Thread 21514089

Is it normal to spend $100 a week on groceries on myself alone? Why the fuck is everything so expensive?
>inb4 buy less doritos americlap!
I literally only buy what I need to cook 3 meals a day for one week.

>>21514089 (OP)
Most people don't eat 3 full meals these days, not saying that is good or bad it's just uncommon for awhile now aside maybe a snack in the middle of the day as opposed to real lunch. To answer you, I spend slightly less but not much less, I'm at around 350 a month so barely less, but I also eat 3 times a day usually.

same here 50 euros already wasted this week and i have only eaten once in the past 7 days

>>21514089 (OP)
If you really want to save money,

Oatmeal in the morning (organic)

Egg cheese sandwich for lunch (pasture raised, NOT FREE RANGE. FREE RANGE IS A LIE)

So then you have to come up with something for dinner, which could be chicken breast broccoli, pork chops, etc....

Your grocery bill per month will be extremely manageable.

>>21514100
Theyre not even big meals. Just really simple stuff.
>Breakfast: Yogurt with fruit or a homemade breakfast bar
>Lunch: Fried rice with meat and eggs
>Dinner: Stir fry of some kind, I mix it up a lot, veg on the side and some rice, frozen eggrolls if Im feeling extra sloptastic

>>21514089 (OP)
>>>/pol/

it wasn't
now it is
and always will be going forward

>>21514089 (OP)
Depends where you live, shop and what you buy. I prolly only spend $200-$250 a month max. But I get alot of free food from a food pantry in my town and I also have a teenager at home who is always eating things.

I eat the same stuff all the time and only spend around 40 per week.

Pound and a half of bacon: 10 dollars
Twelve eggs: 2 to 4 dollars
Loaf of Brioche: 4 dollars
5 pounds of chicken: 11 dollars
Butter: 2.50
Oil: 5 bucks for multiple weeks so call it 2 a week
Flour and rice and pasta and spices: negligible, call it 4 a week all together
That's about 38 bucks a week for staples, plenty of room in that budget for soda and snacks and supplies for sweets or various additional meals like salads or tuna or any meats on sale

I spend quite a bit more than that, but to be fair, I've been somewhat loose with my money. Those $10 askinosie chocolate bars are really fucking good. Good cheese in merica costs $20+ a pound. And I buy the expensive olive oil which is about $40 per liter.

>>21514089 (OP)
Thats just little over 14 dollars a day. Why do you think that's too much?

>>21514353
He wants a new iPhone
He wants women who want new iPhones
He doesn't want women who are looking to build a home and a family
Many such cases

>>21514277
Where the fuck do you live where anything is priced like this? Are you shopping at the poorest, blackest Aldi's in the world?

>>21514386
It's fucking walmart, man
Don't tell me you shop at a place like Publix that has a 100% markup on literally everything
Stop paying the wypipo tax.

>>21514422
I shop at the farmers market which isnt the cheapest, but if you want to buy actual produce and not the fucking crap at wal mart its a no brainer

>>21514428
Where do you shop in december?

>>21514428
well it's not wonder you're struggling, man. you need to realize now is not the time to be eating in luxury and you need to make realistic sacrifices right now.

>>21514433
Its not a traditional Farmers market, its an actual building in Dekalb county Georgia. Theyre running year round

I swear man, some people will go broke in attempts at trying to show everyone else that they're not. It's such a stupid mindset that I will never understand. I see it with iPhones and designer clothing.

>>21514089 (OP)
I've been going to gordon foods recently to get raw ingredients and splitting the cost with my roommates.

This and eating a lot of salads for my twink diet has done wonders for my food costs

>>21514422
retards don't know about gordon, big plus

>>21514428
So yes, you pay a massive markup for no real reason.

>>21514444
Quads of truth. Im not broke or a hobo but I shop frugally and try and get the best deals on healthy stuff to cook all my own meals. Im also not above going to places that give out free food assistance. Its free, they want you to have it. Why waste money you may or may not have buying stuff just because you are too proud and think only hobos should get that sort of thing.
Ive saved hundreds per month getting free stuff. Get while the getting is good.

>>21514470
>for no real reason
Can you honestly tell me the produce at Wal Mart is on par with fresh produce?

>>21514476
online coupons, planning your weekly meals depending on what's on sale, scoping out the fucking clearance rack, there's so many ways to save money that people will look down on because they think they're too good to be shopping like that. I just can't wrap my head around it. I mean, obviously it's a form of social conditioning but like still. It's just so fucking weird.

>>21514485
>>21514476

I'm not against that stuff, but I am autismo so I have to get the same things every time from the same places, I can't really shop around sales because I'll have a faggoty fit like a child if I don't eat the same shit over and over so it is just luck if I happen to do my shopping when anything I want at all is on sale, and I only shop on the same days every month. It sucks but I still do coupons and all that at the very least.

>>21514494
of course there's exceptions to the rule and I'm not talking about people like you. I have my own weird quirks too and that's completely understandable. What I'm talking about is something different.

>>21514089 (OP)

It honestly depends on where you shop. If I go to Aldi I'll spend somewhere between 50 - 80 dollars to feed 2 for about 5 days. But that same haul at a bigger place like Publix, HEB, etc. would be 2 - 3x that amount

>>21514481
The produce at Walmart is the same as the produce at every grocery.
Besides which we're not even talking about produce. You buy your bacon at the farmers market? Your butter? Flour? Poultry?

Don't come at me saying my pricing is unrealistically low when you're paying through the nose to not have to be around "the lower class" when shopping.

>>21514507
>The produce at Walmart is the same as the produce at every grocery.
I see people parrot this this shit all the time but never back it up with anything. Sounds like one of those pseud know-it-all myths that people repeat to sound smart. Like the spices and rotten meat nonsense.

>>21514507
>The produce at Walmart is the same as the produce at every grocery.
No it isn't
>Besides which we're not even talking about produce. You buy your bacon at the farmers market? Your butter? Flour? Poultry?
I don't buy either any of these at the farmers market, but I also don't buy any of these at walmart as they don't carry good enough quality examples

>>21514526
>>21514481
Fresh produce isn't always better either, I have shopped (never bought anything in the end) multiple times at a straight from farm produce store that just sells their shit and fellow farmers shit and it's usually rotted or blighted and is shit. Walmart delivery would pick better and that's saying a lot.

>>21514540
Of course ive definitely encountered some ghastly produce at the farmers market but by and large its the better option quality wise

>>21514526
>Bro walmart doesn't have good butter!
Are you taking the piss or are you really trapped in the mindset of a retarded boomer homemaker that thinks the shit from the same factory in the same label is somehow different because it was shipped two miles in a different direction?
Seriously, the only people I hear talk like this are post-menopausal women. The kind that still think saturated fats kill you and MSG causes migraines.

food is only expensive if you see it as a burden.
Cancel your streaming prescriptions, buy second hand clothes, stop trying to impress people you don't know, go sleep in a park, eat like a King.

>>21514089 (OP)
Inflation alone would have made things 35% more expensive in the past 10 years

>>21514449
twink diet?

>>21514089 (OP)
>Why the fuck is everything so expensive?
How else is Israel, our Greatest Ally, supposed to afford their free healthcare? How are they supposed to afford to drop bombs on children? What are you, some kind of nazi? Do your part and buy those groceries without complaining, like a good goyim.

>>21514107
>NOT FREE RANGE. FREE RANGE IS A LIE
eplain why if you're not a kike programmed bot asshole bitch prick

I can live off of Costco eggs and chicken if I'm trying to be frugal.

$100/week is easy if you actually like cooking.

>>21515628
kys asshole

>>21514089 (OP)
Im european but that sounds like a lot, i buy really expensive shit, like breadlings from a baker that makes them by hand for like 1€ each (normally a breadling is like 20-30 cents) and lots of diet soda.
But even including all that i spend 50 bucks at the most, but i also eat very nutritious cheap food for my main meals, lots of cheap dairy and cheap cuts of meat.

>>21514089 (OP)
>I literally only buy what I need to cook 3 meals a day for one week.
time to start cooking 2 meals a day fatass

>>21516124
>eating breakfast is.... for fatties!!!
Huh?

>>21514089 (OP)
we figured this out centuries ago, buy one of these per week and save yourself the 20 bucks you would have spent on whatever the fuck else

>>21514089 (OP)
instead of that fag cat you could have posted a receipt you dildo

>>21516143
Why should I have to eat like a slave if I dont want to bankrupt myself? Is being healthy and not poor impossible? Is this why so many poor people are obese retards?

>>21514089 (OP)
>Is it normal to spend $100 a week on groceries on myself alone?
I probably spend more like $130 pp on basics like milk, cream, eggs, bananas, cereal, bread, and 4-5 choices of meat for meals, and it doesn't last a full week, because I still eat out 2-3 meals each week, on average. I spend another $150/mo at Costco for paper goods, water, and bags of veggies and fruit and a few luxury items like street tacos, chocolates, pimento cheese, chips, pallets of coffee, etc.
I also rourtinely also shop at Aldi when I need bread, cookies, small amounts of produce, bags of nuts, cheese, chicken, ground beef, or something seasonal. There are some items unique to them at great prices.

>Why the fuck is everything so expensive?
Same prices since covid, really. So, the supply chain demand and hoarding may have started it, but Biden locked it into "normal" prices ever since. Why? Cost of gasoline and transport stayed very high Go ahead and blame Biden.

>>21516143
Shockingly high calorie count for extremely low nutrition. It'll fill you up but not much else.
I assume this rapid inflation is a sinister plot to make Americans thinner by sheer economics.

>>21516153
you can be poor and eat healthy if you are not retarded but the poor are often poor because they are retarded

>>21516170
just make sure to really wash your poo hand ranjeet

>>21516153
>Is being healthy and not poor impossible?
You have to shop and eat like a latino. You buy only the veggies for sofrito (onions, peppers, garlic, tomatoes). Largest bags of dried beans and rice. It's the new staple. Find out who has the best sales and prices on these staples and get boring.

>>21516124
poor guy fell off of a carnival ride
>HEY HEY HEY BOMBS AWAY
>*SPLAT*

>>21516165
it’s not much different from rice, which billions of people eat everyday simply because it’s something to eat

>>21516164
>Biden locked prices!
That's not how pricing works

>>21516272
>>>21516164
>>Biden locked prices!
>That's not how pricing works
Yea, Biden had zero to do with the cost of gasoline and transport to the stores. Right.

>>21514089 (OP)
move out of the USA

>>21514089 (OP)
you cook three meals a day? do you spend all day cooking?

>>21514089 (OP)
>doesn't say where he shops
>doesn't have any pics of food or recipts

yep, its a fake and gay thread again

>>21516279
Right.
Do yourself a favor and look up sticky pricing
What you're really mad about is monopolistic behavior. Price fixing.

>>21516492
who has the monopoly?

>>21516143
At one point I was eating 4 packs of ramen a day. My leg swelled up so bad that it "popped" a leak and I had lymphatic fluid draining down my leg for months. Anywhere I sat down, there would be a puddle of fluid under my foot shortly after. I finally got into a wound dr to under go a painful process of getting the wound to heal.

Moral of the story, don't be a fat ass, don't live off of ramen, get money and fuck bitches

>>21516492
monopolies can't exist without government intervention, dummy

I just spent 20 dollars on a jar of vanilla bean paste

>>21516504
>ten different companies "have a monopoly" on slop
good thing I don't eat slop

>>21516508
The exact opposite
Monopolies form naturally, especially in markets with a high barrier to entry. It requires government action to prevent monopolies and monopolistic behaviors among a small group of players like price coordination
You know nothing
>>21516512
>I don't eat any branded meat, pasta, or veg of any kind
Hey that's neat but most of us don't live on a farming commune

>>21514089 (OP)
100$ is normal if you get top tier produce from your local fishmonger/butcher/farmer. If you spend that much on holiday food you're draining cash.

>>21516508
you can't be this retarded

>>21516525
who creates the barriers to entry? "price coordination" is unsustainable since a single company can undercut it.
>branded pasta, veg
pasta and vegetables are fucking dirt cheap lol. even in america.

>>21516542
corporations themselves can't exist without government. they're legal entities.

>>21516543
>Who creates barriers to entry
No one creates them, dipshit, they are innate to markets. All markets have barriers to entry, primarily expense expertise and logistics, and some are higher than others. National food production and distribution is incredibly expensive.
>Price coordination is unsustainable because one of the ten people can undercut it
That results in all the players making less. You're retarded.
>>21516546
You are even more retarded

>>21514089 (OP)
You're on the "Liberal" end but not completely out of line with the FDA's projections. Learn to coupon or find cheaper alternatives and you'll be in completely normal spending range.

>>21516502
how can you be fat and live off ramen?
its like a fat coke addict, an oxymoron, doesnt exist. shut the fuck up

>>21514089 (OP)
>Is it normal to spend $100 a week on groceries on myself alone?
I moved to a new apartment for the first time and it's also my first time buying groceries and making dinner for myself. My budget has overextended but that's because I needed basic shit like Olive oil and other necessities. My friend who has lived some years says his daily budget on dinner is around €10, so that's €70 per week.

What I am struggling with right now is finding easy to make dinner recipies. I know chicken wrap, tikka masala, i can make pizza dough and then I bought some fried chicken, also tomato soup. That was €40 and will last me until next friday.

I want to make chicken soup but I think that's too expensive and hard to make.

>>21518598
>chicken soup
stock, chicken breasts and noodles are too expensive?

>>21518606
the chicken soup guide looks a bit intimidating, it says to put some thing in the pot to make it creamy and stuff, too advanced for me right now lol

>>21514353
>2/8 hours of work at federal minimum wage spent on food daily
>6/8 has to go to bills and rent
>but also that 2/8 has to cover the weekends unless you just starve yourself then
>DURR WHY U CAER MY MUMMY BUYS EVERYTHING
Let's say hypotheticalman has a somewhat better job or lives in a state where the minimum wage is slightly less stuck in 1970 when it might have been a livable wage. Let's say he makes $15 an hour. Now that's 1/8 of a day's pay on food. Not eating out, not fast food, not splurging on expensive shit. Just buying basic groceries. You'd have to be retarded to think this is acceptable.

>>21518607
ai bot computer hands wrote this post

>>21514089 (OP)
I spend 175 canadian bucks for 4-6weeks of groceries. Most of what I eat once the fresh meat is gone is homemade pizza since flour, crushed tomato and cheese are pretty cheap.
maybe you retards should learn how to actually cook and not be fat fuckers

>>21516698
"You puttin that shit on cheeseburgers?!"

>>21518633
they everyone in constant, inescapable debt.

>>21514213
what type of fantasy land do you live in?

>>21514277
Where in the US is this because the prices are easily 2x that.

>>21514089 (OP)
Yeah seems about right, I usually spend 100-200 on groceries for me and my gf once every one or two weeks.
>olive oil - 10
>butter - 5
>milk - 5
>deli meat, cheese and bread for sandwiches - 15
>onions, garlic, tomatoes - 10
>eggs if splurging - 10
>frozen fish - 20
>rice - 5
>tinned fish - 10
>canned vegetables - 10
>instant slop like frozen burritos or ramen - 20
>usually some luxury protein like a salmon fillet - 15
> misc spices, herbs etc - 5
About 150 right there. I have a degree and only make 300 a week because there are no jobs. I got one interview for unskilled labor out of 16 applications I sent out last week. Several thousands in debt and will probably bankrupt sometime this year.

>>21520735
Walmart in the south, east coast

>>21514173
>pantry
Holy shit I hate poor people. I am so glad the wealth gap keeps growing

>>21514440
Looks like its well off people. lol.

>>21514440
lmfao. Place looks like its for people making over $150k.
Even Wal Mart is targeting the $100k crowd now. lmfao.

>Bucket of Phialdelphia chive cream cheese: $5
>1.5 lb chicken breasts: $7.50
>Dry Italian dressing mix: $2
>Can of golden mushroom soup: $1
>Yellow onions: $1
>Half a lb white mushrooms: $2.50
>Pound of pasta: $1
>Half a stick of butter: $1
>Incidentals (oil, spices, vinegar, etc.): $1
Total cost: $22 at current day grocery prices and it's enough food for 2 days if you eat nothing else. That's $11/day and you're eating better than all but the richest boomers did in their young adulthood.

>>21520986
lol subtle boomer hate. You must be poor.

I can’t don’t understand how people spend so much money on food. Back in pre-COVID times I spent about $15/week on food in college, and now that I’m married I have to try hard to spend $25-$30 per week on groceries. My grocery staples are:

>>bulk rice and potatoes for grains
>>seasonal fruits and veggies from Latin markets (always dirt cheap)
>>onions, garlic, and ginger so that my food has flavor
>>milk for gains
>>B E A N S for S+ tier protein (anti-legume /fit/ fags need not reply)
>>chicken, pork, eggs, and cheeses when the budget allows almost always when they are on sale or a good price at Costco/Sam’s Club. I also buy bulk flour, sugar, butter, and oil so that I can bake when I want bread or a dessert.

>>21521060
Wtf? Are you poor? Rich people have high consumption.

>>21521097
I’m not poor anymore but I grew up very poor. Now I’ve (mostly) made it with a house, a non-meme graduate degree, and a well-paying job in a promising field. Sometimes I’ll splurge and buy some fish or beef, or make a nice pasta with an expensive cheese, but it’s hard to abandon my roots.

>>21521112
Are you trolling? In another thread, its like a guy is trolling me too. He keeps telling me stereotypical worker things like
>rich people horde wealth
>wages too low
etc
but can never refute what I reply with or go beyond what he says. Just purely emotional.

>>21521120
Making $150k in a tech field doesn't mean you have to spend $500/month on food.

>>21521124
Why not. I spend that. And I dont even buy fancy stuff. Just costco. You dont snack?

>>21518598
Chicken and noodles is literally
>boil chicken and shred before hand
>Chicken broth/stock added to pot (or use the water you boiled the chicken in but I never do)
>add cream of chicken
>mix together
>bring to a boil
>remove from pan turn down heat
>add noodles and chicken, stir
>10-20 minutes depending on kind of noodle
In its most basic form it is boiling 3 ingrediants then bringing the temperature down.

>>21521124
You must be eating like shit dude. No offense. Wtf do you eat? Youre trolling.

>>21521120
I’m not trolling, sorry. I work in the financial reporting sector and have zero sympathy for anyone with anticapitalist sentiment since my work shows me how hard people actually work to obtain their wealth. I’m sure some people coast on trust fund money, but most don’t and the ones that do don’t make it very far.

Back to /ck/ matters, cooking is one of my favorite pastimes. I like spending time making cheap ingredients taste good. I’d rather make a good bean stew than a good steak since one requires greater skill expression.

>>21521134
> and the ones that do don’t make it very far.
Ofc they do lol. Good habits build up.
>t. retired at 30

>>21521134
People don't actually work very hard, and the heart of capitalism is to own stuff so you don't have to work, you pay people to work on it to make money for you. That isn't hard.

>>21521137
I agree with you. If you give an inheritance to someone who will use it wisely, they can retire early. If you give it to some random crackhead, it’ll be gone in a month. It takes more than just a sum of cash to make it. You need discipline and a plan at the very least.

>>21521134
> I’m sure some people coast on trust fund money
Literally everyone with rich parents now. I think within 10 years, many many 30 year olds born into well off familes will retire soon. For example, I cannot imagine anyone in my friends high school choosing to work because there is no way they will get a job paying over 500k while bringing in over $500k a year in passive income.

>>21521143
He is a worker so he has a lot of anger and stress in him he doesnt even notice. I used to work. Even when you “dont mind” your job. You’re constantly stressed and angry.
>>21521145
You would quit your job if you could make $150k doing nothing. lol

>>21521143
It’s hard enough that most people don’t do it. They take the easy route of consooming and not caring about the future, then wonder why they can’t retire when they want to. Look at personal debt statistics if you want to learn more. Being wise with money is difficult, at least more difficult than the alternative.

>>21521134
>I'm a massive jew
>I have no sympathy
We know, that's why you are going in the ovens.

>>21521124
You would quit your job if you could make $150k doing nothing. lol

>>21521154
I might pivot my role but I wouldn’t quit my job. I would ease out of financial reporting and into personal finance instead, since I truly enjoy helping people understand

Also, I don’t think you understand that I am agreeing with you. I’m just saying that money alone isn’t enough. $150k a year with no plan and no discipline is just playing the same consoomer game the normies play but with more money. It’s not a long term strategy for success unless you invest, live off dividends, or start a business. I’ve seen countless business owners go from 6-7 digit incomes to broke overnight because they didn’t realize that coasting on previous success is not enough.

>>21521165
Sorry commie scum, I’m Mormon. I denounce the Talmud except for the part where it says that women shouldn’t interact with men when they’re on their periods. That part is inspired.

I spent 200 bucks the other day and all I got was jerky, nuts, and a piece of salmon.

>>21521190
>only got his job because temple/family connections
>im not a jew
lol mormons are worse than jews in every way except there’s fewer of them on television

>>21521186
Yeah I meant $150k a year in dividends

>>21521194
Lmao you have no idea what you’re talking about, man. My boss isn’t a member and neither is anyone higher than me in my organization.

>>21521134
No man, a trust fund kid getting paid 200k plus a year is good and more than enough.

>>21521210
Mathematically, I agree with you. Behaviorally, I don’t. A large percentage of people who fall into unearned/unusually high amounts of money squander it quickly. Lottery winners are 3-5x more likely to declare bankruptcy than normal people. 60% of NBA players go broke within 5 years of retirement from the league. Money alone isn’t enough, you have to use it wisely.

>>21521221
This is not a lottery. lmfao. This is a kid thats like over 20 and already has good habits and everything he wants already.

>>21521221
Nba is black people. Trust fund implies kid from a good family. By 15, the kid already has good habits.

>>21521230
That’s great and I’m happy for him. If he has good habits like you say he does, that puts him way ahead of most people his age, and that takes work to cultivate and maintain.

>>21521243
Is $15k really ahead of most people. Rhetorical question. I think this is why the rich are so sick of the poors. I go on /antiwork a lot and I read what they say and I realize they actually represent at least 70-80% of the population. Their attitude is so annoying.
Look in here too

https://boards.4chan.org/ck/thread/21520267#bottom

>>21521254
*$150k

>>21514089 (OP)
Trumptarrifs are only making things worse.

>>21521269
Go back

>>21521269
Biden lost

Got some biryani and it was $18 including tax. That was my meal that day, so if you do it 5 days that's a week and that's just under $100

>>21521273
>>21521276
remember when the tariffs were supposed to bring back manufacturing or did we memory hole that too? kek

>>21521190
>My religion was invented in 1860 by a kid who wanted to fuck all the hot girls in town
>Yes you must take me seriously
>Yes Jesus went to Alabama

>>21521060
beans and rice are fucking delicious. if you can enjoy them, why not? they're cheap and fucking good. it's a win win.

>>21514089 (OP)
Chat is this image real?

>>21516129
it's true. I have a swig of milk and a hit of my crack pipe for breakfast and I have managed to stay under 200 pounds for like 12 years now

>>21516153
>Why should I have to eat like a slave

ok taxpayer

$100 for a week's worth is what I spend if I'm being thrifty.

>>21514117
WRONG. It will cost even more going forward