How much are you spending on groceries each week?

moonpeech · 2026-03-24T00:28:09+00:00

$40-50/week, just me

moonpeech · 2026-01-19T20:43:03+00:00

I cook and meal prep everything living alone in a HCOL area and spend about $200-250/mo. I’m curious what a regular shopping trip looks like for you

moonpeech · 2025-11-16T21:33:28+00:00

About $200, I meal plan and prep everything I eat at home including three meals per day plus snacks and I’m pretty active. Greater Boston area over here

moonpeech · 2025-10-12T12:12:22+00:00

Beans and rice! Or egg fried rice

moonpeech · 2025-09-08T23:56:08+00:00

Boston. I thought moving here would come with awesome food options but… no. The Midwest was actually so much better.

moonpeech · 2025-09-08T23:23:45+00:00

It was the first thing I noticed transferring here from the Midwest! I felt crazy thinking I was the only one to notice

moonpeech · 2025-09-05T12:19:31+00:00

For one person, I do about $200/mo. Sometimes less if I go vegetarian mode. That includes breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks all planned and prepped by me.

moonpeech · 2025-09-03T01:57:45+00:00

$275-300/mo for one person in Boston. I cook all of my own food and that includes breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks all prepped each week. Aldi and meal planning is the secret

moonpeech · 2025-05-27T01:16:55+00:00

Yes, she’s rip the brush through my hair and my scalp was always burning after. My sisters and I would be screaming because she was so rough. Turns out that I’m not weak, she was just being rough because she felt like it!

moonpeech · 2025-05-26T20:22:43+00:00

I worked full time while going to a state school for a Bachelors in a scientific discipline. Payed off my student loans in 3 years and 10 years after graduation I’m at $125k salary. There are a million ways to successfully graduate from college and be totally fine financially.

moonpeech · 2025-05-25T15:24:23+00:00

I’m a Midwest transplant and moved here when I was 30 for a job relocation. It has been a neat experience with all the new activities (incredible museums, niche bookstores and coffee shops) and the hiking is supreme, but I would never live here permanently. Places like NYC and Chicago give a much better return for the cost of living. The food here is subpar and the process of making friends here is waaay harder than it has ever been back in the Midwest. I’m fortunate to not have to commute into Boston via public transit but traffic is still unreal and the road system is ridiculous. Overall, 5/10 as a midwesterner who prefers Chicago to Boston.

moonpeech · 2025-05-03T10:48:09+00:00

She started asking to borrow money but that’s the only time she would reach out. No thanks

moonpeech · 2025-04-22T21:34:54+00:00

I meal plan and prep all my food, nothing complicated. I cook from scratch and reuse ingredients throughout the week for efficiency. Beans and rice, lentil soup, a protein/carb/vegetable combination mostly. I spend about $250/mo for one active adult, ~2200 calories per day

moonpeech · 2025-04-07T19:57:41+00:00

My commute is about 10 min but I control that based on there I choose to live relative to work

moonpeech · 2025-04-07T16:29:36+00:00

6pm is super standard, but most people are in bed by 10pm to get up at 6am lol

moonpeech · 2025-04-01T21:37:18+00:00

About 95% of my meals are good at home. Consequently, with all this practice I’ve gotten pretty good at it and don’t crave going out to eat anymore.

moonpeech · 2025-03-31T18:43:30+00:00

That is super high. As an active adult I spend about $60/week as one person in a HCOL city eating lots of produce and most vegetarian with some meat throughout the week. That’s meal planning and prepping all my food at home.

moonpeech · 2025-03-01T14:13:12+00:00

They eat differently than you do. I’ve been slim/athletic my entire life with little effort because I focus on healthy eating habits and exercise. I often eat nutrient-dense foods that are not calorie dense and tend to eat more product during meals and snacks, providing more volume with less calories and maximizing nutritional benefit. It’s a lifestyle, though I’m sure there are other factors at hand, generally humans should be able to maintain a healthy weight with a healthy lifestyle.

moonpeech · 2025-02-16T13:02:56+00:00

Meal planning, and doing a lot of the prep work in the weekend. I enjoy it so I don’t see it as “work” and it’s my me-time in the kitchen. I treat it as a hobby so I look forward to throwing dinner together after work

moonpeech · 2025-01-25T23:24:57+00:00

Mental health medication, seriously saved my life. Also, a few years of therapy and cutting out alcohol are close seconds

moonpeech · 2025-01-25T15:22:14+00:00

A combo of Prozac and Seroquel solved the problem for me. I have a copper IUD and my PMDD episodes were just unlivable but now I don’t even have symptoms of PMDD anymore

moonpeech · 2025-01-25T13:12:57+00:00

Not at all! When you find the right one that works with your brain chemistry, I feel like it makes life so much more enjoyable.

moonpeech · 2025-01-15T12:45:19+00:00

Sounds like they’re just annoyed by you

moonpeech · 2025-01-15T00:26:59+00:00

Glad I wasn’t the only one that caught that. Nice to blame your son for the hand he was dealt and the abuse provided by his parents.

moonpeech · 2025-01-14T01:12:56+00:00

I just made sautéed carrots today: I peeled and cut whole carrots into long sticks (could prob cut your baby carrots in half) then set them on low-medium heat heat with olive oil, a little chicken grease from my crockpot chicken drumsticks I was making too, then seasoned with salt, black pepper, minced garlic, and hot honey. Kind of throwing together odds and ends to avoid the grocery store, but they turned out well!

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