How much money do you eat a day?
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Need2Exerc1se wrote: »SergeantSausage wrote: »SergeantSausage wrote: »I eat roughly ZERO dollars a day for most of the year.
No, seriously, Mother Nature is mostly what I need
Gardening is great. But even that costs money. You have to plant from seeds, pay for fertilizer or plant food, water, and heck, you need access to the land to grow stuff on in the first place, so property ownership or community garden fees or whatnot.
No such thing as a free lunch.
Yer doin' it wrong.
I pay zero for seeds. Zero for fertilizer. Zero for water. The land I had long before gardening. Already a sunk cost.
Time would be the only valid argument, but I guarantee you I spend less time gardening than you do shopping in your grocery store.
How do you water your garden? We have a well, but we had to buy the pump and hose, bucket and rope. Even the baskets I bought to carry the produce from the garden to the house cost money. As did the shelves for the root cellar. And, yeah, we had the land before the garden, but that doesn't make the land free. Even if we'd inherited it, there are taxes. Or the roto-tiller free or make it run on air instead of gas. The hoe, shovel and rake cost money, as did the wheel barrow, etc. The material for cold frames cost money.
Zero $ garden? It would definitely not be the norm.
It looks like he is using a lot of repurposed containers, starting from cuttings and doing seed saving, so I can see how there would be minimal cost, especially after several years.
The water thing though...all I can think of is rain catchment, and that's going to involve some upfront costs, even if you are able to find cheap materials.0 -
azulvioleta6 wrote: »Need2Exerc1se wrote: »SergeantSausage wrote: »SergeantSausage wrote: »I eat roughly ZERO dollars a day for most of the year.
No, seriously, Mother Nature is mostly what I need
Gardening is great. But even that costs money. You have to plant from seeds, pay for fertilizer or plant food, water, and heck, you need access to the land to grow stuff on in the first place, so property ownership or community garden fees or whatnot.
No such thing as a free lunch.
Yer doin' it wrong.
I pay zero for seeds. Zero for fertilizer. Zero for water. The land I had long before gardening. Already a sunk cost.
Time would be the only valid argument, but I guarantee you I spend less time gardening than you do shopping in your grocery store.
How do you water your garden? We have a well, but we had to buy the pump and hose, bucket and rope. Even the baskets I bought to carry the produce from the garden to the house cost money. As did the shelves for the root cellar. And, yeah, we had the land before the garden, but that doesn't make the land free. Even if we'd inherited it, there are taxes. Or the roto-tiller free or make it run on air instead of gas. The hoe, shovel and rake cost money, as did the wheel barrow, etc. The material for cold frames cost money.
Zero $ garden? It would definitely not be the norm.
It looks like he is using a lot of repurposed containers, starting from cuttings and doing seed saving, so I can see how there would be minimal cost, especially after several years.
The water thing though...all I can think of is rain catchment, and that's going to involve some upfront costs, even if you are able to find cheap materials.
Container gardening is often more expensive than in ground gardening. For one thing, the soil is more easily depleted so fertilizer becomes more important. This can be gotten around with home composting, but that usually involves money as well. I'm all for growing your own food. Every year I try to lessen what we have to purchase, but even living out in in the boonies where everyone has a garden, I don't know a single person that spends no money on their garden.0 -
I would guess I spend about 200 per week on myself. I dine out 4-5 days a week though for dinner.0
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I spend about 5 dollars a day on food...i don't eat out. I make all my meals at home and take them to work w me.0
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We spend $120 per week. Family of three, 2 adults and a 16 year old boy. That includes non-food items like soap, paper products, cold meds., etc. We have one night a week to eat out, usually fast food or someplace like Ihop.0
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$50-60 a week.0
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We spend about $200 every two weeks for a family of four. However I do not ever have to buy beef... So that does save us quite a bit of money.0
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I spend about 45.00 (US) a week.0
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I spend $80 - $85 per week but more than 1/2 of that is eating out - usually twice a week. And it's just me!0
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We usually spend between $150-$200 for two weeks of groceries to feed 3 adults. That includes things like soap, foil, sandwich bags, etc. We do have a habit of getting fast food once a week, usually when we're all working until 11pm or midnight and don't feel like having to cook when we get home. So that adds about $30 more every two weeks.0
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In just weekly food for just myself, I spend about $75 per week.0
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Wow, I didn't expect so many responses, thank you all! Glad to see I seem to be somewhat average, though I'm going to try to cut down some still.0
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livingleanlivingclean wrote: »Where are you from that groceries cost $300 a week for two people? That seems extraordinarily high to me.
I probably spend about $150 every 2 weeks for our family of 4. I think I spend even less now that I'm tracking on MFP bc I don't make meals that require as many ingredients.
We eat a lot and buy pretty much all organic...we could eat for a lot less but would eat less fresh produce and less organic and choose different cuts and types of meat.
I'm still shocked at that. My family of 4 spends $120 a week and I buy all organic everything. We eat clean for the most part (birthdays, etc not withstanding). I do, however, meal plan according to the ads posted at our market and we use up everything. Do you have a lot of waste?0 -
chanellecherington wrote: »livingleanlivingclean wrote: »Where are you from that groceries cost $300 a week for two people? That seems extraordinarily high to me.
I probably spend about $150 every 2 weeks for our family of 4. I think I spend even less now that I'm tracking on MFP bc I don't make meals that require as many ingredients.
We eat a lot and buy pretty much all organic...we could eat for a lot less but would eat less fresh produce and less organic and choose different cuts and types of meat.
I'm still shocked at that. My family of 4 spends $120 a week and I buy all organic everything. We eat clean for the most part (birthdays, etc not withstanding). I do, however, meal plan according to the ads posted at our market and we use up everything. Do you have a lot of waste?
We stick to a meal plan during the week, which is pretty much the same daily to make prep easier. We are more flexible on weekends. We have very little food waste....
We're in Australia - it was a lot cheaper and easier to buy organic produce in the US when we holidayed there recently. We made a lot of our own meals, and went to a range of supermarkets and loved how accessible things were.0 -
Love me some Aldi!! Around $20-$30 if I don't buy meat or a lot of animal products. More if I do. (also a student here)0
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$50-$60 a week for 2 adults. This doesn't include toiletries, paper towels, dishes that the cat might of broken...etc.0
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For two people about $100-$125/week not including eating out about two dinner meals(one pizza, one fancy). We eat all breakfasts, lunches from home and mostly all organic produce. I shop at Trader Joe's a lot and their prices for organic are pretty reasonable. I have been trying to lower our grocery bill(I feel its too high) but don't want to bend on buying organic and the greek yogurt (Fage) I like! oh well0
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2 30-40ish adults, no kids. I work a desk, he's in a trade. $450-600 a month for groceries over the last year, and another $100 in takeout/restaurant meals. Works out to $125-$150 (Cdn) a week for the two of us. Doesn't include hubby's lunch as he usually eats on site.0
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i spend £180ish a week for 3 of us but that's everything .. 3 x breakfasts, 3 x lunches, 3 dinners, snacks, drinks etc0
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