Quote Originally Posted by Blueberry View Post
I have too many acquaintances who will say they're too poor to eat well and that we spend "so much" money on food, and then stop for a latte and a scone twice a day, eat sushi takeout for lunch or Chipotle, order pizza for dinner, go out for Chinese food several times a week, etc., etc. They need to re-prioritize a bit, IMO.
I totally agree with this. In fact, today is day 30 of a 30-day stretch of 100% super clean eating that my husband and I have been doing (Whole30). As part of this, we have been spending quite a bit more on food than we usually do (did you know that Starkist albacore tuna pouches are packed in soybean broth? - to avoid that, I'm buying Wild Planet tuna pouches at $3.50 a pop!) and eating a very large quantity of it. At first, we both balked at it quite a bit. BUT, when we realized that 98% of all meals MUST be made at home now, we realized that in fact, we were saving money. For us, eating out and groceries were from two different budgets and I'm sure we weren't the only ones to think of it that way. When we put both costs together, the ridiculous amount of money we are spending on groceries now is tempered quite a bit by our lack of dinning out.