Grocery Budget Per Meal Calculator
Break a weekly grocery budget down into a per-meal spending target.
About this calculator
A weekly grocery budget is easier to stick to when it's translated into a concrete per-meal spending target, since that's the figure you can actually keep in mind while meal planning or shopping in the aisle. This calculator divides your total weekly grocery budget by the number of meals you plan to cook and eat that week, returning a per-meal amount to guide your planning. Doing this mentally while juggling a shifting number of meals (accounting for eating out, leftovers, or skipped meals) is easy to miscalculate. Entering the two figures here gives an exact per-meal target instantly, useful for deciding how ambitious a recipe can be or for comparing your actual spending against the plan after a shopping trip.
Worked example
$150/week, 21 meals
Result: $7.14/meal
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