Hi All,

Our family of 3 spends roughly $700.00 per month on food.
My husband and I are 100% Paleo. We buy our meat from local farms,
organic produce from farmers markets, local health food stores (more $$)
and/or
local farms (CSA box). We buy pastured eggs at our local health food store.
Someday maybe we'll get it together to have chickens.
In the summer we grow a fair amount of food.
Occasionally with guilt I buy factory farm meat from Costco.

My 18 yo son will eat the meat I prepare but eats bread, some packaged
food, dairy.
(You can only fight so many battles w/ an 18 yo).
If he ate Paleo our bill would probably be slightly lessl. Packaged food is
pricey per # (we're in Northern California).
$700.00 /month is an average but it includes our occasional dinner parties,
friends over, etc.

I dont 'know what other Paleo families spend so I don't know if this is
outrageous.
None of us are on rx meds, never need to go to the hospital/doctor.
My seasonal and cat allergies are non existant and we rarely get more then
a slight sniffle.
 We are by no means wealthy. We don't go on extravagant vacations and
rarely go out to eat.

I'd be interested to hear what other Paleo families spend per month.






On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Tracey Baldrey <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> Many thanks Paula.
>
> This looks like just the kind of book I was looking for.  It's now in my
> amazon basket ;o)
>
> I can't speak for how expensive or cheap things are in America but here my
> weekly food bill easily comes to 220 euros per week (that's US$300 roughly,
> using a google tool).  It seems to be twice the amount my friends with the
> same sized families are spending (we're just a family of four which
> includes
> two small children).   Apart from the packaged organic meat, everything
> else
> is fresh but not necessarily organic.
>
> I'd be interested to know how that compares to a 'paleo' family of four in
> the US.  I consider what we spend on food to already be very expensive and
> proportionally takes up a huge amount of our income.  That said, it is also
> a lifestyle choice and something I deem important for our family and
> general
> well-being.  That's why, when upgrading to even better quality food (such
> as
> 100% grass-fed meat!) I have to consider how much higher this makes our
> weekly shopping bill....there is an upper-limit that I'm not willing to go
> beyond, and we're pretty much there already!
>
> Best wishes
> Tracey
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paleolithic Eating Support List [mailto:[log in to unmask]
> ]
> On Behalf Of Paula
> Sent: 24 February 2014 16:34
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Intro
>
> You may want to read Lierre Keith's book "The Vegetarian Myth".  She was a
> vegetarian for about 20 years for ethical reasons.  Now she is paleo.  She
> goes into much detail on how monocropping destroys the land and planet,
> while ethically raising animals for consumption is doable and better for
> the
> planet.
>
> As a 60 year old woman who has been mainly paleo for 17 years, I do not
> find
> it that much more expensive from the standard American diet - those
> processed foods are quite expensive!!  Price them out by the pound some
> time.  But, for someone eating a lot of grains and cheap foods like beans
> and rice, it would be more expensive.  Of course, a person can save on
> things like not taking prescription drugs due to having damaged oneself
> with
> SAD.
>



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