Reply #157: Thinking about my weekly grocery bill. [View All]

At home, it's my husband, me and our teenage son. We spend about $120/wk here on the East Coast. The only junk we buy is one bag of chips to ration to put in our son's lunch at school 5 times a week and one half-gallon of ice cream which usually lasts about a week.

We both work full time so we probably buy more convenience food, but it's usually stuff like bagged salads or jarred spaghetti spaghetti sauce. We eat lots of whole wheat pasta, lean meat (always more expensive than the cheap meat), chicken and fish. None of that is cheap, plus my 15 year old eats a lot. Whole grain bread is twice as much as white bread and orange juice is more expensive than soda.

Husband and I are both overweight but we try to fight it by eating right and exercising at least 4 times per week. We pay for gym memberships and park passes. We have bikes and a kayak and we take yoga classes. I just bought new shoes for working out and they were $75. I suppose all of those things are optional, but it definitely is more expensive to work in healthy habits.