Is THIS Eating Up Your Budget?
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- Is THIS Eating Up Your Budget?
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I can totally relate to feeling secure/comfort when there’s a full fridge
@The Dave Ramsey Show GO AWAY YOU SCAMMER!
@@TonyMaine915 Sick of that idiot! Replied to every comment on another recent video.
@@TonyMaine915 thank you!!
when the fridge goes empty, i go in panic mode.
I feel better with a fridge where I can see everything in it... but then when it's time to eat or make a meal, I think to myself, "Well, I sure wish I had some food in the fridge."
We have 7 kids and you are right Rachael, I feel like I have done my job as a mom when my fridge and pantry is full! We have a much better week when I have lots of food and choices.
The full fridge can also lead to forgotten food (ie waste) !
7 kids ? God bless u
When my wife and I were broke with two children (and Dave was probably broke at that time), the way we managed the food budget was with a weekly menu. I and the children actually enjoyed the menu. Have a menu!
Food category is really difficult in our household budget as well.
"My wife struggles at keeping our grocery budget." Well, start shopping with your wife instead of having your wife do all the shopping.
Right?! My first thought was why is this your wife’s problem lol
My other concern is that this comment says to women, “I don’t believe you..” this is part of women not being heard or respected. Guys.. MEN.. listen to your wives when they say this!
I learned how to cut down on my groceries by shopping at home first and meal planning but also being flexible if you find some really good deals. There’s lots of channels on UA-cam on how to do this.
He was on that rice and beans mentality, but wifey wasn’t. Lol
Eat too poorly and you'll pay it to the Dr.
If you are trying to save money, you can check the weekly specials at your local grocery store, and base your menu off of what's on sale that week.
Food prices, yeah and it's only going to get worse.........
Especially with the growing population people need to get on birth control ASAP.
@@riverdaletales8457 do you realize that we need a lot less land to grow the same amount of produce as 40 years ago?
@@AussieZeKieL they obviously have never been to the Western half of the country...there are thousands and thousands of acres of land under utilized or not used for growing food.
Food prices are more related to logistics and land price than supply issues.
This has to be my favorite video! This is the 1st category I go to when people say they're struggling with budgeting. & I have to say I'm the opposite. I like to see an empty fridge because then I know they're eating all the food & it isn't sitting there rotting.
Rice and beans when you are within your budget and then go to beans and rice when things get tight.
There's literally an Aisle at Walmart called Rice & Beans.
I thought it was the other way around
@@Primitive_Code Same at the military commissaries. I IMMEDIATELY thought of Dave! 😄
@@JulieannSelden 🤣🤣🤣
This is why I don’t shop at Costco, 4 items $120
Only for items I go through fast
@The Dave Ramsey Show what’s up dave, you trynna chat?
@@skunkycatog Not that idiot is making fake accounts for all the high volume youtubers and posts that same number under the same name of the channel they are posting on. The real Dave would have a check mark after his name.
@@edwardrhoads7283 Maybe Daniel is just messing with the fake Dave.
@ Daniel C. - I went in Costco once, not as a member, just to compare it to BJ’s and Sam’s Club l. When I saw these stupid numbers on signs over each aisle (no words like “paper products” or “laundry products”), I got disgusted with how hard it would be to find anything there and wrote them off. I’m considering Sam’s Club, since they are now closer to me than BJ’s. Those warehouse clubs are big enough without one of them having no decent indicators as to what is where.
Grocery delivery has been helpful to me. I order what I need, and by not going to the store I don't buy extras at the store due to product placement in the store.
So instead of learning personal discipline you decided that the best way to keep your food budget in check is to pay inflated prices and delivery fees + tips for grocery delivery?
@@treyhall9138 I order from Walmart. I pay for delivery and sales taxes. Their prices are not inflated. I tip 10% of the order because I believe that is fair. By the way Trey, don't judge me. It's not your job.
@@jacobsheffield-financethri3783 dude, why would you do this? You are wasting money. You know you can do curbside pickup for free, right?
I find that it helps to buy what is on sale and look at the grocery store mailers that come in every week and actually read them. Write down on paper what you will be buying. Go to different stores to get the best deals. Also, most stores offer an app to get extra savings. Walmart and Costco don't always mean a good deal. Do the work. Hope this helps.
Before I had kids I would go to the store and buy what was on sale. And for some stuff I would go to the dollar store. The bread is just as good
Great tip! Never be afraid to relate and honor your wife by understanding her and walking in her shoes. 💕
We budget $1,000 a month for a family of 5 (3 kids and 2 adults) and everything is extra expensive in Hawaii🤯We try our best pre plan meals and do shelf cooking and little to none eating out! It helps..
What helped me with my food budget was 1) creating a budget 2) meal planning 3) make a shopping list for the meals that week and only buy what is on the list (this is so important!) We are a family of 4 with speciality diets because of food allergies living in the Chicagoland area and we budget $450/month.
The meal planning part gives me diabetes! Do you have any good strategies or resources for that part?
I was going to say the same thing! Meal planning, making a list and sticking to it are key! Also stocking up when staples go on sale.
@@jmiller8678 You are absolutely right!
@@brockb3692 I do not have any resources for meal planning with diabetes as that isn't something we deal with in my family. What works for me is creating a week long dinner meal plan and making a grocery list for what I need to make those meals. Those are the items I buy, along with other weekly essentials I might need (bread, milk, fruit, etc.). Another important piece to being successful is discipline. In the past when I've made excuses and not meal planned, I found I always overspent in the grocery budget. I hope this helps.
@StayPositive, absolutely, we budget $160.00 a month, we are retired. We both go together once a month with our grocery envelope, I make the meal plan, the shopping list and will estimate the amount we will spend between Aldi and Walmart. Edited to say, no food waste here, that is where I use to throw away a lot of money.
Eating literally used to eat up my budget.
It still does for me. Luckily we far out earn our budgetary waste for food.
Don't by junk food and soda
Drinking just water saves a lot!
I’m pescatarian now and don’t buy junk food and soda or processed foods it definitely saves money I don’t even buy juice anymore just plain old water is good or sometimes coffee with just a little bit of agave
My wife and I spend about 350 a month on groceries between us but this isn’t just food. It includes dishwasher detergent, laundry detergent, trash bags, toilet paper, etc. basically, if I buy it at Hyvee then it’s “groceries”. We have plenty of food.
Dave would have a heart attack if he saw what I spent on food each month. However, proud to say I have zero debt and do OK for myself with a healthy savings
chicken is cheaper than beef
big bags of rice are cheaper than instant rice
my wife and i have a $350 monthly budget but we are usually under that for the month...by a lot. We give ourselves a healthy buffer.
$350 no way thats all you're spending, me and my partner spend $1200 i'm in australia and we only eat out once a month
@@rory644 true story! we only focus on the essentials. proteins, fats, carbs from inexpensive but not cheap whole foods. for snacks we buy costco brand granola bars, whole fruits. keep it simple.
@@rory644 I think it really depends on what you eat, where you shop and if you include cleaning products in your grocery budget. I average 1k a month for 2 people and im also in aus. And thats groceries, cleaning products, occasional takeout and coffee. takeout i think is a lot more expensive here though....
I drove back home today instead of going to the shop to buy chocolates and cake. I feel so accomplished now 😎
Same . Was going to grab food out but realize I have food at home .
@@arlenedennis9446 stop over spending it will change your life.
One battle at a time..
@The Dave Ramsey Show stop pretending to be Dave Ramsey
My parents survived a war in the 90’s with two babies and my mom’s dream too was to have food on the table and not worry about kids going hungry. Now we cannot tell her she spends too much on groceries because she does not spend on any luxuries for herself at all but she gotta have a full fridge and plenty of extras as if we will be at war tomorrow.
At least if anything does happen, she’ll be prepared for a while. I think everyone just prep a little.
I have issues with food insecurity myself. Ibeen trying not to waste food. When I had a house full of growing children I didn't have to worry about waste. Now everyone eats what they want not what mom has put on the table also diet needs are different.
I've been a bachelor for 37 years. I'm on Baby step 7 (house paid off) and still buy mostly generic food. I just can't tell the difference for most items. I'd rather spend those savings in other areas. But that's me!
Yeah a lot of generic items are the same as the name brand. Just a different label.
Depends on the item...for many i sense no difference and I go with store brand. And I'm also In baby step 7 and I don't see myself changing anytime soon.
@@dexterm1285 Yeah sometimes store brand is BETTER! Peanut butter I can't stand the name brands but love the store brand for example.
You ever wonder why Walmart has the compare your price option? Because they know their prices are the best! Even if you were to find something the same price, Walmart will always outdoes their competitors on the quantity you get for their price. I refuse to shop at Kroger they're expensive. Just saying!
Yea they are the cheapest for sure. I'll go there for general items but for meat, seafood and some produce I'll go regular grocery.
My fridge is empty.... I don't get paid for another week. I have 2 teenagers. I'm scared. A full fridge is a security blanket.
Look at youtube videos on how to cook rice. I pay 8.00 for a 20lb bag of rice. It will help you save quite alot.
Tortillas go a long way, look up Mexican recipes, Mexicans thrive off of 4 basic ingredients 😂😂😂😂
Kelly, check your local school district to see if they are participating in the national food security program distributing food to kids 18 and under through the school districts. Good luck. ❤
Hopefully, your kids will soon be old enough to get an after school job, and can help you out
Check out schools to see if they are handing out food for meals for students. Check out food pantries and banks near you then check out UA-cam videos that cook with food bank foods! There is alot out there. There is a lot of $30 challenges for a week of groceries too on UA-cam, or $10 per person a week.
my fridge is full and nothing to eat lol
Food budget is tough with kids especially teenage boys, they literally devour everything in their path 😄😄😄😄
As a 17 year old I eat a lot in the house 🤣 but I try to not go crazy because after watching Ramsay I realized food is expensive for my parents and my mom sometimes complains and now I understand !!
@@flippatheshippa learn to cook, it’ll benefit you greatly.
Lots of dishes/recipes to fill the void. Chili, stews, rice dishes, hotdogs, soups, frozen pizzas, crock pots, etc. Just keep trying to work those into weekly menu planning. Of course they'll want everything but that lol, but tell them they have a hot meal and if they want something else, get a job and buy your own garbage. :)
@@AussieZeKieL oh I cook all the time actually! I actually never go out to eat I make food at my house and am able to save any money that I earn
I remember my mother taking a calculator to the grocery store. Getting almost done and watching her put things back to purchase other things like she was culling fish out of the live well of a bass boat. Dang it we were some very poor folks back then. I got taught very young. Lol
Same here. It was so embarrassing.
Besides shopping for sales, buying non-brands/non-organic and buying in bulk really helps me. You'll be surprised how expensive and not filling junk food is.
@The Dave Ramsey Show Bot
Of course, junk food is expensive! Eating 3 meals at McDonald's can easily cost you $15/day and you would still be hungry.
Now, imagine a family of 4 doing that daily. That will be about $60/day = $1800/month!
We cook and never eat out. We eat very well and very healthy and it costs us about a $1000/month for a family of 6 (not just 4).
Eating out and buying processed foods is unhealthy and very expensive.
@@هذاأنا-ذ3ث I like the math and example aha. Yeah. Just buying food should be logically more expensive than making the food yourself.
@@هذاأنا-ذ3ث be careful with certain non organics and such, there are some fruits and veggies that ingest the pesticides and therefore you heavily ingest
I’ve def learned this. It’s expensive and I’ve also realized how unfulfilling most Uber eats food is as well. I love to cook now thankfully.
30% of all food in the US is wasted. That's another important part of this conversation. Getting a great deal on something at the grocery store is meaningless if it ends up rotting in the back of the fridge.
For us, I find that meal prepping and being more intentional about what I buy really helps as I will only buy what we need for those meals as opposed to extras that go bad and we end up throwing away.
I know it may not be the best answer, but we split our "eating out" and "groceries"
This way we can be more specific on how much we are really eating out.
Ways to reduce grocery bill 1) meat sales.
2) some things that you "have to have" need to be looked at, is there a cheaper option?
3) some things that you actually must have, look at cheaper options.
4) change your eating habits. A large thing of oatmeal is around $3 and lasts weeks of meals. Have a sandwich 2-3x a week instead of what ever else. beans and rice :)
So right. Most people dont know how much they actually spend on food monthly.
Cut out the “going out to eat” part of the budget.
"Probably your WIFE is not the problem; probably YOU'RE the problem." Story of my life.
The wife is never the problem. She's an angel.
Simp
@The Dave Ramsey Show Go pound sand.
The one thing my 3 divorces have in common is me......
Any organic / non-GMO people out there? What are y’all spending per month?
I love food so this is by far the hardest category to budget.
I love how Dave always brings up his wife ❤️ it’s a team work
There's a reason why shopping carts are the size of a small car.
Yeah very true.
We shop 4 different stores. Meijer, a local produce store, asian grocery and a discount grocery store. The produce store for fruits/veggies/milk, discount grocery for dry/jarred items and frozen items, and meijer for everything else. We spend $100/month.
Meijer! I have one near me, but they are more expensive than Kroger apparently.
I seperate out groceries and eating out, but lump all household items into groceries. So when we no longer have to buy diapers, that number is going to change. It's about to change as one kid goes off formula! Woot Woot!
Getting Aldi was a game changer in Florida. I have subscription Amazon buys for regular necessities and buy all the fresh stuff from Aldi. Being broke during the Great Recession taught me how to save on food.
Yeah I got to get better with my food expenses as well no bueno
2:06 1000 years ago when the dinosaurs roamed the earth🤣🤣🤣
Rice and beans. You get sick of that? Mix it up with some beans and rice.
This is me, overspending on food at the grocery store! It’s so easy to spend $200 at SAMS club each time we go, which is typically twice a month. Then the in between runs to Kroger 😱. I know I need to do better 🤦🏾♀️
Does anyone ever just step back and realize that these people make millions to say the same things over and over and over again
Every time they say it, someone out there is hearing it for the first time.
@@justinacase2623 dude I have a higher net worth than most on here
@@WileyJordan Congrats, very impressive
While I do agree with you, I agree with the comments as well... new people are hearing this message for the first time every day, even though some have heard it for the hundredth time... just like non stop tv, after a while you’re heard it all and should turn it off but new people turn on their tv every minute
@@ugzy I know but these videos are just reruns over and over again. They can be found on the channel. They’re just doing it to line their wallets at this point
Food is one thing I spend on, I don't do whole foods or none of that but at the end of a long day I just want to eat something good lol
Try shopping Aldi and grow a garden if you can
I tried Aldi’s a couple of times and felt like I was in a poor Communist bloc country with very little fresh produce and names on packages I did not recognize. Not for me.
No Aldi or my favorite, WINCO, in Cheyenne.
@@susanmarie2231 same company that owns Trader Joe’s
@Katie Brower - I shop Aldi for certain things, or at Walmart for things where I prefer a specific brand or know Walmart has certain items cheaper. Lidl is another store like Aldi that was in Virginia, but not here in Florida. I miss them since I moved.
@@susanmarie2231 Aldi's not bad for certain items cereals and bread. Now the produce is not the best
Alot of food gets wasted too. Buy less and be a lil hungry sometimes.
I am currently doing a no spend challenge this month January 2021, let me tell you is hard, but I found out food is my largest expense. Not no more, use everything you have in your house first then buy things as you need them.
I think food accounts for nearly 40-50% of my expenditures. I can give up many things but I can't live without fresh produce.
I probably spend over $400/m just on vegetables and fruit, not even organic, separate from the household grocery budget that my wife controls.
Then there's the steaks and specialty items I can't seem to stop buying. I actually feel a sense of relief from a clean, empty refrigerator because it means I haven't wasted anything.
Eating well is about the only source of comfort in this age of no travel, no vacations, or even barely going outside.
The budget is probably being blown on fast food, Starbucks, etc. after the actual groceries are purchased.
One could buy $5 of Starbucks everyday if they invested $100k in Starbucks stock. lol
As a single person, I struggle with the grocery budget myself. Even shopping at Walmart .
DO NOT shop at Walmart. Meijer and Kroger are better bets. You are paying for their workers through taxes.
@@wewhoareabouttodiesaluteyo9303 kroger is much more expensive than walmart.
The only places I've seen cheaper is WinCo and Aldi.
It's about buying what you need, not wasting and being realistic.
@@wewhoareabouttodiesaluteyo9303 we dont have those stores unfortunately
Same. I just get the reaction to pick up something I may want to cook, or snacks. I def have gotten better with a list.
@@myvettebeauty same lol i like to try different snacks 🤣 i really should limit it to one snack every 2 weeks 🤣
"It isn't how much you make, it's what you do with it." Wisdom from my mom.
It isn't how much you make, it's how much you keep". Some old guy I see on t.v.
This is what we struggle with the most. I have severe food allergies, so all the food budget "hacks" like buying from bulk bins aren't an option due to cross-comtamination. Even for cheap staples, we end up buying the most expensive brand because it's often the only one that doesn't "contain traces of" XYZ. For the 2 of us, the lowest we can get our food spending is 600/mo.
We do about 400 per month for groceries...family of 4...in Chicago.
Oatmeal and dried blueberries $2
Egg sandwich. $3
PB & J sandwich. $2
Home fried potatoes $2
Quesadillas $2
Beans and rice $2
Eat at home is cheaper.
I also am going to create two separate envelopes for restaurants & groceries. Really helpful!
Listening to this I've decided to buy less Prosecco, salmon and chocolates! He he not really... Us two budget £600 ($800?) per month which includes take aways and any mini shops and meals out. Get veg and fruit and the green grocer and the rest at bigger shops... its a high budget but it's realistic and we never go over.. before doing the budget I really did think that it was half!!!! Need to eat well but also "beans and rice!" ... gotta reduce that by 20% to be honest
What helped me is having a big freezer. Now nothing goes to waste. 90% of everything is in the fridge can go to freezer if I understand that it won’t be used before it expires.
Dude, I'm a single male with a paid off condo, two paid off cars, and no kids. My highest cost is food! I don't go out to eat, just 10.00 a week on Wendy's or In and Out. Yeah, the food I buy in the store is classic Italian, a bit pricey. But, just something to think about.
Both ethical places, I like that. Stay away from McDonalds, Taco Bell, Burger King, Arby's, KFC, etc.
I spend most of my money on foods as well.
Shop at Aldi or buy generic brands. The generic brands are literally the brand names using private lables. Even companies that say they have their own products have it made by other companies. It's basically all private labled.
Answer, ALDI
Aldi’s not that cheap anymore
I love Aldi’s. Great store.
Why Aldi’s ????
@@cristiantrucking8764 it’s low cost food, if you buy correctly.
I feel like Aldi prices have started creeping up too.
Only the junk food is cheap.
It's mid-2022 right now. Inflation is at 8%. I'm trying to limit carbs (even tho they can be cheap and filling) so I can reach my ideal body weight. I'm delving into nose-to-tail menu items. That is, using all the meat cuts. I was pleasantly surprised after eating beef tongue and oxtail stew. Many people won't consider this but it can save money on groceries while providing you with good nutrition.
Try splitting it into Household and Groceries. You may find that the Costco trip is 75% HOUSEHOLD depending on your impulse buys
When I set up my accounting system in the early 70's, I was getting food stamps. This affected the way I accounted for food. Anything that is purchasable with food stamps is food. Household supplies are separate. Vitamins and over the counter meds are separate. Eating out and takeaway is recreation/luxury. I keep enough food in the house for an army.
As my health deteriorates I have to keep increasing the food budget. Eating cheap junk food is literally killing me. Now I have to eat fresh fruits and vegetables every day.
My sister spends pretty much every penny their household makes on medical insurance and food.
Can u not make food from scratch in the kitchen?
Unhealthy food is expensive
Real cheap food is very affordable
You just have to work to prepare it
Yes! security in grocery buying for sure!
The food budget is a challenge for me, and I'm single with no kids. I think part of it is laziness on my part because I don't enjoy cooking and I don't feel like I'm a good cook. And I hate the mess that comes with cooking. It's so much easier to just go to the deli or fast food. I think this might be a cultural thing too with more and more people spending less time cooking and more time eating out. Cooking is just so overwhelming to me. I can easily go "under" my budget even by cooking a meal or two a week. I also usually eat only one meal a day, but it's dinner and I look forward to it!
That's what I love about living in Europe. The fridges here are usually small so that you don't buy too much of what you don't need. In the States, the fridges are so big that you can't find some of the things you bought before and so they just spoil and you waste food.
I spent almost $500 by the 20th and I’m $100 over budget. Family of 3. Luckily, I stocked enough at home that we need only bread and milk for the rest of the month. Totally have the pantry emergency supply. Been able to gift some to families in need.
Why did you post that phone number?
If you’re on a budget and food is an issue, sometimes it is WHERE you are shopping, not necessarily what you’re buying. While I would also suggest looking at what your putting in the cart; before you just “add to the budget” which personally some of us cannot do - I would offer that simply by switching to a discount place like Aldi’s grocery store instead of a “Kroger” or any major larger chain, may be a part of the solution: Def NOT WholeFoods or Trader Joe’s if your on a strict budget. We found a local grocery store here in the Cleveland area and immediately shaved off 20-30% a month from the grocery bill without even having to cut back on anything we were buying. Just my 2 cents.
Definitely agree with the full fridge safety aspect!
We live on a farm and butcher most of our meat, have a milk cow, and chicken. I also garden and can a lot of our food. Do I use the food budget to feed the animals, order seeds, canning jar, lids, and butchering chicks? Or have a budget for that type of things. All of that adds up quickly just like going to the grocery store.
I eat a severely carb-restricted diet. No rice and beans for me. Food budget for 2 including household items and drinking water is about 200 dollars a month for locally sourced food in the Philippines. The very good news is $0 for diabetes medications.
Thats because we all live in excess. Buying items we dont need, based on a short sighted stimulation when we look at the item at the store. If you take a list into the store, put stuff in your basket snd before checkout look through it and get rid of the expensive fruit, berries, and snacks, youll stay on track
“Did you go grocery shopping?” Haha
What's not being mentioned here are all the costly (non-food items) that are normally included in peoples' "food budgets". Paying $500/month for food is ridiculous. But paying $500/month for food, paper products (paper towels, toilet paper, napkins), detergents, cleaners, batteries, cleaning supplies, vitamins/supplements, plastic products (trash bags and food bags), and personal hygiene products (toothpaste, shampoo, lotions, deodorants) is fairly reasonable.
Buying all the non-food items in bulk can save you a ton of money!
I’m a bargain shopper . I pay way less for groceries than most people.
I pay $8.50 for a loaf of bread
Local groceries are more affordable, I recommend using grocery coupons and writing a list, eggs milk bread cheese lol chicken and also they send newspaper on deals I would shop around for items.
So true. I just made dinner for 4, enough for everyone to have seconds and leftovers for 30 bucks
Nice work 🎆✨🎇
Start with buying food, not service or packaging.
Can't believe more people haven't pointed this out: buy *ingredients* , not meals. Chop veg and crush spices bought in bulk.
I'd estimate that every hour you spend preparing and cooking ingredients saves you $25 or more.
My wife comes from a wealthy family and wants to fill the cart and not look at the price. I suggested that she shop at a couple of different stores to get the best deals and it did not go well.
This was a really good question to have both Rachel and Dave answering on
I know right! And they weren’t interrupting each other like the usually do😂
One way we reduced our budget was to stop buying things that ended up expired or in the bin because it was hardly consumed. Luckily too the supermarket is less than a mile from our home, so we can always stopover on our way back home to top up our stock.
Solution: cut out the rice and just eat beans.
🤣🤣🤣
No way, cut out the beans and eat rice. Rice is king. :)
In a similar vein, my budget dream at the time was to be able to set the thermostat to whatever would make me comfortable at the time. Now that I'm out of debt, I still do that. If it's a hot day, I crank that AC down to 68 and if the electric bill doubles, I just pay it. And in the winter I'm never the "Put on a sweater!" guy.
Our grocery budget is about $800 a month
I think food is so expensive these days and we can’t tell people to not eat. But yes, we spend an enormous amount of money on food
It's really not much considering people generally pay over $150/month for phone & internet (add $50+ for cable), and $500/month is the average car payment because people making $30k-$50K/year think the only vehicle they can buy is that $15K+ vehicle. Oh and so far most people I talk with that say they are broke are paying monthly for their $1,000 iPhone and have at least a few online subscriptions and go out to eat plenty. None of those things are bad but a lot can be solved by a written budget and not behaving like a child.
In over fifty years of marriage, we never succeeded with budgets. We did try for a year or two. On the other hand, we always had pretty good income and I have complete, exhaustive records. To take their example, thirty years ago when PCs became available to keep records, do you want to know what we spent on groceries ? I have it. Also any other category or subcategory? I have that too. The awareness got us to two million so far and growing, even without a formal budget.
Most people that consistently go out to eat are spending way more on food than they realize. Eating out is so expensive, even at regular places. You can't pick up a decent lunch in my city for less than $10. I can easily eat for less than $5 on homemade food. Some 9 to 5 people literally eat out for lunch every day of the work week, and on top of that, stop for coffee on the way to work every day. This is death by a thousand cuts, literally and figuratively considering how unhealthy eating out is.
I like 10% going to food which includes groceries and dining/take out.
Two people $150 per week. Gas and Groceries. I put both on the same line in the budget.
They just have to find a specific amount that they both agree on and then stick to it!!!
Please advise on the percentage split of the salary to rental budget, food budget, living expenses, savings, etc.
Put aside some money in the food budget for “stocking up” so that you can buy staples and meat on sale or in big quantities at Costco. Know your local prices well and set a limit price that you won’t go over eg $1.2 per pound for fruit and vegetables. Don’t buy expensive fruits or vegetables or precut ones.. Cut down on eating out, rather buy frozen prepared food than eating out. Food really isn’t as expensive in this country as some others (in comparison to income ratio)...
This is a big problem in are family! Hope to see more videos on this topic. It's interesting to me.