How much do you spend weekly …?

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How much do you spend weekly on groceries and household stuff (like cleaning supplies, pet food, daily cosmetics, medicine, toilet paper, etc) ?
How many people are in your family, and where are you located? 
I’m trying to figure out if I really spend way too much. We’re a family of 4 with a pet (cat) and I average around $200 (sometimes a little more if we’re bulk buying things like diapers, or making a specific meal) a week on just regular everyday necessities + groceries… I feel like it’s a ridiculous amount, but can’t seem to cut down because everything is just stuff we need! I do coupon as best I can, buy store brands, and shop at a variety of places to get the best deals, but life is expensive! Help? 
Also, we live in Eastern Washington, tell me if I’m failing!

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We spend about $2K per month on all that stuff. Sounds like you’re majorly budgeting there’s no way we could get away with spending that little. We live in San Diego- 2 adults, 5yo, 2yo and 1 dog.

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I have a family of 3 and we easily spend about the same. I live in Sydney Australia, the cost of living is just insane.
I’ve started doing batch cooking to try and cut down a little on some of our expenses but you can only do so much.
Also if it helps we don’t have pets Andy daughter is out of diapers so if you are factoring in those things and an extra family member I’d say you’re killing it.

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I guess it also depends on how you live and what you consider necessities. Also if there are any dietary or health needs you have to cater to on top of that.

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I live in the UK, my grocery bill is around £230 a month, I only shop monthly, I only need to top up on bread and milk through the month, we're a family of 4.

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I’m in South Australia- family of four which is 2 adults , 2 year old and 17 year old and no pets , we spend at the most about $150 a week but that’s cause I have always bulk buy and have a big chest freezer I also spoil my kids with stuff I could cut back on , pull ups , fresh fruit , fresh veggies and snacks is the main weekly spend . I meal prep and my SO works away week on week off in the mines and his work pays for his food when he’s there.

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I think it depends on the region. For my house we do every two weeks when my husband gets paid. My daughter is in diapers so ours with that is about $250? I’m not sure because I’ve been buying a few extra things lately for the pantry. So I don’t have an avg right now.

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We don’t grocery shop weekly. That would be too much running around after work. I’m a bulk shopper. I get multiple of everything when I shop the first time (ex: 4 bags of salad, 2 twenty four pack of eggs, 4 rolls of ground beef, etc) we grocery shop once a month majority of the time. If we’re going back to the store it’s to get stuff that will expire if it sits in the fridge for too long such as fish. We get that the week we’re going to eat it because I don’t like frozen fish. We spend about $300-$350 on groceries.

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2 adults 2 kids we can average $2-300 a week honestly. We live in a pricier part of Florida.

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We spend about 400-500 every week. That’s just on food for us. When we have to get toiletries and dog food and baby diapers then it’s about 650+
We prefer to buy our produce at farmers markets to help support our local farmers and not pay into the big corporations! Also the produce from the stores lately seem to rot super fast! We are vegetarians so we eat tons of veggies and fruits and they cost about $200/week.

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We are also a family of 4 and spend about $200 every week on necessities.