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Me seeing the pic: Oh, doordash just dropped the delivery fee.....wait, $50??? What the fuck is he ordering in one meal that I could get a weeks worth of groceries???
reads text in topic
Oh, good. For a second I thought he was an idiot....
I said....2 days before the superbowl....knowing what I'm about to spend......
$50 for a week worth of groceries? Either you are posting from 2003 or the developing world.
You can definitely get a week worth of groceries for that in the UK or Europe. Nothing fancy, only ingredients, but good nutritional food and enough of it.
You can do that here in the US too (for now). But the pre-packaged junk food is really expensive and that’s what people want.
What are you eating that is costing more than $50 a week? You buy a loaf of bread. $3. 3 or 4 packs of lunch meats. Call it $12. Pack of cheese singles. $3. So you're up to $18. You now have sandwiches for every lunch this week. Now buy 1 pack of chicken, varies between 10 and 12 dollars for 4-5 chicken breasts. Let's call it $11 for 4. That's $29. Grab a box of cereal. Call that $3. Up to $32. Grab a pack of porkchops. Usually 4 in a pack for about $10. $42. Grab 2 bottles of pasta sauce, $8. And a pack of spagetti for $3. Now grab a bag of potatoes, call that $6. And a bag of oranges, or a bag of apples. $6. Grand total $65, and I even went overboard. That's like a week and a half, but I'm also assuming your kitchen is totally empty. Otherwise, you might only need 1 bottle of pasta sauce. You might already have half a bag of fruit left from last week. You might still have half a box of cereal left. I also said a LOT of lunch meat for 1 week.
On top of that, I bought meals for every meal. I don't eat 3 meals a day. I eat 1. Sometimes 2. Today I've had 0, and I am hungry, but it's also bedtime within an hour. So I'm just going to wait until I wake up.
You can get a weeks worth of groceries for 80 bucks? Doubt (x).
Cooking for yourself and not eating out ever, and my bill from Aldi rarely is above $50, just buy seasoning as you go. I make a week's worth of food on one day a week, freeze most of it, and then just reheat it in a microwave.
Yup. I'd make a tray of lasagna, in my bachelor days, and it would last me about 4 days. Of course I'd be really tired of lasagna by then lol
Man.......I just spent a month cooking chicken, and freezing it. My freezer is FULL of frozen chicken in ziplock baggies. I'd buy 6 packs of chicken, which have 4-5 pieces each. I'd cook 1 pack a night for a week, and on my off day go buy 6 more packs for next week.
Then I'd throw them in the freezer individually in ziplocks.
I work Sunday-Thrusday. So on Friday, I pull 5 chickens down to the fridge to thaw, and that's ready by sunday. Then every day I just grab 1 chicken to bring to work. Aldis also sell lunch meats, but they have reusable containers. So I bought these condiment cups with sealable lids, fill each of them with BBQ sauce. Put the chicken still frozen in the ziplock into the former lunchmeats tupperware. Then put the bbq sauce up in. Seal the tupperware, and stack them 5 high like that. Then Sunday before work, I just reach in, grab one tub, and throw it in my bag. My bag also has some fruit, and some little snacks inside another lunchmeats tupperware. Just grab 2 tubs. throw them in my bag, and it's ready for me.
Adulting!
......cries.
You can get a weeks worth of calories plus a multivitamin for $80
Where can't you?
The USA. What are you buying 20lb bag of rice and 20lbs of beens?
With 80€, I get around 2 weeks of groceries in Germany for 1 person... Almost free highest quality tap water, no breakfast, bread with something on it for lunch, something for dinner that results in leftovers for 1-2 days...
Only if your eat like a monk. That's 5.71€ per day
Well... I'm not feeling like I'm missing anything... My meat consumption is pretty low by the way...
1 kg Spaghetti = 2 € reduced price
1.5 kg Tomatoe puree = 3.50 € reduced price
Let's assume 1€ for all the other non-meat stuff you put in there...
Voila, Spaghetti Napoli... This is enogh food for me for lunch + dinner, lunch + dinner on the next day and lunch the day after for only 6.50 € total.
A frozen Pizza is like 2 € (reduced price)...
A large bread is a few €s, but is enough for multiple days...
500 gram Skyr = 1.50 € and is sometimes enough for me for lunch. Add a few flakes and it's maybe 2 €...
If I'd want to reach the stated 80€ a week, I kind of have to eat in a restaurant or invite more people...
If you decide to only eat plain tomato with pasta, and that for 14 days, yep that's possible. You are still eating like shit, and that is far from a balanced nutrition.