That's around 140 a week for two people, which is incredibly easy to do if you buy name brand anything. Shits expensive these days.

Never thought I'd see hexbears chiding people for not cutting out the avocado toast. Could that number be lower? Certainly. Is the problem here people spending too much on groceries? Certainly not. I'm not about to blame people for spending more than the lowest possible amount on groceries when they're tired, overworked, and short on time. If someone comes home from an 8 hour day that's actually 10 hours because of the commute, I can't blame them for putting a frozen pizza in the oven instead of busting out the pots and cutting boards to make beans and rice for the 5th day in a row.

Let's see... that's about $9 per person per day, which is still excessive especially if that's supposed to just be groceries and doesn't include buying prepared food somewhere which would easily double it if it's a daily thing, but it's also less than I was expecting.

I mean I live on $1-2 worth of food a day on average, living mostly on beans, rice, ramen, tofu, potatoes, and the occasional egg, but I had the impression that the typical American diet was, like, full of overpriced junk food that's high calorie but also comparatively more expensive per calorie than food cooked from raw ingredients.