Back when a struggle meal was called dinner on Tuesday.
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Man, I buy soda and brand name cereal (store brand tastes like sadness 9/10 times) and still don't hit anywhere close to that.
I can probably give some explanation. We as a household of 3 mainly cooks at home. We get fruits and veggies from costco and farmers markets mainly. The monthly grocery bills are close to 500$ with everything added up. We do try to eat as healthy as possible and cooks majority of the days.
A days cooking almost looks like this- Breakfast: Eggs/bread/avocado etc
- Lunch: Rice/Quinoa + salad/stir fry + protein(eggs/fish)
- Dinner: steel cut oats with yogurt or something similar
- Some snacks during the day and in the evening
- Coffee(homemade to reduce cost)
Almost everything adds up. Asparagus is almost 5$ a bunch. Spinach adds up to 4$. Milk is close to 7$. At the end of month when we tallied up, it was close to 500$. I dont think we are actually eating that much or even buying a lot of junk. Post covid has been a ride
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Per person????
We eat good, always have snacks and get a few bs quick meals whenever we go shopping. $800 for a family of 4 and I feel like that's too much.
Granted I make a lot of stuff from scratch, but I feel like the snack and quick meals even that out price wise.
Its post covid. These a holes have been price gouging us. Everyone outside of costco is out to get you.
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Sometimes when I hear how much money people spend on groceries, I'm in awe. Who the fuck is spending 500$ on groceries per person per month? HOW the fuck are they doing it?
My monthly food bill is typically around $120.
- A lot of beans or other canned vegetables: $30
- Bread: $5
- Peanut butter, $8
- bananas: $10
- rice: $10
- Other fruit that's on sale: $10
- Some fresh vegetables (usually onions, broccoli, peppers): $10
- Flour: $10 (may last more than a month)
- yeast: $5
- Seasonings: $5 (also lasts more than a month)
- Cheese: $5
- Tomato sauce: $5
- Pasta: $5
I got laid off a while ago so I'm trying to make my dollars go farther. When I had a well paying job, I'd also buy more stuff, but nothing too crazy. I miss hummus the most, I think. I never buy soda.
The other day I was with someone and we decided to order food like old times, and it was like $40 for two of us. I was like, fuck, that's a third of my whole month's budget right there. But I don't want to live like a monk all the time.
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Sometimes when I hear how much money people spend on groceries, I'm in awe. Who the fuck is spending 500$ on groceries per person per month? HOW the fuck are they doing it?
if i can feed a family of five on twenty dollars a week, theres nothing I cant do
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Sometimes when I hear how much money people spend on groceries, I'm in awe. Who the fuck is spending 500$ on groceries per person per month? HOW the fuck are they doing it?
It's a weird feeling when you don't know if that's alot or not
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I can probably give some explanation. We as a household of 3 mainly cooks at home. We get fruits and veggies from costco and farmers markets mainly. The monthly grocery bills are close to 500$ with everything added up. We do try to eat as healthy as possible and cooks majority of the days.
A days cooking almost looks like this- Breakfast: Eggs/bread/avocado etc
- Lunch: Rice/Quinoa + salad/stir fry + protein(eggs/fish)
- Dinner: steel cut oats with yogurt or something similar
- Some snacks during the day and in the evening
- Coffee(homemade to reduce cost)
Almost everything adds up. Asparagus is almost 5$ a bunch. Spinach adds up to 4$. Milk is close to 7$. At the end of month when we tallied up, it was close to 500$. I dont think we are actually eating that much or even buying a lot of junk. Post covid has been a ride
I mean, that's three people though, not 500$ PER person.
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My monthly food bill is typically around $120.
- A lot of beans or other canned vegetables: $30
- Bread: $5
- Peanut butter, $8
- bananas: $10
- rice: $10
- Other fruit that's on sale: $10
- Some fresh vegetables (usually onions, broccoli, peppers): $10
- Flour: $10 (may last more than a month)
- yeast: $5
- Seasonings: $5 (also lasts more than a month)
- Cheese: $5
- Tomato sauce: $5
- Pasta: $5
I got laid off a while ago so I'm trying to make my dollars go farther. When I had a well paying job, I'd also buy more stuff, but nothing too crazy. I miss hummus the most, I think. I never buy soda.
The other day I was with someone and we decided to order food like old times, and it was like $40 for two of us. I was like, fuck, that's a third of my whole month's budget right there. But I don't want to live like a monk all the time.
Seperate from groceries, ordering out has gotten crazy fucking expensive. Literally doubling in cost in just the past 5 years or so. Insane shit. I haven't bought even fast food for myself in probably 2 years at this point.
My monthly food bill is around 150$ since I've gotten slightly more financially stable - no more surviving on ramen and cereal! I can buy good bread, fruit, corn, frozen chicken, and cheese. Life is good.
Soda was always a non-negotiable purchase, since I'm an addict, but buying on sale helps. It's not like it goes bad quickly, after all.
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It's a weird feeling when you don't know if that's alot or not
500$ per person is a lot. Like, I don't consider myself to be living the life of an involuntary ascetic anymore, but it's over triple what I spend for myself. And I legit waste some food.
In my defense, it's so fucking easy to buy a bunch of bananas and say "I'll have a few tomorrow", but tomorrow you have one, and the day after that you don't feel in the mood for bananas, and before you know it the bastards have gone mushy
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500$ per person is a lot. Like, I don't consider myself to be living the life of an involuntary ascetic anymore, but it's over triple what I spend for myself. And I legit waste some food.
In my defense, it's so fucking easy to buy a bunch of bananas and say "I'll have a few tomorrow", but tomorrow you have one, and the day after that you don't feel in the mood for bananas, and before you know it the bastards have gone mushy
That’s banana bread or banana pancakes time
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if they got 5$ coffee for one cup instead of brewing their own, they are not truely poor lol
"ah man I cant afford anything besides the takeout everyday"
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When people said we needed to focus on. A class war, they weren't trying to tell the middle, lower middle, and lower class to fight each other. Yet here we are
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Sure. It's also cheaper to just drink water. However, gas station coffee is cheaper than Starbucks by a fair amount at least where I'm from, and it's not half bad.
I give out so many free coffees too, literally anyone that asks.
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I love Aldi. Week of food for 15 quid, easily. Fried rice is a popular cheap meal for me
I know, I love it too.
