Left to my own devices it’d be about $100/month.

Rice, beans, pasta, peanut butter, oatmeal, and then whatever fruit and vegetables are cheap.

With the social life included, there’s more expenses. Did dinner out last week for $60 (a nice local Thai place). Ordered a pizza with a friend who was feeling down and watched Star Trek together for like $30.

Other non-rice meals with my partner can also be more expensive. We air-fried up some potatoes and vegan “meat” last night and it was good.

There’s an app called “too good to go” that lets you get cheap food near the end of day. It’s stuff the restaurant or grocery was going to have to throw out. Sometimes you get like four slices of pizza for $4, or a platter of Korean food for $6. Seems good and not enshittified yet.

Where is your protein? Peanut butter and beans are mediocre to okay for protein.

TF would you have them eating for protein? Hummus? Gruel? Peanut butter and beans are some of the best proteins on earth pound for pound.

I think plant proteins are lacking in something. I’m sympathetic to vegitarianism, but their brains shrink like 7% or something after a number of years it’s been reported.

I’m gonna need to see some sources on that one. I seriously doubt that any credible studies have shown anything of the sort.

It was reported in the newspapers maybe 15 years back. Believe the study, or no, I don’t give a fuck.