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Author	artfuldodger1212
Comment	I never quite understand these comments. So you make a cauliflower macaroni and cheese for £4. How? I am assuming you are using not butter, milk, mustard, breadcrumbs, nothing like that or else there is just no possible way that can be accurate. Do you just melt some cheese over cooked pasta and boiled cauliflower and call it a day? You don't mention any breakfast beyond having a cereal bar which is basically just refined sugar, You get several meals from minimal amounts of food (I am guessing neither your partner or you have very active lifestyles but still). Putting your meals into a calories counter for the the first day indicates you are running on 1650 calories using standard packaging sizes from Aldi. Are you supplementing that somehow? Are you both quite overweight and working on losing weight just now. For your first meal I bumped you up to 2 pack of pancetta and a full 500 grams of pasta and you are still looking at just under 1500 calories which is divided into 4 meals so like 375 calories per meal. I work out a lot so require a lot more calories but outlining what you did there I am guessing you are mistaken in your spend. Unless you are supplementing you caloric intake with this £30 of booze which would not exactly be the picture of health. Are we talking three bottles of Glenns vodka or 2 bottles of wine? Either way with your low caloric intake and presumably pretty sedentary lifestyle you are likely drinking too much mate.
Reddit Link	https://www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/zizn1q/how_much_money_do_you_spend_for_food_and_where/izww1zl/
Created	Mon 12th Dec 2022 1:25pm
Status	normal ()

I never quite understand these comments.

So you make a cauliflower macaroni and cheese for £4. How? I am assuming you are using not butter, milk, mustard, breadcrumbs, nothing like that or else there is just no possible way that can be accurate. Do you just melt some cheese over cooked pasta and boiled cauliflower and call it a day?

You don't mention any breakfast beyond having a cereal bar which is basically just refined sugar, You get several meals from minimal amounts of food (I am guessing neither your partner or you have very active lifestyles but still). Putting your meals into a calories counter for the the first day indicates you are running on 1650 calories using standard packaging sizes from Aldi. Are you supplementing that somehow? Are you both quite overweight and working on losing weight just now.

For your first meal I bumped you up to 2 pack of pancetta and a full 500 grams of pasta and you are still looking at just under 1500 calories which is divided into 4 meals so like 375 calories per meal. I work out a lot so require a lot more calories but outlining what you did there I am guessing you are mistaken in your spend. Unless you are supplementing you caloric intake with this £30 of booze which would not exactly be the picture of health. Are we talking three bottles of Glenns vodka or 2 bottles of wine? Either way with your low caloric intake and presumably pretty sedentary lifestyle you are likely drinking too much mate.