/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>8690536
I have a food budget of 100-150 Euros and I make do just fine. I keep a spreadsheet to get a clear overview of what I'm spending my money on each month, picture related for the last few months.

It's really fucking easy. All those "just buy lots of rice and beans" memes are nonsense unless your budget is ridiculously low. The simplest rule is simply don't buy shit you know is expensive. For example, good meat can be pretty expensive, but you can get a bag of chicken legs or ground beef or whatever for next to nothing. So just don't eat prime steak every day. Fish and meat make up the biggest part of my monthly expenses (22% on average) because I like a good bit of fish or meat now and then, but I don't eat meat every day and often I eat cheap chicken or pork. I also have a good freezer so I can buy lots of cheap shit and freeze it for later. A standard meat/2veg/potatoes dinner doesn't really take more than a few euros a day. A halfway decent loaf of bread is like 1.50E and lasts for a week. A big pot of vegetable soup costs almost nothing either and can last for a long time as well, especially if you freeze part of it. The same goes for shit like chili. Like once every two months I just make a big fucking pot of chili, eat from it for two days and freeze the rest.

I really don't get how someone can spend hundreds of dollars a month and not see any room to cut costs. Even on my 150 Euro budget I see plenty of room to cut cost, I could live on half my budget easily if I had to.