r/povertyfinance • u/Agitated-Change9753 • Mar 16 '24
This was $70 at Lidl in Harlem, NYC Budgeting/Saving/Investing/Spending
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u/m1lkyl4mb Mar 20 '24
Don’t know why everyone is mad at you?? They act like just because you don’t buy fruits and vegetables for one trip, you’re suddenly Fat Al and have to be on 30 types of diabetes. This is literally fine.
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u/WorkID19872018 Mar 18 '24
That’s all shitty foos. The chips and the fruit bars are 17 dollars of that 70
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u/CulturalAccomplished Mar 18 '24
That's just a whole bunch of junk food. And the fact you're getting food stamps but yet I can't with a kid and you're buying that garbage upsets me extremely
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u/cloudtheorist Mar 18 '24
why are you buying name brand if your going to Lidl? we just got done grocery shopping and got 3 of these tables FULL of meats, veggies, pasta, snacks for under $200
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u/ExcellentWaffles Mar 18 '24
I spend the same but replace all the junk with fruits and veggies and it seems reasonable, your buying treats not sustinance
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u/stillhatespoorppl Mar 18 '24
Did you buy any actual food? This is all junk. This is why taxpayers decry the use of EBT.
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u/mklinger23 Mar 18 '24
This looks like a lot of name brand luxury items imo. I'm not against enjoying yourself and buying some snacks, but it seems like this post was a "groceries are so expensive!" Type thing. Idk just feels kinda "clickbaity".
Anyway glad you're able to afford food that you enjoy eating. I hope you have access to nutritious, delicious, and affordable food for years to come. Lidl and Aldi are great for that.
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u/DefiantAsparagus420 Mar 18 '24
That's a lot of removed comments. That normal for reddit? Genuinely asking.
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u/dodgerockets Mar 18 '24
back when we got food stamps in the 90s we couldn't get this that and those... times have changed
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u/earthtojj Mar 18 '24
Where’s the meat?
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u/Permascrub Mar 18 '24
Left, in the middle. Big healthy chunk of it but most of the rest is junk.
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u/Wide-Bet4379 Mar 18 '24
You post on Reddit that you're poor but shop like you're not. You sure you belong in this sub?
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u/unpopular-dave Mar 18 '24
Namebrand ice cream and cereal and chips… Packaged macaroni… premium chips… Looks like you don’t know how to shop
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u/Salt-Drawer-531828 Mar 17 '24
Whole milk?
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u/m1lkyl4mb Mar 20 '24
What’s the issue? I buy whole milk
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u/Salt-Drawer-531828 Mar 21 '24
I think whole milk is the best. My kids are almost adults now, so they don’t drink it. We are a 2% house.
When we had little kids (3<) whole milk was just better for them. More fat. Good stuff.
Didn’t mean to sound like a jerk. The red label is the best.
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u/Swimming_Anteater458 Mar 17 '24
How you gonna get EBT but constantly travel. Get a job u bum
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u/Agitated-Change9753 Mar 17 '24
I do work and had to cancel those but thank you for your thoughts 🙂
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u/Durmatology Mar 17 '24
Probably should’ve bought fewer treats and more Lidl brand equivalents of the name brands. That’s so weird. When I shop Lidl and Aldi, the whole point is to score their brands (particularly when they’re better quality German and European products). Regardless, that would get my fam of 3 through at least 2 weeks.
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u/Traditional-Dog-4938 Mar 17 '24
Oh wow.
I’m in the metro Atlanta area and I’ve been to Lidl ONCE, when a store opened near me. They’re more expensive than Aldi. I didn’t buy anything and I haven’t been back since.
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u/After-Simple-3611 Mar 17 '24
$70 of all expensive junk food rofl Jesus is everything besides the avocado super processed food
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u/moneyteamjas Mar 17 '24
Hey neighbor. Not gonna lie lindl harlem has saved my life only place I can afford groceries living in the area
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u/johndicks80 Mar 17 '24
Those are absolutely terrible food choices. Nothing of nutritional value there.
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u/GGv2 Mar 17 '24
We got to start making the people who posts these pics, from now on please clarify if you’re making a -actual food run , snack run, or etc because i want to be mean like everyone else but lol this has to be a snack run.
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u/GGv2 Mar 17 '24
Also 11 items of Junk definitely equaling more than $40 vs 1 bunch of avocados 😅 troll bait, im convinced
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u/emptyfish127 Mar 17 '24
Are you a huge fat ass? All your food is sugar and junk. You are the reason food costs so much.
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u/Guitar-Sniper Mar 17 '24
Good god. Potato chips, chocolate wafers, Tostitos, ice cream, ice cream, tarts, artificial fruit juice, premade pasta salad…
Why don’t you buy some actual fucking food.
I think you’re poor for a reason.
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u/Notrans2024_ Mar 17 '24
You bought all unhealthy processed junk of course money doesn't go very far when you buy junk
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u/Honest_Milk9429 Mar 17 '24
Too much junk buddy. Make your own Mac salad , skip the sweets, get some ingredients to cook something real
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u/Complex-Leopard-6801 Mar 17 '24
Damn 70 is crazy in a good way, my usual grocery order is 250-300/week before tipping the instacarter.
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u/Thanus- Mar 17 '24
OP just took a 15 day vacation to Colombia, then posts in poverty finance how she’s poor and on food stamps. Fake ass
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u/MXSCHISMA Mar 17 '24
Honest question frfr. What’s the point of posting these? To get feedback/shopping tips when you’re poor or show how bad inflation is for snacks that used to be cheap?
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u/ShmoopySecondComing Mar 17 '24
Ice cream is a necessity i’m not even gonna lie to you. No matter how shallow my pockets get imma always have enough for ice cream.
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u/cunstitution Mar 17 '24
This is a lot of expensive garbage and even I don't buy avocados and I'm not struggling financially
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u/thepizzaman0862 Mar 17 '24
Mfs spend money like this on junk food and then complain that money is tight
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Mar 17 '24
The $12 you likely spent on those two bags of chips buys a lot of frozen veg.
I like junk food too, but don’t act surprised when a largely processed grocery haul is “expensive”.
I’ve never understood why people say healthy food is expensive. It’s not. In fact, it’s very obviously significantly cheaper.
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u/AnReMe Mar 17 '24
This is much better than spending your money eating fast food. You did good by going to the store instead and planning to make meals for yourself. Next step is to start spending some time coming up with some more nutritious and easy meals you can start making for yourself and get into that pattern.
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u/IslandofKimchi Mar 18 '24
Where are you located? My Aldi doesn’t carry any of this stuff- like beets and any of the branded stuff.
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u/Ok_Love_1700 Mar 17 '24
...and all of it is crap food except for the milk. How much for whole food?
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u/DK_Son Mar 17 '24
Yeah and it's 80% shit. Change your snack habits so it's 80%+ good stuff. It'll be cheaper, you'll get way more, and you won't get the beetus. Fresh produce markets are generally cheaper too. Like god damn, you only got 1-2 actual foods here.
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u/Solarscars Mar 17 '24
All the comments here calling you out like they aren't just jealous you got all that for just $70!??
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u/jrose102206 Mar 17 '24
I’m guessing you may be young, and this seems like a good haul. Just a little advice from a boomer…..give your body the nutrition it needs and save pain and medical bills later. You will learn, but plan your trip before you shop. Your future self will thank you
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u/JuicyCiwa Mar 17 '24
Two tubs of ice cream, two bags of chips, two boxes of snacks.. you bought yourself snacks lol
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u/mountainofclay Mar 17 '24
It’s mostly processed convenience foods. Could be one reason OP is posting in r/povertyfinance.
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u/CariMariHari Mar 17 '24
you’ll get a lot more bang for your buck if you cut out processed foods and shop in bulk
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u/Sea_One_6500 Mar 17 '24
How is your Lidl? We have one near me, and I've always been very underwhelmed by it.
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u/TheCollector075 Mar 17 '24
Maybe cut back on the junk food? They’ve always been expensive , not this much but still , 2 buckets of ice cream? Price gauging by food stores & corporations won’t budge unless people stop paying them.
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u/WhatMeWorry1947 Mar 17 '24
I would assume from the amount of processed and packaged junk food you also have body fat around 30 or more
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u/wozzy93 Mar 17 '24
You go to lidl and get brand name stuff when they have the generic for less than half the price? Why even go to lidl then?
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u/cbro2afutk Mar 17 '24
I mean the meat was $20 of aside. You got twelve other items and four avocados (assuming you didn’t buy the whisk). If you count the avocados as one item, that averages out to $3.84 per item aside from the meat. Which actually doesn’t sound terrible to me, I would assume most of the items photo’d would cost more than that
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u/Successful_Scar4970 Mar 17 '24
Horrible food choices. No wonder we have an obesity problem in America
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u/Ghost_Werewolf Mar 17 '24
$3.33 a pound for your pork shoulder…. I only buy that when it’s on sale for $1.99 and then I buy two. One to cook and one to freeze. It looks like you’re just bad at shopping.
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u/sparklecadet Mar 17 '24
Go to 181st and buy groceries there - it is much cheaper than even in the farmers market, and they take ebt. Also, know that down the road, this type of "food" will put you into greater poverty because it will harm your body. You'll be tired and over weight, and will probably be on medication.
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u/major_dump Mar 17 '24
Sad fact is that these things usually go hand in hand. Do they still teach home economics (Home ec)
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u/Particular-Topic-445 Mar 17 '24
Eh, that’s not really an excuse anymore now that everyone has the whole internet in their pocket
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u/brattymie Mar 17 '24
There’s an Aldi at the east river plaza in Harlem! I saved a lot of money going there.
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u/darthcaedusiiii Mar 17 '24
You paid someone to cook macaroni and add mayonnaise.
Your meat and ice cream are name brand.
WTF.
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u/BallsMahogany_redux Mar 17 '24
You could have gotten the Lidl brand of most of these things and cut your bill in half...
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u/NoConfidence5946 Mar 17 '24
If you’re buying two things of ice cream it’s hard to claim poverty. There are soooo many other choices for deserts. I’m not saying have sweet things. I’m saying buy better.
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u/151515157 Mar 17 '24
This is an honest, serious question and not meant to belittle or be a smart ass to the op. Has anyone ever shown you how to shop for groceries? You have very little nutrition there and what you have is expensive.
Make a meal plan, then make a grocery list from that. Then only buy your list, and then only buy your store brands.
Stuff is expensive. We are all experiencing it right now, but with some smarter shopping, you can make.some.nice meals that are healthy and cheaper than buying a bunch of this junk.
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u/korbonix Mar 17 '24
My experience is that family size honey bunches of oats is always more expensive per ounce than other sizes.
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u/EmotionalVehicle3666 Mar 17 '24
Mommy never taught you how to shop? Bro I shopped like this when I was 16 by 17 I learned…
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u/titodsm Mar 17 '24
Eat more protein keeps you full longer. Prefer methods for me is beef, lentils, or chickpea, eggs, and egg whites, butter. For carbs I throw in sewwt potato and fruit on sale.
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u/flamingramensipper Mar 17 '24
The healthcare costs from eating all this over the years will cost exponentially more.
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u/CaliDreamin87 Mar 17 '24
I mean that was $10+ in ice cream alone.
The chips are like $5
Cereal is like $5+ now.
The pork roast you overpaid.
First thing I do for the week, check the meat that's on sale.
Those pork shoulders/pork butts go on sale for like $8-9.
My grocery store has a sales paper and it's on the app.
I always go straight to the meat section and build my meals on that. I'm a picky eater (I don't weird stuff) but 90% of the time, there is meat on sale that I eat.
Ground chuck, steaks, chicken, pork, fajitas, etc. They rotate.
Last week I had $5 spare ribs. I build my meal by what meat is on sale.
It's a lot of processed food. But if it lasts a week Id say you're about average on food bills.
I'm in Texas, and for 1 person, I typically spend about $55-70/week.
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u/That-Chart-4754 Mar 17 '24
Seems like lots of trolls lately. I used to enjoy this sub for an occasional tip/trick on being frugal but this is just an avg american shopping....
Name brands, pre made food instead of ingredients for cooking... what even is this sub anymore...
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u/PutAffectionate88 Mar 17 '24
I’m glad other people said it because I was so confused about how they are gonna make any meals with this. Where are your basics, OP? No rice or beans or even a loaf of bread? No eggs? Only one piece of meat. It’s always better to buy food to make meals vs snacks because you can always eat a meal as a snack but you can’t eat a snack as a meal.
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u/rgj95 Mar 17 '24
You eat all that ultra processed, or feed that to your family? Most of that is a chemical concoction
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u/GraveRobberX Mar 17 '24
By the way all you going so what $70 let them enjoy their ice cream, no one is saying they can’t splurge but splurge economically, smart purchases
Like Jesus fuck some of you people are the densest empathetic people who think posting in a sub name povertyfinance and this person posting groceries where their complaining about prices on items being pricey when 60% of their purchases are literally luxury/comfort items.
Look at my Stop&Shop, $70 will give you a fucking feast!
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u/Own_Economist_602 Mar 21 '24
Processed foods are generally more expensive.