Michael-5 said:
snyps said:
Michael-5 said:
This is completly false. A Big Mac Combo is about $7 and that barely feeds 1 person for 1 day. I live off $20 a week for food (I cook a lot), and I can tell you that you can feed a person for about $2 a day no problem. Eating healthy is cheaper then eating crap.
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I feed my self AND my gf for $30 a week and we eat better than a 5 star restaurant. Everything from scratch. Pancakes n stuff in the morning, pizza from scratch, gas grilling, roasting, deep frying, I make my own ice cream! The stuff I make is not enumurable. But here's the kicker. It doesnt take time or hardwork, it takes brains. I can whip up the most amazing food faster than a trip through the drive through. Ppl that think they have to read labels need to start reading the recipes on the web. Am I right?
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I'm not as extreme as you, I don't make my own ice cream, and sometimes I get expensive stuff (like pine nuts) to make food taste really special, but yea I agree wiith you 100%. I can't eat pasta sauce from a can anymore, and my deep fried fish is just as good as a restaurants (except smaller chunks because I don't have a deep frier).
The problem with people eating like us though is lazyness. People are too lazy to look up a recipe and spend 20-30 minutes cooking and cleaning. It's easier to sit in a car and drive to McDonalds, and fast food chains take advantage of that lazyness.
johnsobas said:
Ok i gotta ask what you are eating to get by that cheap. My fiance and I eat very healthy food as well and i live in a cheap part of the US but i have to pay $50-$60 per week for the 2 of us. We don't eat a heck of a lot, we're both fairly skinny. I don't see any way i could cut the amount we spend in half without going to a ridiculously basic diet of rice, beans, and nuts or something.
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It depends on what type of food you eat. If you eat just pasta/rice/potato dishes, make your own sauces, and add vegetables, you can easily feed the both of you for $30 comined a week. I feed my girlfriend a lot, and yea.
If you eat a lot of meat, then things get a lot more expensive. I only eat meat about once a week, but I substitue the protein with lots of eggs, beans and some nuts.
Also $30 a week is true only if you cook everything you eat from scratch. I've recently been buying yogurt, and snack food like that brings the price of living up, but it's nice to have something which isn't a fruit, immediatly available, and I don't always want to make a salad.
P.S. A salad takes what 2-3 minutes to make? That's faster then the line at fast food, and with crutons, tomatos, and cucumbers, it's still only about $2 for a large salad in cost.
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