First post here . . .
My husband and I have 10 year old and 12 year old sons. They are both the kind of boys that eat an enormous amount of food and stay very thin (unfortunately not inherited from me). One hand is shoveling food in the mouth while the other is keeping their pants from falling down. lol.
Anyway, we are pretty low spenders and after savings, housing and income taxes, our next biggest expense is food. I only anticipate the food spending to go up as my very hungry caterpillars become full on teenagers. We are crunching some #'s and trying to figure out some realistic numbers for spending post FI, which is on track to happen as they are moving out.
How much did your spending on food go down when your son(s) moved out? Short of measuring everything they eat- I'm not sure how to figure this amount out. I am just guessing that my boys are currently eat 66-75% of the food we buy.