food expenses; cost of food
Refers to the money spent on food, often in a household or personal budget context.
Food expenses have piled up this month.
It's hard to keep food costs down when you live alone.
Standard kanji spelling for 'food expenses'.
Kana-mixed spelling; less common but still used.
Compound of 食い (kui, 'eating', the continuative form of 食う) and 代 (shiro, 'cost' or 'charge'). The reading しろ for 代 is an older, now less common reading.