Single Guys (or girls, I guess)

[Svnla]

Around $160-$200 range if not eating out.

I don't know how some of you can do $100 for a whole month.

<<---- still have nighmare whenever he smells ramen noodles.

 

[Zolty]

I almost never cook, 5-7 for lunch + 10ish for dinner if I eat dinner.

 

[DougK62]

I spend ~$200/mo for food and drinks including eating out. I couldn't imagine spending much more.

 

[bignateyk]

~$60 a week on groceries
~$30 a week on lunch at work
~$20 a week on takeout
~$20 a week on booze
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~$130/week = ~$520/month max

I eat alot, and pretty well though (fresh meats/fish for dinner, etc...).

 

[eleison]

food budget:

$5-6 lunch
$7-9 dinner
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$12-15/day *30 days = $360-$450 per month eating out...

2-5 times miscell food stuff (going out to bars after softball, basketball, volley); I play a lot of sports...

$15 - $20 average ( a couple beers... maybe a burger, etc)
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$15 - $20 (3times a week, 4 weeks in a month) = $180 - $240 per month


total monthy food related aprox: $540 to $690

In all honest, I probably budget $1000 on food, entertain... hookers... drugs.. and the ocassional betting on cock fights... yea, wish I could lower the amount... tired, but I've never been able to :-(

 

[Zenmervolt]

On groceries around $50/week. About $15/week to eat out at work for lunch. So around $260/month all-told.

ZV

 

[KentState]

I probably spend $600/month on food. It's easy to blow $100 on a date or a weekend out at the bars so some months I may spend upwards of $1000.

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: Svnla
Around $160-$200 range if not eating out.

I don't know how some of you can do $100 for a whole month.

<<---- still have nighmare whenever he smells ramen noodles.

You can eat for $100 dollars a month and never touch ramen...

 

[RelaxTheMind]

True... eating out with the girl is a different budget... an easy $50-$100 every meal. ~$15 if we are on the run like chic-fil-a

 

[eleison]

Originally posted by: tfinch2

Originally posted by: Svnla
Around $160-$200 range if not eating out.

I don't know how some of you can do $100 for a whole month.

<<---- still have nighmare whenever he smells ramen noodles.

You can eat for $100 dollars a month and never touch ramen...

my friend was able to check his budget to $35 for food when he was in college.. it consisted mostly of ramen and coke...

$100 for food in a month.. very hard to do.. .

 

[maddogchen]

blah...my friend drops 200 a month easily on booze...just booze!!!

 

[KarmaPolice]

I honestly dont know. I eat out for lunch pretty much everyday so thats like 6 bucks a day so thats 180 for a month. For dinner its a mix of eating out and cooking meals and making sandwiches...so i dunno.

 

[polm]

~ $500

 

[DaWhim]

under $200

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: eleison

Originally posted by: tfinch2

Originally posted by: Svnla
Around $160-$200 range if not eating out.

I don't know how some of you can do $100 for a whole month.

<<---- still have nighmare whenever he smells ramen noodles.

You can eat for $100 dollars a month and never touch ramen...

my friend was able to check his budget to $35 for food when he was in college.. it consisted mostly of ramen and coke...

$100 for food in a month.. very hard to do.. .

😕

Breakfast = Pop tarts, Cereal, Waffles, Eggs
Lunch = Soups, Sandwiches, Fruit, Leftovers
Dinner = Too many possibilities to list

I bought 3 lbs of boneless chicken breasts, marinated them, and grilled them. Total cost was less than $10 dollars, and it will last all week. Ground beef is cheap as well, and you can do tons of things with it (hamburgers, patties & gravy, tacos, pasta sauce)

Pot pie is good, cheap, and will leave plenty of leftovers:

Pie crust mix (50 cents)
Frozen vegetable mix (99 cents)
2 potatoes (50 cents)
Chicken gravy mix (50 cents)
2 lbs of boneless chicken thighs (4 dollars)

If you just eat ramen you are lazy.

 

[f4phantom2500]

Right now maybe ~$150, although a lot of times I forget to eat. I'm starting a workout program this week though, and by the time I'm at the end of it (like 15 weeks), I should be eating a sh1t-ton, as I'll be doing a ridiculous amount of exercise.

-Swim continuously for 75 minutes with fins 5 days a week (Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri, Sat)
-Run 6 miles in 45 minutes 5 days a week (same days as swimming)
-20 sets of 20 push ups, 20 sets of 25 sit ups, 5 sets of 12 pull ups, 20 sets of 15 dips 3 days a week (Mon, Wed, Fri)

So when I finally get to that point, I expect to be eating A LOT.

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: f4phantom2500
Right now maybe ~$150, although a lot of times I forget to eat. I'm starting a workout program this week though, and by the time I'm at the end of it (like 15 weeks), I should be eating a sh1t-ton, as I'll be doing a ridiculous amount of exercise.

-Swim continuously for 75 minutes with fins 5 days a week (Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri, Sat)
-Run 6 miles in 45 minutes 5 days a week (same days as swimming)
-20 sets of 20 push ups, 20 sets of 25 sit ups, 5 sets of 12 pull ups, 20 sets of 15 dips 3 days a week (Mon, Wed, Fri)

So when I finally get to that point, I expect to be eating A LOT.

You must be a world class athlete to run 6 miles in 45 minutes (7:30 pace for 6 miles), right after you just swam for 75 minutes, then do 400 push ups, 500 sit ups, 60 pull ups, and 300 dips.

 

[ebaycj]

Originally posted by: Agentbolt
edited: Well, since I said "food" budget I suppose not including eating out was a little stupid.

I'm just curious, people who live by themselves, what do ya'll spend on food per month? I'd say between the grocery store and eating out/delivery I probably drop ~220 a month on food, probably 175 of that is groceries and about 40 bucks a month in total on take out/eating out.

I'm curious if the amount I spend is wildly unusual, either high or low. Just curious for some examples of what other people spend on food for themselves. College kids, rich people, whoever. Thanks!

Way more than that here, I spend ~175 a month on weekday lunches, plus another ~100 on eating out at restaurants, plus another ~120 on groceries.

Unfortunately being single means things spoil faster than i can eat them so some of the perishable groceries just go straight to the garbage.

Also unfortunate that I work in the Chicago loop, you really can't get anything for lunch under $10 unless it's really crappy.

 

[Chrono]

~400

 

[f4phantom2500]

Originally posted by: tfinch2

Originally posted by: f4phantom2500
Right now maybe ~$150, although a lot of times I forget to eat. I'm starting a workout program this week though, and by the time I'm at the end of it (like 15 weeks), I should be eating a sh1t-ton, as I'll be doing a ridiculous amount of exercise.

-Swim continuously for 75 minutes with fins 5 days a week (Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri, Sat)
-Run 6 miles in 45 minutes 5 days a week (same days as swimming)
-20 sets of 20 push ups, 20 sets of 25 sit ups, 5 sets of 12 pull ups, 20 sets of 15 dips 3 days a week (Mon, Wed, Fri)

So when I finally get to that point, I expect to be eating A LOT.

You must be a world class athlete to run 6 miles in 45 minutes (7:30 pace for 6 miles), right after you just swam for 75 minutes, then do 400 push ups, 500 sit ups, 60 pull ups, and 300 dips.

Like I said, it'll take ~15 weeks to get to that point, I actually found the program on a Navy SEAL site, it's the training they recommend you do before you go to the SEAL school stuff. The hard thing wouldn't necessarily be doing it once, but doing it as often as you have to. I actually tried this program before, but it wore me out too much; I got to the point where it'd have me doing about half as much of the calisthenics as the final week, more than half of that running, and I didn't do the swimming last time. Actually, the way I've been doing it so far (started a few weeks ago but had to stop last week for finals) was run, then swim, then calisthenics.

 

[Svnla]

Originally posted by: tfinch2

Originally posted by: Svnla
Around $160-$200 range if not eating out.

I don't know how some of you can do $100 for a whole month.

<<---- still have nighmare whenever he smells ramen noodles.

You can eat for $100 dollars a month and never touch ramen...

Ok, how do you do that? $25 a week for breakfast, lunch, and diner or $3.33 a day to be exact.

I can do around $2 to $3 per meal but not per day. We are talking about only eat in and not eat out at all.

Edit: Just saw your reply. Not sure the numbers are accurate. Maybe if you buy whole sale items at places like Costco/Sams and cook for the whole week....hummmm.

 

[Agentbolt]

You can eat for $100 dollars a month and never touch ramen...

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Unless you're talking about shooting/growing a lot of your own food, I'd be very interested to hear how that's possible.

Also, the 500 dollar a month people.... I envy you.

 

[intogamer]

I survive by drinking 7 cans on Pharmacy Plus++ Generic Canadian Insure Nutritional Milk

I gotta get fat or the insurance is gonna cut me off!!!!

 

[erub]

Originally posted by: Agentbolt

You can eat for $100 dollars a month and never touch ramen...

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Unless you're talking about shooting/growing a lot of your own food, I'd be very interested to hear how that's possible.

Also, the 500 dollar a month people.... I envy you.

I don't see how you can only spend $40/month on going out, unless you only go out to eat around 3x a month..I'd be turning down a lot of dinners with friends/dates to get down to that few

 

[SZLiao214]

Too much when i'm in college 🙁

I spent maybe 60 bucks a week for groceries but probably almost match that in eating out.