cohabiting couple, one vegetarian and one eats meat a few times a week. we're ~$450-500 with a combo of Safeway, TJs, occasional WF, and Imperfect foods 2x monthly. If you do want meat consistently, Imperfect has a wide range that is apparently great. Takeout/restaurants are very infrequent.

We don't reeeally meal prep, but have a series of bean and veg centric recipes to draw from. Meat is mostly chicken with occasional deli/pepperoni although I'm the veg one so I don't keep close track. I do bake a lot from scratch so buying flour/extracts can add up.