If you are a guy who lives by himself,

[captains]

my bunghole is tight too......

 

[Ilmater]

Originally posted by: MrChad
Where do you live? $80 a week is nothing.

I live in the midwest, but unless you live with others, $80 is not "nothing."

I spend about $35 a week on food for just me, sometimes less. Obviously if I eat out, it's much more.

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: Zysoclaplem
How much food do you keep at your house/apartment?
I have virtually nothing, I am perfectly happy with eating bread and cheese for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
And I wonder if I am just a tight wad, or if that's all guys.

The freezer in my reeefer is well stocked and I have a 7.2 cubic foot chest type deep freeze that is pretty much full. I will not starve with this supply.

 

[Zysoclaplem]

Originally posted by: MrChad

Originally posted by: Ilmater

Originally posted by: drsafety
I spend at least $80 a week on food.

Ummm.... I waste money like it's going out of style, and even at my height I couldn't spend money like that on food. Tell me you're providing for a whole family or something. If not, I'm assuming you eat filet for every meal.

Where do you live? $80 a week is nothing.

I honestly probably spend less than that a month on food.

 

[HumblePie]

I can cook and love cooking, but being single, it's a pain in the butt cooking. Not only that, there tends to be an over abundance of food and wasted food. Being single and cooking sucks. If I buy a carton of eggs for example, I my not get to use all the before they go bad unless I want to make every morning, and I do not. If I buy less eggs, I pay almost the same amount as buying the full thing, so whats the point?

I sometimes stock up on the $.99 TV dinners, but those small ones never fill me up and the big ones cost too much, like $4 or $5 for the Hungry Man dinners.

Also, $80 a week is about $320 a month, which can be done by a single person. I've done it. Eat out a few times at some places and not order off the dollar menu. You'll rack that up fast or higher easy enough. $80 a week is about $12 a day or about $4 a meal. $4 a meal may not seem like a lot but it adds up fast if you eat 3 squares. Even if I go to the grocery store, most of my meals when I figure the time, energy, fuel, and materials wasted and used make most home cooked meals around $4. It's actually cheaper to order a couple $.99 items off a value meal, fill up, and eat 2 meals a day. Unless you want to just eat Ramen noodles.

Seriously, the average person, that is NOT over weight and over eating still uses around $250 a month in food. Which is incidentally what the use military gives it's members for food money per month depending on the location you live which can affect food prices.

Seriously though, I don't have much in my cupboard anymore. It's just as expensive for a single guy to cook at home or eat out. The difference is the time and health value of the meals. You can get some healthy meals if you eat out but you have to be very conscious of what you choose.A couple of small grilled chicken $.99 cent sandwhiches maybe some fruit/veggie you buy at the grocery store works wonders for a budget conscious and healthy eating life style of a single person.

 

[Zysoclaplem]

Originally posted by: HumblePie
I can cook and love cooking, but being single, it's a pain in the butt cooking. Not only that, there tends to be an over abundance of food and wasted food. Being single and cooking sucks. If I buy a carton of eggs for example, I my not get to use all the before they go bad unless I want to make every morning, and I do not. If I buy less eggs, I pay almost the same amount as buying the full thing, so whats the point?

I sometimes stock up on the $99 TV dinners, but those small ones never fill me up and the big ones cost too much, like $4 or $5 for the Hungry Man dinners.

Also, $80 a week is about $320 a month, which can be done by a single person. I've done it. Eat out a few times at some places and not order off the dollar menu. You'll rack that up fast or higher easy enough. $80 a week is about $12 a day or about $4 a meal. $4 a meal may not seem like a lot but it adds up fast if you eat 3 squares. Even if I go to the grocery store, most of my meals when I figure the time, energy, fuel, and materials wasted and used make most home cooked meals around $4. It's actually cheaper to order a couple $.99 items off a value meal, fill up, and eat 2 meals a day. Unless you want to just eat Ramen noodles.

Seriously, the average person, that is NOT over weight and over eating still uses around $250 a month in food. Which is incidentally what the use military gives it's members for food money per month depending on the location you live which can affect food prices.

Seriously though, I don't have much in my cupboard anymore. It's just as expensive for a single guy to cook at home or eat out. The difference is the time and health value of the meals. You can get some healthy meals if you eat out but you have to be very conscious of what you choose.A couple of small grilled chicken $.99 cent sandwhiches maybe some fruit/veggie you buy at the grocery store works wonders for a budget conscious and healthy eating life style of a single person.

I've love to see a $99 TV Dinner.

 

[DougK62]

I don't keep much food because I eat the same thing for dinner every night - chicken, rice, corn, and milk. Yum yum.

 

[Ryan]

Originally posted by: Zysoclaplem

Originally posted by: MrChad

Originally posted by: Ilmater

Originally posted by: drsafety
I spend at least $80 a week on food.

Ummm.... I waste money like it's going out of style, and even at my height I couldn't spend money like that on food. Tell me you're providing for a whole family or something. If not, I'm assuming you eat filet for every meal.

Where do you live? $80 a week is nothing.

I honestly probably spend less than that a month on food.

Even after you factor in subway?

Fast food is what kills me - it's those 3-dollar-a-pop mango/banana smoothies that are my downfall - I swear they lace them with crack to get you addicted!

 

[ironcrotch]

I usually have a ton of food around my place. I like to watch, especially with going ot the gym you can't really skip out on eating well.

You guys eat bread and cheese 24/7 and then make threads about why you are 6'1 130lbs.

 

[Zysoclaplem]

Originally posted by: Ryan

Originally posted by: Zysoclaplem

Originally posted by: MrChad

Originally posted by: Ilmater

Originally posted by: drsafety
I spend at least $80 a week on food.

Ummm.... I waste money like it's going out of style, and even at my height I couldn't spend money like that on food. Tell me you're providing for a whole family or something. If not, I'm assuming you eat filet for every meal.

Where do you live? $80 a week is nothing.

I honestly probably spend less than that a month on food.

Even after you factor in subway?

Fast food is what kills me - it's those 3-dollar-a-pop mango/banana smoothies that are my downfall - I swear they lace them with crack to get you addicted!

Yes.

 

[HumblePie]

Originally posted by: Ryan

Originally posted by: Zysoclaplem

Originally posted by: MrChad

Originally posted by: Ilmater

Originally posted by: drsafety
I spend at least $80 a week on food.

Ummm.... I waste money like it's going out of style, and even at my height I couldn't spend money like that on food. Tell me you're providing for a whole family or something. If not, I'm assuming you eat filet for every meal.

Where do you live? $80 a week is nothing.

I honestly probably spend less than that a month on food.

Even after you factor in subway?

Fast food is what kills me - it's those 3-dollar-a-pop mango/banana smoothies that are my downfall - I swear they lace them with crack to get you addicted!

Seriously, people spend more on food then they think. Most people only factor in meal cost, not snack cost or basically anything that goes into their stomach. That bag of chips or candy from the snack machine? Yah, that's food costs. That soda, smoothie, tea, or whatever drink you grabbed? Yah, that's food costs. Eat out? that's food costs.

Seriously, the average person that doesn't over eat spends around $250 a month in America just to eat a healthy diet. Even if you substituted a cheap Ramen noodle meal once a day, ate a cheap sandwhich for another meal and had a full meal, you'll still be spending around $6 to $8 a day on food and drink. This is around $168 to $224 a month. Unless you can eat for $3 a day, every day, which is damn hard for anyone to do if not every meal is Ramen, and then you aren't eating healthy anymore.

 

[rh71]

tight wad for sure. Who eats the same thing 3 times a day ?

 

[Zysoclaplem]

Originally posted by: HumblePie

Originally posted by: Ryan

Originally posted by: Zysoclaplem

Originally posted by: MrChad

Originally posted by: Ilmater

Originally posted by: drsafety
I spend at least $80 a week on food.

Ummm.... I waste money like it's going out of style, and even at my height I couldn't spend money like that on food. Tell me you're providing for a whole family or something. If not, I'm assuming you eat filet for every meal.

Where do you live? $80 a week is nothing.

I honestly probably spend less than that a month on food.

Even after you factor in subway?

Fast food is what kills me - it's those 3-dollar-a-pop mango/banana smoothies that are my downfall - I swear they lace them with crack to get you addicted!

Seriously, people spend more on food then they think. Most people only factor in meal cost, not snack cost or basically anything that goes into their stomach. That bag of chips or candy from the snack machine? Yah, that's food costs. That soda, smoothie, tea, or whatever drink you grabbed? Yah, that's food costs. Eat out? that's food costs.

Seriously, the average person that doesn't over eat spends around $250 a month in America just to eat a healthy diet. Even if you substituted a cheap Ramen noodle meal once a day, ate a cheap sandwhich for another meal and had a full meal, you'll still be spending around $6 to $8 a day on food and drink. This is around $168 to $224 a month. Unless you can eat for $3 a day, every day, which is damn hard for anyone to do if not every meal is Ramen, and then you aren't eating healthy anymore.

I buy bread, cheese, eggs, and diet coke and lean pockets. That will last me about a week.
So,
Bread - $1.50
Cheese - $2.50
Eggs - 69 cents
Diet Cokes- $2.50
Lean pockets - $1.87 per box 4 boxes $7.50
And subway 3-4 times a month. That puts me at about $80 or less, depending on what I get at subway.
In the last month I have gone out to eat like 2 or 3 times. Once, for my birthday, all paid for. So add about 20 dollars or less to the $80 depending on what I got. But I don't go out to eat anymore really.

 

[abc]

Originally posted by: HumblePie
I can cook and love cooking, but being single, it's a pain in the butt cooking. Not only that, there tends to be an over abundance of food and wasted food. Being single and cooking sucks. If I buy a carton of eggs for example, I my not get to use all the before they go bad unless I want to make every morning, and I do not. If I buy less eggs, I pay almost the same amount as buying the full thing, so whats the point?

that is all true... a lot of things you can't buy the more economically priced one because you can't consume it all before it goes bad.

cooking is fine, the cleaning is a braindead process.

 

[MaxDepth]

For someone to be a tightwad, when it comes to stocking the kitchen, I look for someone to buy powdered milk instead of the real thing.

 

[HumblePie]

Originally posted by: Zysoclaplem

Originally posted by: HumblePie

Originally posted by: Ryan

Originally posted by: Zysoclaplem

Originally posted by: MrChad

Originally posted by: Ilmater

Originally posted by: drsafety
I spend at least $80 a week on food.

Ummm.... I waste money like it's going out of style, and even at my height I couldn't spend money like that on food. Tell me you're providing for a whole family or something. If not, I'm assuming you eat filet for every meal.

Where do you live? $80 a week is nothing.

I honestly probably spend less than that a month on food.

Even after you factor in subway?

Fast food is what kills me - it's those 3-dollar-a-pop mango/banana smoothies that are my downfall - I swear they lace them with crack to get you addicted!

Seriously, people spend more on food then they think. Most people only factor in meal cost, not snack cost or basically anything that goes into their stomach. That bag of chips or candy from the snack machine? Yah, that's food costs. That soda, smoothie, tea, or whatever drink you grabbed? Yah, that's food costs. Eat out? that's food costs.

Seriously, the average person that doesn't over eat spends around $250 a month in America just to eat a healthy diet. Even if you substituted a cheap Ramen noodle meal once a day, ate a cheap sandwhich for another meal and had a full meal, you'll still be spending around $6 to $8 a day on food and drink. This is around $168 to $224 a month. Unless you can eat for $3 a day, every day, which is damn hard for anyone to do if not every meal is Ramen, and then you aren't eating healthy anymore.

I buy bread, cheese, eggs, and diet coke and lean pockets. That will last me about a week.
So,
Bread - $1.50
Cheese - $2.50
Eggs - 69 cents
Diet Cokes- $2.50
Lean pockets - $1.87 per box 4 boxes $7.50
And subway 3-4 times a month. That puts me at about $80 or less, depending on what I get at subway.
In the last month I have gone out to eat like 2 or 3 times. Once, for my birthday, all paid for. So add about 20 dollars or less to the $80 depending on what I got. But I don't go out to eat anymore really.

First off, even if someone ELSE is paying for your food, that doesn't count the food costs of what you consume as a null value. What you ate still costs money, just paid for by someone else.

And with your diet, dude that's not healthy at all. I'm assuming you eat some eggs and toast with cheese in the morning. Then a couple slices of bread and cheese for lunch and a hot pocket for dinner and do that seven times a day? Where is your vitamen and mineral intake? Are you taking supplements? If you are, you DO KNOW THOSE ARE FOOD COSTS right? Anything you take for a nutritional value and gets put in your stomach has a food cost associated with it. Even if you are growing your own fruit and veggies and living almost entirely off those. You still have to factor in the cost for water, soil, seeds, and time to grow them all. Sure, it's not much out of your budget, since the time factor from yourself is volunteered, however, your time isn't technically free. It's still added to food costs.

 

[lancestorm]

Originally posted by: Zysoclaplem

Originally posted by: HumblePie

Originally posted by: Ryan

Originally posted by: Zysoclaplem

Originally posted by: MrChad

Originally posted by: Ilmater

Originally posted by: drsafety
I spend at least $80 a week on food.

Ummm.... I waste money like it's going out of style, and even at my height I couldn't spend money like that on food. Tell me you're providing for a whole family or something. If not, I'm assuming you eat filet for every meal.

Where do you live? $80 a week is nothing.

I honestly probably spend less than that a month on food.

Even after you factor in subway?

Fast food is what kills me - it's those 3-dollar-a-pop mango/banana smoothies that are my downfall - I swear they lace them with crack to get you addicted!

Seriously, people spend more on food then they think. Most people only factor in meal cost, not snack cost or basically anything that goes into their stomach. That bag of chips or candy from the snack machine? Yah, that's food costs. That soda, smoothie, tea, or whatever drink you grabbed? Yah, that's food costs. Eat out? that's food costs.

Seriously, the average person that doesn't over eat spends around $250 a month in America just to eat a healthy diet. Even if you substituted a cheap Ramen noodle meal once a day, ate a cheap sandwhich for another meal and had a full meal, you'll still be spending around $6 to $8 a day on food and drink. This is around $168 to $224 a month. Unless you can eat for $3 a day, every day, which is damn hard for anyone to do if not every meal is Ramen, and then you aren't eating healthy anymore.

I buy bread, cheese, eggs, and diet coke and lean pockets. That will last me about a week.
So,
Bread - $1.50
Cheese - $2.50
Eggs - 69 cents
Diet Cokes- $2.50
Lean pockets - $1.87 per box 4 boxes $7.50
And subway 3-4 times a month. That puts me at about $80 or less, depending on what I get at subway.
In the last month I have gone out to eat like 2 or 3 times. Once, for my birthday, all paid for. So add about 20 dollars or less to the $80 depending on what I got. But I don't go out to eat anymore really.

You will die young if you eat like that. Where is your fruit, veggies, etc???

 

[DaShen]

Originally posted by: MrChad

Originally posted by: Ilmater

Originally posted by: drsafety
I spend at least $80 a week on food.

Ummm.... I waste money like it's going out of style, and even at my height I couldn't spend money like that on food. Tell me you're providing for a whole family or something. If not, I'm assuming you eat filet for every meal.

Where do you live? $80 a week is nothing.

if you eat out as well as eat at home, and you buy snacks, it is still slightly pricey (although not by much considering most single guys eat out quite often). unless you buy a bunch of junk food and snacks. Yummers... But you could easily eat great meals for $30-40 a week if you cooked everything at home (about half the amount you use). It slightly depends on where you live though. Houston living is cheap.

 

[mercanucaribe]

Originally posted by: abc

Originally posted by: HumblePie
I can cook and love cooking, but being single, it's a pain in the butt cooking. Not only that, there tends to be an over abundance of food and wasted food. Being single and cooking sucks. If I buy a carton of eggs for example, I my not get to use all the before they go bad unless I want to make every morning, and I do not. If I buy less eggs, I pay almost the same amount as buying the full thing, so whats the point?

that is all true... a lot of things you can't buy the more economically priced one because you can't consume it all before it goes bad.

cooking is fine, the cleaning is a braindead process.

Eggs last forever.. At least a month.

Malnutrition here you come.

 

[Zysoclaplem]

Originally posted by: HumblePie

Originally posted by: Zysoclaplem

Originally posted by: HumblePie

Originally posted by: Ryan

Originally posted by: Zysoclaplem

Originally posted by: MrChad

Originally posted by: Ilmater

Originally posted by: drsafety
I spend at least $80 a week on food.

Ummm.... I waste money like it's going out of style, and even at my height I couldn't spend money like that on food. Tell me you're providing for a whole family or something. If not, I'm assuming you eat filet for every meal.

Where do you live? $80 a week is nothing.

I honestly probably spend less than that a month on food.

Even after you factor in subway?

Fast food is what kills me - it's those 3-dollar-a-pop mango/banana smoothies that are my downfall - I swear they lace them with crack to get you addicted!

Seriously, people spend more on food then they think. Most people only factor in meal cost, not snack cost or basically anything that goes into their stomach. That bag of chips or candy from the snack machine? Yah, that's food costs. That soda, smoothie, tea, or whatever drink you grabbed? Yah, that's food costs. Eat out? that's food costs.

Seriously, the average person that doesn't over eat spends around $250 a month in America just to eat a healthy diet. Even if you substituted a cheap Ramen noodle meal once a day, ate a cheap sandwhich for another meal and had a full meal, you'll still be spending around $6 to $8 a day on food and drink. This is around $168 to $224 a month. Unless you can eat for $3 a day, every day, which is damn hard for anyone to do if not every meal is Ramen, and then you aren't eating healthy anymore.

I buy bread, cheese, eggs, and diet coke and lean pockets. That will last me about a week.
So,
Bread - $1.50
Cheese - $2.50
Eggs - 69 cents
Diet Cokes- $2.50
Lean pockets - $1.87 per box 4 boxes $7.50
And subway 3-4 times a month. That puts me at about $80 or less, depending on what I get at subway.
In the last month I have gone out to eat like 2 or 3 times. Once, for my birthday, all paid for. So add about 20 dollars or less to the $80 depending on what I got. But I don't go out to eat anymore really.

First off, even if someone ELSE is paying for your food, that doesn't count the food costs of what you consume as a null value. What you ate still costs money, just paid for by someone else.

And with your diet, dude that's not healthy at all. I'm assuming you eat some eggs and toast with cheese in the morning. Then a couple slices of bread and cheese for lunch and a hot pocket for dinner and do that seven times a day? Where is your vitamen and mineral intake? Are you taking supplements? If you are, you DO KNOW THOSE ARE FOOD COSTS right? Anything you take for a nutritional value and gets put in your stomach has a food cost associated with it. Even if you are growing your own fruit and veggies and living almost entirely off those. You still have to factor in the cost for water, soil, seeds, and time to grow them all. Sure, it's not much out of your budget, since the time factor from yourself is volunteered, however, your time isn't technically free. It's still added to food costs.

Jeez, I was just factoring how much I spend on groceries a month.
Here at work sometimes they have free food. Should I factor that in my monthy grocery bill as well? lol
I'm not going to factor in the tap water I drink and going over to my sister's and having a meal, because it doesn't cost me anything.

My point, the point of this thread, was just to see if other people do the same thing. Just buy very little food because they live alone.

 

[Zysoclaplem]

Originally posted by: lancestorm

Originally posted by: Zysoclaplem

Originally posted by: HumblePie

Originally posted by: Ryan

Originally posted by: Zysoclaplem

Originally posted by: MrChad

Originally posted by: Ilmater

Originally posted by: drsafety
I spend at least $80 a week on food.

Ummm.... I waste money like it's going out of style, and even at my height I couldn't spend money like that on food. Tell me you're providing for a whole family or something. If not, I'm assuming you eat filet for every meal.

Where do you live? $80 a week is nothing.

I honestly probably spend less than that a month on food.

Even after you factor in subway?

Fast food is what kills me - it's those 3-dollar-a-pop mango/banana smoothies that are my downfall - I swear they lace them with crack to get you addicted!

Seriously, people spend more on food then they think. Most people only factor in meal cost, not snack cost or basically anything that goes into their stomach. That bag of chips or candy from the snack machine? Yah, that's food costs. That soda, smoothie, tea, or whatever drink you grabbed? Yah, that's food costs. Eat out? that's food costs.

Seriously, the average person that doesn't over eat spends around $250 a month in America just to eat a healthy diet. Even if you substituted a cheap Ramen noodle meal once a day, ate a cheap sandwhich for another meal and had a full meal, you'll still be spending around $6 to $8 a day on food and drink. This is around $168 to $224 a month. Unless you can eat for $3 a day, every day, which is damn hard for anyone to do if not every meal is Ramen, and then you aren't eating healthy anymore.

I buy bread, cheese, eggs, and diet coke and lean pockets. That will last me about a week.
So,
Bread - $1.50
Cheese - $2.50
Eggs - 69 cents
Diet Cokes- $2.50
Lean pockets - $1.87 per box 4 boxes $7.50
And subway 3-4 times a month. That puts me at about $80 or less, depending on what I get at subway.
In the last month I have gone out to eat like 2 or 3 times. Once, for my birthday, all paid for. So add about 20 dollars or less to the $80 depending on what I got. But I don't go out to eat anymore really.

You will die young if you eat like that. Where is your fruit, veggies, etc???

LoL...I don't buy them really. I used to when I lived with my ex. I loved bananas and apples. I just don't eat many veggies and fruits anymore.

 

[HumblePie]

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe

Originally posted by: abc

Originally posted by: HumblePie
I can cook and love cooking, but being single, it's a pain in the butt cooking. Not only that, there tends to be an over abundance of food and wasted food. Being single and cooking sucks. If I buy a carton of eggs for example, I my not get to use all the before they go bad unless I want to make every morning, and I do not. If I buy less eggs, I pay almost the same amount as buying the full thing, so whats the point?

that is all true... a lot of things you can't buy the more economically priced one because you can't consume it all before it goes bad.

cooking is fine, the cleaning is a braindead process.

Eggs last forever.. At least a month.

Malnutrition here you come.

Last forever and at least a month is quite a contradiction in terms. The law states 30 days, which is a month for eggs. But realistically, it's about 2 weeks when you really consider how long it took the eggs to "reach" that shelf. There are other factors too, I used to work in a grocery store, I've seen a few things get new shelf lifes all of a sudden.


Not to mention, eggs don't suddenly just go bad spontaneously. they degrade like all food over time. By the end of the month of a storage life they are barely edible and taste funky and have some hard chunks in them as parts of the egg inside have congealed some. I rather not eat eggs like that.

 

[KLin]

I just spent 70 bucks at the grocery store on Monday, but ~11 of that was for laundry detergent. I've wasted too much money eating fast food.

 

[Saint Nick]

bread and cheese? good god man, eat something.

 

[Nutdotnet]

I do most of my food shopping at Costco. I spend ~ $160-200 a month there...that's actually split between my roommate and I.