..and you had to buy a week's worth of groceries. This was your budget.
How would you spend it so you could actually live off it?

I'd spend it all on:

oh hell, that's easy. i could stretch out a week's groceries on ten bucks if i had to. and sometimes i do!

JoeyMFinCoco said:

Anxiety said:

Be more specific.
I'm serious here.

Soulofmysoul said:

What's your point, white people don't know about toothpaste?

Lotsa Ramen! And not the fancy kind in the styrofoam cups, either!

Soulofmysoul said:

a week? just for me? fifty bucks?

1 carton soy milk: $2.50
1 12pk, diet coke: $3.00
1 lg. box, corn flakes: $4.00
2 jars, pasta sauce: $5.00
4 boxes, pasta: $3.50
1 5lb bag, potatoes: $3.50
1 container, ground coffee: $5.00 (trader joe's 'mellow note' blend)
1 loaf nice bread $2.00
1 container margarine $1.50 (for bread, for potatoes)
1 jar jelly $1.50
1 jug half & half $1.00 (for coffee)
3 boxes frozen veggies $3.00
TOTAL: $35.00

with enough left over for whatevs.

theVelvetRoper said:

Might as well have some sugar then.

i can buy a week's worth of groceries with just $10.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

right??

Lots of bread.

oh and
fruit &veg - 10.00
pasta - 2.00
rice - 2.00
fish - 5.00
bread - 3.00
cereal - 4.00
cheese - 2.00
milk - 3.00
coffee - 3.70
tea - 1.20
fruit juice- 4.00
margarine - 1.00

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Please elaborate.

Soulofmysoul said:

i've done it before. i just get two big ol' jars of pasta sauce - whatever's on sale for cheepest that doesn't look gross, and two or three boxes of pasta, which usually costs under two bucks. then i'll treat myself to one or two 2-liters of soda for a dollar a bottle, and if it's winter i'll get a box of cheap oatmeal for 1.50 or so. summer? i'll just drink off whatever tea or coffee i have at home for brekkies. it gets me through the week when i'm in a pinch - god bless pasta.

Anxiety said:

Only slightly less painful to read than 'preggers'.

Lots of ramen, frozen burritos, chips, bread sandwich fixins, some meat, eggs, cereal, milk.

INSATIABLE said:

i'll have to work harder, then.

Anxiety said:

pasta, vegetables, cheap chicken, 50 bucks can go far for just a week.

Soulofmysoul said:

a box of cereal: either $2 or $3
a half-gallon of soy milk: $3

that's $8 right there. either that, or like anxy mentioned, pasta's the way to go also. believe me, i know...i'm used to only having $5 or $10 on me and wondering how to pull thru a week with it.


malt-o-meal edit
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3 or 4 loaves of bread, some peanut butter, promite, a few bags of pasta, cans of chopped tomato, packs of noodles, a few tins of tuna, three 12 packs of yoghurt, some muesli - that's about $20 for two people and some things like Promite and peanut butter would last for more than the week.

If I absolutely had to I could eat here for around $8 a week eating all rice-based meals with vegetables from the market, fish balls and the odd bit of pork mince.

Some of you must get terribly constipated.

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JoeyMFinCoco said:

i'm more regular than a norah jones album.

Unfortunately my favourite wine, Rosemount Estate Shiraz, costs the equiv. of $50 here.

This is as opposed to the equivalent of $13.50 in the UK.

Wine isn't a luxury, it's a staple!!!

off topic, I spend like 300-400 a month in groceries....UGH!

jerseykrs2 said:

maybe if you didn't buy all your groceries off eBay, you could find a bargain or two!

Anxiety said:

hahahaha!!!!

jerseykrs2 said: