Trudeau on track to spend well over $100k on groceries at personal residence in 2023

[Madison]

Drugs and booze
100k for food ...what the fuck he is eating

[donttread]

Drugs and booze
100k for food ...what the fuck he is eating

We pay for a chef don't you have one of those?

[mrclose]

That leads to a question that I've been meaning to ask.

There are two of us in our home, my other half and myself

Both of us are over 70.
We don't eat a lot and have a roast or a steak .. once in a while.
A Long While!

My problem?
We can barely get by on $1,000 a month .. just for food!

My question: Is anyone else dealing with these kinds of food costs?

How much do most of you spend on your groceries per month?
(My #1 question)

We are actually surviving on frozen dinners like marie callender's and Stouffer's.
(Both really do have some good selections!)

Problem is, after a while you get in a cycle of boring dinners.

The same meals over and over again and Not just with the frozen meals!

It's everything!

Once you pass the 70's in age, you've damn near run out of choices of foods that you haven't already eaten hundreds of times!8(

Thank You

[Abbey]

That leads to a question that I've been meaning to ask.

There are two of us in our home, my other half and myself

Both of us are over 70.
We don't eat a lot and have a roast or a steak .. once in a while.
A Long While!

My problem?
We can barely get by on $1,000 a month .. just for food!

My question: Is anyone else dealing with these kinds of food costs?

How much do most of you spend on your groceries per month?
(My #1 question)

We are actually surviving on frozen dinners like marie callender's and Stouffer's.
(Both really do have some good selections!)

Problem is, after a while you get in a cycle of boring dinners.

The same meals over and over again and Not just with the frozen meals!

It's everything!

Once you pass the 70's in age, you've damn near run out of choices of foods that you haven't already eaten hundreds of times!8(

Thank You

If you're eating pre packaged frozen dinners a lot, there's where your food bill is rising, those things are expensive, you can prepare a spaghetti dinner, for a lot less than one Marie Callender dinner, plus you'll probably have left overs for the next day.

We probably spend less than half of what you spend a month on groceries, because we keep a well stocked freezer and pantry and just need to replace a few basics monthly........and lately, we haven't been eating that much.

It's true, it's cheaper to buy and prepare fresh food, than the pre packaged foods.

[QuaseMarco]

That leads to a question that I've been meaning to ask.

There are two of us in our home, my other half and myself

Both of us are over 70.
We don't eat a lot and have a roast or a steak .. once in a while.
A Long While!

My problem?
We can barely get by on $1,000 a month .. just for food!

My question: Is anyone else dealing with these kinds of food costs?

How much do most of you spend on your groceries per month?
(My #1 question)

We are actually surviving on frozen dinners like marie callender's and Stouffer's.
(Both really do have some good selections!)

Problem is, after a while you get in a cycle of boring dinners.

The same meals over and over again and Not just with the frozen meals!

It's everything!

Once you pass the 70's in age, you've damn near run out of choices of foods that you haven't already eaten hundreds of times!8(

Thank You

Since I'm in Brazil and have an advantage of using dollars at a 1 to 5 ratio, I really can't give a meaningful comparison.
I find food here to be a very reasonable commodity. We also have more natural food selections.
We cook our beans and do not use canned products much. Some of the vegetables and fruits we eat are home grown.
We do eat out at a fraction of what it would cost in the USA.

I don't mean to be gloating ..... it's just what I have been experiencing for the year and a half that I've lived here full time.

[donttread]

Since I'm in Brazil and have an advantage of using dollars at a 1 to 5 ratio, I really can't give a meaningful comparison.
I find food here to be a very reasonable commodity. We also have more natural food selections.
We cook our beans and do not use canned products much. Some of the vegetables and fruits we eat are home grown.
We do eat out at a fraction of what it would cost in the USA.

I don't mean to be gloating ..... it's just what I have been experiencing for the year and a half that I've lived here full time.

How did you wind up in Brazil?

[QuaseMarco]

How did you wind up in Brazil?

Good marriage.

[donttread]

Good marriage.

So are you like a trophy husband? LOL

[UKSmartypants]

That leads to a question that I've been meaning to ask.

There are two of us in our home, my other half and myself

Both of us are over 70.
We don't eat a lot and have a roast or a steak .. once in a while.
A Long While!

My problem?
We can barely get by on $1,000 a month .. just for food!

My question: Is anyone else dealing with these kinds of food costs?

How much do most of you spend on your groceries per month?
(My #1 question)

We are actually surviving on frozen dinners like marie callender's and Stouffer's.
(Both really do have some good selections!)

Problem is, after a while you get in a cycle of boring dinners.

The same meals over and over again and Not just with the frozen meals!

It's everything!

Once you pass the 70's in age, you've damn near run out of choices of foods that you haven't already eaten hundreds of times!8(

Thank You

Dont buy pre processed ready meals, they are staggeringly bad for you and poor value for money, Learn to cook and buy raw ingredients.

We cook two meals a week. Usually i make a curry, and there's usually six portions, thats 2 or 3 days, and the wife will make maybe a bolognese, a chilli bean, a fish pie. Usually 4 potions min, two more days. Two days we cook nothing and just nibble. We eat very well for very little, we buy most of our food from the local market, and off the wholesale vegetable man that calls at the local bars or the wholesale butcher on the industrial estate.

Yesterday we bought from the veg man a 56lb sack of potatoes $20, 10lb massive tomatoes $6 and 5lb red peppers $3. Half the tomatoes will be pureed to make other dishes, and the sack of potatoes has plenty of large ones to bake, plus we us an air fryer to roast them, and we do my wifes Supermash, which is better than sex.

Ive figured out how to make Stuffed Parathas, chapattis, Lime Pickle, and Onion Bhagees. we spend about $250 a month on food, including about $60 - $70 feeding the two shovel guts cats who own us.

I get spices in large bags from the Indian/Chinese supermarket, as well as other stuff like Thai paste, Mustard oil and chinese Condensed Sweet and Sour sauce (same as the restaurants use)

The answer is to learn to cook, eat better for the same money.

[donttread]

That leads to a question that I've been meaning to ask.

There are two of us in our home, my other half and myself

Both of us are over 70.
We don't eat a lot and have a roast or a steak .. once in a while.
A Long While!

My problem?
We can barely get by on $1,000 a month .. just for food!

My question: Is anyone else dealing with these kinds of food costs?

How much do most of you spend on your groceries per month?
(My #1 question)

We are actually surviving on frozen dinners like marie callender's and Stouffer's.
(Both really do have some good selections!)

Problem is, after a while you get in a cycle of boring dinners.

The same meals over and over again and Not just with the frozen meals!

It's everything!

Once you pass the 70's in age, you've damn near run out of choices of foods that you haven't already eaten hundreds of times!8(

Thank You

We don't really keep track right now, but probably should. It's at least what you are spending, maybe more and there are just the two of us. But it can still get boring and we use frozen pot pies, ziti, etc occasionally as well.
Nothing is cheap right now. This inflation is wrecking budgets, companies and more. It's a huge problem for our adult children right now.