If you took the amount of money you bring home each month and subtracted 10%, would that 10 percent equal the amount you spend on food per month?
What about if you subtracted 20% of your take home? Would that be a larger or equal amount?
The average American household spends 10% of their take home income on food (groceries and eating out combined). The average European household spends 20% of their take home income on food.
For our household, 10% of our take home would be just over $200. Twenty percent, just over $400. We generally spend right about $400 a month on pastured meats (lamb and game, poultry, and fish), organic dairy, limited canned goods, and beans/rice/pulses.
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We spend around 20% on food. We do what I call, semi-homemade. We don't make everything from scratch but we make our food out of whole foods and not anything overly processed or artificial.
We def spend closer to 20% on our family of 5.
We buy all meats locally and do all organic dairy.
We do 95% from scratch.
Same for us. :-) I have noticed that our costs haven't been going up as shockingly as some report, probably because we try to purchase locally. There's less money spent on transportation, therefore, prices aren't increasing.
We get virtually all of our produce through a local CSA during the summer. I'm able to preserve enough that the only produce we buy over winter is potatoes, onions, and garlic.
Quoting tennisgal:We def spend closer to 20% on our family of 5.
We buy all meats locally and do all organic dairy.
We do 95% from scratch.
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Agreed. We get a hog butchered from a local farmer a few times a year and it is so much cheaper than the "sales" on pork in the stores. I really thought it would be more expensive.
Quoting eema.gray:Same for us. :-) I have noticed that our costs haven't been going up as shockingly as some report, probably because we try to purchase locally. There's less money spent on transportation, therefore, prices aren't increasing.
We get virtually all of our produce through a local CSA during the summer. I'm able to preserve enough that the only produce we buy over winter is potatoes, onions, and garlic.
Quoting tennisgal:We def spend closer to 20% on our family of 5.
We buy all meats locally and do all organic dairy.
We do 95% from scratch.
That's impressive. :-) What's your strategy to stay that low? Coupons, sales?
Quoting lovinglife0682:
We spend less than 10% of our take home.
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Is it just me, or... ?
- eema.gray
on May. 6, 2012 at 3:49 PM