Eating healthy on just $20 a week

[mugzy]

https://uk.style.yahoo.com/bodybuilder-tried-eat-healthy-week-093300608.html

$20 a week? I spend around $400 a week on food sometimes significantly more when eating out or traveling.

How much do you spend a week on food?

 

[Boytoy]

More than that. 100 a week for poppa Johns Buffalo wings! They are awesome and bring to the house!! Like big girls too so that doesn't help.

 

[Seeker]

I'll spend about $250 a week including Pizza friday

 

[Tatlifter]

20$! In a third world country maybe?

I spend at least 200 ++++ a week on food alone.

 

[snake]

I have no idea. Ballpark, the wife tries to stay around $250 a week for a family of 5, not including the "Stopping to pick up (blank)" If it's not on sale, it's not normally get purchased. Eating out is damn near zero short of getting pizza. We don't buy much meat at the store, we raise 2 pigs every year and get 1/2 a side of beef. Then there is that fuukin rooster who decides to spur me when I'm getting the eggs.That fuuker doesn't get to see the sun come up.


Note: protein powder excluded.

 

[Bro Bundy]

On cycle 250 300 a week .

 

[Iron1]

$130/wk for 2 people.

 

[CJ]

We're about $400 per week. We almost never go to restaurants or get take out though.

 

[DEADlifter]

Somewhere between $150 and $200 for my household which is just me, the Mrs. and my son on weekends. We rarely eat out. I can't remember the last time we sat down in a restaurant.

 

[Tinbeater36]

Probably averages out to $150/week not counting supplements for myself. We all eat different at my house. My wife is vegetarian and my son won't eat hardly anything but chicken strips and frozen pizza. I'm big on Costco. I buy boxes of egg whites, rice in 25lb bags, chicken and beef in bulk then break it down and put in freezer bags. Fruit and veggies (I don't eat enough) from the grocery store. Occasionally I'll get a burrito from Chipotle or go to lunch if the guys are getting Mexican and have fajitas.

 

[BrotherIron]

$20/ week is just crazy imho. Between the wife and me, food is more than I like to realize at times, lol.

 

[DF]

$20’a week? I’m not buying it.

I’m not sure what I spend In total. I’d guess around $250/week for 2.

 

[Iron1]

I think the difference is what's possible vs what's sustainable.

Good, enjoyable food is one of those few luxuries that make life worth living to a great many people. Sure you could probably eat nothing but rice and beans for $20 a week and be OK but is it worth giving up on one of life's simple pleasures to do it?

 

[CJ]

Cheapest protein source I can think of is chicken breast. The least I've seen it cost is $2/lb.

2 lbs is about 200g of protein, about a day's worth.

We're up to $28/week already without carbs, fats, veggies.

I'm not eating grasshoppers and crickets.

 

[tinymk]

$500 a month for us but that is with moose and buffalo already in the freezer. So our meat is 90% bought for the year.

 

[DEADlifter]

I think the difference is what's possible vs what's sustainable.

Good, enjoyable food is one of those few luxuries that make life worth living to a great many people. Sure you could probably eat nothing but rice and beans for $20 a week and be OK but is it worth giving up on one of life's simple pleasures to do it?

I agree 100%. I eat so much chicken I should be growing feathers. I only do that because of this lifestyle.

That being said. If I don't have steak and shrimp or a bacon cheeseburger every now and then, I'll lose my shit.

 

[Robdjents]

300+ a week depending on steak prices

 

[Gibsonator]

Around $300 not including the occasional doordash

 

[Trump]

No idea that’s the wife’s job

 

[joeyirish777]

about 250$/wk conservatively. I go up to 350 some weeks