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Anonymous wrote:This will likely sound ridiculous, but our family of 3 (2 adults + 1 teen) spends $150 per MONTH on groceries and our HHI is 700K. Caveats: teen’s weekday lunches are enfolded into private school tuition, 1 adult has lunch and/or dinner provided through work 2 or 3 days per week, and we’re kind of insane super shoppers.

That’s amazing! Please post your grocery list & things you make! I’m curious. I couldn’t do this bc I like variety and occasional meat, organic eggs and milk BUT I do admire the thriftiness.

Staples, including eggs and milk, from Costco. Fresh produce from ethnic markets. Whatever meat is on sale that week at the traditional grocery stores (we’ll freeze extra so we have variety and aren’t just eating one type of protein all week). We take full advantage of freebies and almost freebies - for example, we just picked up 3 bottles of organic Kefir cultured milk for free and 3 cans of Pringles for $1 - as well as deals like “get $40 off your pickup order of $75.” We don’t deprive ourselves and would have no problem spending more if necessary, but actually find bargain hunting super fun.

Post a couple days of your menu.

And your teen must not eat much or do any sports—my teens probably eat more than $150/month each of food on top of the 3 meals a day-

Sure! Here’s this weekend’s menu:

Saturday:
Breakfast - egg/chorizo/cheese burrito, milk (teen only)
Lunch - stuffed cabbage leaves with ground beef and rice
Dinner - roasted chicken, green beans, mashed potatoes, chocolate chip cookies

Sunday:
Brunch - egg/sausage/bell pepper/onion/potato hash, milk (teen only)
Dinner - Taiwanese beef shank noodle soup with bok choy, red bean mochi

Teen, who actually does play sports, supplements with snacks like nuts, cheese and crackers, fruit, chips, etc., but definitely should be eating more.

This sounds disgusting. I do IF and don't eat much, but when I do, I eat good food. No wonder Americans are so overweight and sick.

It's fine menu however, they aren't eating many meals at home, which is why. Basically two meals a day, at best, one very basic one.

It's so sad if you think this is a good menu. I had fresh tuna and arugula salad for dinner with an amazing glass of red wine.

Red wine is bad for you. This is a bad idea.

Everything in moderation is fine. Go back to your temperance meeting, Carrie Nation. This is not the thread for you to derail.

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Anonymous wrote:This will likely sound ridiculous, but our family of 3 (2 adults + 1 teen) spends $150 per MONTH on groceries and our HHI is 700K. Caveats: teen’s weekday lunches are enfolded into private school tuition, 1 adult has lunch and/or dinner provided through work 2 or 3 days per week, and we’re kind of insane super shoppers.

That’s amazing! Please post your grocery list & things you make! I’m curious. I couldn’t do this bc I like variety and occasional meat, organic eggs and milk BUT I do admire the thriftiness.

Staples, including eggs and milk, from Costco. Fresh produce from ethnic markets. Whatever meat is on sale that week at the traditional grocery stores (we’ll freeze extra so we have variety and aren’t just eating one type of protein all week). We take full advantage of freebies and almost freebies - for example, we just picked up 3 bottles of organic Kefir cultured milk for free and 3 cans of Pringles for $1 - as well as deals like “get $40 off your pickup order of $75.” We don’t deprive ourselves and would have no problem spending more if necessary, but actually find bargain hunting super fun.

Post a couple days of your menu.

And your teen must not eat much or do any sports—my teens probably eat more than $150/month each of food on top of the 3 meals a day-

Sure! Here’s this weekend’s menu:

Saturday:
Breakfast - egg/chorizo/cheese burrito, milk (teen only)
Lunch - stuffed cabbage leaves with ground beef and rice
Dinner - roasted chicken, green beans, mashed potatoes, chocolate chip cookies

Sunday:
Brunch - egg/sausage/bell pepper/onion/potato hash, milk (teen only)
Dinner - Taiwanese beef shank noodle soup with bok choy, red bean mochi

Teen, who actually does play sports, supplements with snacks like nuts, cheese and crackers, fruit, chips, etc., but definitely should be eating more.

This sounds disgusting. I do IF and don't eat much, but when I do, I eat good food. No wonder Americans are so overweight and sick.

I am with your first comment. This sounds awful. But why is this not good food? There is nothing bad about what they eat. To the contrary it is all fresh --- none of it is bad -- where are you making the connection to overweight and sick? It kind of is the opposite.

This is junk food. Processed meats, chips, too many carbs, cookies, not enough veggies, no green salads, no fish rich in omega 3, no yogurt or other foods with probiotics, not enough calcium etc.

There is no junk food on this menu except for the cookies.

Saturday:
Breakfast - egg/chorizo/cheese burrito, milk (teen only) --- I assume home made not processed. Milk is fine and people should be drinking much more of it.
Lunch - stuffed cabbage leaves with ground beef and rice ---- all fine
Dinner - roasted chicken, green beans, mashed potatoes, chocolate chip cookies again all fine and not processed except for the cookies

Sunday:
Brunch - egg/sausage/bell pepper/onion/potato hash, milk (teen only) ---- all fresh not processed
Dinner - Taiwanese beef shank noodle soup with bok choy, red bean mochi -- same

I'm puzzled by the person who says this isn't enough calories for adults?? Especially if you don't know the portion sizes? There seems to be plenty of calories here.

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That’s amazing! Please post your grocery list & things you make! I’m curious. I couldn’t do this bc I like variety and occasional meat, organic eggs and milk BUT I do admire the thriftiness.

Staples, including eggs and milk, from Costco. Fresh produce from ethnic markets. Whatever meat is on sale that week at the traditional grocery stores (we’ll freeze extra so we have variety and aren’t just eating one type of protein all week). We take full advantage of freebies and almost freebies - for example, we just picked up 3 bottles of organic Kefir cultured milk for free and 3 cans of Pringles for $1 - as well as deals like “get $40 off your pickup order of $75.” We don’t deprive ourselves and would have no problem spending more if necessary, but actually find bargain hunting super fun.

Post a couple days of your menu.

And your teen must not eat much or do any sports—my teens probably eat more than $150/month each of food on top of the 3 meals a day-

Sure! Here’s this weekend’s menu:

Saturday:
Breakfast - egg/chorizo/cheese burrito, milk (teen only)
Lunch - stuffed cabbage leaves with ground beef and rice
Dinner - roasted chicken, green beans, mashed potatoes, chocolate chip cookies

Sunday:
Brunch - egg/sausage/bell pepper/onion/potato hash, milk (teen only)
Dinner - Taiwanese beef shank noodle soup with bok choy, red bean mochi

Teen, who actually does play sports, supplements with snacks like nuts, cheese and crackers, fruit, chips, etc., but definitely should be eating more.

But…how do you buy those ingredients on $150/mo?

I think she’s talking about 150/week, not per month. We are family of five - 3 adults and 2 kids. We eat mostly at home due to WFH. We spend 150 per week for grocery, including everything. Spend about 300 per month on dining out. HHI 400k. We are very very frugal people.

$150 a week is an enormous amount. Especially considering her menu.

+1. I think most people don’t understand how much they can be saving when shopping for groceries.

I mean, it depends on how severely you want to restrict your diet. If you mostly eat beans and tofu, okay. If you want to eat lamb and salmon, not so much.

We don’t intentionally restrict ourselves. Adult 1 actually gets a lot of lamb at work (the EA in charge of ordering lunch for the office loves Indian food!), and adult 2 and teen don’t particularly care for it so we don’t cook it at home. We do eat salmon and other seafood.

You realize that it’s crazy tone deaf to talk about all the free lamb one of you gets, right? Most people don’t get that perk at work, and this cost is not included in your $150 a week. Since you seem rather simple, I’ll spell it out for you: PEOPLE WHO HAVE TO FEED THEMSELVES ON $150 A WEEK ARE NOT EATING LAMB.

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And the adults dont eat breakfast! Oh we spend so LITTLE....for a family of 3 eating 3 meals a day= 63 meals per week. Take away breakfast for 2 adults and lunch for 1 adult +1 kid= 32 meals per week. GTFOH.

To add to the OP- family of 3 175k HHI. 1000 in food. 300 in eating out/coffee. Our budget is a bit higher on months that have holidays- Nov, Dec, Apr, etc. when we host holidays. Pasture-raised eggs only, no high temp pasteurized milk, we get fruit and veggies 2x per week. My DH lifts very heavy and eats a substantial amount between his IF window. Food budget includes paper products like TP, PT, detergent, etc. Dog food is a separate line item. We shop at WF, HT, Costco, Aldi depending on what we need.

Sample menu:

B: Apple cinnamon oatmeal (stovetop with organic oats)
L: PBJ for kid + veg + fruit, leftover Indian for DH, Pasta with chicken for me
D: Rosemary garlic beef stew

Tomorrow:
B: Smoothie made with whole milk plus zucchini bread (homemade)
L: Ham plus crackers fruit veg pistachios, leftover stew for DH and me
D: Meatballs (sausage plus beef) on top of broccoli (steamed) with garlic bread (sourdough)

Wed:
B: Eggs plus fruit
L: Turkey pepperoni zucchini bread + fruit
D: Fish sticks/salmon (wild) rice veg medley

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Anonymous wrote:This will likely sound ridiculous, but our family of 3 (2 adults + 1 teen) spends $150 per MONTH on groceries and our HHI is 700K. Caveats: teen’s weekday lunches are enfolded into private school tuition, 1 adult has lunch and/or dinner provided through work 2 or 3 days per week, and we’re kind of insane super shoppers.

That’s amazing! Please post your grocery list & things you make! I’m curious. I couldn’t do this bc I like variety and occasional meat, organic eggs and milk BUT I do admire the thriftiness.

Staples, including eggs and milk, from Costco. Fresh produce from ethnic markets. Whatever meat is on sale that week at the traditional grocery stores (we’ll freeze extra so we have variety and aren’t just eating one type of protein all week). We take full advantage of freebies and almost freebies - for example, we just picked up 3 bottles of organic Kefir cultured milk for free and 3 cans of Pringles for $1 - as well as deals like “get $40 off your pickup order of $75.” We don’t deprive ourselves and would have no problem spending more if necessary, but actually find bargain hunting super fun.

Post a couple days of your menu.

And your teen must not eat much or do any sports—my teens probably eat more than $150/month each of food on top of the 3 meals a day-

Sure! Here’s this weekend’s menu:

Saturday:
Breakfast - egg/chorizo/cheese burrito, milk (teen only)
Lunch - stuffed cabbage leaves with ground beef and rice
Dinner - roasted chicken, green beans, mashed potatoes, chocolate chip cookies

Sunday:
Brunch - egg/sausage/bell pepper/onion/potato hash, milk (teen only)
Dinner - Taiwanese beef shank noodle soup with bok choy, red bean mochi

Teen, who actually does play sports, supplements with snacks like nuts, cheese and crackers, fruit, chips, etc., but definitely should be eating more.

But…how do you buy those ingredients on $150/mo?

I think she’s talking about 150/week, not per month. We are family of five - 3 adults and 2 kids. We eat mostly at home due to WFH. We spend 150 per week for grocery, including everything. Spend about 300 per month on dining out. HHI 400k. We are very very frugal people.

$150 a week is an enormous amount. Especially considering her menu.

+1. I think most people don’t understand how much they can be saving when shopping for groceries.

I mean, it depends on how severely you want to restrict your diet. If you mostly eat beans and tofu, okay. If you want to eat lamb and salmon, not so much.

We don’t intentionally restrict ourselves. Adult 1 actually gets a lot of lamb at work (the EA in charge of ordering lunch for the office loves Indian food!), and adult 2 and teen don’t particularly care for it so we don’t cook it at home. We do eat salmon and other seafood.

You realize that it’s crazy tone deaf to talk about all the free lamb one of you gets, right? Most people don’t get that perk at work, and this cost is not included in your $150 a week. Since you seem rather simple, I’ll spell it out for you: PEOPLE WHO HAVE TO FEED THEMSELVES ON $150 A WEEK ARE NOT EATING LAMB.

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And the adults dont eat breakfast! Oh we spend so LITTLE....for a family of 3 eating 3 meals a day= 63 meals per week. Take away breakfast for 2 adults and lunch for 1 adult +1 kid= 32 meals per week. GTFOH.

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That’s amazing! Please post your grocery list & things you make! I’m curious. I couldn’t do this bc I like variety and occasional meat, organic eggs and milk BUT I do admire the thriftiness.

Staples, including eggs and milk, from Costco. Fresh produce from ethnic markets. Whatever meat is on sale that week at the traditional grocery stores (we’ll freeze extra so we have variety and aren’t just eating one type of protein all week). We take full advantage of freebies and almost freebies - for example, we just picked up 3 bottles of organic Kefir cultured milk for free and 3 cans of Pringles for $1 - as well as deals like “get $40 off your pickup order of $75.” We don’t deprive ourselves and would have no problem spending more if necessary, but actually find bargain hunting super fun.

Post a couple days of your menu.

And your teen must not eat much or do any sports—my teens probably eat more than $150/month each of food on top of the 3 meals a day-

Sure! Here’s this weekend’s menu:

Saturday:
Breakfast - egg/chorizo/cheese burrito, milk (teen only)
Lunch - stuffed cabbage leaves with ground beef and rice
Dinner - roasted chicken, green beans, mashed potatoes, chocolate chip cookies

Sunday:
Brunch - egg/sausage/bell pepper/onion/potato hash, milk (teen only)
Dinner - Taiwanese beef shank noodle soup with bok choy, red bean mochi

Teen, who actually does play sports, supplements with snacks like nuts, cheese and crackers, fruit, chips, etc., but definitely should be eating more.

This sounds disgusting. I do IF and don't eat much, but when I do, I eat good food. No wonder Americans are so overweight and sick.

I am with your first comment. This sounds awful. But why is this not good food? There is nothing bad about what they eat. To the contrary it is all fresh --- none of it is bad -- where are you making the connection to overweight and sick? It kind of is the opposite.

This is junk food. Processed meats, chips, too many carbs, cookies, not enough veggies, no green salads, no fish rich in omega 3, no yogurt or other foods with probiotics, not enough calcium etc.

There is no junk food on this menu except for the cookies.

Saturday:
Breakfast - egg/chorizo/cheese burrito, milk (teen only) --- I assume home made not processed. Milk is fine and people should be drinking much more of it.
Lunch - stuffed cabbage leaves with ground beef and rice ---- all fine
Dinner - roasted chicken, green beans, mashed potatoes, chocolate chip cookies again all fine and not processed except for the cookies

Sunday:
Brunch - egg/sausage/bell pepper/onion/potato hash, milk (teen only) ---- all fresh not processed
Dinner - Taiwanese beef shank noodle soup with bok choy, red bean mochi -- same

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Anonymous wrote:This will likely sound ridiculous, but our family of 3 (2 adults + 1 teen) spends $150 per MONTH on groceries and our HHI is 700K. Caveats: teen’s weekday lunches are enfolded into private school tuition, 1 adult has lunch and/or dinner provided through work 2 or 3 days per week, and we’re kind of insane super shoppers.

That’s amazing! Please post your grocery list & things you make! I’m curious. I couldn’t do this bc I like variety and occasional meat, organic eggs and milk BUT I do admire the thriftiness.

Staples, including eggs and milk, from Costco. Fresh produce from ethnic markets. Whatever meat is on sale that week at the traditional grocery stores (we’ll freeze extra so we have variety and aren’t just eating one type of protein all week). We take full advantage of freebies and almost freebies - for example, we just picked up 3 bottles of organic Kefir cultured milk for free and 3 cans of Pringles for $1 - as well as deals like “get $40 off your pickup order of $75.” We don’t deprive ourselves and would have no problem spending more if necessary, but actually find bargain hunting super fun.

Post a couple days of your menu.

And your teen must not eat much or do any sports—my teens probably eat more than $150/month each of food on top of the 3 meals a day-

Sure! Here’s this weekend’s menu:

Saturday:
Breakfast - egg/chorizo/cheese burrito, milk (teen only)
Lunch - stuffed cabbage leaves with ground beef and rice
Dinner - roasted chicken, green beans, mashed potatoes, chocolate chip cookies

Sunday:
Brunch - egg/sausage/bell pepper/onion/potato hash, milk (teen only)
Dinner - Taiwanese beef shank noodle soup with bok choy, red bean mochi

Teen, who actually does play sports, supplements with snacks like nuts, cheese and crackers, fruit, chips, etc., but definitely should be eating more.

This sounds disgusting. I do IF and don't eat much, but when I do, I eat good food. No wonder Americans are so overweight and sick.

It's fine menu however, they aren't eating many meals at home, which is why. Basically two meals a day, at best, one very basic one.

It's so sad if you think this is a good menu. I had fresh tuna and arugula salad for dinner with an amazing glass of red wine.

Red wine is bad for you. This is a bad idea.

HHI $160,000; 2 adults + 1 17 year old.

We average $1380/month on the following:

Blue Apron (4 meals per week) $500/month
Groceries $700/month
Eating out/take out: $150/month
Home Goods: $30/month (this includes aluminum foil, paper products, napkins, and cleaning supplies)

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Anonymous wrote:This will likely sound ridiculous, but our family of 3 (2 adults + 1 teen) spends $150 per MONTH on groceries and our HHI is 700K. Caveats: teen’s weekday lunches are enfolded into private school tuition, 1 adult has lunch and/or dinner provided through work 2 or 3 days per week, and we’re kind of insane super shoppers.

That’s amazing! Please post your grocery list & things you make! I’m curious. I couldn’t do this bc I like variety and occasional meat, organic eggs and milk BUT I do admire the thriftiness.

Staples, including eggs and milk, from Costco. Fresh produce from ethnic markets. Whatever meat is on sale that week at the traditional grocery stores (we’ll freeze extra so we have variety and aren’t just eating one type of protein all week). We take full advantage of freebies and almost freebies - for example, we just picked up 3 bottles of organic Kefir cultured milk for free and 3 cans of Pringles for $1 - as well as deals like “get $40 off your pickup order of $75.” We don’t deprive ourselves and would have no problem spending more if necessary, but actually find bargain hunting super fun.

Post a couple days of your menu.

And your teen must not eat much or do any sports—my teens probably eat more than $150/month each of food on top of the 3 meals a day-

Sure! Here’s this weekend’s menu:

Saturday:
Breakfast - egg/chorizo/cheese burrito, milk (teen only)
Lunch - stuffed cabbage leaves with ground beef and rice
Dinner - roasted chicken, green beans, mashed potatoes, chocolate chip cookies

Sunday:
Brunch - egg/sausage/bell pepper/onion/potato hash, milk (teen only)
Dinner - Taiwanese beef shank noodle soup with bok choy, red bean mochi

Teen, who actually does play sports, supplements with snacks like nuts, cheese and crackers, fruit, chips, etc., but definitely should be eating more.

This sounds disgusting. I do IF and don't eat much, but when I do, I eat good food. No wonder Americans are so overweight and sick.

What’s “disgusting” about this menu? Taiwanese beef noodle soup is delicious!

Aw, thanks for defending Taiwanese beef noodle soup, PP! For anyone who thinks I wrote the above post as a sock puppet, please feel free to check with Jeff! To the other PP who thinks so poorly of our weekend menu, we had sushi Friday night (dining out therefore not included in my $150/month grocery budget) so didn’t feel like having fish again these past two days, and tomorrow is Meatless Monday so we’ll be having lots of veggies and leafy greens then. Oh, and you’re definitely right the adults should include more dietary calcium and probiotics, but teen’s organic kefir cultured milk (that I got for free through extreme couponing) was rich in both.

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Anonymous wrote:This will likely sound ridiculous, but our family of 3 (2 adults + 1 teen) spends $150 per MONTH on groceries and our HHI is 700K. Caveats: teen’s weekday lunches are enfolded into private school tuition, 1 adult has lunch and/or dinner provided through work 2 or 3 days per week, and we’re kind of insane super shoppers.

That’s amazing! Please post your grocery list & things you make! I’m curious. I couldn’t do this bc I like variety and occasional meat, organic eggs and milk BUT I do admire the thriftiness.

Staples, including eggs and milk, from Costco. Fresh produce from ethnic markets. Whatever meat is on sale that week at the traditional grocery stores (we’ll freeze extra so we have variety and aren’t just eating one type of protein all week). We take full advantage of freebies and almost freebies - for example, we just picked up 3 bottles of organic Kefir cultured milk for free and 3 cans of Pringles for $1 - as well as deals like “get $40 off your pickup order of $75.” We don’t deprive ourselves and would have no problem spending more if necessary, but actually find bargain hunting super fun.

Post a couple days of your menu.

And your teen must not eat much or do any sports—my teens probably eat more than $150/month each of food on top of the 3 meals a day-

Sure! Here’s this weekend’s menu:

Saturday:
Breakfast - egg/chorizo/cheese burrito, milk (teen only)
Lunch - stuffed cabbage leaves with ground beef and rice
Dinner - roasted chicken, green beans, mashed potatoes, chocolate chip cookies

Sunday:
Brunch - egg/sausage/bell pepper/onion/potato hash, milk (teen only)
Dinner - Taiwanese beef shank noodle soup with bok choy, red bean mochi

Teen, who actually does play sports, supplements with snacks like nuts, cheese and crackers, fruit, chips, etc., but definitely should be eating more.

This sounds disgusting. I do IF and don't eat much, but when I do, I eat good food. No wonder Americans are so overweight and sick.

What’s “disgusting” about this menu? Taiwanese beef noodle soup is delicious!

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Anonymous wrote:This will likely sound ridiculous, but our family of 3 (2 adults + 1 teen) spends $150 per MONTH on groceries and our HHI is 700K. Caveats: teen’s weekday lunches are enfolded into private school tuition, 1 adult has lunch and/or dinner provided through work 2 or 3 days per week, and we’re kind of insane super shoppers.

That’s amazing! Please post your grocery list & things you make! I’m curious. I couldn’t do this bc I like variety and occasional meat, organic eggs and milk BUT I do admire the thriftiness.

Staples, including eggs and milk, from Costco. Fresh produce from ethnic markets. Whatever meat is on sale that week at the traditional grocery stores (we’ll freeze extra so we have variety and aren’t just eating one type of protein all week). We take full advantage of freebies and almost freebies - for example, we just picked up 3 bottles of organic Kefir cultured milk for free and 3 cans of Pringles for $1 - as well as deals like “get $40 off your pickup order of $75.” We don’t deprive ourselves and would have no problem spending more if necessary, but actually find bargain hunting super fun.

Post a couple days of your menu.

And your teen must not eat much or do any sports—my teens probably eat more than $150/month each of food on top of the 3 meals a day-

Sure! Here’s this weekend’s menu:

Saturday:
Breakfast - egg/chorizo/cheese burrito, milk (teen only)
Lunch - stuffed cabbage leaves with ground beef and rice
Dinner - roasted chicken, green beans, mashed potatoes, chocolate chip cookies

Sunday:
Brunch - egg/sausage/bell pepper/onion/potato hash, milk (teen only)
Dinner - Taiwanese beef shank noodle soup with bok choy, red bean mochi

Teen, who actually does play sports, supplements with snacks like nuts, cheese and crackers, fruit, chips, etc., but definitely should be eating more.

This sounds disgusting. I do IF and don't eat much, but when I do, I eat good food. No wonder Americans are so overweight and sick.

It's fine menu however, they aren't eating many meals at home, which is why. Basically two meals a day, at best, one very basic one.

It's so sad if you think this is a good menu. I had fresh tuna and arugula salad for dinner with an amazing glass of red wine.

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Anonymous wrote:This will likely sound ridiculous, but our family of 3 (2 adults + 1 teen) spends $150 per MONTH on groceries and our HHI is 700K. Caveats: teen’s weekday lunches are enfolded into private school tuition, 1 adult has lunch and/or dinner provided through work 2 or 3 days per week, and we’re kind of insane super shoppers.

That’s amazing! Please post your grocery list & things you make! I’m curious. I couldn’t do this bc I like variety and occasional meat, organic eggs and milk BUT I do admire the thriftiness.

Staples, including eggs and milk, from Costco. Fresh produce from ethnic markets. Whatever meat is on sale that week at the traditional grocery stores (we’ll freeze extra so we have variety and aren’t just eating one type of protein all week). We take full advantage of freebies and almost freebies - for example, we just picked up 3 bottles of organic Kefir cultured milk for free and 3 cans of Pringles for $1 - as well as deals like “get $40 off your pickup order of $75.” We don’t deprive ourselves and would have no problem spending more if necessary, but actually find bargain hunting super fun.

Post a couple days of your menu.

And your teen must not eat much or do any sports—my teens probably eat more than $150/month each of food on top of the 3 meals a day-

Sure! Here’s this weekend’s menu:

Saturday:
Breakfast - egg/chorizo/cheese burrito, milk (teen only)
Lunch - stuffed cabbage leaves with ground beef and rice
Dinner - roasted chicken, green beans, mashed potatoes, chocolate chip cookies

Sunday:
Brunch - egg/sausage/bell pepper/onion/potato hash, milk (teen only)
Dinner - Taiwanese beef shank noodle soup with bok choy, red bean mochi

Teen, who actually does play sports, supplements with snacks like nuts, cheese and crackers, fruit, chips, etc., but definitely should be eating more.

This sounds disgusting. I do IF and don't eat much, but when I do, I eat good food. No wonder Americans are so overweight and sick.

I am with your first comment. This sounds awful. But why is this not good food? There is nothing bad about what they eat. To the contrary it is all fresh --- none of it is bad -- where are you making the connection to overweight and sick? It kind of is the opposite.

This is junk food. Processed meats, chips, too many carbs, cookies, not enough veggies, no green salads, no fish rich in omega 3, no yogurt or other foods with probiotics, not enough calcium etc.

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Anonymous wrote:This will likely sound ridiculous, but our family of 3 (2 adults + 1 teen) spends $150 per MONTH on groceries and our HHI is 700K. Caveats: teen’s weekday lunches are enfolded into private school tuition, 1 adult has lunch and/or dinner provided through work 2 or 3 days per week, and we’re kind of insane super shoppers.

That’s amazing! Please post your grocery list & things you make! I’m curious. I couldn’t do this bc I like variety and occasional meat, organic eggs and milk BUT I do admire the thriftiness.

Staples, including eggs and milk, from Costco. Fresh produce from ethnic markets. Whatever meat is on sale that week at the traditional grocery stores (we’ll freeze extra so we have variety and aren’t just eating one type of protein all week). We take full advantage of freebies and almost freebies - for example, we just picked up 3 bottles of organic Kefir cultured milk for free and 3 cans of Pringles for $1 - as well as deals like “get $40 off your pickup order of $75.” We don’t deprive ourselves and would have no problem spending more if necessary, but actually find bargain hunting super fun.

Post a couple days of your menu.

And your teen must not eat much or do any sports—my teens probably eat more than $150/month each of food on top of the 3 meals a day-

Sure! Here’s this weekend’s menu:

Saturday:
Breakfast - egg/chorizo/cheese burrito, milk (teen only)
Lunch - stuffed cabbage leaves with ground beef and rice
Dinner - roasted chicken, green beans, mashed potatoes, chocolate chip cookies

Sunday:
Brunch - egg/sausage/bell pepper/onion/potato hash, milk (teen only)
Dinner - Taiwanese beef shank noodle soup with bok choy, red bean mochi

Teen, who actually does play sports, supplements with snacks like nuts, cheese and crackers, fruit, chips, etc., but definitely should be eating more.

How do you actually get enough calories to survive on this? Are you perpetually losing weight?
Today's menu can't be more than 1000 calories (teen) and 400-500 calories (adult).
Can you elaborate on your calorie count?

Apologies, no one in our household counts calories, so I couldn't tell you. We simply eat until we're satisfied. Adult weights are stable while teen's is growing albeit not as much as we would like. Pediatrician has not indicated any cause for concern, however.

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Anonymous wrote:This will likely sound ridiculous, but our family of 3 (2 adults + 1 teen) spends $150 per MONTH on groceries and our HHI is 700K. Caveats: teen’s weekday lunches are enfolded into private school tuition, 1 adult has lunch and/or dinner provided through work 2 or 3 days per week, and we’re kind of insane super shoppers.

That’s amazing! Please post your grocery list & things you make! I’m curious. I couldn’t do this bc I like variety and occasional meat, organic eggs and milk BUT I do admire the thriftiness.

Staples, including eggs and milk, from Costco. Fresh produce from ethnic markets. Whatever meat is on sale that week at the traditional grocery stores (we’ll freeze extra so we have variety and aren’t just eating one type of protein all week). We take full advantage of freebies and almost freebies - for example, we just picked up 3 bottles of organic Kefir cultured milk for free and 3 cans of Pringles for $1 - as well as deals like “get $40 off your pickup order of $75.” We don’t deprive ourselves and would have no problem spending more if necessary, but actually find bargain hunting super fun.

Post a couple days of your menu.

And your teen must not eat much or do any sports—my teens probably eat more than $150/month each of food on top of the 3 meals a day-

Sure! Here’s this weekend’s menu:

Saturday:
Breakfast - egg/chorizo/cheese burrito, milk (teen only)
Lunch - stuffed cabbage leaves with ground beef and rice
Dinner - roasted chicken, green beans, mashed potatoes, chocolate chip cookies

Sunday:
Brunch - egg/sausage/bell pepper/onion/potato hash, milk (teen only)
Dinner - Taiwanese beef shank noodle soup with bok choy, red bean mochi

Teen, who actually does play sports, supplements with snacks like nuts, cheese and crackers, fruit, chips, etc., but definitely should be eating more.

But…how do you buy those ingredients on $150/mo?

I think she’s talking about 150/week, not per month. We are family of five - 3 adults and 2 kids. We eat mostly at home due to WFH. We spend 150 per week for grocery, including everything. Spend about 300 per month on dining out. HHI 400k. We are very very frugal people.

$150 a week is an enormous amount. Especially considering her menu.

+1. I think most people don’t understand how much they can be saving when shopping for groceries.

I mean, it depends on how severely you want to restrict your diet. If you mostly eat beans and tofu, okay. If you want to eat lamb and salmon, not so much.

We don’t intentionally restrict ourselves. Adult 1 actually gets a lot of lamb at work (the EA in charge of ordering lunch for the office loves Indian food!), and adult 2 and teen don’t particularly care for it so we don’t cook it at home. We do eat salmon and other seafood.

You realize that it’s crazy tone deaf to talk about all the free lamb one of you gets, right? Most people don’t get that perk at work, and this cost is not included in your $150 a week. Since you seem rather simple, I’ll spell it out for you: PEOPLE WHO HAVE TO FEED THEMSELVES ON $150 A WEEK ARE NOT EATING LAMB.

Born on third, thinks they hit a triple

I stated in my very first post that adult 1 gets lunch and/or dinner provided through work 2 or 3 times a week. If you didn’t read it carefully, that’s on you.

I saw that, but then when I said a person spending $150 a month cannot afford lamb, you popped up to say you did eat lamb. You don’t buy it, though, it is subsidized, so your comment was unhelpful and smug.

But I do buy other similarly priced proteins on $150/month. I apologize for coming off as smug, but do think it's helpful for PPs to know I can buy salmon and other seafood on $150/month.

At this point I just don’t believe you. Or your idea of a portion is 1 oz per person.

It's your prerogative to believe whatever you wish. Some PPs think we're starving ourselves, others think we're overweight!

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Anonymous wrote:This will likely sound ridiculous, but our family of 3 (2 adults + 1 teen) spends $150 per MONTH on groceries and our HHI is 700K. Caveats: teen’s weekday lunches are enfolded into private school tuition, 1 adult has lunch and/or dinner provided through work 2 or 3 days per week, and we’re kind of insane super shoppers.

That’s amazing! Please post your grocery list & things you make! I’m curious. I couldn’t do this bc I like variety and occasional meat, organic eggs and milk BUT I do admire the thriftiness.

Staples, including eggs and milk, from Costco. Fresh produce from ethnic markets. Whatever meat is on sale that week at the traditional grocery stores (we’ll freeze extra so we have variety and aren’t just eating one type of protein all week). We take full advantage of freebies and almost freebies - for example, we just picked up 3 bottles of organic Kefir cultured milk for free and 3 cans of Pringles for $1 - as well as deals like “get $40 off your pickup order of $75.” We don’t deprive ourselves and would have no problem spending more if necessary, but actually find bargain hunting super fun.

Post a couple days of your menu.

And your teen must not eat much or do any sports—my teens probably eat more than $150/month each of food on top of the 3 meals a day-

Sure! Here’s this weekend’s menu:

Saturday:
Breakfast - egg/chorizo/cheese burrito, milk (teen only)
Lunch - stuffed cabbage leaves with ground beef and rice
Dinner - roasted chicken, green beans, mashed potatoes, chocolate chip cookies

Sunday:
Brunch - egg/sausage/bell pepper/onion/potato hash, milk (teen only)
Dinner - Taiwanese beef shank noodle soup with bok choy, red bean mochi

Teen, who actually does play sports, supplements with snacks like nuts, cheese and crackers, fruit, chips, etc., but definitely should be eating more.

But…how do you buy those ingredients on $150/mo?

I think she’s talking about 150/week, not per month. We are family of five - 3 adults and 2 kids. We eat mostly at home due to WFH. We spend 150 per week for grocery, including everything. Spend about 300 per month on dining out. HHI 400k. We are very very frugal people.

$150 a week is an enormous amount. Especially considering her menu.

+1. I think most people don’t understand how much they can be saving when shopping for groceries.

I mean, it depends on how severely you want to restrict your diet. If you mostly eat beans and tofu, okay. If you want to eat lamb and salmon, not so much.

We don’t intentionally restrict ourselves. Adult 1 actually gets a lot of lamb at work (the EA in charge of ordering lunch for the office loves Indian food!), and adult 2 and teen don’t particularly care for it so we don’t cook it at home. We do eat salmon and other seafood.

You realize that it’s crazy tone deaf to talk about all the free lamb one of you gets, right? Most people don’t get that perk at work, and this cost is not included in your $150 a week. Since you seem rather simple, I’ll spell it out for you: PEOPLE WHO HAVE TO FEED THEMSELVES ON $150 A WEEK ARE NOT EATING LAMB.

Born on third, thinks they hit a triple

I stated in my very first post that adult 1 gets lunch and/or dinner provided through work 2 or 3 times a week. If you didn’t read it carefully, that’s on you.

I saw that, but then when I said a person spending $150 a month cannot afford lamb, you popped up to say you did eat lamb. You don’t buy it, though, it is subsidized, so your comment was unhelpful and smug.

But I do buy other similarly priced proteins on $150/month. I apologize for coming off as smug, but do think it's helpful for PPs to know I can buy salmon and other seafood on $150/month.

At this point I just don’t believe you. Or your idea of a portion is 1 oz per person.

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Anonymous wrote:This will likely sound ridiculous, but our family of 3 (2 adults + 1 teen) spends $150 per MONTH on groceries and our HHI is 700K. Caveats: teen’s weekday lunches are enfolded into private school tuition, 1 adult has lunch and/or dinner provided through work 2 or 3 days per week, and we’re kind of insane super shoppers.

That’s amazing! Please post your grocery list & things you make! I’m curious. I couldn’t do this bc I like variety and occasional meat, organic eggs and milk BUT I do admire the thriftiness.

Staples, including eggs and milk, from Costco. Fresh produce from ethnic markets. Whatever meat is on sale that week at the traditional grocery stores (we’ll freeze extra so we have variety and aren’t just eating one type of protein all week). We take full advantage of freebies and almost freebies - for example, we just picked up 3 bottles of organic Kefir cultured milk for free and 3 cans of Pringles for $1 - as well as deals like “get $40 off your pickup order of $75.” We don’t deprive ourselves and would have no problem spending more if necessary, but actually find bargain hunting super fun.

Post a couple days of your menu.

And your teen must not eat much or do any sports—my teens probably eat more than $150/month each of food on top of the 3 meals a day-

Sure! Here’s this weekend’s menu:

Saturday:
Breakfast - egg/chorizo/cheese burrito, milk (teen only)
Lunch - stuffed cabbage leaves with ground beef and rice
Dinner - roasted chicken, green beans, mashed potatoes, chocolate chip cookies

Sunday:
Brunch - egg/sausage/bell pepper/onion/potato hash, milk (teen only)
Dinner - Taiwanese beef shank noodle soup with bok choy, red bean mochi

Teen, who actually does play sports, supplements with snacks like nuts, cheese and crackers, fruit, chips, etc., but definitely should be eating more.

But…how do you buy those ingredients on $150/mo?

I think she’s talking about 150/week, not per month. We are family of five - 3 adults and 2 kids. We eat mostly at home due to WFH. We spend 150 per week for grocery, including everything. Spend about 300 per month on dining out. HHI 400k. We are very very frugal people.

$150 a week is an enormous amount. Especially considering her menu.

+1. I think most people don’t understand how much they can be saving when shopping for groceries.

I mean, it depends on how severely you want to restrict your diet. If you mostly eat beans and tofu, okay. If you want to eat lamb and salmon, not so much.

We don’t intentionally restrict ourselves. Adult 1 actually gets a lot of lamb at work (the EA in charge of ordering lunch for the office loves Indian food!), and adult 2 and teen don’t particularly care for it so we don’t cook it at home. We do eat salmon and other seafood.

You realize that it’s crazy tone deaf to talk about all the free lamb one of you gets, right? Most people don’t get that perk at work, and this cost is not included in your $150 a week. Since you seem rather simple, I’ll spell it out for you: PEOPLE WHO HAVE TO FEED THEMSELVES ON $150 A WEEK ARE NOT EATING LAMB.

Born on third, thinks they hit a triple

I stated in my very first post that adult 1 gets lunch and/or dinner provided through work 2 or 3 times a week. If you didn’t read it carefully, that’s on you.

I saw that, but then when I said a person spending $150 a month cannot afford lamb, you popped up to say you did eat lamb. You don’t buy it, though, it is subsidized, so your comment was unhelpful and smug.

But I do buy other similarly priced proteins on $150/month. I apologize for coming off as smug, but do think it's helpful for PPs to know I can buy salmon and other seafood on $150/month.