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With these sorts of stores you can easily bring your food expenses below $60 a month while maintaining a healthy diet. Is that a typo? $60/mo eating fruits an

With these sorts of stores you can easily bring your food expenses below $60 a month while maintaining a healthy diet. Is that a typo? $60/mo eating fruits and veggies? I live in SF and I have a hard time imagining doing that here, let along NYC...

gravitycop 18y ago
This can help: free food for hungry hackers: http://images.google.com/images?q=food+not+bombs+san+francisco http://images.google.com/images?q=food+not+bombs+san+francis... http://images.google.com/images?q=food+not+bombs+new+york http://images.google.com/images?q=food+not+bombs+new+york
sh1mmer 18y ago
You have to know where to go, what to buy, and what to cook. I've been a vegan for a number of years now and I could live off $60/mo if I wanted to. The main point is convenience. If you don't want the effort of preparing food then it costs a lot more. Simple staples like lentals, rice, etc supplemented with vegetables is a crazy cheap way to eat. In SF districts like the mission it's easy to get cheap fresh fruit and vegetables. A lot of it is supply and demand. If you shop at Safeway they have an expectation about your spending and price accordingly. If you are trying save every penny shop where other people who have no money shop. That probably means neighborhoods you might avoid otherwise.
- sown 18y ago
  Please, tell me some of your secrets. I'm interested in cheap living/eating. :)
  - sgrove 18y ago
    Sounds like an excellent topic for a blog post - very hacker related, I would think.
    - racyrick 18y ago
      Stick to Superfoods! Quinoa, Lentils, fresh veggies. Jason Rohrer (of fame with game programmers) eats lentils for lunch every day.
  - gravitycop 18y ago
    http://www.groceryoutlets.com http://www.groceryoutlets.com
  - eru 18y ago
    Oatmeal!
asnyder 18y ago
It's not a typo. In the post I mentioned Three Guys From brooklyn, here's a link to their weekly circular. http://3guysfrombrooklyn.tripod.com/id4.html http://3guysfrombrooklyn.tripod.com/id4.html, note that the price listed for fruit and vegetables in that circular are about the average prices for all their fruits and vegetables. Certainly things like packaged foods will be a little higher, but if you purchase mostly fruits, vegetables, tubas (the average price of a bag of 5lbs potatoes there is $1.99), etc, in addition to a few packaged foods such as orange juice, you can easily eat for less than $60 a month.

gravitycop 18y ago

This can help: free food for hungry hackers: http://images.google.com/images?q=food+not+bombs+san+francisco http://images.google.com/images?q=food+not+bombs+san+francis... http://images.google.com/images?q=food+not+bombs+new+york http://images.google.com/images?q=food+not+bombs+new+york

sh1mmer 18y ago

You have to know where to go, what to buy, and what to cook. I've been a vegan for a number of years now and I could live off $60/mo if I wanted to. The main point is convenience. If you don't want the effort of preparing food then it costs a lot more. Simple staples like lentals, rice, etc supplemented with vegetables is a crazy cheap way to eat. In SF districts like the mission it's easy to get cheap fresh fruit and vegetables. A lot of it is supply and demand. If you shop at Safeway they have an expectation about your spending and price accordingly. If you are trying save every penny shop where other people who have no money shop. That probably means neighborhoods you might avoid otherwise.

sown 18y ago
Please, tell me some of your secrets. I'm interested in cheap living/eating. :)
- sgrove 18y ago
  Sounds like an excellent topic for a blog post - very hacker related, I would think.
  - racyrick 18y ago
    Stick to Superfoods! Quinoa, Lentils, fresh veggies. Jason Rohrer (of fame with game programmers) eats lentils for lunch every day.
- gravitycop 18y ago
  http://www.groceryoutlets.com http://www.groceryoutlets.com
- eru 18y ago
  Oatmeal!

asnyder 18y ago

It's not a typo. In the post I mentioned Three Guys From brooklyn, here's a link to their weekly circular. http://3guysfrombrooklyn.tripod.com/id4.html http://3guysfrombrooklyn.tripod.com/id4.html, note that the price listed for fruit and vegetables in that circular are about the average prices for all their fruits and vegetables. Certainly things like packaged foods will be a little higher, but if you purchase mostly fruits, vegetables, tubas (the average price of a bag of 5lbs potatoes there is $1.99), etc, in addition to a few packaged foods such as orange juice, you can easily eat for less than $60 a month.