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Originally Posted by shimmy2
homeboy you need to move to an affordable country already and dip out of canada if you want to survive somewhat comfortably on what little bit of adult bread youve got coming in. the inflation is gonna knock you upside the head from every angle otherwise
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I need to buy more food ingredients in bulk. One of the ways Canadians get destroyed financially is through how expensive fucking food is. Food is designed to be packaged in ways that the consumer just gets bent over and grabs their ankles. If you pre-plan what you're going to cook and then shop around, you can totally drop your food bill like crazy.
When I was working doing the moving gigs, some of the dudes I worked with, they'd spend $30 a day on food, fast food for lunch $15+, then fast food or whatever else for dinner $15-$20+, meanwhile with a little planning ahead you could get those meals down to $1 each and still be super tasty. Instead, a bro is out there spending an extra $28 per working day per month on food... x20 days that's almost $600 a month extra on meals!
So many people dine out for like 2 meals per day these days, I know someone personally who has Subway for lunch every day and then does skip or take-out 5 nights a week and cooks for herself on the weekends. I told her, lifestyle creep makes you broke...
Subway 5x a week, $15 per day = $300ish a month
Skip 5x a week, $25-30 per day = $500ish a month
That alone is close to 4 days of a month she works just to feed herself and she makes nearly $40 an hour. That doesn't include her going to Cactus Club on Friday night with her fellow 30-something single girlfriends and spending at least $100 on food and parking, and blowing more gas having to take back routes home in case of road checks.
Buying in bulk and freezing premade shit you whip together, you can get your meals down to like nearly $1 each plate and still be fat eating some super tasty fucking food. I wonder if GFY would like to see how I shop and spend money on food and manage to have great eats for el cheapo...
Yo Shimmy you seem to really have your shit together, what is your food bill like per month and what do you eat?