for $60 (a nice local Thai place). Ordered a pizza with a friend who was feeling down and watched Star Trek together for like $30.

Other non-rice meals with my partner can also be more expensive. We air-fried up some potatoes and vegan "meat" last night and it was good.

There's an app called "too good to go" that lets you get cheap food near the end of day. It's stuff the restaurant or grocery was going to have to throw out. Sometimes you get like four slices of pizza for $4, or a platter of Korean food for $6. Seems good and not enshittified yet.

I'm in NYC, for context.

Single person, I probably could get by on $150 a month, but I eat out frequently, so I spend about $300 a month. This is in San Diego.

Two adults, one small child: About $400 on just groceries in a high CoL area.

Eating out is expensive, maybe another $400 a month.

About 40 to 50 a week, so about 220 ish for one person

I could shrink it down to 20 a week if I just eat chicken, rice, and bok choy, but I've been trying to challenge myself to meal prep a different meal every week

Probably around 500 bucks but I get a good amount of stuff for my girl too. In the US

Wife and I try to keep it under $250/week, so $1000/month.

Just below 900 euro per month

In Denmark

Household of 4

We have estimated about 6000 dkk per month or 200 dkk per day

I pretty much only eat cereal for breakfast, a small frozen meal and fruit cup for lunch, and only rarely eat dinner so I think I spend around $100 a month on food.

I get $298/month to spend on food and I am usually out of money a week before the end of the month.

5 person household, all adults now, mostly physically active. Probably 4k a month all-in.

That includes some booze, not much eating out and is paid by all of us so average 800 / month per person, but not evenly spread, kids are more frugal and do meal prep for lunches and husband and I spend more, and feed all of us once a day at least. Not much junk food, buy ingredients not premade things and I do have a garden.

I never counted but I don't think it's much, eyeballing it I'd say less than 200€. I live alone in Spain and I cook almost every meal.

I could count it and see.

70€ (83$) food, 30€ (35$) drink. (Caffeine addiction)

I eat less than 1kg* per day, try to only buy food so it's overall 2€ per kg of a meal, so it's 62€ per month, with a monthly treat that's 70.

Edit: Thinking about it, less than 1kg of food per day was perhaps too low, considering that realistically wouldn't even be half of my recommended energy intake. Maybe the extremely high soda intake I used to have was just to balance that out? Anyway, since I switched to other drinks a month ago I probably eat way more.

currently i dont have to worry so its up to ~300€ (including takeouts)
But its probably more like 150€-200€ (including takeouts)
in case i worry i can probably get to 60€-80€ by mainly eating noodles or something (no takeouts)

That said: i share my finances so this is mainly just guessing how much i need
Also i get free food at work currently and dont have an expensive taste

January was $1262 in AUD. I eat a fairly meat based diet with ribs, pork belly, eggs, butter, and good coffee. I would consider it reasonable for myself, my partner, and my cat. That also includes other household things like cling wrap, dish liquid, and so on, so actual food cost is probably more like $1000-1100. In USD that is $697-767, so well under $200 per week. Also my meat is top grade Australian beef, widely considered some of the best in the world, and the butter is grass fed cow butter. I work 20-25 hours per week and can support my partner and myself on my pay and my partner's disability payment.

$500/mo. Single person, SE USA. I eat 2 meals per day and a snack. Cook all of it except for one treat meal per week.

I should add, that price might be a tad high, as my grocery bill includes things for the household like laundry detergent.

On average between 400 and 450 euros. I live alone, do home cooking (mostly), vegetarian or vegan and I rarely look at prices when I shop groceries. Only if the final amount is surprisingly high I look at the receipt and will adjust my decisions next time.

I aim for less than $500. In Canada, so...

It's a lot of pork, beans, rice, frozen veggies, unsweetened Coconut not-milk. I buy some store brand junk food too I'll admit. The sausage and cheese addiction inflates costs too. Fresh fruit usually I just get banana, kiwi, and watermelon sometimes if it's on sale. I buy some frozen fruit but it's much less than veggie. I don't need the calories.

I've now averaged 276€($327)/month as a single. Before it was 624€($740)/month. Northern Europe.

4-500 per month, family of 3, Slovakia

usually about $550/month including coffee and soda. I'm one person. I have tried to set a budget but I am really not good at it. I also don't really believe in the idea of eating less healthy to save money. It seems short-sighted.

for one person, about USD$200/mo. $40-$60/wk depending on sales, etc.

Central Florida.

I don't have a food-only budget, but our "supermarket + food" spending for 2 humans and 2 cats last year was ~280 euros per month. That includes takeout/delivery but not restaurants, cleaning materials, catfood (but not the vet), alcohol, snacks.