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what is your average food bill a month?
 

what is your average food bill a month? out of curiousness I would like to know...

for how many people? and approximately what is your weight and height?


I am a short individual, 140 lbs, my monthly food bill for me to mentally function properly would be about $1000 minimum but can go as high as $3000 dollars under healthy eating standards. I also have two dogs 1 big and 1 medium sized.

I do not cook. eat at restaurants only. everything fresh never really eat leftovers.

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189cm
220lbs
$3
I mainly eat grass

2 of these are correct and 2 are incorrect

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Let's be honest, you aren't remotely interested in what anyone has to say. You just wanted an excuse to tell us this:-

We are all in awe of how much money you have. You're the best and such a great person.

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I always find the more someone boasts the more they they boast about tends to be untrue.

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No I am interested in knowing.....

Let's be honest, you are trying to deflect answering my question because you feel embarrassed so you won't give answer so you blame me for showing off.

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Food never tastes The same....

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ok........so do you plan on answering my question?

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This is a very interesting question indeed.
Here is one of my bills... average size...

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Sorry, this one was already in the bin, when I got a new one I will post it.

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H4ck

Watch the clinical psychologist Dr Jordan Peterson's lectures on youtube. I'm confident he can heal your mental illness.

Your hate for humanity will change.

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i know i know $1000+ dollars on a food bill is a little excessive..............but I have high expectations.....:rolleyes:

I find it odd why you people call bullsh1t on $1000+ a month.....you make it seem like thats a lot of money and its incredibly unrealistic.......apparently you people must be living in a real small town......I live in a big city and its not uncommon for me to walk out of a restaurant with a $40+ tab.....

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I don't think $1,000 is necessarily excessive. Everything is relative to your economic situation, location, and lifestyle.

When I'm in the San Francisco Bay Area, I tend to eat out a lot when working there. I don't have time to cook, as I'm often too busy. There where months where my dining out tab would easily exceed $1k /mo, especially if I was putting it on the expense account.

While at home, or staying overseas, my food bill goes down drastically, maybe to less than $400 /mo, but that's mainly due to fact I am eating at home more at that time.

It all depends on the situation.

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i read some of these weird posts of people living off of literally 75-80 bucks a month......on reddit....

i don't know how in your right mind you can live off of that amount.....

back in college i tried to live off of $200 bucks a month in hawaii....i ended up doing really bad in a lot of my classes, and had severe depression I realized now that i was really foolish it was clear I was not taking good care of my health in terms of the food bill.

I now spend upwards of $1000+ and I can see how much more productive I am and if I were to take those classes again I probably would ace all of them without issues because I would not be mentally impaired..... such as cannot concentrate or focus or too tired, unable to think clearly...because of lack of nutrition

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well....i do have like 3 big boxes of cheeze its....and pringles......yes I reclip the bags and close the boxes and still eat that....but then again chips and snacks are a different story......

I go to the restaurant and they ask me if I want togo boxes all the time....i say yeah sure....i take it home stuff it in my refrigerator and never look at it again....i end up throwing it out....so i just don't even bother with taking food home anymore....with to go boxes...even when I warm up the food i take 1 bite of leftovers and throw it out because in my opinion leftovers taste like sh1t.

try warming up your leftover half of a burger.....warm up and its all soggy.....
try re eating your salad that you refrigerated a day ago its all soggy....
try re eating your sushi a day ago the rice is all hard and the taste is completely off....

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anyone that calls me a bullsh1tter has a very limited imagination in their life......

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Sounds like you are a Pelican. Whichever way you face there is an enormous Bill in front of you.

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so far I only got 1 straight answer.....from one forum member....

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I eat out for every meal so it's by far my biggest expenditure.

But it's Eastern Europe

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Restaurants sell leftovers????

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I wondered that myself...

Would they take it straight from someone who didn’t feel their meals table straight to yours? How would it work?!

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Eating other people's leftovers...such a health hazard potentially...

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I would tend to agree.

However I know a guy who was homeless at one time and would tell me stories about waiting in back of a Pizza Hut store at closing time. He would wait until the staff would toss all the pizzas in the trash dumpster so he could collect them... Very often the pies were still hot and perfectly fine.

Moreover, it was FREE and DELICIOUS. :thumb:

restaurants sell leftover?
He is saying restaurant asks if he wants to take home a doggy bag ,after his meal.
I agree with him,restaurant leftover does not taste good ,salad is soggy,what looks good on a plate now looks gross coming out of a micro wave oven.
Chinese restaurant stirfry their food under intense heat,30,000 BTU ,can go as high as 100,000 and burn the kitchen down ,cheap cut of meat turns out so tender,but when you take the leftover home,the cheap meat and soggy veggies and canned mushroom etc just do not taste the same.
Spending $1k per month on food ,if you eat in restaurant which serves quality freshly prepared food is reasonable,say you eat one good meal each day-angus or prime steak,veal chop,fresh fish ,scallops,large prawn plus 25% tip,could run you $1k per month or more ,paired it with a glass of wine,or desert and coffee.

large scallops go for $15 /lb in supermarket,cod loin goes for 11.99/lb,loin only.
fresh wild salmon,not farm raised aint cheap,fresh swimming Canadian large lobster goes for 13.99/lb in Chinese supermarket,I have seen live Alaskan King crab,cant recall how much,but frozen ones goes for what?16/lb?
Hard to find prime cut beef these days,but angus is not as tender but tasty,lamb shank is good,veal roast ,veal chop,if you can find them?

Chinese supermarket sells roast pork,the pig head fully roasted has a lot of meat on it,used to sell for $2 now raised to $4.
Grass fed filet mignon goes for 7.99-9.99,buy the entire loin and the price drops by 1 -2 dollars.
try fresh ****ake mushroom raised in CA,it is packed with good healthy minerals,try it,there is also fresh watercress(cleanse your kidney),mustard green,cilantro,daikon if you want to lose weight (water weight).

I quitted Costco years ago,there is a corn meal taste with their steak,I dont think their prices are wholesale,and you have to buy more to get a good discount.and there is an annual membership fee and they dont take credit cards.
Their selection is not that great,like their campbell soup.
These days,you can get better bargain in the large supermarkets without being a member
But it is a lot fun ,you get to taste free sample food ,the only true bargain is the bagels.

did you check Central MARKET which is owned by the same company as HEB.

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Depends on the month:clap:

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I used to get the RIB EYE CAP steaks at Costco; price around $20 /lb. It was fantastic! This is, without a doubt the most tender delicious cut anywhere.

Unfortunately Costco made the stupid mistake of discontinuing the Rib Eye Cap! You can now only buy this at the HIGH END food stores. Your local butcher should shop is very unlikely to carry this anyway. You might get extremely lucky if they didn't already remove from their Rib Eye roasts already...

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Costco aint a wholesale club,its prices is between wholesale and retail.
Have you ever heard of a wholesaler charging you annual membership fee?
So Costco asks Folger to pack 2 cans of coffee instead of 14 ounces like you get in a supermarket,it is 16 1/2 ounces,you have to buy 2 cans and save yourself $1.75.
You call that savings,you are now stuck with 2 cans of coffee and pay $90 membership fee to receive such honor?
I dropped out of Costco once I realise this dirty trick,the only savings which I would call saving is their bagels,everything is a fool's gold,their beef smells cornmeal,what did they feed the cow?
As for rotisserie chicken,secret has been exposed by the newsmedia,all rotissierie chicken sold for such a low price,they use chicken close to expiration date,so we are eating soon to expire chicken.It is not just COstco,it is WMT,KR,ALBERTSON,all of them.
There are also third party sellers selling in Costco,while you are cruising down the aisle,one of them popped up from nowhere and said see this cleanser,it really does its job and it is on sale now,get a 10% off.
So you took it to the checkout and found out there is no discount,may be you come home and look at the receipt and found you have been scammed.
Say No to Costco,raise your own chicken,have 10 chicken in your backyard,they lay one egg a day and soon you wil have 3 dozens,keep one for yourself and sell the other two,sell it outside Costco,IN ITS PARKING LOT,no annual membership .

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Well, this is all fine and dandy, but many of us don't live on a farm nor have the time or space to raise our food.

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I hear that - fresh and hot...makes a huge difference.

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I take some of what I said back,

I do get the leftovers from restaurants.....I usually store it in my refrigerator until the food becomes rotten and go out and see all these needy homeless people and give it to them......

I am very compassionate towards the weak in the community.

best of all theirs no law stopping me from doing such a generous act because if it poisons them and they die I just put them out of their misery and I cannot be charged with murder.

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Oh, H4ck that sounds terrible.

People become homeless for many different reasons. Not all of them are crack heads, alcoholics, or slimeballs. Many have just fallen on tough times through no fault of their own and need temporary help.

I've given food to the homeless, but I usually will never give them money. You can never be 100% sure if that money will go towards something they truly need, or just to get their next fix.

Ironically there are many many restaurants, hotels, and the like that waste millions of pounds of perfectly GOOD food every day. The savvy homeless person would generally know the best spots. Sometimes it's just a matter of being in the right place at the right time (usually after closing) when the unsold food for the day is tossed out.

There is a massive amount of food waste that occurs in every city. It's a shame there are strict health regulations that prevent these establishments from giving food out that cannot be re-sold, and it must thrown away.

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I am simply weaponizing my food to be completely rotten and hopefully they die after eating my food as far as im concerned I am freeing them from this sick demented life of pain and suffering. :welcome;

giving them edible food does not do them any favors your extending their pain and suffering another day forward.....

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I also take leftovers and one of my favorite things to do is drive on the freeway and throw it out of my window in the middle of the freeway.........I do this all the time...so by me littering all over the place I am creating jobs for people. everyone should be thanking me.

the police wont be able to pinpoint who threw the leftover fried rice in the middle of the freeway no cameras...

when I go to the stores I try on a lot of the shirts and I do the same just throw it all over the floor in their store I don't put it back on the rack I am doing their job for them....I am giving the workers something to do because they just stand there all day doing nothing. they are begging me to create work for them so I enjoy messing up all the neat piles of tshirts in their store.

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you dont have to live on a farm,use your backyard.
I have seen Mexicans raising rabbits in a little patio of their apartment.
I heard they eat the rabbits,but no way to prove it?