GAS equation: How much do you spend on food?

[mshilarious]

BUMP!

How has the increased cost of gasoline and diesel affected your monthly food
tab?

I drive MUCH less than two years ago, down from a tank per week to a tank per month.

On the other hand, there's another mouth to feed, and the wine budget has gone up as I am convinced that anthocyanins are the only thing keeping me alive

 

[ggunn]

I worked hard to get where I am today, and I ain't gonna eat at Taco Bell and Mcdonald's no more, no matter how cheap it is. Every once in a while, I take the wife out and blow $100 on a fine meal and a nice bottle of wine.

I've been playing for 40 years (Jeez, time doesn't care whether you're having fun or not, does it?), and although it was my livelihood for a while, it's not now. I've got tons of gear, and I'm not shorting myself on nutrition to buy any more of it.

YMMV.

 

[Doctor Biscuits]

Wow old thread, but yep, life's too short to eat crappy food!
Now that doesn't necessarily mean you have to eat expensive food, but I have too many friends that think 'oh I'm too poor to eat well' and then spend $7 or so at McDonalds (here in Canadada) on the way home and I'm thinking 'well, for that same $7 you could have bought some decent, tasty, nutritious food at the grocery store'... but people can be too lazy and addicted to salt and fat and McFeelgood advertising...
As someone said (2 years ago) on this thread, garbage in garbage out!!
Man, I must be hungry... I don't normaly get so soapboxy!

 

[goodbyebluesky]

I've gotten kinda pathetic in how I save money. My neighbour across the street got a job where I work and I'm stoked he is riding with me and will pay for 1/2 the gas, even though I already drive a honda civic (32 mpg) and its only 11 miles one way.

I've stooped quite low to finding cheap ways to eat. My family now has pinto beans and cornbread once a week like people ate during the Depression, and who could forget "scrambled eggs and grits day", or "black beans and yellow rice night"? We seriously cook a meal big enough for 4 people for under 3 bucks, sometimes even 2 bucks and no one is complaining. I eat lunchmeat sandwiches at work. Before bed my 2 yr old and 8 year old will split some carrots or a can of 50 cent green beans for a snack and think its awesome, how lame is that??

Tomorrow my neighbour will help me on a home repair project, probably cut the time it takes in half, and its gonna cost me half a 12 pack of domestic beer, how sweet is that!

Unfortunately it still doesnt mean I get any new gear this year unless I sell something. This dang home renovation has changed how I view money.
For example, the following can often be heard in my house:
"What?! Buy new strings, who can afford that?!
Eat out again?! We just had Taco Bell last month!
Or..... I'm secretly calculating the mileage my wife spent taking the kids to the library.
And all when just the day before I'm swipin my check card yet again for hundreds of dollars at Lowe's on things I will only have to install myself:::shaking head::::