Food Prices In America

crumpets and dog food shouldn't run you too much

Are you looking to go cheap?
Once you get the essentials that you need (oils, sauces, all that) then I was able to live comfortably on $30/week. eating a good amount of meat and whatnot.

you can get ramen for like 5 cents. Cup of noodle, depending on sales, from 10 cent to 50 cent. Box of mac and cheese for like 75 cents. pasta is usually like a dollar or two, depending on brand. Sauce can be cheap to 3 dollars. Pack of frozen burritos for like 2.50+ Frozen pizzas for a dollar to 3 dollars. Might find whole cooked chickens for like 5 dollars, but that is a splurge.

You can eat really cheap if you want to. Of course, it might not be the best for you, but it is mighty inexpensive.

Or you could go a little more quality. Pastas still pretty damn cheap. Various beef products anywhere from $2-$6/lb. Pork from about $1.50-$3/lb. Chicken about $3/lb. Fruits and veggies are pretty cheap.

All of this does vary from store to store, city, and days of the week.

Pack of pasta (any style really) 75 cents to 1 dollar.
Cheap canned sauce around 1 dollar
1lb of cheap ground beef 2 dollars
green pepper(s) usually 50 cents to a dollar depending on the season


Cook meat, add pepper.

Cook pasta, add sauce meat a pepper. Probably about 4 full meals for about 5 bucks.


Then mac and cheese for like 70 cents, solid meal.


Ramen is cheap, depending on where you are but you can buy usually like 20 for a couple bucks.

Get a dollar loaf of bread and dollar peanut butter and cheap jelly and you have a bunch of meals there too.

Cheap cereal is good too, like 3-4 bucks for a huge bag and then 2 bucks for a gallon of milk and yuo have a bunch of meals there too.


Buy everything i just said and you could feed yourself for a week for like 20-30 bucks.

Honestly though, if you're just around for one week you could spend 50-60 and buy way better stuff, but if 20-30 bucks matters that much to you, then you can do it for mad cheap.

I agree with what has been posted already, I've lived all over the world, and of the developed countries, Americas food is the cheapest.

Yeah I meant to say 'per week' rather than 'for a week.' Hopefully staying for a few months so saving $30 a week goes a long way.

if you want to eat like a normal person and not be hungry all the time then for 4 people you're probably looking at 200$/week total for food. make sure to buy in bulk and freeze stuff, that saves a ton of money