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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With a $3k monthly budget for food, you can definitely afford meal delivery / personal chef.

Most of the money from eating out can go towards the delivery/chef. Also I am not sure how you spend $800/month on groceries when all you make is rice or pasta a few times a month. You must be wasting a lot of food if you are buying that much fruit and veggies.

So by rebudgeting - you can afford to get healthier 'home made meals' without increasing your budget. You might have to shop around a bit to find what person/service best fits your palate and the options you want.

Another good meal delivery services is scratchDC.

You could also do something like Let's Dish now and then where you go and assemble your own meals. You can make a week's worth of dinner's in a couple hours as all the ingredients are prepared and at stations. That way you would also learn a little about food and putting meals together. [/quote]

OP here. Our grocery bill includes wine and beer from the grocery store.[/quote]

Last night, I ran to the store to pick up a few items (no alcohol) and the bill was $80. I bought some breakfast items, maybe 10 different fruits, yogurt, milk, eggs, juice. I know this won't last us through the weekend and I will go again later this week. [b]Have no idea what we are going to eat for dinner tonight.[/b] We had pasta last night (homemade) and chicken soup from Whole Foods.[/quote]

Dinner is stressful for everyone! I love to cook and it drives me bonkers to not know what we are having for dinner every night.  I can cook for a couple hours on the weekend and have lunch and dinner for the week.  I plan everything down to snacks and go grocery shopping once a week.  Your 200/week food bill should be enough to make meals for the family, and you can cook for the week in the time it takes you to make your multiple grocery runs.

Why don't you hire a chef to do some cooking, but also to teach you how to cook basic things, or teach you just basic methods to cook?  It takes a little time to know why foods don't "taste right"  and you won't get there by cooking only once in awhile.

If you want to cook - Mark Bittman's "how to cook everything" has good explanations on very basic stuff.  A lot of Six O Clock Scramble's recipes could be managed by children.  And even those services like Let's Dish require work - I was going to sign up, but then I saw that stuff came in separate containers, I had to brown things in a skillet, etc, and I thought, what's the point? [/quote]

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