I didn't bother to do the math when I posted. But still, wow. $15k a year. Two people? That's nuts. I'm going to venture a guess that their "grocery" shopping largely consists of prepared foods from the prepared foods section, since it averages out to over $6 per meal per person. But with that level of non-thrift, it's probably safe to assume they also eat out 3-5 times a week, and likely spend an additional $150 a week that way, and probably average closer to $9/meal for their grocery food. Or perhaps they cater a lot of dinner parties? Still, mind blown. Like I said, my family of 4 usually eats on $100-125 a week at Aldi, and we may spend an average of $25 a week on periodically eating out. Which still puts us at the low end of thrifty per officially compiled statistics on how much American households spend on groceries.