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Yesterday I shared with you that I spent $7350 on Energy related expenses and today I’ll share with you that I spent $3000 dining out (mostly breakfast & lunch). So between Energy & Dining (which could be considered energy too) I spent $10,350. I’m pretty amazed by a few things.

1. I had thought that the dining amount would have been more than 3k since I eat out everyday and lunch is usually $10+ a day. I guess I assumed the wrong number of work days. I took $10 x 365 = $3650 but I don’t eat out every single day and certainly not on the weekends.
2. I’m not sure if I should cut back or not. I know someone will post that 3k x 7% x 30 years will earn x amount but I like eating great food; it brings me so much joy!

3. Overall this amount represents a very small portion of my income which begs the question….. how much of your income should you spend on dining out?

In college, I had a roommate from Mexico who swore to me that he lived on $6/week of food. I balked at his insistence that he got by on $6 week for food so I asked him to show me how he did it. We went shopping one day and he purchased a big bag of rice for about $2 and a big bag of beans for about $2 then went on to buy a whole chicken for about another $2. There was no tax on these food items and he would take the three ingredients home cook them on Sunday and he dole out portions for each day for lunch and dinner. He put them in the fridge and that was it.

I was truly amazed and fascinated by his frugality. He did fib a little though because he occasionally would have tortillas and had oil to cook with but it really wasn’t that much more than the $6 since those items lasted him a few weeks.
Of course, the guy was miserable most of the time too. Whenever we’d all go out for beers & fast food he never participated and mooched off of everyone else. As I write this now, I remember a particular incident where a fight almost broke out over who had eaten someone’s Taco Bell Taco. It was there one minute and gone the next. Everyone blamed the Mexican kid but no one had any proof. It was a damned $0.39 taco and a fight almost broke out over it!
Oh those were the days……