My Family Eats on Less than $400/Month: Modern Peasant Primer

I have a family of five – three adults and two children, aged 5 and 2. We eat on a budget of about 70 € EUR a week, which is around $80 per week, averaging to less than $400 USD/month. I made a bold statement, which created quite a stir on a recent Facebook post: The intent of the meme was the beautiful sentiment about immigrants. I said it was something Anthony Bourdain might say. However, what my eye couldn’t help catch was the total bill amount. It looks like 3 people had breakfast out and it cost almost $100 US dollars. I exclaimed that this was more than my grocery budget for 6 weeks. I Was Wrong Well, folks, I will share with you something that everyone who knows […]