[–] skinnyminny67 ago
I went grocery shopping the other day and spent $132 on food for roughly 7 people for 5 days. This didn't include cereal because we get that at Costco and only the kids eat it. It also doesn't include the kids' lunches as they either buy at school or are in daycare. This does include snacks, fruits and veggies, meat for 4 meals, two toys and some laundry stuff.
We're all pretty thin but no one is going hungry. We just don't eat all the damn time!
[–] Shareanapple 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Processed food seriously is so expensive. After having my first baby, my favourite gift was a basket of crackers, chips, a bottle of wine etc... It wasn't healthy but my baby nursed nonstop and I was in a lot of pain, so it was nice to have easy things to eat while my husband was at work.
So when my friend had a baby I wanted to do the same thing for her. I don't eat food like that generally, I don't even buy loaves of bread or things like tortillas or pitas because I make them myself. I was amazed at how expensive stuff was. I could have given my friend homemade meals for a week for the cost of these snack foods.
My husband makes good money, but we would definitely have to go seriously into debt to get fat.
[–] metropolis 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
all of their money goes to food. they have no hobbies, they don't go on vacations, and they especially don't save any money. if they were capale of saving money, they would be capable of losing weight
[–] DammitMoonMoon 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
this is so true and something I've come to learn about hammate. She seriously has no ability to save money. If she has money she spends it on whatever she wants. We are talking about a ham that legit brings in about $3000/month from tax free income, health insurance is govt subsidized, I pay over half the rent (includes utilities) and still find our internet getting turned off because she didn't have the money to pay the bill.
Out buying new, expensive lingerie and very expensive makeup though. Hammate lives up to the Obeast stereotype.
[–] Meep_meep 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago (edited ago)
SIL is a whale and she had food stamps ( she had bad knees and husband had ptsd) yeah . . so no one could work. They spent all their money on junk. They had mountain dew mouth and the stink from their rotting teeth when they would talk was horrible. They never drank water.
Her husband ate nothing but angel hair pasta with butter, dominos pepperoni pizza, thin sliced no sauce, and Doritos. Oh, and straight cooked hamburger meat. That's it.
She would cook pork chops in the oven until they were dried out (no liquid or anything) and pair it with corn. At one point she said she ate raw carrots but her dew teeth got so bad she couldnt chew them (this person weighs 300+lbs last time she went to the Dr.) She won't eat hardly anything during the day but when about 9pm hits she makes corn dogs, hot pockets, those little party pizzas, and she has a constant king size bag of mini Reece cups next to her bed.
Just giving a little insight on how the pigs nearest me eat. All junk, no veg, no chicken, no milk, no eggs, all sugar, salt, and carbs.
Edit: sorry got side tracked. The husband was in the military and pulled disability on top of food stamps. He also half-added school and got some government money from there too. She had disability and they mooch off of his parents from time to time.
That is how they afford all the junk. They don't.
[–] c_i_c_o 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
At one point she said she ate raw carrots but her dew teeth got so bad she couldnt chew them
Oh god, my stomach hurts just reading this. I'm slowly developing a daily carrot habit, and you need to chew these thoroughly so your stomach doesn't get upset.
[–] damnbiker 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago (edited ago)
On my way to the gym this morning, I was walking past the Denny's and glanced in; of course everyone was fat, that's not what gave me pause to think. It was that these "people" were most likely spending between $8 and $10, probably every morning, for a breakfast that is slowly killing them, every day before work.
Let's say that they do this 5 days a week, and eat at home on weekends; at an average of $9 a pop. I'm probably erring on the cheap side, but I'm including tip and, to be honest, I don't know what Denny's costs for a breakfast. That's $45 a week, just for greasy breakfasts; that's more than I spend on meat for an entire week. Now, I don't eat a lot of meat (recently reformed vegetarian) but what I do eat is organic, cage free type meat - it's expensive compared to grocery store meat. But it makes more than 5 meals worth, actually closer to 11 meals. Eating healthy is WAY cheaper than eating garbage.
[–] biggerisnotbetter 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Wow, I just did the math on my breakfast, and even counting the spices added, it's less than 60 cents. No tipping needed.
[–] DammitMoonMoon 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
i've shitlorded hammate with this logic. She works hard for her money. She's always broke though. Why is she always broke? She spends so much money on food. Any time she says something about needing a new whatever but being short the money I say "well, when you eat less you save money, especially if you're not buying sugary drinks and chocolate all the time. Bonus is you lose weight like you say you want to. It's a win/win situation if you just practice some self control about fucking food. Eat when you're hungry, not when you want. You don't even know what being hungry really is yet".
In the last 2 months she has lost 15 pounds. 15 more to go to be human again!