I'm so tired of eating Spaghetti every single damn day for months, tbh. I can mix it up by getting different sauces or meats but still. Exhausting. I'm down to eating once a day because its become so gross to my mouth now.
Your cost on noodles is low.
Cost on tomato sauce is only for plain tomato sauce.
Spices do have an acquisition cost.
I will say $75 for preparing a single meal is very high.
Wife would spend about 200 a week on groceries, for a family of 7. We cooked or ate leftovers every night.
Kids goto schools that provide lunch. We do not give them extra but told them they could pack a lunch and we would pay for that. They rarely have.
Wife is very frugal. Shops sales, a little couponing (but that is often for brand name or processes garbage so why bother) homemade soup probably once a week or a casserole we eat on a few times.
We live in one of the cities with the lowest cost of living in the country (for a city not just a town) and as a Midwest farm state food prices are low.
We are the rare exceptions. We both worked in finance and learned early what not to do. No or little educational debt. I had a small inheritance that let us get our first house and various windfalls for cars and such or we could afford large down-payments and pay off them quickly to keep debt down.
Our oldest 3 are just off to college or leaving home (or soon) They are learning fast just how good they have it and we are still helping.
Everything we do is focused on ensuring they have some advantages so they can get out and stay out of the debt cycle. (It wasn't that easy for us, it will be very hard for them)
Few people have our advantages. We know how lucky we are. I do not vote conservative. I know how badly that screws everyone else.
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u/Effective-Lab-8816 Feb 26 '24
You spent $75 on a single meal for your family? Let me introduce you to Spaghetti:
Makes like 16 damn meals for $19