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Originally Posted by Ledgem
Sounds like you're eating out. If you shop sales and cook for yourself (and don't get too fancy or picky), you can greatly reduce your food bill. My wife and I were spending between $30-40 (usually closer to $30) per week, in New York City, on groceries that included vegetables, for the two of us. When we lived in a relatively poor area of California the weekly bill never went above $25. Even assuming we were doing $40 per week, that's $2.86 per day per person.
Eating out here and there is nice, but I always feel guilty about it. You're generally going to spend $8-12 on a single meal. That's a half a week's worth of meals right there  |
I'll admit, I do like eating meat and having some chocolate and fruit juice.
Decent meat will set you back at least a dollar or so a day, but it's soo worth it...
I think budgetting 5-10$ a day on food gives you a bit of the finer things in life, without breaking the bank.