How much do you guys spend a month on food?

[tests]

I spend about 500-600

[LePatron7]

I spend about 500-600

Wow! That's a lot.

I spend about $50/week on animal foods. Then I might spend another $20-30/week on plant foods. So $250-350/month. I buy my animal foods in bulk which really helps, and I'm always looking for deals. Also since I eat mainly beef fat (7.5 oz daily), and I get that for like $1.55/lb, it helps keep costs down.

[TylerDurden]

I spend c. 340 euros a month on food, overall.

[cherimoya_kid]

I spend about $700, some of which my wife eats.  Probably $600 for myself.

[LePatron7]

How are you guys spending so much? Do you guys eat beef fat?

[Haai]

My monthly mean average for the last 3 months is about 640 euros.

And yes I eat beef fat.

I eat a lot of organic berries which aint cheap.

[tests]

My monthly mean average for the last 3 months is about 640 euros.

And yes I eat beef fat.

I eat a lot of organic berries which aint cheap.

that is about $850 a month.  Real healthy food is expensive, but if you think about it, long-term, eating unhealthy food is WAYYY more expensive because of all the health issues that unhealthy food brings.

[Dr. D]

that is about $850 a month.  Real healthy food is expensive, but if you think about it, long-term, eating unhealthy food is WAYYY more expensive because of all the health issues that unhealthy food brings.

its so true. I've wanted to add up all those little things we no longer get being RPD, and see how much is actually saved. Personally, I have spent a fair amount per month on supplements for the last year that helped a little, or short term then effectiveness waned. Not to mention trying to convince my family (who already believes in the power of healthy foods) that health insurance benefits us in no way because there is no long term treatment we would accept and emergency can't deny you. We were paying $4000 a month btw... Imagine the raw foods that could be eaten by 4 people at that cost and STILL have money left over.

[LePatron7]

Real healthy food is expensive, but if you think about it, long-term, eating unhealthy food is WAYYY more expensive because of all the health issues that unhealthy food brings.

Very true. If you look at the cost of cancer treatment, assuming you get conventional treatment and not one of the more natural alternatives, it can bankrupt the average person.

[svrn]

I probably spend more than anyone else here due to my combo eating tons food and living in nyc

[tests]

its so true. I've wanted to add up all those little things we no longer get being RPD, and see how much is actually saved. Personally, I have spent a fair amount per month on supplements for the last year that helped a little, or short term then effectiveness waned. Not to mention trying to convince my family (who already believes in the power of healthy foods) that health insurance benefits us in no way because there is no long term treatment we would accept and emergency can't deny you. We were paying $4000 a month btw... Imagine the raw foods that could be eaten by 4 people at that cost and STILL have money left over.

My family has health insurance covered by their jobs fortunately

[tests]

I probably spend more than anyone else here due to my combo eating tons food and living in nyc

NYC is expensive. I was down there one summer.

[cherimoya_kid]

How are you guys spending so much? Do you guys eat beef fat?

I eat a lot of seafood.  I actually get it at a discount,  there's a couple of lesbians who drive their truck (I call it the "lesbian seafood truck" ROFL) to the coast every weekend, and buy a bunch of super-fresh seafood at wholesale, and sell it off the back of their truck every week, here in the VA mountains.  It's more fresh AND cheaper than the grocery store.

[LePatron7]

(I call it the "lesbian seafood truck" ROFL)

I loled pretty hard at this.

[goodsamaritan]

My food may be the cheapest.  Fresh raw fatty sirloin is 300 pesos per kilo. Fresh Raw tuna at 350 per kilo, oysters in shell at 50 pesos per kilo.

Exchange rate is 1usd = 41 pesos

[cherimoya_kid]

My food may be the cheapest.  Fresh raw fatty sirloin is 300 pesos per kilo. Fresh Raw tuna at 350 per kilo, oysters in shell at 50 pesos per kilo.

Exchange rate is 1usd = 41 pesos

Considering the income levels where you live, that's not especially cheap. You pay about 1/3 what I would for those same foods, but the incomes there are also much lower.

[eveheart]

My family has health insurance covered by their jobs fortunately

TINSTAAFL! (There's no such thing as a free lunch.) Insurance benefits are a part of our incomes that we do not get to decide on. "Coverage" means that the employer spends some of our pay in a specialized way.

[goodsamaritan]

Considering the income levels where you live, that's not especially cheap. You pay about 1/3 what I would for those same foods, but the incomes there are also much lower.

Yes, I need a bigger business.  I'm feeding a BIG BIG household.  Too many.  They consume so much more meat when they cook meats.

[Dr. D]

TINSTAAFL! (There's no such thing as a free lunch.) Insurance benefits are a part of our incomes that we do not get to decide on. "Coverage" means that the employer spends some of our pay in a specialized way.

and I HATE this. I should be able to decide if I want to "waste away" by denying health insurance (that I wouldn't use, aside from emergency, which often isn't covered anyway) and using the money for my own personal health. And probably have some left over, I'm thrifty. 

[svrn]

Health insurance is useless except for broken bones. I need to learn to fix broken bones and gunshot wounds/stab wounds all that stuff so I wont need them for that either. Once I learn that health insurance will be completely useless.

[24isours]

About $200/Month

[tests]

Health insurance is useless except for broken bones. I need to learn to fix broken bones and gunshot wounds/stab wounds all that stuff so I wont need them for that either. Once I learn that health insurance will be completely useless.

gunshot wounds/stab wounds? 

[svrn]

About $200/Month

thats absurd

[svrn]

gunshot wounds/stab wounds? 

gunshot wounds stab wounds broken bones/trauma injuries in general are pretty much the only things health insurance is good for and even with that stuff they often fuck up and people will get things amutated for no reason because of infections at the hospital and whatnot.

I think goodsamaritan knows some people in the phillipines who fix such things naturally. I recall one video where sifu sam fixed his sons broken bones using some sort of herbal cast and I recall it worked quite well.

[Dr. D]

gunshot wounds stab wounds broken bones/trauma injuries in general are pretty much the only things health insurance is good for and even with that stuff they often fuck up and people will get things amutated for no reason because of infections at the hospital and whatnot.

I think goodsamaritan knows some people in the phillipines who fix such things naturally. I recall one video where sifu sam fixed his sons broken bones using some sort of herbal cast and I recall it worked quite well.

I would imagine something like that would bring nutrients direct to the source, allowing the body to do with work from there. I think the reason western medicine has emergency down so well is because they are good at two things: surgery and stabilizing people. With their advent of sterilization, surgery becomes commonplace, and anesthesia that safely puts people under and numbs them really helps them stop flailing from pain while trying to stop their bleeding.