$50 for a week worth of groceries? Either you are posting from 2003 or the developing world.
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Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Me seeing the pic: Oh, doordash just dropped the delivery fee…wait, $50??? What the fuck is he ordering in one meal that I could get a weeks worth of groceries???
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Oh, good. For a second I thought he was an idiot…
I said…2 days before the superbowl…knowing what I’m about to spend…
acchariya@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
You can definitely get a week worth of groceries for that in the UK or Europe. Nothing fancy, only ingredients, but good nutritional food and enough of it.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
You can do that here in the US too (for now). But the pre-packaged junk food is really expensive and that’s what people want.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What are you eating that is costing more than $50 a week? You buy a loaf of bread. $3. 3 or 4 packs of lunch meats. Call it $12. Pack of cheese singles. $3. So you’re up to $18. You now have sandwiches for every lunch this week. Now buy 1 pack of chicken, varies between 10 and 12 dollars for 4-5 chicken breasts. Let’s call it $11 for 4. That’s $29. Grab a box of cereal. Call that $3. Up to $32. Grab a pack of porkchops. Usually 4 in a pack for about $10. $42. Grab 2 bottles of pasta sauce, $8. And a pack of spagetti for $3. Now grab a bag of potatoes, call that $6. And a bag of oranges, or a bag of apples. $6. Grand total $65, and I even went overboard. That’s like a week and a half, but I’m also assuming your kitchen is totally empty. Otherwise, you might only need 1 bottle of pasta sauce. You might already have half a bag of fruit left from last week. You might still have half a box of cereal left. I also said a LOT of lunch meat for 1 week.
On top of that, I bought meals for every meal. I don’t eat 3 meals a day. I eat 1. Sometimes 2. Today I’ve had 0, and I am hungry, but it’s also bedtime within an hour. So I’m just going to wait until I wake up.
droporain@lemmynsfw.com 2 weeks ago
Oh I get it you guys aren’t eating for flavor or nutritional health, just calories so you don’t feel hungry. Uh the fact everyone doesn’t t find a problem with this is disturbing. Especially in the “greatest” country in the world.
parricc@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Real talk, do you eat your cereal with pasta sauce?
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I just fist it staight from the box.
droporain@lemmynsfw.com 2 weeks ago
You can get a weeks worth of groceries for 80 bucks? Doubt (x).
Sonicdemon86@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Cooking for yourself and not eating out ever, and my bill from Aldi rarely is above $50, just buy seasoning as you go. I make a week’s worth of food on one day a week, freeze most of it, and then just reheat it in a microwave.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yup. I’d make a tray of lasagna, in my bachelor days, and it would last me about 4 days. Of course I’d be really tired of lasagna by then lol
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Man…I just spent a month cooking chicken, and freezing it. My freezer is FULL of frozen chicken in ziplock baggies. I’d buy 6 packs of chicken, which have 4-5 pieces each. I’d cook 1 pack a night for a week, and on my off day go buy 6 more packs for next week.
Then I’d throw them in the freezer individually in ziplocks.
I work Sunday-Thrusday. So on Friday, I pull 5 chickens down to the fridge to thaw, and that’s ready by sunday. Then every day I just grab 1 chicken to bring to work. Aldis also sell lunch meats, but they have reusable containers. So I bought these condiment cups with sealable lids, fill each of them with BBQ sauce. Put the chicken still frozen in the ziplock into the former lunchmeats tupperware. Then put the bbq sauce up in. Seal the tupperware, and stack them 5 high like that. Then Sunday before work, I just reach in, grab one tub, and throw it in my bag. My bag also has some fruit, and some little snacks inside another lunchmeats tupperware. Just grab 2 tubs. throw them in my bag, and it’s ready for me.
Adulting!
…cries.
ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You can get a weeks worth of calories plus a multivitamin for $80
Stez827@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Where can’t you?
droporain@lemmynsfw.com 2 weeks ago
The USA. What are you buying 20lb bag of rice and 20lbs of beens?
Stez827@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Na dude you can totally get a balanced diet for 80 bucks a week for 1 person
lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
With 80€, I get around 2 weeks of groceries in Germany for 1 person… Almost free highest quality tap water, no breakfast, bread with something on it for lunch, something for dinner that results in leftovers for 1-2 days…
droporain@lemmynsfw.com 2 weeks ago
Two types of Aldi’s and you can drink beer while you shop to I bet. For lunch you have somzing Kool like a cigarette.
lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Feel free to post more untrue assumptions…
gigachad@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Only if your eat like a monk. That’s 5.71€ per day
lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Well… I’m not feeling that I’m missing anything… My meat consumption is pretty low by the way…
1 kg Spaghetti = 2 € reduced price 1.5 kg Tomatoe puree = 3.50 € reduced price Let’s assume 1€ for all the other non-meat stuff you put in there…
Voila, Spaghetti Napoli… This is enogh food for me for lunch + dinner, lunch, dinner on the next day and lunch the day after for only 6.50 € total.
A frozen Pizza is like 2 € (reduced price)…
A large bread is a few €s, but is enough for multiple days…
If I want to reach the stated 80€ a week, I kind of have to eat in a restaurant or invite more people…