• Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.ee
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      7 months ago

      That’s super expensive… 40 a week for just veggies? I spend 40 a week on all my groceries at most.

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          7 months ago

          That’s cool, I wanted to point out that saying cheap and then a price point without reference isn’t really helpful because price varies so much.

          Also, 270 per week per person!?!? What the fuck, that can’t be true, that’s more than what I extrapolated it would cost me in the European expensive countries when I visited and went to random grocery stores. As always, the american dream seems to be a scam fetish xD.

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          7 months ago

          $270 includes everything like Keurig coffee pods, ground beef, and laundry detergent- not just vegetables.

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            7 months ago

            That’s fair, but the comment above said that they “spend 40 a week on all my groceries at most.”

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          I spend 1/3rd of that on all of my groceries combined per month. If I was spending that much per week I would be over 1000$ in debt after a single month. Is the average person really that rich? And what food are they buying that they need to spend that much?
          This is baffling to me as a poor person.

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        7 months ago

        American grocery store produce is really expensive now. $40 for a week of veggies would be a good deal in my area. Plus you’re supporting local agriculture.

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              7 months ago

              It’s not you who said I should assume, it was them who didn’t specify, implying we should asume, sorry if I made you think otherwise. Canadians and Australians afaik aso use dollars, just not USD.

              In any case, this was quite the small complaint I had, so I’ll just drop it haha. Have a great day.

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        7 months ago

        Where do you live? I’m in central Europe and hit the local currency equivalent of 60$ per person per week…

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          7 months ago

          I live in a quite expensive Spanish area and we usually spend 50ish for 2 people’s worth of food. We do go out or order food on the weekend sometimes but being vegetarian we don’t spend more than 15€ on produce a week at most so 40 a week sounds a lot.