What %age of your income do you spend on groceries?

[peanut]

I was talking to my sister the other day, and she told me in Europe the average family spends 40% of their income on groceries, and in the U.S. and Canada, it's more like 15-20%. We just won't tolerate paying more than that for food.

Is that the case with you? What percentage of take home pay actually goes to groceries?

I know for us groceries represent 11% of our take home pay. So we are less than average. What about you?

Jean

[Mamaw]

a little over 13% per month if I calculated correctly. That does not include extra buying for holidays which probably comes to another 300 or so per year

[Marie78]

I spend around around 11% also, but that includes: food, HBA, paper/plastic items, cat food/litter/treats, medicine, etc...

[joyofsix]

12.5%, if I stay on budget.

[IntlMom]

I just figured it: 6.5 percent, for a typical, average month.
This includes everything: food, pet, hba, paper......everything

[StaceyS]

2-4% of take home pay. DBF makes up for that, though. He's not very frugal (he's learning, though)

[mom2matty]

We are at 10% most months.......some a bit more but right around that area!!

[Squirt]

Less than 5% for me.

[sdrjeolsen]

just ran a Quicken report for last year, we spent 3.55% of take home. 40% seems HUGE!! How do they afford anything else?

[qtkitty]

18.2%

But thats mostly from fs and wic so technically what we actually pay for groceries ect is a small amount of that. We have been back stocking with what we get.

[3hungryboys]

Interesting...we are at 6.2% (food, cleaners, HBA, paper, etc)

[banana]

wow! Im impressed by everyone!

Mine is more like 15%. I got to work to get that down.

[amykhar]

I love to cook, and can be very impulsive. So, I am at about a shameful 25%. But, that includes laundry detergent, shampoo, etc.

[redhead68]

About 4%...but our eating out expenses are another story!

[Denvergirlie]

6.5% for everything, food, hba, cat food, etc.