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>user goes shopping

What are your essentials/must buys?

How much do you estimate the amount you spend?

How much do you usually go over said budget?

I spend about $60 per trip.

>List
Whatever fruit is on sale plus bananas
Whatever veg is on sale plus spinach
Eggs
Whatever meat is on sale, but turkey breast if they have it
Brown rice, quinoa, or farro
Frozen broccoli
Frozen fruits, usually mango or mixed berries
Full fat plain greek yogurt
Walnuts, if I'm out
Whole milk
Sharp cheddar cheese
Dill pickle spears, usually Claussen

I don't go over budget typically, unless there are some really good deals. Sometimes trader joe's has the purple sweet potatoes, which I can't resist, or big bags of clementines.

Work at a supermarket so do all my shopping each day after work little by little, i dont drive so whatever fits in my bag, most i buy is probably salad stuff, i dont have a budget i just treat myself to good food if it does not fuck with my savings

I get good discounts, any meal i want at the end of my shift and dont have to do hour long shopping trips.

>sugar water and cheese
Christ, man

>What are your essentials/must buys?
Meat, vegetables, pantry staples
>How much do you estimate the amount you spend?
Add it up?

>How much do you usually go over said budget?
Never, really, because I budget high and be a cheap fuck in the store

apples, watermelon, bananas
broccoli, spinach, onions
eggs, cheese
chicken, turkey, pork cutlets, spam
brown rice
milk, water, energy drinks
snacks(usually cookies, chip, trail mix)

$150
dont go over budget
usually pick up a few candy bars at checkout, i cant resist frozen snickers

I shop once a week and usually stay between $35-40

I have spent ~$450 on groceries in the past 3 months

That's including soap and trash bags and such.

Is that good or bad for a single man in America?

It's not bad.

Milk
Half gallon orange juice
small container of vanilla ice cream
pound of Oscar Meyer oven roasted turkey
Loaf of Martin's Vanilla bread
Bag of Ruffles chips

That's pretty much my diet, yeah I know I'm going to die a shitty young death

Water
Eggs
Bread
Turkey
Salad
Coffee
Wine

>Bread
>Some sort of bread spread
>Rice
>Frozen veggies usually
>Whatever fruit or vegetables are on sale
>Something to make a sauce out of

Could be worse user, 3 months is actually pretty avarage.

>tea
>cereal
>apples
>carrots
>fage yogurt
>frozen broccoli
>banana peppers, sweet pickles
>hummus or guacamole if they're marked down

I live off clearance food too.

Bread (freshly baked from a local bakery)
Mushrooms
Broccoli
Onions/garlic
Lentils
Wholegrain pasta
Other vegetables/fruits on sale
Frozen berries
Nuts (usually almonds and walnuts)
Espresso

>Wine
>Essential/must buy

Some people deglaze with wine. But he only mentioned turkey as a protein so yeah I dunno probably for drinking.

>buying water
>buying "snacks"
>buying things like bread or pasta instead of making your own

yikes.

I normally budget £70 a week for the two of us to cover breakfast, lunches and two spare dinners to freeze. I've been spending £90 a week recently because were being paid well at the minute.

Tinned tomatoes are essential, we eat at least 6 a week.
Bananas! One with breakfast every day.
Some kind of bean or pulse everyday, so usually about 6 cans does us.
Spinach too, canned for stews and curries and fresh for salad.
Almost always carrots to munch.
And enough frozen fruit to have with porridge in the morning everyday.
Also soy milk to make the porridge everyday and to make tea and coffee. Not vegan or anything, regular milk just always tastes rancid to me, soy doesn't taste off.
Chicken or turkey thighs almost always features in the list, we've cut down a lot on our meat consumption recently though so there are a lot of meat substitutes too.

I don't often go over, but when I do its usually because of buying extra spices, vinegars or the occasional bottle of wine...

I was with you until canned spinach.

Interested in hearing your regular bean/pulse dishes though.

OP your packing and logistics suck ass
I hope you don't have to full break on your drive home

Eggs
Pound of deli meat
Pack of 6" tortillas
3 bell peppers, one each color
Couple purple onions
Dozen jalapenos
Couple avocados
Premade guac
Jar of salsa
Thing of sour cream
Pork chops, carne picada, chicken breast, chicken wings, depending what I'm out of
Smoked sausage of some sort
Tea bags and coffee if I'm out
Case of Monster Zero Ultra when I run out of /sip/

>Packing Logistics

user, don't do this to me.

A shit load of tomatos. Im talkin at least 50.

Usually every week I will buy roma tomatoes, red onion, some type of pepper, garlic, and ginger which will beused to make a curry. Im not resting until I perfect this shit, and I have never even had an actual indians curry.

20-40 dollars a month

>eggs
>cheddar or colby-jack cheese
>tuna
>rice
are my weekly requirements

things that last longer but I still need to acquire on occasion:
>vegetable oil
>onion powder, cayenne pepper
>flour

every day i make one meal, usually around 'dinner time', a bowl of rice (1 cup cooked i think), with tuna patties made from tuna, flour, egg, spices and cheese

anything extra i have money wise usually goes to fried cheese curds or off-brand energy drinks

I used to live off tuna, ramen, onion, green peepers, and olde english malt liquor everyday. I began to in hale salt water through my nose. I didnt think that through, but I was also impoverished.

>I began to in hale salt water through my nose
??

What a useless post
Why'd you even bother

from the god damn sodium in the ramen, and beer. im sorry. half retard.

I remember I used to car about my writing, and linguistics in college, but I do not care anymore.

not bagged groceries,,

Pizza
Vitamin D milk

After that, it's random stuff on sale.

I spend about $100-$120 once every 3-5 weeks on a regular basis, but I stop by after work all the time, so that's not an accurate view of my general expenses. I eat out a lot, too.

>How do I estimate what I spend
It's normally the same bullshit, which I'm just stocking up on for the month. It's been the same way for at least five years.

>Essentials
Beer
Wine
Some kind of a hot sauce
Tinned fish
Canned soup
A couple of bags of Bertolli meals
One frozen lasagna
About $10 worth of frozen breakfast burritos
Eggs
Toilet paper, paper towels
Detergent
Toothpaste
Sleeping pills
Rotisserie chicken
Large curd cottage cheese
Summer sausage
Ramen
Whatever steak is discounted and looks decent
Au gratin potatoes
Whole milk

Life is awesome as a bachelor.

Why purchase bags? You see, we can literally just carry the food from the car to the kitchen. You can also use empty paper boxes.

I get cheap food at the commissary

>karbonált zsidót iszik
>lidlben vásárol
>hivataloson is proli
használjá ilyet

>commissary
I used to go to the commissary all the time until recently. The cuck running the commissary reduced the hours for nonseniors, so now when regular hours start, all the senior citizen retirees have emptied the place out of all the good cheap food.

I just browse the sales papers for the grocery stores now. Albertsons has had some pretty good meat deals lately. This fresh chicken breasts are 1.97/lb and 12oz of bacon is only 3.00. I just fill the freezer up.

What is that? I am having a hard time understanding your ching chong talk.

Chappelle did that blind guy look amazingly well.

Kússz vissza a föld alá, csóró cigány

But how much longer does it take?

Place I go to, can I just tell them no bags?

>buying bottled water like a cuck

get on my level

Trianon language.

I shop pretty much every other day because i'm not a poorfag

there's no sodium in beer bro

>premade guac

usually spend $100
broccoli
carrots
big fucking bag of potatoes
gook rice its cheap af at walmart can get a huge bag of sushi grade for 14$
red pepper hummus
eggs
smoked cheddar
salami
some kind of fresh bread / buns
reduced salt soy sauce
paprika and onion powder
yellow onions
whatever meat is on sale if I see pork ribs / tenderloins / beef roast ill stock up big time

usually go 20-30$ over budget because ill start looking down an isle that has all kinds of different sauces and dips and buy some kind of stupid garbage that half the time ends up tasting bad

Drink Almond Milk, too much soy is bad for both women and men.

in good beer at least

Whatever looks good at the local Costco, then I improvise from there. If the local Costco doesn't have anything, it's an emergency visit to Sam's Club or I do a long drive to another Costco.

vanilla bread? you eat that with turkey?

this
>tfw used to live with AF sister and going to the commissary

Bread
Milk
Cheese
Some kind of veggies
Meat
Coffee
Fruit
Soda

We spent about €30 a week for the two of us. On Mondays we switch between eating at each of our parents houses and we both work in the same restaurant (kitchen) where we eat most of our dinners.

>eggs
>frozen chicken
>frozen mushrooms, broccoli, and spinach
>milk
>cottage cheese
>quark
>canned tomatoes
>other types of meat if they are on sale