Reply #9: The wife and I eat dinner for about $7 a night

[Indenturedebtor]

And often we have leftovers that feed us the next night. Now we're not huge people - we're both about 5'10" and not overweight, but we eat healthy portions.

I buy meat when it's at a good price and freeze it. My freezer is almost entirely full of meat.

We eat usually one portion of meat and 2 portions of fresh vegetables that she gets from the farmers market every sunday. Other than that we eat canned veggies. We eat spaghetti twice a week usually. And we normally only have carbs for lunch in the form of sandwiches.

The key is to make everything from scratch. Flour, eggs, milk, butter, tomatoes, onions - that's all you need to make about 400 things, and if you buy your tomatoes canned all of these things are rediculously cheap! Our food bill is a very small part of our budget and we eat very well.