Grocery spending guides

Understand grocery spending one receipt at a time.

Start with a grocery receipt, review the proposed items, and use the resulting category and household-choice views to understand the total. These guides explain each step, the privacy trade-offs, and the limits of what Radish can show.

Last updated: August 15, 2026.

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A practical path

Go from store total to a reviewed grocery picture.

  1. Capture the receipt

    Use receipt photos or manual entry. Scanning creates a proposed draft, not a final record.

  2. Review every proposal

    Check the store, date, total, item names, prices, categories, and household choices before saving.

  3. Read the monthly view

    Use the receipts you confirmed to understand item, category, essential, and optional totals.

Important boundary: Radish summarizes the reviewed grocery receipts you save. Missing receipts create an incomplete view, and no page below promises savings or a perfect budget.

Core guides

Choose the question you need to answer.

Capture and review

How the grocery receipt scanner works

See which receipt fields Radish can propose, what you can edit, when manual entry remains available, and where scan processing happens.

Read the scanner guide Take the details with you

Export reviewed grocery receipts to CSV

Inspect the exact 30-column item-level format, download a synthetic example, and see the review, privacy, and complete-history boundaries.

See the CSV export Understand the month

Track grocery spending by item and category

Follow a reviewed receipt into category totals and your household’s essential-versus-optional split without importing a bank feed.

Read the spending guide Track as a household

Share one grocery picture across two iPhones

See the explicit QR setup, private iCloud household boundary, shared receipt view, and limits for the current two-phone experience.

See grocery tracking for couples Make household choices

Essential vs optional grocery spending

Use a neutral four-question method. The labels are editable household choices, not nutrition scores or universal rules.

Use the household method Understand the privacy trade-off

Track groceries without linking a bank

Compare receipt-based tracking with a bank feed, including manual work, optional scan processing, Apple sync, and completeness limits.

Read the privacy-first guide Inspect the evidence plan

Grocery receipt recognition benchmark

Read the frozen 300–500-receipt field-study method, exact metrics, privacy boundary, one-shot rule, and current not-yet-measured status.

Read the benchmark method

Transparent reference tool

Estimate food-at-home costs with USDA Food Plans.

The calculator uses the reviewed May 2026 Mainland U.S. tables, shows all four plans, and explains every household-size adjustment. It is a national reference—not a personalized budget, recommendation, or SNAP benefit estimate.

Interactive calculator

Grocery budget calculator

Add household ages and compare Thrifty, Low-Cost, Moderate-Cost, and Liberal weekly, monthly, and annual reference amounts.

Open the calculator

Radish for iPhone

Start with reviewed receipts, not a bank connection.

Free to download. Review and save one receipt before choosing a monthly or yearly plan for continued use. Requires iOS 18 or later. Optimized for English-language US grocery receipts and USD totals. Manual entry remains available.

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