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• FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Average is $270 per week in the USA.

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  • fushuan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    $270 includes everything like Keurig coffee pods, ground beef, and laundry detergent- not just vegetables.

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    • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That’s fair, but the comment above said that they “spend 40 a week on all my groceries at most.”

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  • Sombyr@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • Chef_Boyardee@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      no, food costs that much

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• Roldyclark@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Sure, but they didn’t specify they were american, did they?

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    • Roldyclark@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Wasn’t saying you should have assumed, just corroborating. But also doesn’t the $ imply he’s American?

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      • fushuan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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• Pringles@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Where do you live? I’m in central Europe and hit the local currency equivalent of 60$ per person per week…

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  • fushuan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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