Only $500 a week on food? For 18 people? Wow! that's impressive.

Three quartermasters, a German, a Russian, and an American are discussing the caloric allotment for their respective troops. The Russian says "We give each troop 2500 calories a day!" The German sneers and says "we give each troop 3500 Calories a day." The American just laughs and says "Each of our boys gets 5500 calories a day."

The Russian says "Bullshit. No one could possibly eat that many potatoes in a single day"

Isn't there a saying, "Two can live as cheaply as one"? So, 18 can live as cheaply as 9, and so on.

My weekly budget for 3 is $150.

When there's 4 of us at home, we'll easily spend over $250/week.

I dunno - they must be getting some assistance somewhere. If $500 is there biggest expenditure and they can feed 18 on it, then I am doing something seriously wrong.

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We just added up and we spent $500 last month to feed 5, so we could feed 20 on their budget -probably more as we could buy in bigger bulk.

How do you all spend so much? it's not like we live on Ramen Noodles and candy. We do cook everything from scratch, though, and we only buy a few "organic" products. Our bill would be much reduced if we grew more of our own veg too.

/hijack

They got crazy wholesale deals, I'm sure you can imagine. I think they said at one point the (already cheapass quality) ground beef worked out to $1/pound because they bought in bulk. They also indicated they ate a whole lot of frozen burritos (the kind that are like 30 cents each and have zero nutritional value.)

Edit to add: we typically spend about $500 a month for 3.5 people, plus another 2 on the weekends.

so, we just worked out we spend the same per month on sports and leisure fees (i.e. not including any equipment or equipment maintenance). Guess we know where our priorities lie!

Ok - help me out here. I'm just a dumb guy and all. But you both spend the same as them to feed 10 less people than them. How are you gonna feed ther addition 10 for ZERO extra? That makes no sense.

They spend $500 per week, not $500 per month.

do'h

:lol: sorry, i'm a math nerd, i should have spelled it out more

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