Is spending $250/month on groceries considered thrifty for a single person?
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Is spending $250/month on groceries considered thrifty for a single person?
Seems excessive to me if you're really trying to tighten your belt. I could feed myself for probably around $100 a month and still consider myself to be eating well.
Not OP but would you care to give an example of some of your staple meals/purchases please? I'm trying to tighten up my budget
Just the usual money-saving poverty food. Lentils, rice, some cheap veggies like onions and carrots, and I buy bulk chicken breast packs. I eat two meals a day, a large lunch and a moderate dinner, usually it's a portion of the meal-prepped chicken and veggies that I make earlier in the week. A big 5lb chicken breast package usually lasts me about 10-14 days. It's not exciting don't get me wrong, but I never want for more.
>Lentils
Antinutrients
>, rice
Empty carbohydrates
>some cheap veggies like onions and carrots,
Oxalates Tannins Phytates are in tubers. Onions are alright.
>and I buy bulk chicken breast packs
Chicken is the worst animal protein, contains little fat and qualtively biases it to long chain oxidative fats and almost no omega 3 fatty acids. It does not contain much dietary cholesterol which is not good either.
> I eat two meals a day, a large lunch and a moderate dinner, usually it's a portion of the meal-prepped chicken and veggies that I make earlier in the week.
Enjoy the huge increases in tyramine and histamine in your foods from meal prepping
>A big 5lb chicken breast package usually lasts me about 10-14 days. It's not exciting don't get me wrong, but I never want for more.
That's not enough protein and chicken once again is horrible for you. There is ample evidence to suggest the decline of testosterone in males is partly attributable to the dietary shift from beef and pork to chicken.
Leave cooked chicken out in the trash for a few days. It stinks like hell.. leave cooked beef, almost no smell. Poultry is garbage slop for plebs.
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Not an argument.
Only a socially inept person would fail at getting a job that pays enough to give them real food and one so bad they need to meal prep everyday. So if you're the original poster, you're not only coping with your shit sandwich of a situation, but you're projecting on muh autism as well.
i'm not arguing with you moron
Because you can't.
nothing will convince me, especially facts!
250 seems a little high, before I was doing it around 100. I haven’t been shopping lately and due to inflation I am guessing 150 might be closer to normal. But with 150 you could be eating at least 3 chicken thighs and all the veggies that you want. Also, every month you could expand your pantry by buying new oils and spices and other niche ingredients to build up an impressive library.
The key to buying anything frugally is don’t buy it if it comes in a box. If you buy everything fresh and make it yourself the price is pretty low.
These loaves came out to probably a dollar or less each, as an example.
$100 a month for food isn't really a reality we live in right now. You'd be starving yourself to manage that.
I disagree, $100 a month is perfectly reasonable assuming you're going for poverty foods.
>25lb bag of jasmine rice from my local asian market - $27
>10lbs of chicken breast at $3.69/lb (bought in bulk) - $36.90 (freeze half for thawing out at mid-month)
>5lb bag of your choice of beans, usually red or black - $4
>3lb bag of onions - $3 each
>carrots - $1/lb
Source: one of my recent shopping trips. The amount of veggies you buy will fluctuate of course but this is more than enough to sustain yourself on for less than $100 a month.
that's not being thrifty that's a straight up poverty diet.
it's probably healthier than what 80% of Americans eat
^ this
Frankly this
250 if you're actually getting like peak healthy varied diet on a budget (where I am) but you can still be healthy on lower levels like said.
I generally end up somewhere between 200 - 250 a month just for myself. If you're eating three servings of fruit and a serving of berries and two servings of leafy greens and cruciferous veggies and two more servings of other non-leafy veg a day....you'll be around 250 like me.
You aren't eating well unless steak and berries are a daily staple of your diet. Better to have a nice day than subsist off eat the bugs tier grains, soy, rice and processed slop. Even a quarter pounder is better than the muh rice and beans shit.
spend?
i eat only from the 5 or so food banks i hit up
Based public resource exploiter
I haven't checked, but I know in college I was min-maxing thriftiness for groceries and for a two person household we managed to keep it below $200
How long ago were you in college?
I swear people constantly complain about inflation but never seem to really internalize how disconnected their idea of a dollar's value is from what it can actually get them in the present time. There's old idiots who talk about budgeting like it's still the 80s and you can buy a month's groceries for 2 for $30 and still end up fat.
gradd'd in 2018
I'd say with how prices have changed since then you'd be spending $250-$300 for the same now.
Maybe. Inflation sucks bros.
I spend $150 per week on food
How do you do it, explain.
$120 a month here im better than you
I'm usually around $150 for 3 people weekly so this seems realistic.
I'm spending $30-$40 a day on delivery. How the frick am I supposed to afford feeding myself? Inflation is literally going to make me starve to death.
you could gorge like a king just keeping that budget but hauling your fatass to the grocery store once a week
I eat pretty well on $150 a month but it really depends where you live. I live in a state that grows/raises most foods.
mine works out to be $14 a day so $420 a month but I do low carb. That should be pricing in all the oils, spices, and other misc stuff.
I live in a major city and I get 5% of that as cashback from my credit card. Also food in my state doesn't get sales taxed so that helps too.
eating 25 lbs of rice per month is peasant tier
you're getting over 1200 calories per day of basically pure carbohydrate
no wonder those CICOlads are so angry in low carb threads. It's pure seething from their poverty diets lol
depends on income and locality. i can't believe this needs to be stated to you. you need to stop being so stupid, it's unbecoming of you. try harder.
Depends on where they're calculating this. But $250 seems about right if you're a heavy eater and aren't living off of rice and beans, at least in my area of Upstate NY.
Single male, I'm at $200 a month. I meal prep every aspect of my day. I'm also a slave to fast food cheeseburgers so maybe add an extra $50 to that max
No, not thrifty. Normal, I guess. Thrifty would be spending less than 5 usd per day on food depending on your region. Beans, potatoes, lentils, and probably a lot of eggs for additional protein. It's not a fun diet, but it'll keep you going for very little money.
Thats not thrift, thats poverty level.
Poverty level would be food pantries and soup kitchens. As long as you're buying food without any subsidy, you're doing alright.
I used to live on $100 a month for groceries through the entirety of undergrad. It was chicken, onion, rice, beans, and sometimes frozen vegetables almost every single day
I would still say $250 is relatively frugal
$950-1200 CDN a month here, for 5 adults. And that's not just food but all toiletries and household supplies (detergent, soaps, shampoos, sandwich, freezer and garbage bags, cleaning supplies, etc etc). $250 USD a month just for one person seems wasteful, especially if you are just listing food expenses and not all household goods.
How can you spend that much when you are forced to use delivery apps?
>100 a month
>buy 90 one dollar banquet meals
>spend the rest on broccoli
Holy based
>1k USD per month to feed a family of 4
>thrifty plan
what does thirfty mean in this context? does this mean buying off brand shit and using coupons? and this costs 1k a month? jesus fricking christ
Only if it includes alcohol, and you like alcohol.