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No_Principle8258 t1_j3uq2pt wrote

HCOL city.

  • Peanut butter $4
  • 5lb bag Sweet Potatoes $6
  • Kale bag $3
  • pasta sauce $2
  • pasta (2lb) $4
  • rice (20lb bag lasts us a month) $38.98/30 days so roughly $8/wk
  • carrot $.89
  • onion $1.09
  • ground chicken $4.99 (1lb)
  • ground turkey $15.49 (3 lb)
  • ground beef $5.99 (1 lb)
  • frozen salmon ~18oz $18 (more fresh, lower price than thawed)
  • whole cantaloupe $4
  • Lactaid (only 1/wk - family has issues with lactose) $8
  • oatmeal lasts a decent while, but also cheap $5
  • occasionally buy nuts to throw in meals, but it’s more expensive than peanut butter snacks. This would add on most of the price.

Sometimes we drive up to fruit farms/vegetable farms and grab a ton of extras for low cost. Think $1/lb avocados, strawberries, etc. really helps us diversify since they can’t get enough people to harvest it all and sell.

Hope that clarifies any confusion. We don’t buy everything every week, and we eat everything, no leftovers. The full list is closer to $100 than $75.

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HopeFox t1_j3u45q6 wrote

So, neither the x-axis nor the y-axis is linear. The age values are spaced at apparently random intervals, and I'm looking at the difference between 620M and 1.4B, and the second bar does not look like it's 2.3 times the height of the first one. So this isn't really a "graph", just some pictures with numbers attached.

Besides, a logarithmic scale for the y-axis would be much more appropriate. Turning $1B into $2B is much more impressive than turning $10B into $11B.

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