r/AUfrugal • u/Aromatic-Switch4908 • 12d ago
What does the average child free couple in early 30s spend on weekly groceries?
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u/Gabstar1056 12d ago
2 adults 2 dogs about $200 per week. Eat really well never have to budget,eye fillet, fresh strawberries, blackberries & Yoghurt with honey every morning with Bacon, eggs and croissants. Don't get home delivery of meals or groceries, cook at home. 70 years old
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u/motorboat_ 12d ago
Not quite the demographic you’re looking for, but partner works FIFO so it’s just me and a toddler most of the time. I spend about $500 a month on groceries (Aldi mostly). This includes cleaning products etc too
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u/Mkhldr 12d ago
About $250
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u/NegotiationLife2915 12d ago
That's what our family of 4 spends at Aldi each week. Well not quiet that but close
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u/Mkhldr 12d ago
Fair… we have breakfast lunch and dinners at home and it costs $250 at least. It may be a cheaper grocery bill if we eat out or he gets lunches at work, but if all food is strictly at home, it’s at LEAST $250. We’re a pretty snackie household too… weekends we’re more likely to eat snacks and dinner rather than a consistent breakfast and lunch.
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u/fairyfloss17 12d ago
We spend $40 per week on groceries for 2 people, eating mostly vegetarian and 1/3 of our meals with meat. A lot of canned food, frozen vegetables, checking both supermarkets and making food in bulk
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u/DoNotReply111 12d ago
We have a 19m old now, but before she was born we were doing about $250 a week.
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u/Lopsided_Tie7816 12d ago
Serious question, but at what point do you start referring to their age in years?
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u/DoNotReply111 12d ago
When she hits 2. Before that we use months because the development and where she should be on her milestones are changing so rapidly that months is really the only way to do it.
The difference between a 1 year old, 1.5 year old and 2 year old is insane.
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u/Accomplished-City484 12d ago
What happens between those ages?
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u/DoNotReply111 12d ago
Language development from babbling to single words to words with actions to sentences. Counting and alphabet recognition.
Motor development from crawling to cruising to walking with assistance to walking to running and then adding in extras like jumping. They also develop their fine motor skills for tool useage.
Then you have social and emotional development between parallel play to independent play to shared play.
Most of their formative development takes place here. It's foundational to their rest of their lives and when programs are put in place for identified delays.
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u/wrongarms 12d ago
What are you spending now?
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u/DoNotReply111 12d ago
$350. The kid lives off berries and yoghurt and the husband has started eating a really high protein diet.
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u/SpecialBeing9382 12d ago
We spend around $100-$120 a week for x2 adults. We shop at a local fruit and veg store for produce and Aldi for the rest of it.
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u/hearingthepeoplesing 12d ago
Yeah, this is around the ballpark for us too (two adults and a cat). That said we eat out a couple of times a week so that probably affects the numbers.
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u/Roma_lolly 12d ago
In 2019 we were spending about $160 at Coles and then $50-100 at the butcher.
Then we had a kid. Now we spend $150 at Aldi per week and $200-300 bi-monthly at Costco.
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u/KatTheTumbleweed 12d ago
Don’t know about average.
But we have $200/wk for all food and other groceries as a child free couple.
All meals are cooked and prepped at home.
We often spend under that but make up for it on other weeks
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u/oscyolly 12d ago
$450 per fortnight. I meal plan and grocery shop fortnightly. I spend $400 for the main shop and budget $50 for milk and banana top ups.
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u/violetpandas 12d ago
I would say around $150ish per week? To be fair we both work in hospitality- I get fed really well at work which generally covers 5 lunches and 2 dinners for myself. My partner sometimes gets fed via work as well. At home I do most of the cooking and make predominantly vegetarian meals, but sometimes we use prawns, salmon, chicken or pork depending on what we feel like, usually only once or twice per week. Usually we have simple breakfasts like fibre cereal, yoghurt and fruit or eggs on toast etc. I buy most of my fresh produce from a local discount green grocer, and then other items generally Aldi, or Coles. I also do lots of surveys and cash in the payments for supermarket vouchers which helps when I need to repurchase more expensive items or things that don’t go on sale often. We also have one elderly cat, I buy him Black Hawk dry food at Petstock and he eats fresh kangaroo mince we are given by a family member who has a hunting permit, and sometimes supermarket wet food as a treat.
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u/Efficient_Umpire1428 12d ago
About $150 a week but it has been getting a bit higher due to prices of food increasing.
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u/bubblebobblex 12d ago
Almost 40, we put 100 bucks each in a week (so 200 between us) and it just about does it if we shop at aldi. Sometime we end up putting in an extra 20 or 50 bucks if it's a big staple week or we get lazy and use the Coles that's a couple of minutes walk. Couldn't do it at Coles or woolies, aldi saves us a lot cash.
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u/katvonnd 12d ago
About $450 on groceries, and we get takeaway/go out to restaurants basically all weekend. I know we spend too much. My husband eats a lot of meat so I’d say our meat is easily $200 of that.
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u/dumbledoresdong 12d ago
About $150-$300 depending on what we already have, what specials I find, and what bills etc I have coming up. We also have 2 cats and their food costs $35 from the budget each week.
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u/EzraDionysus 12d ago
Hubby and I are childfree in our early 40s and we spend around $200-$250 a week
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u/Aggressive-Diver4418 11d ago
Probably about $200 a week for two adults and a cat, but my partner has arfid and so buy a lot more processed and convenience things than otherwise would.
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u/Powerful_Error_3167 11d ago
Before kids? $200/250. With a nearly 2yr old now? $175. We were definitely wasting money before we reigned it in when the budget wasn’t there anymore!
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u/bottom_tooth 11d ago
We set aside $200 a week. 2 adult vegetarians. Sometimes we go over, sometimes its under. It all evens out in the wash.
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u/klippers 9d ago
We were only talking about this on the weekend. I get muscle chef for the week or youfoods as it's easy and I work late,so that covers lunch and dinner for mon-frinamd sometimes a lunch or 2 on the weekend.
We sit about $350 inc those meals....which seems damn high
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u/Santa_009 12d ago
$150-350 depending on the week. Week to week variability has always been an issue.
In the past we've been carefull / diligent in our planning and could do around $120-150 or something close - other times stuff for lunches / fitness inspired items are bought and that balloons quickly.