Poll: How much do you spend on food a day ? (average)

[polm]

I am trying to start budgeting a little bit better. I am trying to figure out how much I should be spending on daily food consumption.

How much are you spending ?

How do you maintain your food spending average ?

 

[brtspears2]

I try to eat at home and pack lunches. Shop around the sales.

 

[ThaGrandCow]

Buy groceries, make your own food. Eating out is like twice as much as making your own stuff.

 

[minendo]

$10 - $14

That is for my girlfriend and me total.

 

[SCSIfreek]

$5-$9 bucks includes both lunch and dinner. Sometimes even less as I tend to eat at home more often. I'm a cheapa$$ 😛

--Scsi

 

[Siddhartha]

I eat out or buy it in bring it in. I don't cook, in fact my stove does not work.

I probably spend on an average of $15 to 20 a day.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

20 cents for a package of ramen noodles for lunch, 50 cents for a box of mac and cheese for dinner and a bottle of 1990 Chateu Latour for around $700 to wash it all down. So $700.70 per day.

 

[vi edit]

I try to shoot for $150 a month which works out to about $5 a day.

 

[NewSc2]

yeah i spend about $120 a day... I go to Ritz Carlton and order seafood pasta, creme brulee for breakfast and lunch, and dinnertime the Filet Mignon sounds good.


Seriously who spends over $100 a day on food?! I spend roughly about $6-7 a day on average.

 

[JMaster]

I'd say about $100 a week. That's including lunch and eating out a couple of days in the week.

 

[eplebnista]

$10 - $14

 

[glugglug]

$2.75 for breakfast special (omelette on a roll) + coffee
about $10 average for lunch at various restaurants in work area
about $2 average during the day for mountain dew & junk from vending machine
Dinner varies a lot -- lately I usually get take-out or delivery because cooking is a pain with hand broken recently. Most places delivery minimum is $10 + tip, so total for the day is $25-30

If I cook dinner ranges between about $1 and about $7 (sometimes I get one of those 12 taco dinner kits and eat most of em in one sitting -- I cook the meat in rum instead of grease, it can get pretty expensive for cooking yourself -- leftovers if any end up mixed into pasta or other future meal though).

 

[hdeck]

1-4 per day. sometimes nothing.

 

[Zim Hosein]

$5 - $9 🙂

 

[poopaskoopa]

About $7 a day.

 

[pulse8]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
$5 - $9 🙂

ditto.

Unless I'm working on a project where my lunch is paid for. Then it's usually like $10-$14.