Key information: Location Age Height Type of food + general cost Not an anti-American thread, I've been eating out way too often and haven't been cooking as much as I should. Just curious as to what others on the board spend on average. Please state the type of food as well because you can't brag about spending very little on food if you live off microwave meals and McDonald's.
Trying to keep a budget of around 400 monthly right now for groceries plus about an additional 150 for eating out (which we are trying to keep to weekends only) Thats about 18 bucks a day for 2 people. My wife is now mostly vegan, so we eat a lot of healthier items.
As Whole Foods demonstrates, eating healthy is about three times as expensive as eating unhealthy. Organic, vegan, gluten free, I have no idea what is a gimmick and what isn't. If you're averaging 9 bucks a day for 1 person while eating relatively healthy, that's fantastic. I'm not even close to that with groceries although things like avocado's and salmon definitely don't help. IMO things are a lot easier if you don't have issues with dairy. Things like milk and cottage cheese are cheap and fill you up, but I can't digest them any more. My immune system is probably too strong.
Well I said we are "trying" to keep the budget for food at that, but we aren't always successful. 150 bucks for eating out usually turns into more like 250. For the past few months I ate pretty much only fruit smoothies with flax and protein for breakfast and PB&Js for lunch.
Houston 26 6'2" Generally I eat 3 preprepared meals from TruMeals, MyFitFoods, or Real Meals 365 per day totaling about 20 bucks. I throw in some fruit and a protein shake which can't total more than 2-3 bucks. I'd say on average about 25 total.
Location - Houston Age - 21 Height - 6'3" Type of food + general cost - I usually skip breakfast, fast food for lunch (Taco hell, Wendy's, McCrapper) at least once every other day - around $3-$6. Home cooked meals for dinner (chicken, steak, veggies, or rice) every day. I need to start sleeping early to catch breakfast. Eggs in the morning, so I won't need fast food for lunch.
How does Costco work, do you need a membership? Do they have prepared meals there or raw food that I will have to prepare and marinate? I don't mind cooking but it's a time consuming process and I hate doing the dishes. The females I date don't really specialize in that department.
who was that one clown on here who was wondering how he ended up with some X-amount outrageous sum of credit card debt and bewildered about what he could possibly do to absolve it...and then it was discovered he was spending like $3000/month on food (or something outrageous). that was a riot.
I'm strictly on groceries right now with the exception of a light eat out at a restaurant on a weekend (maybe once every 3-4 weeks)... I spend about $50-60 on total items for my groceries... I get them every 3 weeks.
I don't need to buy food. I can create my own, using sunlight and CO2. thanks to the process of photosynthesis.
My BMR is 2500... so in a typical day (workout included) I need almost 3000 calories. That is a lot of moneys worth of food if I eat healthy. Worth every penny though.
Location: Boulder, Colorado Age: 19 Height: 5'11 I don't eat breakfast, so no cost for that. For lunch I usually rush home and only have time for a Lean Cuisine that I throw in the microwave. For dinner, I usually cook fish, chicken, past, etc or grab a sandwich at one of the millions of sandwich shops that cover most college towns. I don't think that is too expensive. Maybe $15 a day at the most.
