how much do you spend on food

[Ohaider]

Re: how much do you spend on food

200 a week on flour extracted local organic duck legs

[Reincarnate]

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I spend way too much on food but that's mostly because shit is expensive here. I usually do like $10 for lunch, so that's like $300 right there per month, plus whatever I spend on dinner and I'm too afraid to calculate that.

[PrawnSkunk]

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$125/week for my university's 24/7 unlimited meal plan. food's great too c:

[UserNameGoesHere]

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It varies. Sometimes around $10 in a day. Sometimes $0 in a day. Not at all consistent. You do the math and all that.

[Lambdadelta]

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150$-200$
Depends if I have extra food from the previous month or not.

[speeddemon]

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6 people in my house, usually food runs about $1000 a month and that's just grocery cost. And yes we shop at a big bulk store, yes we buy for meals not snacks. If we ever eat out it's on our own money individually, and I estimate eating out (not even like legit restaurants, just fast food sorts of things) costs at about 400-600 for the house for the month. So i guess weekly minimum is $350?

Honestly for the most part I don't find food costs outrageous, except for the huge price difference in eating healthy and eating fat. No reason something that's for the betterment of everyone's health should cost so damn much, it's silly.

[Afrobean]

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Costco :3

I don't know about Costco, but I did the Sam's Club thing for a little bit.

Some stuff was a cheaper... but much of it had similar unit pricing to a common grocery store, while being forced to take a larger size and have shitty selection on variety-- if you want soup, you can have chicken noodle or tomato or NOTHING ELSE. I drink a lot of soda, so I was excited to get a deal on soda, but it wasn't even remotely cheaper there. I was mad. And they only had SOME Coke products and SOME Pepsi and ONE option for Faygo. So stupid. I feel like they cheat people, make them think that things are cheaper there when much of it actually has similar markup to what they'd find at any other store. Normal stores do similar tactics, of course, like putting things on endcaps and saying "SALE" in big letters even though the price is the same (or higher even!), but shit, man, at least you don't have to buy a fucking membership for them.

I mean, I was at the grocery store a few months back after getting a pretty good deal on a certain kind of soda. I think I paid about 2 dollars per 12 pack of 12 oz. cans. Well, I was checking the price to see if I should buy more and they had a tag on the shelf saying "NEW LOW PRICE!"... and they were priced at about 3 dollars per 12 pack. Bitch, I was just here last week, you can't trick me with that shit.

[kommisar]

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idk about 'merika but costco here is significantly cheaper than per unit price in any grocery stores around.

And the meats are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better quality. Those whole roasted chickens are 8$ at Costco, and they put some sort of witchcraft spices on it that makes it amazing. That same size chicken is 10-12$ at superstore/sobeys. It's also worth noting Canada has a plague of stupidly high priced meats, especially fucking chicken. 13$ for two breasts when I can hop the border to Bangor and get the same thing for 5$

It's also a bit higher quality than the noname/my compliments brand (kirkland) but not by a huge amount. I actually end up saving more in the long run even though I'm buyng massive amounts of everything. Biggest issue is that I don't have a big enough freezer haha.

But it's true that their options are somewhat limited to what they have in stock.

[smartdude1212]

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It's also worth noting Canada has a plague of stupidly high priced meats, especially fucking chicken. 13$ for two breasts when I can hop the border to Bangor and get the same thing for 5$

Oh my fucking word, this. I can get a package of four quality boneless, skinless chicken breasts here in Moscow for ~220 RUB/kg, which is approximately $7 CAD. I can get two suppers' worth of protein (plus next-day leftovers) out of the entire package. I just checked the online Safeway flyer for back home, and boneless, skinless chicken breasts are $17.61/kg (and it says club price, HA). What the crippling fuck?

But yeah, meat prices in Canada are overall ridiculous. The cheapest place I've found for chicken (besides Costco; I don't personally shop there, but my parents do) is Giant Tiger, although the chicken is of a noticeably lower quality (and thus I don't eat it).

[Reincarnate]

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I want Vector cereal Damn you, Canada

[Cavernio]

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I spend like 40$ on a whole certified organic, local chicken from the lady at farmer's market, maybe 5lbs, giblets not included. It's ridiculously expensive. But in the grand scheme of things, it serves as a base for 3 meals for 2 of us, so it'd totally feed me more than enough meat for a week if I wanted. The eggs are 6-7$ a dozen too, not that I get there early enough for there to be any eggs left usually.