I have a shopping scenrio for you...

I would check my area stores for sales and use coupons. I would make sure I had enough meat, veggies, fruit, cereal to last the month. With the remainder I would stock up on non perishables. I would do this every month so if I didn't have the $400 I would still have food to last for a few months.

Ok... food. Thanks for the choice. i do eat a lot more than people think about me if you see me personally. for 400bucks/month, its more than enough. i want to buy chocolates with almonds at least ten big bars, fresh milk 10carton for 1 litre/carton, i do wanna buy coco crunch and corn flakes, any snacks, cheetos the biggest one, fried almonds, fried casshew, 10 kg rice, japanese noodles, korean noodles, indonesian noodles, i'll go with food supplement such as glutathione, vitamin A 1000iu, vitamin e 1000iu, omega-3, may i buy also pork and beef?i need to cook them for my lunch and dinner. I do wanna buy 5 big bottles pineapple juice, starbucks coffee, marshmallow, garlic bread, wheat bread, banana, pineapple, choco pie, oreo, choco mocho, ice cream 5Litre, 3 bottles soy milk, ten cheese bars- i can eat cheese bar just like how i eat my chocolate bar... i go with korean dried seaweed, porky best from pork skin, tikoy cake, chocolate cake, vanilla cake, mango juice, bangkok' durian at least 10 kg, langsones, jackfruit, papaya, mango, coconut, pear, apple, avocado... i want them all... its makes me "fat!"

I would go to either Wal-mart or Fareway and stock up on canned goods as well. I would go to Fareway for all my meat and have the freezer full of steak, turkey, chicken, fish, and pork. I would load my pantry full of soups and veggies and fruits as well as the packages of mac and cheese and noodle dishes. I would get some hamburger helper, frozen pizzas, some frozen bread so I could have fresh bread every day. We go through lots of cereal so of course I would buy lots of that as well as lots of gallons of milk. And I would get pop for me since I love it. And coffee for my bf since that is his drink.

$400 would not last me a month. I spend half that per week, and that's pretty much all on food. But if I had $400 extra per month, then I'd stock up stuff like meat. I'd probably go to the wholesale club and buy all the meat that is one sale, plus some that isn't, and put it all in my freezer. Then I could save myself $50 a week without having to buy meat.

I would just go to a big supermarket and buy lots of food that would last and just regular food, fruits and vegetables. And I have a baby so $400 is not much she drinks about 10 cans of formula a month, so there goes most of the money. lol