Feed My Family — Food Budget Per Meal & Per Person
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Enter your food budget, the period it covers, your household size, and meals per day. The calculator shows what your own numbers imply — budget per day, per meal, and per person — with no assumptions about what you should spend. Adults and children are counted equally by default.
What this calculator determines
It breaks a food budget into per-day, per-meal, and per-person figures using pure arithmetic from the budget, period, household size, and meals per day you enter.
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Examples
$150/week, family of 4
$150, 7 days, 2 adults + 2 children, 3 meals/day
Calculation
- Members = 2 + 2 = 4
- Budget/day = 150 ÷ 7 = $21.43
- Total meals = 7 × 3 = 21 household meals
- Budget/household meal = 150 ÷ 21 = $7.14
- Budget/person/day = 21.43 ÷ 4 = $5.36
- Budget/person/meal = 150 ÷ (21 × 4) = $1.79
$1.79 per person per meal
Assumptions & Conventions
- Budgeting arithmetic, not dietary guidance
- It describes what your own budget implies; it is not a recommendation or a measure of nutritional sufficiency.
- Adults and children counted equally
- Every household member is weighted the same by default; adjust the counts yourself if you want to weight children differently.