Do people really fuck with uncrustables? I almost picked some up tonight
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I wish I could get this much food, I keep ending up buying candles instead
I'm so hungry
Suggestion: Get some canned refried beans. With the tortillas and cheese, you can make burritos.
Better suggestion: Get a bag of dried pinto beans and learn how to make your own beans. It's really simple, just needs to be aimmered a long time.
Am I missing the beans here? Or is this insane to have all these fixens and no beans?
Value wise it's not very good: you could have made the sauces yourself, slice your own cheese, cut your own broccoli, make your own muffins if you really want to save, make your own mac and cheese, etc. Would save you probably 50%.
This is an extremely binary haul. Items are either very healthy or very unhealthy with nothing in between. It's kind of impressive.
Tips: Make your own Mac & Cheese and tortillas. Both are cheap, easy to make, and taste way better than premade stuff.
The kitty seems impressed.
You have a kitty, swiss rolls, and (from the looks of it) a hammock. Are you accepting house guests?
- Muffins/Swiss rolls - depends on how much it is but I get it being a quick comfort food. However, check if there's a bakery of some kind (including
Chinese / Latino bakeries) near you. It's nearly as cheap or cheaper and much fresher. Good bread there too. - Pasta sauce: my wife actually just makes a Alfredo sauce from scratch and it seems to be just a bit more complicated than Mac and cheese sauce. Flour, milk, and cheese. Probably a lot more cost effective.
- Instead of a red tomato sauce I would buy diced tomatoes ( or those fire riasted ones) and dump them over noodles. It tastes better than the bottled red sauce.
- Mac and cheese: see above - but also, if you're going to get it, get the box. The single serve things are worse than the generic box Mac.
-froze spinach is great. Try throwing that in whatever you're cooking. Never goes bad. Already bite sized.
-Also, you gotta report that grocery store. Cats are friends not food.
That is a lot of processed food.
It looks like a reasonable buy for what you're probably used to in terms of cooking, convenience and diet. As long as you get at least one cooked meal in you each day, you're doing good. Don't sweat it if you don't want to, there's plenty of other things to worry about.
If you are looking for some input, I would probably add more varied sources of protein (lentils, nuts, eggs, beans) and fiber (carrots, cabbage, kale, wholegrain), but I also live on another continent and have both other availability and tradition than you might.
If you're worried that your food is too expensive, there's plenty of suggestions in the other replies better geared toward US markets, but I'll also add that you could make groceries last much longer by learning a bit more about cooking. A lot can be gained by using/substituting with local or seasonal ingredients, as well as re-using leftovers and scraps in creative ways.
If learning cooking is a steep lifestyle change, you could also find a group to share the burden with. Do weekly meal preps together, or for each other, or do batch cooking of condiments/pickles/sauces and swap with each other. It's a fun way to learn from each other, keep to the habit, and might even be a nice way to get to know someone.
Cooking 3 dishes (to get enough variety) for the week's meal prep is a big ask, but you could do one batch each and swap with a couple of friends.
Doing batch cooking and canning of sauces is also an excellent way to use up ingredients that are on their way out. Found cheap second assortment tomatoes on a farmer's market? Pasta sauce for a week! Got too much milk? Make some cheese! Someone's apple tree yielding too much fruit? Apple sauce, dried apple crisp/cubes/snacks, base for indian/far east curries/stews, in salads, drinks, snacks as fresh whole apples or wedges, made into jam/marmelade, used as substitute for potatoes or tomatoes, and/or as part of delicious pie or other dessert.
Also: leftovers can almost always be put into a pie crust (water, flour, butter/oil), covered with shredded cheese, and become a Quiche du semaine/pie of the week. With practice you'll find how much of carbs, protein, fibers and flavouring you prefer in it, and you'll make an actual great dish you look forward to.
Your colon is going to hate you.
Only 20% is natural ingredients. 80% is processed foods. Typical futile attempt to eat healthy. Terrible diet.
Try the app for your grocery. Chances are there are coupons for sone of this stuff on the app. Try fresh or frozen green beans next time. Canned green beans are awful.
You can buy a cutter from Amazon to make your own uncrustables. Cheaper and you have more control on flavors.
Learn to cook/bake, you’ll save even more by not buying processed foods. You’ll get more micronutrients too. Less jars, more fresh produce. Look for protein rich vegetables to make up for the lack of meat, or toss in a few eggs into your diet.
I think buying a cat with your groceries was a great idea, what aisle was it in?
You could have bought 16 packs of Oreos for that price!
Not a critique, I first wanted to encourage you to try making your own tortillas, but kinda backtracked since it has a big downside which is that they are so much better that going back to store-bought is kinda a dilemma: they taste much worse, but you don't have to spend hours kneading and rolling and cooking. On the other hand home-made can be frozen, so there is that... If you still might like to give it a go, I use a video from Jack Ovens in YT, which I recommend. Now I want to make tortillas...
How many days worth of food is that?
You can make fresh spinach last longer if you layer in some napkins/paper towels (something something moisture, I don’t really know the science).