Budgeting Food

[Strike For The South]

Food in the US is soooo cheap. That'd run up well over $150 dollars, and if you add the bananas and better brands then it'd be around $200.

Really? That smells

How does one get swole in OZ?

I figured foodstuffs would be cheap there.....at least meat

[Fragony]

Pasta, lots of it. Three cheap basis you can expand on,

Tomatoe + onion + basillicum
Cream + 1 egg + cheese (mix like an omelet and throw ad pasta)
Olive oil + chopped garlic + parmasan cheese

Also, liver, learn to love it, really nutrisious and delicious when done well.

[gaelic cowboy]

Really? That smells

How does one get swole in OZ?

I figured foodstuffs would be cheap there.....at least meat

Thats cos a lot of the time it actually is proper ingredients as opposed to filled with things to bulk it up like sugar, salt, water etc etc course we have the rubbish too.

[naut]

Really? That smells

How does one get swole in OZ?

I figured foodstuffs would be cheap there.....at least meat

Taking a guess I'd say because our minimum wage and average weekly pay would offset it. From what a can glean from some google-fu the US average weekly wage is around $750, whereas the average weekly wage here breaks the $1000 mark. Some things are cheap - beef is relatively cheap, anything imported from Asia is cheap (like rice for example). Stuff like tuna, bananas ($12 a kilo currently) and walnuts are pricey here. The other issue is it's not easy to buy bulk. Everything (except liquids) comes in half kilo packs, not always possible to buy 2.5 kilos of something and save money that way.