What do you spend a week to feed yourself?

[Racerbvd]

Not nearly as much as when I drank
Still, mine varies week to week, in office/shop or seeing clients...

[Zeke]

To eat costs a lot less than the rest you buy at the store. I eat one egg or oatmeal for breakfast. wife eats nothing. I eat fruit and bars during the day. Night she cooks for her, I eat a little of the side dish and a salad. No meat. She eats meat, but lately it's been so bad that she is starting to realize meat is bad stuff. She bought s $6 roasted chicken that she will get 3 days out of.

I guess we don't spend much on actual food.

NOW! The holidays are coming. Christmas dinner will cost us 500 dollars. It doesn't matter whether 6 or 16 show up, there will be food for 20. Waste.

[Brian 162]

I spend $50-$100 per week. It's just myself and the g/friend on weekends. I make dinner 6 out of 7 nights however I go to a greasy spoon every weekday morning for breakfast.

[fintstone]

Less than $100 a month for two.

[Ron R]

Originally Posted by fintstone

Less than $100 a month for two.

? what the hell do you eat ? Cat food?

[id10t]

Being cash poor, with a wife and 3 kids, I can tell you... eating healthy at home is expensive compared to the dollar menu at McDonalds or Taco Bell. We spend $150 a week or so, but the baby just outgrew formula so that should drop a little. If push came to shove though...

1) Farmers markets, roadside stands, and the "local farms (mostly) direct to market" place we have around here for fresh veggies. The high price I've seen in the past few years has been $1.25/lb for fresh green beans, greens, various peas, etc. Shelled acre peas are about twice that, but I've got 2 kids that can shell the peas... We already do this, but the kids get a break and the acre peas are bought shelled.

2) Cheap grocery - Some chicken on sale when it is a really good price, rice, dry beans. We currently will stock up on stuff at Sam's, and a local sausage plant (Nettles) has wholesale price truck sales 2x per year - last time we went we got 4 months worth of meat (all I could fit in my extra freezer) for $400... sausage, steaks, fish, chicken.

3) Some live chickens from a friends neighbor, get some egg production going. Need 3 or 4 laying hens. He's offered 'em to me in the past, but I keep buying 18 eggs from him every two weeks ($2.50).

4) There are 500 acres of woods across the street from me, and it is deer season for another 5 weeks...

5) After that, small game season (squirrels) goes until March. Rabbit is year around. The kids think I'm joking when I mention eating the tree rats, etc. Mebbe they will get a taste of 'em later this year...

To actually stretch the food, soups w/ pasta do a good job of being healthy, filling, and cheap, as well as taking care of left overs (grill or roast chicken today, carcass gets made into stock, leftover chicken and veggies go into the pot). Biscuits from scratch are cheap, grits are cheap and have good protien.

[Zeke]

We can scrimp on the vittles but the Internet connection has to stay hot.

[mattdavis11]

About $90. I eat out for lunch or grab something for breakfast and skip lunch. Normally I'll bake a chicken once a week, eat a quarter, then pick it and consume the rest throughout the week with pasta or rice.

My grocery bill can get out of hand though. I can't pass up deals, especially when it's beef. Around labor day, I bought 9 whole, prime grade, rib roasts. That was an expensive week of grocery shopping. I still have 35lbs in the freezer right now.