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The biggest issue to eating well for $35 a week is being single, if you have a partner, or kids it's pretty easy to average $35 a week per person. Step 1) Buy
by fleitz 12y ago
The biggest issue to eating well for $35 a week is being single, if you have a partner, or kids it's pretty easy to average $35 a week per person.
Step 1) Buy a freezer
Step 2) Buy meat by the side
Step 3) Buy in season produce from the poor areas of town and/or drive out to an actual farmers market.
- dfxm12 12y ago>3) Buy in season produce from the poor areas of town and/or drive out to an actual farmers market. Don't forget to factor in the cost of the difference in gas used when driving to farmer's markets/the poor areas of town. Also, don't forget that poor areas of town might actually have MORE expensive produce (http://www.foodispower.org/food-deserts/ http://www.foodispower.org/food-deserts/).
- fleitz 12y agoYeah for sure in SF terms I'm saying go to the mission (produce stands), not the tenderloin (liquor stores). For the rest of the country, I'm assuming they already have a car / drive to get groceries. Generally speaking outside of the urban core driving saves you far more time than it costs in money. eg. If you're making $15/hr you can't burn $15/hr in gas, and bringing home a weeks worth of groceries for a family on transit is a PITA. (Again, buying for multiple people saves tonnes of money)