how much do you spend on food

[MracY]

Re: how much do you spend on food

20 euros a week for plenty of healthy foods. All I drink is tap water and tea.

You needn't spend more than that. Make sure to plan your meals well, and have some food with you at all times. You don't need to pre-make anything, if you think that's a drag. I myself always have half a bread with me, along with things like cheese, peanut butter or tuna.

I also tend to take a portable water heater with me so I can make tea while working somewhere. This way I don't lose money on buying overpriced coffee at a coffee machine.

You can also try to plan meals around what happens to be on sale. If you can then also make sure to not waste money on useless snacks, then you will have a lot of money left over for relatively more important things.

[Izzy]

Re: how much do you spend on food

Maybe 30 dollars a week.

[Afrobean]

Re: how much do you spend on food

100-400+ a week. It just depends. Food is lyfe.

how in the hell could you spend 400 plus in a week on only food

Do you realize that that'd be like 60 bucks a day? I couldn't eat that much of food if I tried. The only way I could see it as being possible is eating at a high-end restaurant for multiple meals every day of the week. Do you do that?

My mind is just boggling at this.

[korny]

Re: how much do you spend on food

I do that depending on finances at any given point in time. Usually I am spending easily 250 a week on food. Food is lyfe

[mi40]

Re: how much do you spend on food

maybe korny just eats a shitton of food

[Wayward Vagabond]

Re: how much do you spend on food

The more you pay for food the less you get. 200 a week is reasonable if you're eating out three times a day at decent places

[smartdude1212]

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Right now, I probably spend about 1200 RUB a week on grocery runs (and that can include things I choose not to eat, like dish soap or laundry detergent). It works out to less than $40 CAD (also less than $40 USD), and I can get down with that.

By the end of the week I've usually consumed most of the food except for these bizarrely cheap yet decently sized bags of pasta for less than 30 RUB that could last me a while. I also buy eggs in flats of 30 that last me two weeks because they're i) cheap and ii) if I somehow manage to run out of food earlier I can live off eggs for a meal or two before making a crucial grocery run.

I eat fairly elaborate meals twice a day (or fairly elaborate leftovers because I always make too much), and breakfast is usually a banana and yogurt or eggs and hashbrowns (depending on if I made potatoes the night before). I'm not working while studying in Moscow, so due to moderate budgetary reasons I rarely snack. However, I wasn't expecting the food to be so cheap in Russia compared to Canada and could probably spend more on chocolate, etc. if I so desired.

Lunch at the university is also incredibly cheap (150 RUB for a very filling meal; less than $5 CAD), so I usually cash in on that when I'm around.

[kommisar]

Re: how much do you spend on food

since my gf started more or less living with me, about 250$ per month.

Costco :3


I make home cooked meals every day, for almost every meal (leftovers count). Though we eat out about once per week. I just choose to eat a little more luxuriously to ensure our diet is healthy yet diversified. This means paying a little more for better quality meats, varying side dishes and such.

[smartdude1212]

Re: how much do you spend on food

I just choose to eat a little more luxuriously to ensure our diet is healthy yet diversified. This means paying a little more for better quality meats, varying side dishes and such.

This is why, when I was inherently budgeting for Moscow, I more or less cut out snacks -- I didn't want to find myself eating the cheapest things several times a week just to meet some sort of junk-free budget.

Then I discovered that everything is, relatively speaking, far cheaper than what I can get in Canada, so diversifying the meals is easy and I can be the occasional slob if I want!

[DotKritic]

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I keep it under $150. Then there's days where I eat out.

[Tps222]

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I'm too afraid of the reality of it to keep track. but no where near korny levels lmfao

[korny]

Re: how much do you spend on food

If we're including wine pairing then those figures are very accurate.

[cedolad]

Re: how much do you spend on food

Wow you guys spend so little on groceries

I live with two other guys, and we're extreme dieters. We normally split the entire year into thirds and pay for the groceries for our third. Typically about $350 a month including toiletries. $400 if we buy beer lol

[PriestREA]

Re: how much do you spend on food

I've spent as low as $18 on food in a single month (2 bags of mister noodles during my WoW binge every day ~60 cents a day...)


But in all seriousness, I spend a ton of money on food. Sometimes I've gone and spent $40 a day on a couple of meals (3 burgers for lunch, 3 for dinner), that sort of stuff.

I would say I spend about $650 a month on food at this moment weed munchies lol

Probably throw in another $300 for vodka/liquor for parties every month.

I think a good price for you would be around $300 a month. You can spend about $10 a day which could get you a nice dish of pasta & a side.

[Cavernio]

Re: how much do you spend on food

Somewhere between 100-200/week for 2, so I guess that's ~75$ for 1, prolly a bit higher. If I didn't try to eat local and organic (especially meat), it'd be less. Also if I used regular flour and fats it'd be less too. But what can I say, premade duck confit for 9$ a leg where I have to do NOTHING but shove in the oven? Precooked whole lobster, 13$? I'm sold.
Never eating out has saved a shit ton of money. A couple of pizzas ordered once a week can nearly double weekly eating expenses. I did not expect to save any money eating a highly specialized homecooked diet, but I completely underestimated how much money eating out cost. On top of that, I get tax credit for some of the food I eat.
I also bake a lot more than I would alone.