monthly grocery budget?

**yebo** · July 28th, 2011 11:28 PM

Originally Posted by robtay2

hmm.. this country is messsed up because too many people don't want to be truthful . I'm not talking about the utang you get every month to support your family from famiy working abroad but what you actually spend. the average salary in the philippines is $177 per month..pero we have people spending 20,000 mth on food.. sure.. my sister makes 50,000 USD year and she spends a little more than that every month ($600USD=25K) and she has 2 kids and herself.. people have 3 maids.. cige ne.. come on and be truthful maarte.. an average salary for an engineer grad is 23000 K month.. and you spend that much in food??? where you work? I work for a BIG company in HR and I know how much I make.. I"m paying 20K a month for a down payment on a house, I'll be done with it in January, and the extra expense is kicking my butt. I make over twice as much as a grad engineer and I can barely do it.. and I spend roughly 8000 month for food, with my wife and 2 kids.. I come to this site to look for answers, but too many people are just straight up liars about how much they make and really just need to wake up.

Dapat magsalita totoo or just don't speak.. that's my American tagalog for you.

inggit ka kasi mas malaki kita ng mga tsikoters sa iyo? do you think tsikot people are ordinary pinoys earning $177/month? e di sana hindi na tsikot.com ang name ng forum, sana kariton.com na lang! mga tao dito nakakabili ng milyon halaga na sasakyan tapos di kaya ang grocery na 20k/month? we are not you and you are not us, so turn green in envy little boy!

to answer the ts, for a family of 2 adults, 3 school age kids, 1 baby and 2 maids our weekly grocery is around 6k plus another 4k at the wet market, or total 10k/week. yung binibili namin sa grocery (usually sa cherry or waltermart, cheaper than SM) ay purely kids baon, breakfast food, snacks, milk for the growing up kids and milk ni baby, diapers, toiletries, laundry soap and other household maintenance items (i.e., zonrox, raid insect killer). we seldom buy meat or fish at the grocery kasi ayaw namin yung na-frozen na. sa market we go to farmers, fresh na mura pa.

as for S&R, hehehe pahamak yang S&R na yan! last month we went there to just buy US strawberries, request kasi ng bunsong girl namin. talagang specify nya ayaw nya ng baguio dapat daw US. ayun pag-check out 12k binayaran ni misis, daming nadampot na di naman kelangan.

**jansky** · July 29th, 2011 12:48 AM

Originally Posted by robtay2

hmm.. this country is messsed up because too many people don't want to be truthful . I'm not talking about the utang you get every month to support your family from famiy working abroad but what you actually spend. the average salary in the philippines is $177 per month..pero we have people spending 20,000 mth on food.. sure.. my sister makes 50,000 USD year and she spends a little more than that every month ($600USD=25K) and she has 2 kids and herself.. people have 3 maids.. cige ne.. come on and be truthful maarte.. an average salary for an engineer grad is 23000 K month.. and you spend that much in food??? where you work? I work for a BIG company in HR and I know how much I make.. I"m paying 20K a month for a down payment on a house, I'll be done with it in January, and the extra expense is kicking my butt. I make over twice as much as a grad engineer and I can barely do it.. and I spend roughly 8000 month for food, with my wife and 2 kids.. I come to this site to look for answers, but too many people are just straight up liars about how much they make and really just need to wake up.

Dapat magsalita totoo or just don't speak.. that's my American tagalog for you.

- are you interested how much money I have in my wallet?
- do you want to know my monthly expenses?
- and how about my monthly income?

**ChunkyLover** · July 29th, 2011 01:24 AM

We spend 12k to 16k of groceries at S&R or 10-12k sa shopwise libis per week for me, wife and 3 maids... The reason its too much because my wife took cooking lessons. everyday is a new meal

that's why im fat

**ghosthunter** · July 29th, 2011 01:46 AM

Originally Posted by robtay2

hmm.. this country is messsed up because too many people don't want to be truthful . I'm not talking about the utang you get every month to support your family from famiy working abroad but what you actually spend. the average salary in the philippines is $177 per month..pero we have people spending 20,000 mth on food.. sure.. my sister makes 50,000 USD year and she spends a little more than that every month ($600USD=25K) and she has 2 kids and herself.. people have 3 maids.. cige ne.. come on and be truthful maarte.. an average salary for an engineer grad is 23000 K month.. and you spend that much in food??? where you work? I work for a BIG company in HR and I know how much I make.. I"m paying 20K a month for a down payment on a house, I'll be done with it in January, and the extra expense is kicking my butt. I make over twice as much as a grad engineer and I can barely do it.. and I spend roughly 8000 month for food, with my wife and 2 kids.. I come to this site to look for answers, but too many people are just straight up liars about how much they make and really just need to wake up.

Dapat magsalita totoo or just don't speak.. that's my American tagalog for you.

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**asb75** · July 29th, 2011 10:35 AM

my family's grocery expenses is worth 5K per week,s from shopwise, budgetlane and palengke items. Na observe kasi namin mag-asawa na pag tinipid namin yun budget sa grocery, kawawa ang mga kids, sa tingin ko tama lang yun 20K per month, dahil siyempre ang bilihin tumataas every month which you can't do anything about it. inoofset na lang namin kung di namin kailangan di namin bibilhin, kailangan talaga konting control lang sa things na puwede for some other time na lang bilhin. tapos may mga prizes kami nakukuha pag credit card ni mrs. ang gamit namin, just like last dec.2010 for every 3000 worth of grocery may libre kaming crispy pata sa max's restaurant which is not a bad thing. shopwise card niya nakaredeem siya nang 2000 pesos cash voucher. basta play it smart always be alert for some which you gain benefits.

**CVT** · July 29th, 2011 01:46 PM

Mukhang pakawala itong si bro.robtay2.

13.8K:gotcha:

**_Qwerty_** · July 29th, 2011 02:13 PM

or alternick na naman.. tsk tsk tsk

**miLes** · July 29th, 2011 02:14 PM

around 15k-17k per month. me, wife, and 1 kid. gusto ko sana sa wet market para masmura kaso we just have time to shop after office hours kaya mall bagsak

and medyo mapili pa sa food yung 2yr old kid namin, so pagayaw kumain, labas pa kami hay...i hope when he gets to 3 di na siya mapili sa food