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Hit $50 for a week of dinners and it felt impossible until I broke it down
I started tracking my grocery receipts last month in Columbus and my average weekly dinner cost was $87, so I set a goal of $50 for all 7 dinners. This week I managed $48.62 by doing a big batch of chili with dried beans, a rotisserie chicken stretched into 3 meals, and eggs for the other nights. Has anyone else tried a specific weekly number and what tricks actually kept you under it?
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victor_adams951mo ago
$48.62 for a whole week" sounds like magic math to me, but I respect the hustle. My version of this was trying to hit $60 and I ended up eating plain rice with hot sauce for two nights because I forgot the eggs existed. The rotisserie chicken trick is solid, but my real hack was just lying to myself that I wasn't hungry until 8pm, which saved a ton of money and also my will to cook. Dried beans are the only reason my wallet survives, but I swear my apartment smells like a soup kitchen every Sunday. Honestly, you're doing better than my $87 average, which I hit by buying fancy cheese I didn't even like. Got any tips for someone whose "chili" turned into sad bean water?
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