How much money do you spend on food?

rememberscott

rememberscott

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Sup guys so I'm a cheap bastard and try to spend as little money as possible. Even when it comes to food, but i'm actually trying to put on a little weight and muscle (chicken legs) so I'm just curious as to how much is too much to spend on food. Last season I averaged about 5 dollars a day on food, what about you?
 
This is the hardest thing for me to budget for because its so easy for me to be lazy and say fuck it I'm eating out today. I've been trying not to do this though, except when I'm on the road for work. If I'm on the road for work, as long as I spend less than my $35 per diem, I earn money by eating.
 
eating out will drain your wallet fast. I had one summer where i was spending $2 a day on food from buying in bulk from bjs and sharing with my roommates.

it is hard though because people say money can't buy happiness, but good food = happiness and you need money for that
 
well I'm a cook, and i like to eat local organic produce, pasture raised meats etc...so way too fucking much.

i always get over enthusiastic when grocery shopping too. you see when you work in restaurants the last thing you want to do a lot of the time at home is cook.

ah man I could make like butter poached salmon, some pan fried potatoes, and fuck it ill braise some pork belly too, oh and i could make this awesome sauce....wait am i going to be able to use all of my left over ingredients? oh yea ill definitely get around to making all of these meals at home...

and then i get too stoned to cook and end up getting some nasty pizza delivered for $35
 
Are you talking about eating at an actual resort or just eating out in everyday life?

For everyday life, I eat out WAY TOO FUCKING MUCH.

For resort food, I only buy beer and cookies, and that's if I fucked up and forgot to bring up some brews from the city. So I guess I'm okay on the resort front lol.
 
Last year I was careful and stayed under $20 a week. That's really hard though, and I had to work out a bunch to stay in any kind of shape.
 
I spend at least $80 on food a week but I spend most of it on snacks. I'm just glad there's a trader joes right by my house because I don't fuck with stop and shop and there's no way I could afford whole foods.
 
Your options makes me feel really old ... as I'm an adult and I do weekly food shopping and am always stocked on essentials.
 
Eat meat 4 times a week because its expensive. And eat vegetarian the rest. Not gross stuff but like pasta with just sauce and no ground beef. You will figure it out. But eat beans or something for protein. I manage to eat pretty cheap. I have spent 150 in the last month on food. And all the money I save I spend on beer because its calorie rich and has vitamins!
 
13206907:snwbrdmilf said:
Your options makes me feel really old ... as I'm an adult and I do weekly food shopping and am always stocked on essentials.
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I'm in this boat. I have no idea how much i spend on groceries and I never eat out. I spend less than $300/mo on groceries, so by that math no more than $11/day.
 
13207098:miroz said:
I'm in this boat. I have no idea how much i spend on groceries and I never eat out. I spend less than $300/mo on groceries, so by that math no more than $11/day.
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I live on a diet of Krug and Balik salmon. Stuff''s expensive so at the end of the month I buy 30 cent ramen noodle packages and kill my kidney's with it until the next salary drop.
 
I spend a lot of money on food. We usually go out once or twice a week and that's generally around $100. Then my food....shit, I alone probably spend about almost $300 a month at the grocery store, if not more.
 
I usually go to the store once a week and spend 50-60 bucks and rarely go out maybe once a week, so like 7-8 bucks a day.
 
My wife and I lump all of our "food" budget into groceries (i.e. shampoo and other shit counts toward the budget)

We do one huge trip on the 1st that's 300-500 and then spend $65 a week for veggies and quickly perishables.

We eat out once a month and we try to actually cook meals every night.

That comes out to about $20/day for two adults.
 
$30-$50 every week and a half, so less than 200 a month i'd say.

this is shopping for just myself
 
Waaaaaay to much cuz of my god dammed always growing fast metabolizing body.

Probably like 20$-40$ a day sometimes depending on what/where I eat
 
Right now nothing. I'm unemployed and go to the food bank. Unemployment barely pays for rent and there is no work available unless you sell drugs. Looking into food stamps but I believe I can't because I'm claiming unemployment.
 
I spend about £45 a week, cba to convert to Americanese.

Anyway:

Breakfast is toast with a spread, this part changes frequently. Bread is always wholemeal unless it's bagels, I try and make my own bread as much as possible but my new cooker has a shitty oven. The local bakery has to suffice. I can't stand supermarket bread, even the high end stuff has loads of sugar and salt in it and it tastes like shit. I must spend about 50p on this.

Lunch: generally grab something small, my uni sells me a medium slice of pizza for £1.50 which is good enough for lunch.

Snacks: I fill a lunch box with an apple, two carrots of carrot sticks and a cereal bar. If I'm doing sports that I'll double up on the cereal bar, they're like an instant performance boost when I start to tire. Normally about £2.50 worth of food here.

Tea: If I'm lazy I'll reheat something I cooked before. Otherwise spaghetti with either a really basic tomato sauce (blend a tin of tomatoes, garlic, salt and chilli flakes; add fresh basil when I toss with spaghetti), or just with garlic/olive oil (spaghetti con aglio e olio). Once or twice a week I cook properly, I normally make about four portions of food that normally lasts about 3 for me because I'm active. On average a meal will cost about £6 to make, so £2 a meal. Spaghetti costs much less.

Total comes to £6.50/day, that's about $10 a day. I could go much cheaper if I really want to but the best part about my diet right now is that it's easy and fits into my life so well. It's also fun, like you may think making bread is hard work but I love it. At least since I got a stand mixer...

I buy all my veg from greengrocers (cheaper and local), meat from butchers (local, same price but higher quality), everything else from supermarkets. I buy on-brand for better taste unless it's really pointless, such as tomato puree; however I could survive off brand everything, with the exception of pasta. Pasta that isn't imported from Italy is 99% shit, fresh pasta is pointless unless you're making it. Fortunately almost all pasta above the absolute cheapest is Italian.

Few other tips:

- Featherblade steak. I think it's flat iron in America. It tastes INCREDIBLE, and is half the price of some cuts.

- Greengrocers and markets are always cheaper than supermarkets, I've never known this not to be the case.

- If you eat a lot of something (like me with cereal bars), then find somewhere you can get multipacks online. I buy them over the counter at 50p each, or £10 for a pack of 50 coming in at 20p each.
 
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