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I am wondering what an adult spends per month on groceries in brandon (without having a freezer full of meat)  
just someone who shops about once a week.  
my grocery bill per month seems high and we don't eat fancy....(but healthy) Lots of fresh vegetables

Well for one thing , I find fresh fruits and vegtables have been and still are, very pricey; unless you get lucky and hit a sale; in same breath, its not cheap to eat healthy.  
And with this pandamic, I have noticed food price increases on almost everything.  
Want to eat healthy, but at times its a struggle when on a budget.

600 to 800 per month.  
That includes food and paper products-kleenex, paper towel, kleenex,-as well as things like tylenol, soap, cleaning products, etc

When I lived alone I could do about $40-50 a week with one big haul a month that i:ncluded cleaners, feminine products, etc for an extra $100.  
 
Now I have a family of 4 and eating exclusively at home we spend about $500-600 a month. We eat really healthy and I try to get fruits and veggies on sale but I’ll still buy them if they aren’t on sale too. I think we could trim that down to $400ish if I was doing more meal prep. Right now I prep about 2 weeks of meals at a time.

We eat as healthy as humanly possible and we RARELY eat out, 250$/week is normal. Family of 6! But to be fair, that's all inclusive spending, so that i:ncludes diapers and wipes for 2 of the kids, and clothing, and hygienics (feminine products, laundry, etc). It's our largest bill, but we also go without in other areas so we can eat well.

I'll just add, when I was single and living on my own, money was super tight and I did 20$ a week on groceries... it wasn't healthy, but I survived. Tis but a memory now...but oh how life changes..

And I find I average 50 to 60 a week but I will also buy 1 cleaning paper product or cleaning product a week in that and they last long enough that I rotate around. I do occasionally buy meat products in slight bulk orders like buying a 40 pound barbeque pack etc so if I stock up like that, then for the next while 40 to 50 buys my fruits veggies basics etc.

We spend about 600.00 a month for a family of four and a bunch of pets, on average. We don’t buy much in the way of convenience or processed food. It’s been a little higher since the pandemic because we have been getting grocery delivery and can’t really shop around for the best prices.

We are a family of 3 with a young child. We grocery shop once a week and currently spend between $250 and $350 per week depending if we need cleaning products/dipers. Our grocery budget is currently $1300 a month which is a bit more then it used to be as we don't eat out at all since Covid.

Anyone is feeding a family with healthy foods for $400-500 a month. I spend almost $100 a week just in breads, fresh fruit/veggies and dairy. That doesn’t even count dry goods/staples/pantry items and meat.  
 
We easily spend $1000-$1200 a month, 2 adults, 1 older teenager and 1 tween.

If I spent 400 a month . Three adults, we eat good. 1000.00 -1200.00 a month.

It can be done. You don’t need meat at every meal. And as a culture, many people overeat. If you follow guidelines on food sizing you’ll find you eat less. However I should have mentioned in my post that 2 of my family members are under 3 years old. If I had two teenage boys in the house I’m sure I would be spending more.

We have two active adults and two adolescent boys. I admit to not tracking our food budget well pre-covid (as long as we weren't wasting it, I didn't really care). Now we're down to one income, and no impulse purchases or eating out, so I was kind of shocked to see our food bill. We spend about $250 per week. I cook all our food at home, including all bread products. We eat well, mostly plant-based, and we don't buy expensive meat substitutes, it's all beans and tofu. We buy very little processed food.  
 
At least it's still not being wasted, but I never thought such a high proportion of our household income would be spent on food.

groceries are our largest bill each month. Family of 4, both kids under 7, we spend over $1000 a month. That includes pull ups for a toddler though, dog food, and other misc. household/personal items. I try to shop the flyers even if it means driving around to a few stores, although I haven't been doing that lately due to all the changes and have been trying to get everything in one or two stores.  
Meat from the grocery store, unless you hit a deal, is very expensive. You're better off finding a local farm and buying meat from them, most people think thats more expensive but its really not and you're directly supporting them.  
Container gardening is also very successful if you dont have the space for a garden.

If you have the means and resources, it worth it buying meat in bulk, from the farm or from the butcher (we usually use Tendercuts if we don't buy directly from the farm). We are 7 people (2 adults + 5 kids ranging from 2 to 14, with the oldest 2 basically eating like adults) and I spend about $4000/year on meat - which seems like a lot but if you break it down it's about $75/week, or just over $10/day. That's no bad considering how much meat we eat and at least 50% of what we buy is organic.  
 
Taking meat out of the equation, we spend about $250/week on groceries, which i:ncludes everything I buy at Superstore - dog food, toiletries, paper products, and occasionally diapers (we mostly cloth diaper, but use disposables at night and occasionally during the day if we need to). We eat fairly healthy too - lots of veggies especially (none of my kids are big fruit eaters, nor are my husband and I). About 1/2 of my haul would be perishable - fresh, frozen and dairy.  
 
But that was all pre-COVID, where I was actually shopping once a week and buying according to sales or deferring shelf-stable and frozen stuff to being on sale, buying more generics, etc.  
 
Now, it's harder to judge because I'm only shopping every 2-3 weeks and we kept on-hand stocks artificially high, and I'm buying according to need not sales. I shopped this past week in-person, and didn't buy any shelf-stable stock except what we actually depleated, so it was again about 1/2 perishable. I spend about $450 for 2 weeks, but didn't get everything on my list.

Just to give you a comparison, today in Uk.  
800g Wholemeal bread $1.79.  
12 medium free range eggs $2.37.  
630g Nutella $1.71.  
340g Peanut butter $1.45.  
434g Strawberry jam $1.00.

Are those in pounds or converted to CDN with an exchange rate?

These are in Canadian dollars converted at today's exchange rate.  
The strawberry jam should be 454 grams not 434.

What percentage of your income is spent on food for your family?  
If you believe any statistics at all they tend to show that the percentage of income spent on food has been dropping for decades.  
As a producer I am interested in your thoughts.

We are also producers, and I've also read the stat about proportion of income spending on food.  
 
Now that we're single income (and will likely be until the border opens to tourism in a meaningful way), our spending on food is around 50% of our post-tax income. That is also not even taking into consideration that when the family does eat beef we're not paying for it!