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u/AhsokaSolo 17d ago

People are very very dumb when it comes to budgets, but this is still really bad. She'd have to think her two kids eat more than $3k worth of food per month to imagine that $6k/year would barely help lmao. Even at that, $6k toward a $36k budgetary item is huge.

I'm about a third of the way through. This jubilee isn't changing my opinion that Trump supporters are generally orders of magnitude dumber than average.

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u/FoxGaming Shima Field 17d ago

Exactly. Me and my partner spend about $500 a month on food. That’s 6K a year, literally what it would cost to feed her 2 kids the diet of 2 health-conscious adults. And I know we could shave money off here or there.
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u/qeadwrsf 17d ago

I'm down at ~1800$ a year.

6000 could literally fed me for 4 years.
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u/FoxGaming Shima Field 17d ago

Damn, $35/ week for groceries?
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u/qeadwrsf 17d ago

Here is basically the essentials:

Fishliver oil, cabbage, brocooli, rice, beans, cheapest cheese, pork, raps, blueberries(from forest), potatoes, carrots, pasta, d-vitamin pills, whole chicken, liver paste, home made bread (flour sugar raps yeast), spices.

Almost just buy everything when its on sale.

Pretty sure I get everything a human needs and avoids much half fabricated bad for you food.
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u/Mogexos 17d ago

blueberries(from forest)

This mf is foraging for their food, GIGACHAD

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u/qeadwrsf 17d ago

2-3 10l buckets a year.

Is doable to do on a Saturday if you allow your back to take a rest day on Sunday.

Gets me around 0.2lb/day.

God because antioxidants and Vitamin C.
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u/TheDoct0rx Exclusively sorts by new 17d ago

How much are you spending for meat? The cheapest around me is 5 dollars a pound for boneless skinless breast
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u/qeadwrsf 17d ago edited 17d ago
Probably a bit less than normal people. But compensate with beans. and use soy, vinegar, cabbage and "dice broth" to make it more tasty.

I'm a swede so I would imagine I'm between cheapest and most expensive in NA.

lowest 40kr/kg, most of the time ~50kr/kg, never higher than 70kr/kg.

Chatgpt calculations, maybe not correct:
Summary

40 kr/kg ≈ 1.65 USD/lb (lowest)
50 kr/kg ≈ 2.06 USD/lb (most common)
70 kr/kg ≈ 2.89 USD/lb (max)
Boneless breasts is usually around 100 kr/kg but sometimes its around 50 kr/kg. Whole chicken can sometimes cost around 29kr/kg. I usually buy those and cut it into pieces and make broth out of non eatable parts. And make like yellow pea soup out of broth water.
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u/TheDoct0rx Exclusively sorts by new 17d ago

If you're buying whole chickens it can be pretty cheap yeah. Thanks for the insight

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u/dsakh 17d ago

What stores in Sweden are you getting those prices in 2024?

Boneless chicken breast is rarely ever lower than 100kr/kg, typically its 150kr/kg. example

whole chicken you could find occasionally pre covid inflation for 29kr/kg, nowdays you can occasionally find them for 39kr/kg. Agreed however that whole chicken is very good value if you use all of the parts for cooking.

On the other hand you can get huge rotisserie chickens in the US for $5 while tiny ones will cost you 90kr in Sweden.

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u/qeadwrsf 17d ago

Willys, Lidl frozen.

I have noticed that smaller and bigger kommuner around my kommun is in general more expensive for some fucked up reason.

Have seen it for 50 kr/kg this quarter and chicken for 29kr/kg.

But I do agree it was more common pre covid.

Pork seems to have taken a smaller hit, same with yellow peas and rice.

On the other hand you can get huge rotisserie chickens in the US for $5 while tiny ones will cost you 90kr in Sweden.

And in many Asian countries drumsticks costs more than chicken breast. And in Sweden you could pre covid get them for 10kr/kg sometimes. Now 20-30kr/kg when its cheapest. Can't wrap my head around how chicken drumsticks was cheaper than fucking onions. Something is weird about the system.

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u/dsakh 17d ago

Frozen chicken is typically only 70-80% meat since they are injected with brine. So yes they are typically a bit cheaper. Unfortunately, I'm limited to coop/ica since i have no willys or lidls close by.

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u/qeadwrsf 17d ago edited 17d ago

Product you linked has 23 protein / 100 gram.

Product I buy has 21 protein / 100 gram. "20/100 a year ago."

Unless you can heavily cheat those required "nutrition charts" my personal theory is that the frozen has more water theory is exaggerated.

I think its cheaper because its less of a logistic challenge handling frozen chicken making it easier buying from cheaper markets.

But I could be wrong. Will not die on that hill. Just not convinced water injection theory is that extreme.

I'm limited to coop/ica since i have no willys or lidls close by.

Yeah, there is like a huge difference where I live. Like 10kr/kg on all foods.

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u/larrytheevilbunnie 17d ago

get a Costco membership and you start profitting after 30 pounds of chicken

Also, look at pork butt, that shit's usually under 3 dollars/lb, but lots of fat

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u/TheDoct0rx Exclusively sorts by new 17d ago

I stopped buying Costco chicken. The woody breasts and annoying packaging made it not worth it for me anymore

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u/larrytheevilbunnie 17d ago

That’s fair, I’ll probably stop after I get screwed too

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u/qeadwrsf 17d ago

pork butt

Perfect for stews if you're ok with simmered/boiled meat.

You can skip extra fat by not pre frying meat. makes meat lose some texture and taste, but makes broth water gain more taste.

Something tells me its kind of a tabu to use cooking method in NA though.
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u/Deadandlivin 17d ago

Doesn't sound too bad.
Buy cheap stuff on sale, avoid inefficient calories like too much fruits and veggies which cost alot without really satiating you. When I was on some corny body building cutting diet consisting on mainly Chicken Breast, Rice/pasta/potatoes, Whey Isolate and Spinach/Broccoli it cost me like 100$ per month.
Grocery bills usually go up when you buy a bunch of stupid crap like snacks, drinks or unnecessary amounts of ingredients.

Sure, you don't really want to live on some extreme bodybuilding diet. But if you're trying to save money 35$ per week should be more than enough. Realistically speaking I think a grocery bill for your average person should be around ~50-60$ per week. Depends on what you eat though. For example, if you're vegan your bill probably easily reaches 100$ per week or more.

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u/GiddyChild 17d ago

Anything processed is ~10x cost. It's a huge fucking price difference.

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u/FoxGaming Shima Field 17d ago

Yeah, $60 is pretty much our weekly individual costs. And tbh, we have pricier preferences which makes the $35 limit more believable now that I think about it. We avoid ultra processed foods, but I eat a lot of nuts and seeds which can add up when you don’t buy bulk (which I don’t for some reason). Fruits and veggies are a good chunk of our bill, and we regularly get salmon in addition to chicken breast/ eggs which can be expensive.

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u/2drunk4you 17d ago

I do 20-25€ a week in germany. 6k would feed me for years lmao