<prompt> Human: We myself, my wife, our 4-year-old. My son gets lunch 4 times a week at preschool at a cost not factored into that number, and I get free dinner 4 times a week at my job. This is insane, right? I know 600mo of it is groceries. The rest is eating out. What number should I realistically be targeting for our food budget? I dont plan on packing pbj for my lunch and only eating the official rpersonalfinance dinner of beans and rice but I know theres a more responsible version that what were currently doing. My wife wont grocery shop anywhere besides Whole Foods and only buys the organic stuff for our child, and unfortunately that isnt going to change. But there still has to be a ton of waste going on there. We dont really have any debts that we need to pay off...I just feel like there is money being wasted that we have nothing to show for.  <response>: My wife wont grocery shop anywhere besides Whole FoodsYeah, theres your problem.I spend 300mo on food for myself only, and thats a good amount of eating out. 