[size="4"]I am thinking of starting Jenny Craig I have heard many great things about it, my only problem is I need to know how much aproximetly it would be a week or month. I am in college and paying for it myself so I have to make sure I am going to be able to survive and still pay all my bills. I was looking at the platinum package because I have a good deal of weight to lose. So if I could get a round about figure that would be great. I really want to do this. I used to be a size 8 is highschool, I am now a size 18 [/size]

Avg cost is $20 dollars a day. You can work with your JCC on replacement breakfasts to help lower the costs, but it isn't advised.

[quote name='shannon-7-' date='Jul 9 2009, 06:52 PM' post='488175']
[size="4"]I am thinking of starting Jenny Craig I have heard many great things about it, my only problem is I need to know how much aproximetly it would be a week or month. I am in college and paying for it myself so I have to make sure I am going to be able to survive and still pay all my bills. I was looking at the platinum package because I have a good deal of weight to lose. So if I could get a round about figure that would be great. I really want to do this. I used to be a size 8 is highschool, I am now a size 18 [/size]
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its actually about 100-125/wk for food plus cost of program for a year is about 300.00.

[quote name='Myriad' date='Jul 10 2009, 02:46 AM' post='488196']
Avg cost is $20 dollars a day. You can work with your JCC on replacement breakfasts to help lower the costs, but it isn't advised.
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Is that with the Jenny Direct program? Is that the cost for the food alone? It feels a bit shady that they wont tell you on the website how much the program costs.

[quote name='bkherro' date='Jul 16 2009, 12:26 PM' post='489550']
Is that with the Jenny Direct program? Is that the cost for the food alone? It feels a bit shady that they wont tell you on the website how much the program costs.
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Yes, with Jenny Direct you are looking at between $15-$20 a day for the frozen menu. That includes shipping. It is not shady or anything, you just have to call to discuss all the pricing options. You will get a no-obligation consultation to discuss the cost and all of the questions about the program.

With the items you have to purchase at the grocery store (milk, produce), its no less than $120 to $150 per week. That is indeed $20 per day. Now, $20 per day doesn't sound like alot right, but saying $150 a week or $600 a month...

If you are like the average American, you will be spending about $1 more a day to be on the JC program than you would otherwise spend. We often forget to add those snacks, fast food, coffee drinks, and general dining out that most of us do, to the amount we spend per person at the grocery store.

If you never dine out or buy coffee drinks, or buy snacks or food away from home, you may find that it is more money than you are accustomed to spending. For me, I found that I was actually saving $20-$40 per week after I started the program.

With prudent buying of my grocery items, I find that I spend about $20-$30 a month on me alone for the supplemental grocery items--milk, fruit and veggies. It involves buying fresh lettuce and milk at Costco ($8 for the month) and frozen veggies and fruit in bulk at Costco. For variety, I can usually get bags of frozen veggies at the grocery store on sale for $1 each. I usually spend another $5-$6 for occasional fresh fruit. Lately, I have been cutting loose and spending more to splurge-buy bulk plain Greek yogurt instead of the little cups of that sweetened, flavored stuff--I like it because I can use it with cereal, to make salad dressing, or to replace sour cream.

You can save a little money by doing a personalized menu and choosing mostly shelf stable items from the menu. The frozen items generally cost more. By choosing the lowest cost items on the menu, you can be on the full menu for about $103 per week. The Planned menus, which mix shelf with frozen items, cost about $120 per week. The cost of the food includes your weekly consultation.

I've always gotten the best results with the full planned menu. Because I have lots of experience with the program, I currently do the Halfway menu, where I have to plan and prepare two days of non-JC food on my own. My weight loss goes more slowly doing that, but it fits my life well right now.

[quote name='Myriad' date='Jul 10 2009, 02:46 AM' post='488196']
Avg cost is $20 dollars a day. You can work with your JCC on replacement breakfasts to help lower the costs, but it isn't advised.
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That was the first thing I thought of when Ijoined. And yes, it seems like a lot all at once when you pick up your fist week of meals, but you have to think things out. My average is under $135 per 7day week meal plan. I used to got to McDonalds for breakfast ($4.25 day), get lunch at the deli ($7-$9 day), various snacks, dinner out (I have no kids at home to cook for) and I was paying over $25-$30 day on food. That is how I thought of it but being in school, I know $$ is very tight. Take some time to figure out what you spend a day on food and snacks and see if it fits into your budget

[quote name='shannon-7-' date='Jul 9 2009, 06:52 PM' post='488175']
[size="4"]I am thinking of starting Jenny Craig I have heard many great things about it, my only problem is I need to know how much aproximetly it would be a week or month. I am in college and paying for it myself so I have to make sure I am going to be able to survive and still pay all my bills. I was looking at the platinum package because I have a good deal of weight to lose. So if I could get a round about figure that would be great. I really want to do this. I used to be a size 8 is highschool, I am now a size 18 [/size]
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probably what you are spending now on food, figure it out per week then give them a call

[quote name='EllenWheels' date='Jul 17 2009, 02:03 PM' post='489742']
If you are like the average American, you will be spending about $1 more a day to be on the JC program than you would otherwise spend. We often forget to add those snacks, fast food, coffee drinks, and general dining out that most of us do, to the amount we spend per person at the grocery store.

If you never dine out or buy coffee drinks, or buy snacks or food away from home, you may find that it is more money than you are accustomed to spending. For me, I found that I was actually saving $20-$40 per week after I started the program.

With prudent buying of my grocery items, I find that I spend about $20-$30 a month on me alone for the supplemental grocery items--milk, fruit and veggies. It involves buying fresh lettuce and milk at Costco ($8 for the month) and frozen veggies and fruit in bulk at Costco. For variety, I can usually get bags of frozen veggies at the grocery store on sale for $1 each. I usually spend another $5-$6 for occasional fresh fruit. Lately, I have been cutting loose and spending more to splurge-buy bulk plain Greek yogurt instead of the little cups of that sweetened, flavored stuff--I like it because I can use it with cereal, to make salad dressing, or to replace sour cream.

You can save a little money by doing a personalized menu and choosing mostly shelf stable items from the menu. The frozen items generally cost more. By choosing the lowest cost items on the menu, you can be on the full menu for about $103 per week. The Planned menus, which mix shelf with frozen items, cost about $120 per week. The cost of the food includes your weekly consultation.

I've always gotten the best results with the full planned menu. Because I have lots of experience with the program, I currently do the Halfway menu, where I have to plan and prepare two days of non-JC food on my own. My weight loss goes more slowly doing that, but it fits my life well right now.
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I don't know where you all might eat to spend 20.00 aday to eat,I do not spend a lot ,don't eat out,I want to join but 20.00 a day is to high for me

Koni Sue, it sounds like this program is not a good fit for you at this time. If you want pre-portioned meals for convenience, you might want to try NutriSystem, because it costs quite a bit less. Weight Watchers is also a good program, and though a year of membership dues there costs more than JC, you would be paying dues week by week as you go, and you would be doing all of your own food preparation, so the food part would probably cost you a lot less.

I know how you feel. At one time, I thought that Seattle Sutton sounded great--pre-portioned meals, and all of it fresh--until I found out that it cost more than twice as much per week as JC, and it was for only five days of food, and two days on your own. But their food sure looked good, even though there wasn't as much variety as JC.

Here was my usual breakdown for food each week:

Breakfast at McDonalds or another-eat-it-and-beat-it: $4-$5
Mid-morning coffee at Starbucks (sometimes with a pastry): $3-$6
Lunch: Dine out, $6-$12 BYO, $2-$3
Afternoon snack from the machine, with a soda: $2-$3
Dinner: Dine out, $10-$15 Dine in (estimated from weekly grocery bill of about $90 for two people) $2-$5
Evening snack: $0.50-$2

Total costs: $16.50-$29 per day

I usually went out for breakfast and coffee almost every day. We went out to dinner 3-4 times per week, and I went out for lunch three times per week. And I was always getting snacks out of the machines at work.

Could I get by on less? Of course! When I was out of work for a few months several years ago, I managed to get by on $25-$30 per week on groceries for the two of us. We ate very cheaply, with milk, very little meat, virtually no fresh produce, and taking advantage of sales on staple food items. We ate a lot of stew and soup, and I made my own bread.