Groceries, including $12 of cheese, $5 of sweet Italian sausage, $5 for eggs from the farmer’s market that didn’t taste any different from the usual less-do-goody eggs that cost a dollar less, and $12 of cookies that I needed very badly: $47
Current estimate of percentage of groceries eaten by myself: 75%
Adjusted grocery income, rounded to nearest dollar: $35
Eating out, including a much-needed cheeseburger and fries after the NYC Century ride on Sunday, and an bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich on a toasted sesame bagel: $15
Gatorade and Payday bar expenses incurred during NYC Century: $7
Adjusted total for the week: $57
Posts Tagged bagels
Adam’s Spending, Week 13
Sep 14
The best bagels in Portland, if I do say so myself.
When people here in Portland find out that we moved here from New York, the conversation invariably works its way around to bagels. “How do you like the bagels in Portland?” they want to know. “Who do you think makes the best bagels here?”
Street Meat image by Daniel Krieger (dot com) via Midtown Lunch (dot com)
At this point, I think we can all agree that eating well on 50 bucks a week really isn’t that hard. Sure, there are challenges and we sometimes cheat, but if we are careful at the grocery store or farmers’ market and cook all of our meals at home, Adam, Cari and I have proved that one can stay fairly well fed while spending damn close to 50 dollars a week. They key to this success, of course, is the cooking-all-of-our-meals-at-home part.
So, what is one to do when traveling? Well, readers, I’m about to find out. Read the rest of this entry »
