Thread: Food bill per week when bulking?

Food bill for Sarah and me per week is about $225-275. We shop mostly at Sam's/Costco but do buy meats at a local butcher shop that sells great quality meats at a decent price.

That doesn't include the cost of a lunch or dinner out per week.

Probably $60-$70 for just myself, with one meal out per week. My wife doesn't train but probably spends more on food than I do.

Originally Posted by Anabolic5150

Food bill for Sarah and me per week is about $225-275. We shop mostly at Sam's/Costco but do buy meats at a local butcher shop that sells great quality meats at a decent price.

That doesn't include the cost of a lunch or dinner out per week.

thanks man. So what do you think it would cost for just you then?

Originally Posted by J_Bo

Probably $60-$70 for just myself, with one meal out per week. My wife doesn't train but probably spends more on food than I do.

How do you get by on $70 a week when bulking? If you buy 7 steaks a week thats $35 right there at $5 a piece

Originally Posted by J_Bo

Probably $60-$70 for just myself, with one meal out per week. My wife doesn't train but probably spends more on food than I do.

damn. Do you hunt for most of your meat? Thats like 2 chinese food dinners for me.

$200.00 week at the grocery store most of the cost is meats tri tip steaks, ground turkey, 95% lean ground beef, and cant forget the chicken breast and they look like turkey breast they are so huge! Lol

i seriously don't see how some of you spend so much.....for me without my bag of eas whey from sam's, my actual food while bulking is about $50/wk.....that's just food and not my total grocery bill as we all buy extra shit there for the bathroom, cleaning, etc.....

Yeah darkcity thats about what I spend as well I dont know how people can get by with only $70 a week.

Originally Posted by irish_2003

i seriously don't see how some of you spend so much.....for me without my bag of eas whey from sam's, my actual food while bulking is about $50/wk.....that's just food and not my total grocery bill as we all buy extra shit there for the bathroom, cleaning, etc.....

what do you buy when you bulk? I still dont understand how you can possibly get all the food you need for $50 a week

Originally Posted by Livebig14

what do you buy when you bulk? I still dont understand how you can possibly get all the food you need for $50 a week

Right i eat all day every 2 or 3 hours if i dont i shrink lol

I think about $80 for me if i don't eat out.

Originally Posted by Livebig14

what do you buy when you bulk? I still dont understand how you can possibly get all the food you need for $50 a week

it might be closer to $70/wk for groceries

5lb bag of rice or 10lbs potatoes
3-4 bags of chicken breasts
7-10 lettuce
a few lbs or green veggies
peanut butter
a dozen cans of tuna
5-6 dozen eggs
container oatmeal

that's about it.......i'll break up the monotony and eat some dollar menu or sushi or steak dinner a couple times a week too.....i get olive oil once a month and use salt and pepper and spices that i already have for flavoring.....

I haven't tried to bulk in a long time. The older you get the harder the cut becomes. So my food bill for maintenance is around $100 per week, just for me. It is about the half for my wife who is a distance runner/cardio bunny. So our food bill is about $150 per week without going out to eat.

it's funny though that cutting costs me more than bulking at the grocery store

Originally Posted by irish_2003

it might be closer to $70/wk for groceries

5lb bag of rice or 10lbs potatoes
3-4 bags of chicken breasts
7-10 lettuce
a few lbs or green veggies
peanut butter
a dozen cans of tuna
5-6 dozen eggs
container oatmeal

that's about it.......i'll break up the monotony and eat some dollar menu or sushi or steak dinner a couple times a week too.....i get olive oil once a month and use salt and pepper and spices that i already have for flavoring.....

alright man. makes sense you eat a lot of bulk chicken.

I spend more when cutting it seems. Better quality meat more supps and fresh veggies adds up. When im bulking i can get away with morre pasta and canned food. Id say myself $200 a week sometimes more.

When i bulked it was cheaper around $100 mainly because of whole milk,p/b,ect
Now i don't bulk or cut just live without that headache i spend around $140-160w/k
Just more fresh veggies and fruit my protein changes from meal to meal(lean,fat)
Happier with a meal plan that i can eat everyday and if i want to put on muscle train less lean out train more doesn't get any simpler then that.

Originally Posted by tubbednova

When i bulked it was cheaper around $100 mainly because of whole milk,p/b,ect
Now i don't bulk or cut just live without that headache i spend around $140-160w/k
Just more fresh veggies and fruit my protein changes from meal to meal(lean,fat)
Happier with a meal plan that i can eat everyday and if i want to put on muscle train less lean out train more doesn't get any simpler then that.

good idea man. But I dont mind the force feeding

Hardly anything. I have hypothyroidism (that was just finally disagnosed about 5 months ago), so I could bulk on like 2500 cals while doing cardio and lifting daily...lol.

Good thing I have a business account set up with a meat warehouse. I can get everything I need for about $200 a month

For a family of five - three boys, ages 17, 15, and 11 - with the two teens lifting, Dad lifting/bulking, and me lifting/cutting, we spend around $1100 a month.

Everything from costco - and I'm not talking little cans of tuna, but the big restaurant size cans of everything, bags of chicken breasts, hamburger, bulk fresh veggies to the tune of 7lbs of spinach a week, 6lbs of broccoli, a few dozen apples, four or five bulk containers of greek yogurt, 3.5lbs of cottage cheese, 6 dozen egggs, five pounds of cheese, 6lbs of protein powder weekly.....you guys get the idea....

It's brutal.....in the past we raised almost all of our own meat, eggs, and dairy.....can't say it was cheaper, but the quality was amazing.

Originally Posted by Livebig14

thanks man. So what do you think it would cost for just you then?

$125-150 most likely. But if the wife wasn't eating I would eat a lot simpler. I make a lot of dinners for us that I wouldn't make for myself. I'd eat really plain.

Back in Russia food eats me.

I am not bulking, nor have I ever really. But I just wanted to toss in the suggestion of people buying the whole chicken, rather than just the breasts, to keep the costs down. Also, beware of frozen varieties of breasts, you are buying more water than protein.

Most of the time, you can get a whole chicken with two breasts for less than it would cost to buy two breasts packaged separately. Its very easy to catch it when chickens are on sale, $5-6 cdn per bird, and break it down into parts for freezing. Legs, thighs, breasts, and wings. I also save the carcases for chicken stock.

I like this option because I can choose what I eat each day based on what I am doing.. and cheat day/meal can be wings!

If you catch tuna on sale, it doesn't have to be as expensive. And eggs aren't so bad as they are. Decent protein ideas don't have to cost an arm and a leg.

I am bulking on about 3200 Calories and hit up Costco twice a month. I am single, and live alone. Each visit usually costs me anywhere between $100-$180.

Rice
Chicken
Lean Ground
Spinach
Lettuce
Apples
The 5 Dozen Pack of Eggs
Oatmeal

Supplements I keep to ordering online. Saves a shit ton of money.

Originally Posted by niki

For a family of five - three boys, ages 17, 15, and 11 - with the two teens lifting, Dad lifting/bulking, and me lifting/cutting, we spend around $1100 a month.

Everything from costco - and I'm not talking little cans of tuna, but the big restaurant size cans of everything, bags of chicken breasts, hamburger, bulk fresh veggies to the tune of 7lbs of spinach a week, 6lbs of broccoli, a few dozen apples, four or five bulk containers of greek yogurt, 3.5lbs of cottage cheese, 6 dozen egggs, five pounds of cheese, 6lbs of protein powder weekly.....you guys get the idea....

It's brutal.....in the past we raised almost all of our own meat, eggs, and dairy.....can't say it was cheaper, but the quality was amazing.

wow holy shit $1100 a month is like a mortgage

150+ at the groccery store + what ever it cost to eat out with the GF that week. f
fuark lol

Originally Posted by livebig14

hey guys just wondering how much you spend on food per week when your bulking?

$40.00