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I'm spending over $100 a week per person right now on groceries. Really goes to show how expensive food is in Canada.

by nahname 12y ago

3pt14159 12y ago
Where do you live? In TO I spend about $70/week and I eat pretty healthy. Salmon, avocados, lentils, eggs, salad, yogurt, apples, milk, chicken, oatmeal, sweet potatoes, etc. Edit: I also only buy humane meat, and organic eggs.
- toothbrush 12y ago
  Humane meat, that's the one where they don't kill the animals, right? :p
  - 3pt14159 12y ago
    I assume you're the one that downvoted me. You're either a vegetarian or meat eater that thinks the whole thing is silly. I don't know which, but there are real differences. For example: http://certifiedhumane.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/Std09.Chickens.2J.pdf http://certifiedhumane.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/Std09.Chi...
    - toothbrush 12y ago
      I'm sorry you got downvoted. It wasn't me, i just posted a facetious (joking, not very well thought-through) comment. I am indeed flexibly vegetarian/freegan, but i'm used to ribbing and being ribbed about it :) (haha geddit ribbing haha) My comment was made in an understanding spirit, and indeed, i am clearly a proponent of ethical meat if someone is not prepared to go without :). So no, i personally don't think it's silly at all (what is silly, however, is downvoting a random person on the Internet with whom you do not agree on the subject :p). Peace and kindness and all that, and have a nice day :) Thanks for the informative link! Maybe i'll send it to some of my more staunchly carnivorous friends.
lfowles 12y ago
After the last Soylent discussion here, I reevaluated my diet and ended up going with emeals to do breakfast/lunch/dinner plans. Food went from $300/mo to $450/mo. It go to show that there's a lot of variance!. I don't feel like the old meal plan was worse, it certainly felt adequate. (But I am getting 2 more good meals a day.) Edit: I just realized that's your per-person figure. Mine is for two. That is quite expensive :(
- IkmoIkmo 12y ago
  > Edit: I just realized that's your per-person figure. Mine is for two. That is quite expensive :( $450 a month is definitely a lot by my standards, where/what do you tend to buy? But comparing it to his $60/w, $240/m, isn't quite fair. His meal plan is for 6 meals at $10 a meal. Considering you'll want a meal everyday, that's $300 a month and that's just for dinner. If you add breakfast and lunch he's either paying as much or more than you. $10 a meal is just crazy expensive for a cooked meal. If you look at recommended servings of say 100g of vegs, 100g of rice or potatoes, 100g of meat or fish, you're looking at about 30c, 10c and 60c. With seasoning, oils, onion, garlic etc, you're looking at a $1.50 meal. If you double the servings for example, and get more expensive ingredients, you'll be hard pressed to top $5. But again, a $2 meal is very doable, meaning you can do dinner for $100 a month ea-si-ly. Another $100 for breakfast (oatmeal with milk & a piece of fruit is a 0.5$ meal at most, or $15 a month) and lunch (make any sandwich, another piece of fruit, a salad) and some snacks here and there. It's hard to top $200, and this'll get you a really healthy 3-meal a day. Curious how you spend $450. I mean don't get me wrong, I easily could, if you buy oatmeal with banana chips instead of oatmeal and a banana you pay $2 instead of $0.20, and you can get that 10x price increase for 'processed food' everywhere, but if I were planning my meals and cooking myself, $450 is really unnecessary.
  - lfowles 12y ago
    I'm actually buying less processed food now than before (funnily, this has also reversed the mostly recyclables trash trend in the household). Not especially expensive ingredients, generally substituting similar cheaper meats. One note is that we've been testing the paleo meal plans. A week of that pretty quickly ate up a third of the $450 budget. Representative meal plans for the rest of the month: Dinner - http://emeals.com/meal-plans/30-minute/emeals-30-minute-family-plan.pdf http://emeals.com/meal-plans/30-minute/emeals-30-minute-fami... Breakfast - http://emeals.com/meal-plans/breakfast/emeals-breakfast-plan.pdf http://emeals.com/meal-plans/breakfast/emeals-breakfast-plan... Lunch - http://emeals.com/meal-plans/lunch/emeals-lunch-plan.pdf http://emeals.com/meal-plans/lunch/emeals-lunch-plan.pdf Lots of fun little optimizations could be made here and in fact that's something I've been playing with. 2 months ago was baseline "exactly as the meal plan dictates" month, the next month I rotated Paleo -> Budget plan after we spent the first third of the budget, this month we are choosing half of the meals off of the family size 30 minute meal plan. Next month might include larger meals so more lunches can be made from leftovers, but I really enjoy a lunch that's not the same as a previous dinner. Brightens the middle of my work day. Crunching numbers, I was actually replying to nahname spending $100cad/week/person == $80/week/person. $450 is $56/week/person. $8/day feels damn good considering that's a combo meal at Wendy's!
pushrax 12y ago
Though that same $100 is less than $80 USD right now (sigh). I find that I can get groceries, without skimping, for less than $100/person, it just takes some optimizing and sometimes deciding what to make based on what's on sale. Also, buying products lower down the processing chain generally makes things cheaper as well.
JohnBooty 12y ago
Blue Apron would be $210 per week per person ($10 per meal) if one was going to use it to provide three meals a day! Canada is still cheaper than that. I think. Maybe? Hopefully? :)

I'm spending over $100 a week per person right now on groceries. Really goes to show how expensive food is in Canada.

by nahname 12y ago

I'm spending over $100 a week per person right now on groceries. Really goes to show how expensive food is in Canada.

Where do you live? In TO I spend about $70/week and I eat pretty healthy. Salmon, avocados, lentils, eggs, salad, yogurt, apples, milk, chicken, oatmeal, sweet potatoes, etc. Edit: I also only buy humane meat, and organic eggs.

toothbrush 12y ago
Humane meat, that's the one where they don't kill the animals, right? :p
- 3pt14159 12y ago
  I assume you're the one that downvoted me. You're either a vegetarian or meat eater that thinks the whole thing is silly. I don't know which, but there are real differences. For example: http://certifiedhumane.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/Std09.Chickens.2J.pdf http://certifiedhumane.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/Std09.Chi...
  - toothbrush 12y ago
    I'm sorry you got downvoted. It wasn't me, i just posted a facetious (joking, not very well thought-through) comment. I am indeed flexibly vegetarian/freegan, but i'm used to ribbing and being ribbed about it :) (haha geddit ribbing haha) My comment was made in an understanding spirit, and indeed, i am clearly a proponent of ethical meat if someone is not prepared to go without :). So no, i personally don't think it's silly at all (what is silly, however, is downvoting a random person on the Internet with whom you do not agree on the subject :p). Peace and kindness and all that, and have a nice day :) Thanks for the informative link! Maybe i'll send it to some of my more staunchly carnivorous friends.

lfowles 12y ago

After the last Soylent discussion here, I reevaluated my diet and ended up going with emeals to do breakfast/lunch/dinner plans. Food went from $300/mo to $450/mo. It go to show that there's a lot of variance!. I don't feel like the old meal plan was worse, it certainly felt adequate. (But I am getting 2 more good meals a day.) Edit: I just realized that's your per-person figure. Mine is for two. That is quite expensive :(

IkmoIkmo 12y ago
> Edit: I just realized that's your per-person figure. Mine is for two. That is quite expensive :( $450 a month is definitely a lot by my standards, where/what do you tend to buy? But comparing it to his $60/w, $240/m, isn't quite fair. His meal plan is for 6 meals at $10 a meal. Considering you'll want a meal everyday, that's $300 a month and that's just for dinner. If you add breakfast and lunch he's either paying as much or more than you. $10 a meal is just crazy expensive for a cooked meal. If you look at recommended servings of say 100g of vegs, 100g of rice or potatoes, 100g of meat or fish, you're looking at about 30c, 10c and 60c. With seasoning, oils, onion, garlic etc, you're looking at a $1.50 meal. If you double the servings for example, and get more expensive ingredients, you'll be hard pressed to top $5. But again, a $2 meal is very doable, meaning you can do dinner for $100 a month ea-si-ly. Another $100 for breakfast (oatmeal with milk & a piece of fruit is a 0.5$ meal at most, or $15 a month) and lunch (make any sandwich, another piece of fruit, a salad) and some snacks here and there. It's hard to top $200, and this'll get you a really healthy 3-meal a day. Curious how you spend $450. I mean don't get me wrong, I easily could, if you buy oatmeal with banana chips instead of oatmeal and a banana you pay $2 instead of $0.20, and you can get that 10x price increase for 'processed food' everywhere, but if I were planning my meals and cooking myself, $450 is really unnecessary.
- lfowles 12y ago
  I'm actually buying less processed food now than before (funnily, this has also reversed the mostly recyclables trash trend in the household). Not especially expensive ingredients, generally substituting similar cheaper meats. One note is that we've been testing the paleo meal plans. A week of that pretty quickly ate up a third of the $450 budget. Representative meal plans for the rest of the month: Dinner - http://emeals.com/meal-plans/30-minute/emeals-30-minute-family-plan.pdf http://emeals.com/meal-plans/30-minute/emeals-30-minute-fami... Breakfast - http://emeals.com/meal-plans/breakfast/emeals-breakfast-plan.pdf http://emeals.com/meal-plans/breakfast/emeals-breakfast-plan... Lunch - http://emeals.com/meal-plans/lunch/emeals-lunch-plan.pdf http://emeals.com/meal-plans/lunch/emeals-lunch-plan.pdf Lots of fun little optimizations could be made here and in fact that's something I've been playing with. 2 months ago was baseline "exactly as the meal plan dictates" month, the next month I rotated Paleo -> Budget plan after we spent the first third of the budget, this month we are choosing half of the meals off of the family size 30 minute meal plan. Next month might include larger meals so more lunches can be made from leftovers, but I really enjoy a lunch that's not the same as a previous dinner. Brightens the middle of my work day. Crunching numbers, I was actually replying to nahname spending $100cad/week/person == $80/week/person. $450 is $56/week/person. $8/day feels damn good considering that's a combo meal at Wendy's!

pushrax 12y ago

Though that same $100 is less than $80 USD right now (sigh). I find that I can get groceries, without skimping, for less than $100/person, it just takes some optimizing and sometimes deciding what to make based on what's on sale. Also, buying products lower down the processing chain generally makes things cheaper as well.

JohnBooty 12y ago

Blue Apron would be $210 per week per person ($10 per meal) if one was going to use it to provide three meals a day! Canada is still cheaper than that. I think. Maybe? Hopefully? :)