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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]About $100 a week, 2 tweens and 2 adults. I cook 95% of our meals so eating out is minimal. We eat a lot of produce which is one of the biggest costs each week. [/quote]

You feed four people on $5,200 a year??  How??[/quote]

Here is an example of tonight's dinner:

I had a package of chicken legs (thighs/legs attached) that came with 4 pieces in it from Aldi.  It was $3.50 for the package.  I used two pieces for dinner on Thursday and froze the other two.  I defrosted them and two are for tonight's dinner.  I put them in a large pot (like a paella pot) in the oven with 3 cut up carrots, 3 celery ribs cut up, 3 sweet potatoes cut up, 3 white potatoes cut up, garlic and a carton of bone broth  from aldi that was $1 (discount) + water.   The bolded veggies were in sold like $.99 for carrots, $1.29 for celery, etc.  I got a bread (bagette) there that had a sticker on it for $1 off and it was originally $.1.69.  Dinner of warm bagette.  When it finishes, I'll take the skin off, take the chicken off the bone and we'll have soup with bread for dinner.  There will be plenty left over and this will be my son's school lunch for Monday and Tuesday.

I'm actually what most people would consider wealthy, but I don't just go into a grocery store and buy whatever I feel like buying.  I try to steer towards items that are on sale, even discounted so long as still fresh.  Grapes are on sale this week?  You're eating grapes.  You like raspberries at $3.99 a carton...you'll have to wait on that.  I have plenty of money for the "raspberries" in life that aren't on sale, but I HAVE that plenty of money because I've alway watched what I spent.  I'll go to Aldi when possible.  So, yes, I have been watching my receipts for awhile and it is absolutely around $100 a week.[/quote]

That is NOT enough chicken for two adults and 2 tweens. Stop it![/quote]

Previous poster, please admit that you all must be starving if this is truly what you do. [/quote]

Are all of you underweight? That meal would be an appetizer to my DH.  You  can’t possibly be getting enough calories in that soup for dinner.[/quote]

They are probably just normal weight. People don't know what normal weight looks like anymore....[/quote]

This is true.  Her dinner actually sounds really good.[/quote]
NP, but I would bet this is the same poster who always chimes in on these threads with insanely low food budgets and when you dig deeper, they eat really small portions.  Like, one serving of Aldi cornflakes for a teenager for breakfast or something absurd.  I can't fathom that soup would provide a full meal AND leftovers.[/quote]

[b]What is wrong with a bowl of cereal for breakfast? [/b]It's impossible to get my daughter to eat much for breakfast but she eats a ton at dinner.

I have no idea why people are pushing big portions on others when the US is in the midst of an obesity epidemic.[/quote]

Absolutely nothing, but it's an unrealistically small breakfast for most teenage boys.  You know that's true.  I mean, the whole family could be tiny people who are sedentary and thus have extremely low daily calorie requirements.  But most active people with decent muscle mass and/or growing kids are going to eat more than 200 calories for breakfast--and if they have that small a breakfast, they're going to eat more during the day.  You said it yourself: a small breakfast and a ton at dinner.  In this budget, all the meals are tiny, and that's not typical, even for people of average weight.  It's not rocket science.[/quote]

I'm not sure how you know how all their meals are tiny? The stew recipe sounds fine to me.

I don't have teenage boys but I grew up with a brother and I don't think he ate constantly. Maybe we're just skinnier than the norm.[/quote]

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