I am doing a budget

[Boner_18]

$10/day is tough (except for 4x double chee and fries). Expect to eat lots of chicken and pasta. Things that grow out of the ground and haven't been significantly altered (i.e. canned or frozen) are expensive.

 

[Boner_18]

Eggs are about $.19-25/ea here in the states. Chicken is 1.99-2.49 for about 2 normal sized breasts.

You could eat 2x eggs for breakfast every day. 1 chicken breast for lunch, 1 chicken breast for dinner. That's probably $3 for all your protein.

 

[Mudcat]

Things cost money. That's what I find.

Like 10 bucks a day sounds do-able but then I start to analyze.

Like meat is not that much. I think most days my dinner meat is probably ~3 bucks? A couple burgers or three sausages or whatever. They have rotating sales and I buy a little pork roast which is good for 3 servings for under 9 bucks. So okay - way under 10 bucks.

But then I like to have a glass of milk with dinner. That alone is prolly like 80 cents.

Add regular tomatoes and onion. Some kinda cheese. Condiments. Bread/bunz. Perhaps a frikkin pickle. Even if I go cheap on the fruit, a morning apple and banana is a buck. Lunch costs something. Snacks ---> gotta pay for those.

Things cost money.

 

[Saulty]

Does Canada have ALDI?

Just came back from store. Big watermelon 3.29, pineapple 1.29, mango .59, avocado .49, blueberries 1.29, raspberries 1.69.

 

[housepicks]

I figure it costs me 700-750 a month just to feed my family dinner alone.

 

[Mudcat]

Does Canada have ALDI?

Don't think so. Never heard of it pal.

Maybe it's like our No Frills stores. I'll be looking into one of those soon.

 

[Archie]

I lived on Aldi foods in grad school

also got a ton of awesome toys for my nieces and nephews there when I got my first real job after graduating, undergrad.

I went really over board and got like 300 dollars of toys for 3 lil ones

so most of them just stayed either at my place or were put at grandpa and grandma's house for the kids to play with on visits

I have found memories of ALDI

I don't like the ghetto versions of ALDI in chicago

 

[Archie]

aldi is the cheaper version of trader joe's

 

[reno cool]

I figure it costs me 700-750 a month just to feed my family dinner alone.

30days x $25 pizza delivery, amiright?

 

[housepicks]

Not exactly.with the price of ground beef being about 4$ a pound..even making burgers for 6 is over 20 bucks with all the trimmings.

 

[housepicks]

A cheap frozen pizza night is more then offset by a night of pizza or portillos. No way my average dinner is less then 25 bucks.

 

[housepicks]

Fuck...johnsinville brats are almost a buck a piece

 

[tullamore]

I probably spend less than $20 a week on food.

Just waiting for Uncle Sam to tax me on all the free food I get.

 

[Blitty]

When Cleveland loses I may lower that goal to $5 a day.

I follow this kid for a month consistently winning and betting conservatively. Collect I think 4? weeks in a row. Monday I decide to reduce # of plays and load up on him, and he can't hit the broadside of a barn. I think I have lost more in the last 3 days than I won in the last month. #iamush

Does fairwarning charge you for his plays?

 

[Badnina]

You'll be eating very little (if any which sucks) protein on $10 a day but, yes, it can be done.

Here you can buy a 4 pack of tilapia filets for a little over $4. That is some nice protein there. Fish is good food.

 

[Blitty]

$140 a week for 1 is steep.

I average $65 a week. That's a ton of ish from trader joes.

Sprinkle in a few restaurant deliveries.

 

[Tron]

I'm frightened to think about what I spend per week on food.

For some lols for you guys (and tears for me) I should track my spending and then post it here.

 

[Matty]

Financial planner said we spend $1200 a month on food. (That includes my weekday lunches.)