Weekly Grocery shop spend $$$

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We spend $600-800/month on groceries for a family of 5 and one on the way in Texas. I shop sales and take advantage of coupons, plan meals around what is on sale and buy fresh veggies as needed on a rotating basis while keeping stocks of canned goods and proteins. When sales are good and ground meat is at 3/lb I buy in bulk and freeze. We use Sam's to buy paper towels and toilet paper as well as canned goods and bulk snacks, since the price is much better per item. I can stretch over a pay period or two for us all. I cook most meals at home in large quantities so we have leftovers to eat through and freeze some to pull the following week if it keeps well/heats well. I prepare enchiladas and floutas in bulk and freeze, anytime I make rice I cook extra servings so some can be frozen away and we have about 2 days backup in fridge on hand, less cook days/wk. I do Aldi for produce, BGC for getting points and 5% off our grocery purchases once we have enough, and shop around at Natural Grocers/Walmart when cheap.

I make a lot of veggie heavy meals which are filling and nutritious, we are definitely an ingredients house not a snack house 😭 it's hard sometimes which is why I try and cook in bulk at least 3x/week to give myself lazy days between or use up and then go nearly a week before needing to cook again minus small veg or fruit prep.

Edited to add it's my husband and I in the home, our 17 and 2.5 year old, and my FIL we care for!

This is good advice following

I spend a minimum of $175/week but I’ve spent up to $300 if I let the freezers dwindle down.

$200 per week. I could get it down by cooking rice and beans more often but my man would just spend the difference on snacks so I don't try too hard. We are in El Paso, TX

We get most of our produce through a subscription. The contents comes out on Monday afternoons and I have until Tuesday night to swap out an item we don't want. It saves a lot of money.