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Crate of 24 beers, five pizzas, two large steaks and a packs of French fries.

1 lb of salt. 20 lbs of long pork.

My groceries aren't interesting, but I had a friend who only ate what went into a mug.

He carried around a ceramic mug, either collecting free stuff or telling people about his mug to see if they'd put food in it. Free samples, a few grapes, and occasional hand outs all went into the mug. I filled it with soup when he came by.

I eat a lot of fresh food that doesn't last a week; I shop every other day. I also eat a lot of things that last forever and are cheapest in bulk, like beans, rice, pasta. As a result, I honestly don't know what a week of groceries looks like.

My wife comes up with a menu for the week and buys everything needed to make it.

Once a month, we go to Sam's club and buy bulk meat which gets portioned and frozen, and other bulk non perishables like coffee, rice, pasta etc.

The weekly trips are about $200-$300 and the monthly trip is about the same.

We have five kids between us.

We do groceries roughly every 1.5 weeks, or around 3 times a month. It consists of going to a big grocery chain for the essentials and two asian supermarkets for specific stuff that can only be found there. We try to hit them all in one trip but sometimes split them over 2 days because raw, frozen stuff sitting in the car while we go on two other stops is a bit risky.

I walk each day to the local markets and grab whatever I feel like that day That's a good walk and is usually my cardio for the day.

Right now, it's usually a couple chorizos, and then I use the leftover oil to fry potatoes, seasoning the potatoes and then use the leftover oil/spice from the fried potatoes to fry a bunch of diced tomatoes so I have a thick fried salsa.

bag of tomatoes is five quetzales, same for a bag of onions or potatoes.

I grabbed a tamale and some carnitas yesterday for 4 bucks.

I like walking around and seeing what's open and available each day.

I go grocery shopping once a week, and I'm buying just for two adults. Most things I get at Aldi, and some things at Giant if I don't like the Aldi version, or Aldi doesn't sell it. I do make a list ahead of time, but I buy mostly the same things every week.

A typical aldi trip includes bananas, berries (rasp or blue usually), avocados, some kind of fresh green veg for dinner (typically spinach, asparagus, or green beans), bread, jaffa cakes, coffee, low-fat cheese, laundry detergent & fabric softener, windex, dishwasher pods, toilet paper, canned fire-roasted tomatoes (soooo many easy recipes with these!), sparkling water, eggs, egg whites, almond milk, yogurt, and pierogies. Then I typically get my meat at Giant (most of Aldi's meat is pretty gnarly), plus things like toothpaste, evaporated milk, sugar packets, paper towels, canned lentils (my Aldi doesn't carry these???), and a little bouquet of flowers. And then some random things I buy on Amazon, like my tea (yorkshire gold), farro, protein powder, low-fodmap ingredients, etc.

I spend about $150 a week unless I'm out of something expensive like paper towels.

These days, we tend to sit down on Sunday evening and plan out our meals for the week, then go shopping on Monday. We go to the farmer's market Saturday and plan our meals around what vegetables we could buy locally.

I don't consider very many things essential. Maybe dry beans, rice (sub millet, quinoa, or other cookable grain as needed), lentils, flour, and salt? Without those I'd have troubles surviving, with an adequate supply of those I could live for months, it'd take a while to even get sick of all the things you can make with it. I'm willing to cut pretty much anything I need to out of my diet if it's not available and honestly I think the obsession with having all foods available at all seasons is weird.

Two trips each week. One to the local farmers shop, for whatever is available there (mostly vegetables, eggs and bread, but sometimes fish, meat, ice cream, etc), and another to a supermarket for the common things (pasta for my gf and couscous for me, rice, flour, some dairy (fresh cream or cheese), sandwich bread and chocolate spread, sometimes stuff that needs to be refilled like oil, soap, toilet paper, etc and usually an extra meal : either rice and fish for sushi-like thingy, chickpea for nugetts-ich fried stuff, or a can of smthg like chili con carne).

We try to do lists for the supermarket, otherwise we always forget something. For the local shop, what's available varies greatly so there's no sense making a list.

I shop at Aldi and Lidl, so I'm buying the raw ingredients for meals rather than the preprepped meals themselves.

I'll spend my sunday afternoon cooking and meal prepping for the work week.

1 kg / 7 packs of sliced Bacon, 2 dozen eggs, 4x 6 packs of beer.
I prefer a healthy varied diet with lots of vegetables, so I've decided beer is vegetables.

I'll usually have 2 or 3 meals in mind that'll carry me for the week. I'll make something that will have leftovers (stews, stir fries, etc), and other things that can be easily repeated (fried eggs, bagels, sandwiches, produce for salads, etc).

Once I get to the store things can change a bit according to what's available or what looks good.

A bag of frozen chips/fries, potato chips/crisps, 2 boxes of 12 eggs, some cereal, chocolate, maybe a crate of pop (Dr Pepper is my fave) and milk.

A shopping list on Google Keep has been a game changer. We have a shared list with my wife. Whenever we run out of something essential or need something, we add it to the list. Whenever one of us is in a grocery store, it's easy just to go through the list.

I usually pick up enough stuff to last me a week or even two; mostly frozen pizzas, ingredients for curry, sweets, snacks, pantry staples like pasta sauce and pasta. Caffeinated beverages like soda or energy drinks are typically on my list too. I also get toiletries, cleaning supplies, and toilet paper every few weeks.

We spend around $200/week for 3 people and cook every meal. Comes to about $3/meal/person. Pretty much just some meat, beans, pasta, veggies, fruit and my kid's snacks.

The butcher delivers meat once a week on a schedule

About every other week go to the local wet market for variety

Anything else is ordered about once week from the local western style market (free delivery)

Trip to Costco every 1.5-2 months to stock up on meat and whatever else we can buy in bulk and freeze. This trip completely fills the freezer and requires reorganizing it and breaking down the bulk packages and vacuum sealing smaller portions for single meals for two people. We also do a similar trip to H-Mart for Korean things and a huge bag of rice.

Trip to the grocery store weekly to grab smaller things we might need. Sometimes it’s much larger than others. Big meal prep day on Sunday so we don’t have to do as much work during the week.

Lists are essential so I can free up that memory for something else. I also will think of things at the most random times and I’d never remember them without immediately putting them on the list. Also helps ensure that if either my wife or I go to the store we can pick up things the other has thought of.

Usually a head of lettuce, a couple bell peppers, an onion, a lb of ground beef, any other meat that is on sale, a gallon of milk, bread, maybe some frozen or canned items, a bag of chips or some other snack, any staple items I might be out of, and a fifth of WT 101 if it's on sale.

We manage our "food inventory" with Grocy which calls itself "the ERP beyond your fridge". It basically tracks every single purchase and consumption of food and also each items best before date. It needs a bit initial setup and you need to remind yourself to checkout stuff you consume but then it's just great. Not a single item spoiled because it got pushed too far back on the shelf. And since Grocy knows how much of what item we want in stock, it automatically writes our shopping lists with stuff which is about to run out.

So the shopping is basically day to day as we return from work and pass the store just ticking things off the list. And we made a rule for ourselves to only buy the stuff on the list, nothing extra to avoid impulse purchases.

I pretty much eat depression meals, with occasional cooking. Trying to be better, but I still eat a lot of food that isn't the greatest for you, like frozen meals, that kind of thing. I really should be better, and I don't know if I should be sad or motivated seeing everyone else's food in this thread.

2 cups of rice, 1 cup of pintos, 4 flour tortillas, a nebulous amount of grits, 6 english muffins, 6 eggs, a few bananas and plain oat cereal, two bags worth of frozen veggies (cauli, broc, carrots, bell peppers, onions), a single chicken breast, a small roll of ground beef, a small roll of pork sausage, a half gallon of OJ, coffee, tea, oatmilk, and a hand-waved amount of spices, salsa, seasonings, choese, vinegar, and/or sweeteners.

huh, i eat more than i thought. I shop about twice a month, and usually buy the dry and freezable stuff in bulk so I don't notice as much how much I'm taking in on the regular.

Shopping is a mix of buying stuff that is pre-planned, and impulse purchases. That depends on a number of factors. If I went to the supermarket to buy e.g. peppers, but the ones they have don't look good, I can spontaneously change the meal and buy something else for which I can buy good products. Same at the meat frontier, I can easily switch plans if shopping reality dictates differently.