Food for one who refuses to cook and likes delivered chow: $150-200.
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Buying delivered food that budget would allow one person to eat about one meal every second day here in South Carolina.
How on Earth do you get by for $40. for electric? What do you heat with, corncobs?
Coal that came with the house...there’s about five years’ worth of coal in the basement. Buying it now would amount to around $400 a year. I’ve always lived in big houses, and in the winter you just use fewer rooms and make sure the doors are shut. Same with the lights. You can only be in one room at a time.
But everything in central PA is cheap. Utilities, real estate, taxes.
As for the food, I’m 100 lbs. and the McD is three blocks away. If I needed to save pennies I could walk there, buy 3 McChickens for $1/each and have trouble finishing them in 24 hours; for sure I wouldn’t have room for anything else. Imagine if I liked beans, which are maybe 30 cents a can. Three pizzas delivered comes to $17. Do you know how long it takes me to eat 3 large pizzas by myself? Long time! :)
I consider myself kind of profligate about food, paying for deliveries, leaving tips, and buying junk food. Smart, healthy food cooked by me would probably cost around $75 a month.