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Originally Posted by westopher
Jesus $200 on food per month? What are you eating? Mr Noodles twice a day?
If I were to eat at home 2 times a day every day I'd still end up spending 800 dollars a month on food for the 2 of us at the cheapest, but I do like to eat food with nutritional value.
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It's not that bad really, you just have to put an effort into trying/planning vs buying whatever you feel like cooking/eating any given day. On $300 for the 2 of us, we shop a lot at asian grocery stores. When certain meats are on sale, stock up and into the freezer. We rarely buy meat or produce at full price. Rice is cheap, $30 for a huge sack that would last us 4-6 months; pasta doesn't cost much more. When we make dinner we always make enough for both our lunches the following day
Nowadays with a toddler and a baby, time is at a premium so we aren't and to deal hunt the same way nor spend as much time cooking and planning meals. But we also don't go out as often either just due to practicality with the kids, and we also have space for a big upright freezer which allows us to hoard cheap meat and ice cream even more effectively. We're around $450-500/mth now for our total food budget, that's for family of 4. I'm sure that will rise some once the baby eats real food too
We've actually become looser while eating out now since we don't go out nearly as often, and also settled into our house and not penny pinching for our next move so disposable income is actually better for us now vs when we were saving aggressively.