I don't get it. I come on here and see people eating on shoestring budgets of a couple hundred dollars or less. How? I don't understand. For the past 2 months I've been meal prepping like crazy, haven't eaten out once, and I'm still spend $400+ (CAD) on groceries every month (just for me, a single guy). I have made every one of my lunches, generally consisting of some sort of vegetable soup or chili with homemade bread, banana, apple, sometimes stromboli. Often I'm STILL hungry after lunch. I then eat pretty much the same thing for dinner. (minus the fruit.) Breakfast is just a bowl (more like 3) of cereal with milk.
Even cooking all of my own meals, I'm still spending a decent amount of money on food every month. I can't eat any less. I bike 20 miles every day and I have an extremely fast metabolism. I'm hungry constantly. And it's not like I'm eating junk! I made vegetable minestrone soup last week... broccoli and cheese soup, corn chowder this week. Am I doing something wrong here? Every weekend when I go to the store to buy things to prep, I spend ~$100. I don't waste food, I haven't thrown any decent amount of food away in a long time. I eat almost everything before it goes bad (other than celery, that stuff goes bad so quickly.)
Is there anything I can do to get that number down? I used to really like sweets but I'm desperately trying to cut back, so instead I just eat fruit. Pomegranates seem to be my vice right now, I'll generally eat a couple a week. But still, that's $10... maybe.
Thanks.
Submitted December 05, 2017 at 01:25PM by corrado33 http://ift.tt/2kkDllM
