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Local farm has a dirt cheap produce subscription. $40 a week for locally grown produce!
That's super expensive... 40 a week for just veggies? I spend 40 a week on all my groceries at most.
Average is $270 per week in the USA.
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.
$270 includes everything like Keurig coffee pods, ground beef, and laundry detergent- not just vegetables.
That's fair, but the comment above said that they "spend 40 a week on all my groceries at most."
I spend 1/3rd of that on all of my groceries combined per month. If I was spending that much per week I would be over 1000$ 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.
I'm thinking that price is per household not person. I hope that's the case. But I'm seriously impressed that you can swing $90/mo for food. That's amazing.
no, food costs that much
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.
Sure, but they didn't specify they were american, did they?
Wasn’t saying you should have assumed, just corroborating. But also doesn’t the $ imply he’s American?
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.
Haha gotcha you too!!
Where do you live? I'm in central Europe and hit the local currency equivalent of 60$ per person per week...
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.