![]() When you look it up, the average food cost for a family of four in the US is way up there at the level of my friends, at $944 per month. It is simultaneously one of the cheapest industrialized countries in the world to live in, and the most expensive. It all depends on the choices you make in your shopping, because everything in the world is available right here for your buying convenience. Looking back, I probably could have predicted a non-Mustachian grocery bill.īut the experience still reminded me of the amazing variety of spending levels we all have available to us here in the United States. Her family also took out loans to buy new cars, had at least one $2500 carbon fiber road bike gleaming in the garage, and hired out the household chores to allow them to conveniently work a double-career-with-kids while still taking plenty of short vacations involving air travel. Of course, the person telling me about her high food bill was more of a typical high-income spender in many ways. “Whoa”, I replied, “I guess I’m not as spendy as I thought”. “Eighty dollars a week on food for the three of you? That’s IT?”, said a friend, “We spend more than three times that amount!!” I think it’s worth it if you can afford it”. “Yeah… I know it’s a bit over the top”, I said, “but we probably spend 80 bucks a week on good groceries. ![]() It’s a contest I heartily approve of and I am happy to be both an underdog competitor and a judge.Īnyway, the topic turned to how good we have it in our lives, with such plentiful food that we can afford to spend hours combining exotic ingredients just for the sake of overfilling our bellies. ![]() In my area, there seems to be a friendly competition among the thirtysomething outdoorsy tech worker crowd, of trying to out-chef each other. A few years ago, I was at a party eating some amazing food at the potluck buffet. ![]()
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