Whats an acceptable dollar amount to spend on food for 1 person in a day or week?

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Answer 1

If you are trying to be cheap you can live off of as little as 3 dollars a day, eat mostly beans and bread. Otherwise, if money is not tight, I would go for 5-10 dollars a day.

Answer 2

I am single and probably spend $40.00 a week on food for myself. Sometimes less. You can get by on as little as 3 o 4 dollars a day, but if I do that I have to use cheap protein like eggs.

Answer 3

If you eat out most meals you will spend what? $3-6 for breakfast, $5-8 for lunch, and $8-15 for dinner. Eat out every meal for one day and you've spent $16-29 in one day for meals. That could end up costing you more than $200 a week! If you learn to cook-in you can eat better tasting and more nutritious food for much less. I'm single but will cook 4 chicken breasts and veggies and rice in like quantity. That way I have food for lunches or quick dinners when I'm just too tired to cook. I get the little steaks in the vacuum packs, 2 of those are just $5.00 or so. A roast can look expensive but cook it in the crock pot with carrots, potatoes, and celery and you get 3 or more meals out of it. I buy fresh fruits like apples and bananas, but never more than I eat in 3-4 days so as not to waste them. A large, fresh apple costs about a buck in my area; too expensive to throw away. Cooking and eating this way I spend about $10.00 a day on food while enjoying my meals very much.

Answer 4

It all depends on first what kind of store you go to. Some people have to have brand names. Also if you are bringing lunches to work and not eating out at all, then also it depends on if your gonna just eat the same thing everyday almost for for lunch like a sandwich. I am broke so i hhave lunch meat and bread for sandwiches i also buy those healthy choices for dinner and some healthy post cereal for breakfast i would say in one day it breaks down to about 5 dollars US and 35 a week

Answer 5

That would depend on your eating habits, I am single since my wife passed away, and can spend as much as a hundred dollars a week some weeks.

I do not deny myself good quality cuts of meat, or high quality foods, as I an not on a rigid budget.

I adopted the theory that my stomach will serve me, I will not serve my stomach.

Answer 6

The average for the two of us is about $300, so that's $10 for 2 people, making it about $5 a day for one person. But we also don't dine out often, maybe once a month.

Answer 7

7 bananas ($3) 5 lb bag of apples ($4) Dozen Eggs ($2) Gallon of Milk ($3) total rooster ($5) (a minimum of three nutrients) 3 lbs onion $2 3 lbs Carrots ($4) 1lb chick peas dried ($a million) total grain breakfast cereal ($4) Loaf Bread ($3) Tahini ($5) Peanut Butter ($3) Jelly ($3) green vegetables (asparagus, broccoli, collard vegetables, spinach, salads). i might spend $20 on them Rice (3) Pot Roast ($10) Fish ($10) warm canines ($5) on a daily basis for breakfast i might have the two cereal, eggs and/or clean end result Dinner could be rooster , rooster Soup , Pot roast, beef Pot Pie, Fish, warm canines, Omelets, rooster caesar salad Lunch could be rooster sandwiches, hummus with vegetables, salad, omelet, pot roast sandwiches, PBJ Thats below $one hundred and that i could desire to truly feed extra advantageous than a million eating somewhat nicely.

Answer 8

It is not the cost of the food, but the quality!

Answer 9

dear prtdvl: $3.00.

Sincerely, Mr.'working-to-the-bone-at-way
below-poverty-level'.......

(Hah-don't i wish i could-at least-live from 'paycheck-to-paycheck'!)

Answer 10

that is so hard to say because it depends on what you eat.