So it's busy season for me at work and we just had a meeting friday discussing that we aren't going to hire any seasonal help. We basically figured they would rather pay us more overtime than hire newbies. We're obviously slower this year too along with literally everybody else, but will probably be making decent money the next 3-4 months with around a 4-5k bonus.

Time to savemaxx hard and my biggest expense is food outside of rent. I plan on buying a house/land in the spring and want like 80k+ to work with at least.

That being said, I decided to do an actual outlined budget plan for food. Trying for $100 a week tops. That will be tough, but I think I can do it.

My list will probably be:

-Meat: Mix of chuck steak, delmonico and assorted chicken thighs/wings/grass fed ground beef.
-Veggies: Pickles, sauerkraut, assorted veggies for small stews
-Dairy and eggs from local farm
-Snacks: Not sure yet.

Need some ideas too so post your breakdowns below for reps.

Haven't done an actual list or set grocery plan since 2020 because I got lazy and didn't have to worry about money.

Dried fruits are excellent for snacks, srs.

Just watch out on those apricots or your ass is going DEFCON 5 if you eat too many in one sitting.

This week or last week I guess I got.
10 packs 35 cent ramen noodles. Creamy chicken for most then the rest beef and some others
2 things of great value chips. Bbq and ranch
2 things of microwave precooked bacon
2 pound ham slices
2 pizzas frozen lil ones can’t remember the brand but goat pizzas one pepperoni one breakfast breakfast one is bangin has eggs sausage and cheese maybe a few pieces of bacon
One microwaveable sausage biscuit gravy meal and popcorn. Total was about 45$. I don’t even gym no more puts to much strain on me and I don’t feel like playing guitar after so fuk it for awhile but I could eat that and be jacked still with abs. lol at anything but cals in cals out. And 100 grams of protein and above
Would get milk but o well

Yea I'm doing keto until a week before thanksgiving, so no fruit for now. But I literally tried dried apricots over the summer as a snack and was using them in a small apricot crumble I'd bake and had no idea that they would make me go to war with my toilet. I learned the hard way lol. Dried apple chips though were my go to snack for years though.Two things. 1. I'm mirin hard at that low grocery bill. 2. However there's no way I could do that much processed food. I'd be chitting bricks and feel like a bloated mess.

But chit if it works for you and you can eat for $45 then damn you're lucky haha.

Food doesn’t matter bruh. Srs

I have my gf pay for it all
since shes cooking

Usually buy a bunch of different fruits, fresh spinach, asparagus, onions and garlic.

Will buy tubs of cottage cheese, eggs and egg whites, chicken breast, cod, salmon and different cuts of lean beef. I usually buy sh!t tons of different meat and fish sources and store them in my deep freezer. I mostly only eat whole foods. (Super Ded fkn Srs)

Apple chips are fukking incredible, srs.

Yeah the apricots, absolutely delicious, srs, ...but man, I could tell you some stories. Horror stories.

I've been eating those chicken flavored rice boxes from Aldi mixed with eggs and various other ingredients.

Lately it's been the rice, eggs, andouillie sausage, green onions.

Other times I'll mix in shrimp, chicken etc.

Bought a slab of cheap beef at the wholesale store, going to make some steaks having the consistency of shoe leather throughout the week

Making a pot roast this week but grabbed some chicken and ground beef too. Canned tuna and deli meat for sandwiches and wraps. Veggies this week carrots and cauliflower. Milk, eggs, cottage cheese, oats, bananas and some almonds to snack on.