I live in a HCOL area (boston area) and I think probably $200/week on groceries is what I spend, but both Husband and I tend to buy lunch at work at lot of the time. Two adults, one toddler one infant. The infant does eat a good amount of solid food now.
I don't buy everything organic, just milk, kids cheese, pouches, etc. some other things depending on the cost difference. Like, I'm not paying twice the price for organic, but if it's 20c a pound more sure
I'd say maybe ~10-20% of the groceries are organic
My husband does follow a low carb diet which increases the costs, can't have cheap dinners of a box of pasta and some sauce etc. A lot of meat and vegetables. Cauliflower fried rice much more expensive than actual rice,etc. I also try to buy free range/grass fed meat as much as possible though I don't specifically get organic as it's generally prohibitively expensive.
We eat out maybe once a week for breakfast at a diner, sometimes a dinner somewhere kid friendly, so probably $100-200/month for that.
It amazes me how much money I can spend just buying food for the kids daycare lunch. I probably go through a jar of sunbutter every 1-2 weeks and that's $5 alone, or $9 the time I accidentally bought organic sunbutter.
also I think it's only "omg terrible" "got to reign it in" if you actually cannot afford it. I mean, we spend a lot on food but I feel lucky that we CAN do so. Obviously if suddenly our income was cut in half I could cut the grocery bill in half immediately too, we'd just have to suck up the food sacrifices, less variety (no more berries, lots of bananas lol), no organics, regular meat, husband would have to start eating carbs again etc.
It's not like you are spending $300 a week on nail polishes or something. It's FOOD so it's a necessity, and having the ability to enjoy freedom with grocery spending, food flexibility, adhere to certain dietary choices etc. is pretty nice!
Veggies and fresh produce kill our budget more often than meat. I think I would look at frozen options like a bag of pre-cut peppers and onions versus if you are buying all those peppers fresh, for example.
I'd also review generic brand options vs what all you are buying name brand.