American grocery store produce is really expensive now. $40 for a week of veggies would be a good deal in my area. Plus you’re supporting local agriculture.
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fushuan@lemm.ee 6 months agoThat’s super expensive… 40 a week for just veggies? I spend 40 a week on all my groceries at most.
Roldyclark@literature.cafe 6 months ago
fushuan@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Sure, but they didn’t specify they were american, did they?
Roldyclark@literature.cafe 6 months ago
Wasn’t saying you should have assumed, just corroborating. But also doesn’t the $ imply he’s American?
fushuan@lemm.ee 6 months ago
It’s not you who said I should assuke, it was them who didn’t specify, implying we should asume, sorry if I made you think otherwise. Canadians and Australians afaik aso use dollars, just not USD.
In any case, this was quite the small complaint I had, so I’ll just drop it haha. Have a great day.
Pringles@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Where do you live? I’m in central Europe and hit the local currency equivalent of 60$ per person per week…
fushuan@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I live in a quite expensive Spanish area and we usually spend 50ish for 2 people’s worth of food. We do go out or order food on the weekend sometimes but being vegetarian we don’t spend more than 15€ on produce a week at most so 40 a week sounds a lot.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 6 months ago
Average is $270 per week in the USA.
fushuan@lemm.ee 6 months ago
That’s cool, I wanted to point out that saying cheap and then a ice point without reference isn’t really helpful because price varies so much.
Also, 270 per week per person!?!? What the fuck, that can’t be true, that’s more than what I extrapolated it would cost me in the European expensive countries when I visited and went to random grocery stores. As always, the american dream seems to be a scam fetish xD.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 6 months ago
$270 includes everything like Keurig coffee pods, ground beef, and laundry detergent- not just vegetables.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 6 months ago
That’s fair, but the comment above said that they “spend 40 a week on all my groceries at most.”
Sombyr@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
I spend 1/3rd of that on all of my groceries combined per month. If I was spending that much per week I would be over 1000$ in debt after a single month. Is the average person really that rich? And what food are they buying that they need to spend that much?
This is baffling to me as a poor person.
Chef_Boyardee@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I’m thinking that price is per household not person. I hope that’s the case. But I’m seriously impressed that you can swing $90/mo for food. That’s amazing.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 6 months ago
no, food costs that much