I spend for my wife and I about $80 average per weekend with my bi weekly bills budget is about 600. When I need to get multiple staples at once (soy sauce jug, peanut oil, vinegar, etc) it can go to about 140.

I go to the ShopRite in Woodbridge.

Biggest cost saving measure is to buy items that can be used for multiple meals. Cost per use has become my main metric for anything such as food or clothes. Groceries are probably the only thing in my financial life I have under control.

Value pack thighs for lunch meal preps. 1 pack is good enough for both of us. 1 pack of sweet potatoes, bok choy for greens. We have rice but my wife is the only one that eats it with lunch so usually just leftover from the night before.

A whole chicken can be good for at least 2 or 3 meals.

1 pork shoulder is good for at least 3 meals. Cook at 275 until about 205° and you have pulled pork. Great to stir fry with eggs on the weekend, tacos, mixed with greens and shit.

I really try to limit the single meal items and almost never buy beef because the cost is unjustifiable unless I'm getting a brisket from the butcher for a family gathering.

This may have been way more than was necessary but it is what came to mind so I'm sorry.