Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Breakfast is the last thing I would spend $ on and we have a very HHI. So, yeah $1500 sounds like a lot. But, can you afford it? Does it make you happy? If so: YOLO
I agree with this poster. We eat breakfast at home (tea, granola, yogourt, fruit) which is probably $1-4/person (depends on if the fruit is like bananas or blueberries out of season), but if I have to go into the office I skip the tea at home and stop at Starbucks which is probably $6 for whatever froofy drink I get. This doesn't break the bank for me and it does make me happy so I'm fine with. I don't eat lunch out and we almost never get takeout; fancy coffee drinks when I'm forced to be out of the house midmorning are how I choose to spend my prepared food budget.
As for total cost, our non-grocery food budget is $50/month, which includes take-out, lunch out, and impulse Starbucks. Family of three.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Don't know which forum this belongs, Food or Money and Finances, so posting here. I start my day early so as a 'treat' to myself I always pick up breakfast at this place across street from my office. I think I average ~ $6 every day (used to be $4.5-$5 but now with inflations it's gone up quite a bit), and on it's own it's not much but I also just realized by looking at my credit card summary I spent over $1,500 at this place this last year, and the majority of that was for breakfast. So now all of a sudden it sounded like a lot of money spent on breakfast... or is it?
A daily habit isn’t a “treat.”
You are wasting money and consuming unnecessary calories to boot.
Of course it's a treat. Treat means it's not necessary. Every edible treat involves spending unnecessary money and eating unnecessary calories.
Anonymous wrote:Breakfast is the last thing I would spend $ on and we have a very HHI. So, yeah $1500 sounds like a lot. But, can you afford it? Does it make you happy? If so: YOLO
), but if I have to go into the office I skip the tea at home and stop at Starbucks which is probably $6 for whatever froofy drink I get. This doesn't break the bank for me and it does make me happy so I'm fine with. I don't eat lunch out and we almost never get takeout; fancy coffee drinks when I'm forced to be out of the house midmorning are how I choose to spend my prepared food budget.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Don't know which forum this belongs, Food or Money and Finances, so posting here. I start my day early so as a 'treat' to myself I always pick up breakfast at this place across street from my office. I think I average ~ $6 every day (used to be $4.5-$5 but now with inflations it's gone up quite a bit), and on it's own it's not much but I also just realized by looking at my credit card summary I spent over $1,500 at this place this last year, and the majority of that was for breakfast. So now all of a sudden it sounded like a lot of money spent on breakfast... or is it?
A daily habit isn’t a “treat.”
You are wasting money and consuming unnecessary calories to boot.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Don't know which forum this belongs, Food or Money and Finances, so posting here. I start my day early so as a 'treat' to myself I always pick up breakfast at this place across street from my office. I think I average ~ $6 every day (used to be $4.5-$5 but now with inflations it's gone up quite a bit), and on it's own it's not much but I also just realized by looking at my credit card summary I spent over $1,500 at this place this last year, and the majority of that was for breakfast. So now all of a sudden it sounded like a lot of money spent on breakfast... or is it?
A daily habit isn’t a “treat.”
You are wasting money and consuming unnecessary calories to boot.