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[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I spend about that if you exclude my splurge on Soylent for breakfast (substitute oatmeal, for example). I eat wraps that are 90% veggies for lunch and the premix Birdseye veggie/chicken dinners where I can get 2 meals per bag.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Soylent alone averages $3 each, so that's already more than 2/3 of a $30 weekly budget on breakfast alone. Birds Eye Veggie Made Garlic Chicken is $7 for a 21 oz bag, if that's what you're talking about it's (7*7/2) about $25 a week. So now we're at $46, or more than 150% of a $30 budget, and we haven't accounted for a single lunch.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I literally said in my comment that Soylent is a splurge that could be replaced with oatmeal. I don't get it to be cheap, I get it because I like it and it's pretty good nutritionally. Make that change and you're under $30, like I usually am outside of that.

Here was this week's cost, including splurging on a 1lb bag of nuts for snacking: https://i.postimg.cc/GmSJWVxp/Screenshot-20240509-111904.png

More importantly I was replying to your "only ramen or rice and beans" comment, because I don't eat either of those. I could reduce my costs further if I did, but I like what I eat and don't need to save money on my food budget.