Talent Miki Fujimoto revealed a receipt for a week’s worth of groceries bought in bulk for her family of five — herself, husband Tomoharu Shoji, and their three kids — on the September 29 broadcast of “Otto ga Neta Ato ni” (Husband After He’s Asleep, TV Asahi). The haul filled three reusable shopping bags and came to about ¥27,000 in total. On 5ch’s Geinou/Sports Breaking News+ board, reactions split over whether that amount is high or low for a family of five, with many posters comparing it to their own household’s food budget. The thread also buzzed with the shared experience that food costs balloon as kids get older, plus debate over whether bulk buying or frequent trips chasing sales saves more money.
Miki Fujimoto reveals her family of five’s “one week of grocery costs” — shows receipt for buying “all at once” to fill three reusable bags; mother of three, married to Tomoharu Shoji
Talent Miki Fujimoto appeared on the September 29 broadcast of TV Asahi’s “Otto ga Neta Ato ni” (airs Tuesdays at 0:15 late night), where she revealed a receipt for a week’s worth of groceries bought for her family of five.
The show is a variety program focused on housework and childcare, co-hosted by Fujimoto and comedian Natsuko Yokozawa.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
3AnonymousOct 3, 2026 08:26
Re: #1
Lol, Shoji's getting the "Sawa's good at dribbling" treatment here — just a token afterthought mention (a meme about giving someone minimal, throwaway credit)
5AnonymousOct 3, 2026 08:28
Surprisingly cheap, I thought — is that really normal?
10AnonymousOct 3, 2026 08:31
Re: #5
¥27,000/week for 5 people
That's a bit over ¥100,000 for 4 weeks/a month
Maybe about ¥20,000 above average
39AnonymousOct 3, 2026 08:56
Re: #5
Once the kids get bigger it's nowhere near this
For one, rice consumption gets insane
Good thing rice got cheaper recently
And they eat crazy amounts of side dishes
Even a huge bulk buy disappears in seconds
72AnonymousOct 3, 2026 10:44
Re: #5
If you're good at cooking it's doable
Especially for growing kids in the Kanto area, this is actually doing pretty well
Even at my place in urban Kansai, with a family of 4 that has high-school and college-age boys, we easily spend ¥100,000 a month (not even counting the college kid eating out) — a bit over ¥20,000 a week is normal
8AnonymousOct 3, 2026 08:30
Jumped over but I can't find the receipt
Where can I see it?
14AnonymousOct 3, 2026 08:34
I buy 10 days' worth at once
Because if you go shopping too often you always end up buying stuff you don't need
19AnonymousOct 3, 2026 08:41
Re: #14
I think buying frequently to catch sales works out cheaper than bulk buying
28AnonymousOct 3, 2026 08:49
Re: #19
Think about the time cost
Someone like Mikity earns tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of yen per hour
73AnonymousOct 3, 2026 10:47
Re: #19
If you're working and raising 3 kids, time spent shopping is the precious resource
Also, the more trips to the supermarket, the more you end up buying stuff you don't need, so it evens out in the end
Mikity's actually pretty smart
She's got her feet on the ground
16AnonymousOct 3, 2026 08:35
¥100,000 a month, huh
Combined, the couple probably pulls in over ¥100 million a year
That's on the cheap side, isn't it
17AnonymousOct 3, 2026 08:38
She's the daughter of a yakiniku (grilled-meat) restaurant owner, so beef is non-negotiable for her
22AnonymousOct 3, 2026 08:45
Impressive, she's good at shopping
I'm single and I bet I spend over ¥15,000 a week
And I don't even use Uber Eats or Demae-can (food delivery apps)
With prices up, I've stopped caring about cost as an excuse
25AnonymousOct 3, 2026 08:46
Rich people eat out for lunch and dinner, so it's probably just the cost of bread for breakfast
26AnonymousOct 3, 2026 08:49
Re: #25
Depends on the household budget breakdown
30AnonymousOct 3, 2026 08:51
Re: #28
That person isn't even talking about Mikity
35AnonymousOct 3, 2026 08:53
That's cheap!
I thought it'd be around ¥100,000
36AnonymousOct 3, 2026 08:54
You can tell she's doing it properly, so it's likeable.
If she wanted to cut costs, she could probably get it down to half that
37AnonymousOct 3, 2026 08:55
Celebrities
make huge money anyway
so they should just buy as much as they want
38AnonymousOct 3, 2026 08:55
I'm single and I still drop about ¥5,000 a week
40AnonymousOct 3, 2026 08:56
Same with Tsuji-chan's place — it's tough when the main breadwinner is also the one doing all the shopping and cooking
41AnonymousOct 3, 2026 08:56
Never expected Mikity to get this popular
46AnonymousOct 3, 2026 09:03
Re: #41
She did become the #1 most-disliked TV personality among male viewers though lol
Guess she went all-in on appealing to women instead
43AnonymousOct 3, 2026 08:58
¥104,000 over 4 weeks for a family of 5 seems cheap — maybe they get a lot of food as gifts?
51AnonymousOct 3, 2026 09:12
Re: #43
This is just what she bought in one supermarket run, after all — I bet eating out, sweets, and all sorts of other stuff add up separately on top of this
52AnonymousOct 3, 2026 09:13
Re: #43
She says something like "I think this is about a week's worth?"
44AnonymousOct 3, 2026 09:01
Cheap for someone so in-demand
Though that's probably the whole point of showing it off
47AnonymousOct 3, 2026 09:03
Re: #44
Of course it's calculated
50AnonymousOct 3, 2026 09:09
Re: #46
I can't believe Miki Fujimoto is popular with women
I figured she was popular with men, former otaku types, same as Tsuji
Not sure which demographic actually likes her
90AnonymousOct 3, 2026 11:38
Re: #50
She's popular with housewives
Otherwise she wouldn't get picked as the image character for cleaning products
In the first place, the people who like Mikity are the generation that already has families
70AnonymousOct 3, 2026 10:37
Isn't the real punchline that they eat out for dinner three times a week?
78AnonymousOct 3, 2026 11:11
Re: #70
Yeah, probably lol
Like Uber Eats and stuff
71AnonymousOct 3, 2026 10:41
She's probably keeping it cheap for TV
Tsuji does the same thing, buying Top Value (AEON's private brand) to make a good impression
83AnonymousOct 3, 2026 11:14
Re: #71
Yeah, definitely
Even the whole "always does her own shopping and cooking" thing might just be an image strategy for TV, right?
This boosts her image, lands more mom-talent commercials, and she's laughing all the way to the bank
Even here there are a lot of posts praising her
Background and key points of this discussion
What Miki Fujimoto showed was “the receipt from a single bulk-buying trip,” and posters in the thread pointed out that it doesn’t include money spent on eating out or prepared/takeout meals (#51). Because of that, the simple math of “¥100,000 over 4 weeks” (#10) may not match her family’s actual monthly food spending. Several posts also noted that celebrities revealing their household budgets on TV may be a staged, image-conscious move on the production’s part (#71, #83), making it hard to judge the real situation from the yen amount alone. Where opinions in the thread split was on the single question of whether “¥27,000 a week for a family of five” is high or low — views differed sharply depending on the age of one’s kids and regional price differences (#39, #72). The thing readers might easily misread is treating this figure as the full picture of the Fujimoto household’s food spending.
*This article is composed as an excerpt and summary from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports Breaking News+) thread “[Entertainment] Miki Fujimoto reveals her family of five’s “one week of grocery costs,” shows receipt; mother of three, married to Tomoharu Shoji.”
