If you had $100 budget to spend on groceries...

Bigger question

When am I gonna get my next 100 dollars?

I typically get two packs of meat like chicken and hamburger. That can make a couple meals..like pasta with meat sauce and chicken stir fry. I'd buy bananas, bread, milk and iced tea. Yogurt, cheese, a pound of deli ham and turkey. A couple bags frozen veggies, maybe two frozen entrees. And last perhaps a box of cereal or granola bars. This is my typical list and adds up to roughly 80 bucks or so. It lasts a little over a week or so.

About $50 per person per week per 2000 calorie need should be an attainable frugal shopping list. The USDA publishes menus and does shopping tests to determine the cost and those figures are used as a basis for SNAP payments. I haven’t peeked in a few years but imagine that there menus would price out at about $60 per week.

One problem with shopping lists and set menus is that they are based on predetermined choices and don’t adjust for the ups and downs of the market place. So 10 to 20% below USDA should be easy. Also thrifty shopping can flush out dramatic price differences.

For that $100, the shopping cart should look like the FDA’s My Plate or the old Pyramid or some other recognized benchmark.

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Depends what a person wants. $100 is like 2 bags of items esp if meat is included

If you go to the shop before closing you get lots of good food reduced. Plus I growfruit t and vegetables and herbs and freeze lots. I could live on £100 for a fortnight if I had to. But including alcohol, for the two of us it's probably about £100 a week.

This is what two weeks looks like... some repeat each week and of course, depending upon the week an odd item or two will be added:

Black Seedless Grapes
Chobani® Black Cherry on the Bottom Nonfat Greek Yogurt Cups
Bananas
Hellmann's Real Mayo
Land O' Frost Premium Oven Roasted Turkey Breast Lunch Meat
Nature's Own 100% Whole Grain Wheat Bread
Simple Truth Organic® Dairy Free Organic Original Soy Milk Half Gallon
Simple Truth™ Natural Cage Free Large Brown Eggs
Large Green Bell Pepper
Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts
Extra Sharp Cheddar Shredded Cheese
Dark Red Kidney Beans
Black Beans
Organic™ Baby Spring Mix
Yellow Onions
Planet Oat® Oatmilk Barista Lovers
Carrots

I average about $70-75 each week

I'd buy the staples, rice, flour, potatoes, salt, pepper, garlic and onion powder, eggs and cheap meat that I could stretch using my other ingredients. I'd also try to buy pasta.

Soup, bread, peanut butter, nuts, Mac and cheese, beef, spaghetti sauce, eggs, cheese, etc……. I’ll make the best of that 100

A decent sized steak is $50. A $100 doesn’t go far these days.

19 items for $101.04

Oatmeal $6
Coffee can $10
Milk 1L $3
Eggs $4.2
Hotdogs $9
Spaghetti $4
Sauce 640ml $2
Meat balls 1.2 kg $10
Bread $2
Pita wrap $4.8
Pepsi cans x12 $7
Hashbrowns $6.3
Tomatoes $5.25
Lettuce$3
Ranch $2.8
Cheese 400g $5
Popcorn $12
Rice cracker x2 $3

1.04 past
Idk I'm gonna buy it and see

Under biden about 3 items in the cart.

Just me it'd last a couple weeks probably. Probably 3-4 protein items, similar amount of fresh veggies and then some snacks

$100 per what time frame?

$100 per hour?
$100 per day?
$100 per week?
$100 per month?
Etc

I guess that depends on how long I have to make it last. $100 for the whole month? Rice, some dried beans, some seasonings, and some multivitamins. I'll be miserable, but I'll live.

A week? Drop the multivitamins and I'll pick up a pork loin, a block of cheese, some assorted canned veggies, and whatever fruit I can afford with what very little should be left. Still not happy, but getting better. And if I plan it right, I'll have leftovers to carry into the next week allowing me to slowly diversify over time.

My normal budget would probably be closer to about $25/day. But I could do less if I had to.

Fruit
Some veggies
Nuts
Eggs

All on poontang!

I could live off that and eat very well

I usually get what's on sale, it can vary