$150/yr food budget

[Anonymous No.16915224]

https://nypost.com/2021/10/27/man-spent-150-yearly-on-six-flags-food-paid-off-student-debt/

>Hungry for financial flexibility, a California man named Dylan shelled out a measly $150 a year to eat every meal at Six Flags Magic Mountain in order to save thousands, pay off his student loan debt, get married and purchase a house in Los Angeles.

>“You can pay around $150 for unlimited, year-round access to Six Flags, which includes parking and two meals a day,” Dylan, 33, explained to Mel Magazine Monday. “If you time it right, you could eat both lunch and dinner there every day.”

>The theme park offers guests a “premium season dining pass” which allows visitors to enjoy lunch and dinner items, as well as a snack and unlimited drinks during every visit on any regular operating day, per Six Flags Magic Mountain’s website. The deal, which doesn’t include alcoholic beverages, is listed on the site at $109.99 plus tax.

Why haven't you taken the SixFlagspill yet, /ck/?

[Anonymous No.16915229]

We already had this thread, faggot.

[Anonymous No.16915299]

>One of my coworkers said she spent $1,500 a month on eating out, I was like, ‘Yeah, I’m not going down that road!’”

This is such boomer shit. “See you can eat for $150/year if you really wanted to save for a home and family, quit spending $50 a day on eating out”

Let’s see a picture of this fat fuck who wasted god knows how much time waiting in lines to get into an amusement park to eat garbage.

[Anonymous No.16915329]

>>16915224
should i do this anons

[Anonymous No.16915346]

>>16915224
>doesn’t include alcoholic beverages

[Anonymous No.16915350]

>>16915299
>This is such boomer shit.
I thought the latest memery was "froofroo no capping sigma grinder mindset" or whatever. This seems to mesh perfectly with that retarded forced meme.

[Anonymous No.16915380]

i'm going to base this off a $200/month food budget for a single man not buying much anything fancy.
1 year cost=$2400, minus 150 (the difference in the two budgets), times 7 years= $15750 which does not pay off student loans. Plus this is assuming he eats every meal at six flags, and not accounting for extra gas/time he has to spend going to six flags for every meal.
>>16915329
no

[Anonymous No.16915387]

>>16915224
If only he hadn't been forced at gunpoint to take out a student loan

[Anonymous No.16915399]

>>16915380
>Plus this is assuming he eats every meal at six flags, and not accounting for extra gas/time he has to spend going to six flags for every meal.
Apparently he slept in his car in the parking lot, the parking pass was included in the season pass.

[Anonymous No.16915455]

>having to sleep in your car and eat amusement park for a year just to pay off a third of your student loan debt
how is america a first world country again?

[Anonymous No.16915459]

>having to sleep in your car and eat amusement park food for a year just to pay off a third of your student loan debt
how is america a first world country again?

[Anonymous No.16915468]

>>16915299
Why are you so angry at this person who has done nothing to you?

[Anonymous No.16915474]

>>16915459
actually reading this, he did this for SEVEN YEARS
all while working as an electrical engineer, which is 60k/year as a junior EE
at this point i don't know if you can chalk it down to thriftiness, dude is just legit sick in the head

[Anonymous No.16915476]

>>16915380
>200/month
When's the last time you were in a grocery store?

[Anonymous No.16915502]

>>16915476
$50 isn't an unreasonably high *or* low estimate
buy a whole chicken, some ground pork, a dozen eggs, rice, plenty vegetables, plus whatever seasonings you need
as long as you're not buying freezer meals and precooked shit you should be sweet

[Anonymous No.16915517]

>>16915502
$50* a week

[Anonymous No.16915549]

>>16915224
So why didn't he just apply for food stamps?

[Anonymous No.16915550]

>>16915502
Why are /ck/ fags so fucking destitute that they need to eat like this?

[Anonymous No.16915649]

>>16915550
This retard is actually proud of living in his car in a fucking park lot for two years, destroying his health, and wasting two whole years of his life, just to pay off the debt for a useless piece of paper that obviously didn't give him enough skills or knowledge to avoid this horrible existence. It's like this on every 4chan board, plebbit, and every other forum on the internet. You always have these retarded turbo poor autists that go to extremes to save an inconsequential amount of money. I used to see this all the time in the early 2000s on vbulletin forums.

[Anonymous No.16915689]

>>16915229
owned

[Anonymous No.16915732]

>>16915474
I'm guessing he was always a ridiculous Scrooge and taking out a big loan just broke his mind. Guarantee he does plenty of other weird shit to save pennies day to day.

[Anonymous No.16915748]

>>16915550
The internet is a place for extremism, because it's more entertaining
Either you live off beans and rice, or order takeaway truffles every day
Nobody's interested in the normal

[Anonymous No.16915750]

>>16915649
Alright grandad tell us more about Delphi

[Anonymous No.16915754]

>>16915474
i've known engineers and doctors that have lived like this, myself included. managed to eat rice and beans every day since i graduated.

[Anonymous No.16915758]

>>16915224
The closest I've done to this was with Olive Garden Pasta Pass that I won. I'd eat in and get a portion to go home.
It wasn't viable as it was a ten mile drive, you could only dine in, and it was only good for a month.

[Anonymous No.16915759]

>>16915754
lol
>>16915748

[Anonymous No.16915765]

>>16915758
>Driving 20 miles for a portion of pasta
You ended up losing money

[Anonymous No.16915775]

>>16915502
>>16915550
The worst you really have to resort to is using coupons and sales or even stick to clearance items.
If you're trying to eat plant based food every meal, expect $5/lb for burgers or tendies.

[Anonymous No.16915786]

>>16915765
This was years when gas was under $3. I probably broke even if I wasn't planning on going out already.

[Anonymous No.16915872]

>>16915549
Even as an intern, he probably made too much. Electrical engineering pays.

[Anonymous No.16916151]

So i can assume that you can't actually do this anymore and they're gonna nip this in the bud so homeless people don't start trying to pull this off?

[Anonymous No.16916488]

>>16915399
So this motherfucker just /lived/ at six flags for a year? That's like Rollercoaster tycoon npc behavior.

[Anonymous No.16916905]

>>16915550
>>16915775
i'm not destitute
the above post is similar to my shopping list on a given week
just today, i bought two chickens*, a winter melon, 1kg of rice, some garlic, a basil plant, 12 eggs, some gai lan and a handful of birds eye chillis
that's enough to meal prep for the next 4 days at work - khao man gai and pad krapow gai
worked out to $20, i eat oatmeal for breakfast every day so didn't need to reup on oats.
again, if you want to buy premade tendies or impossible burgers, your perogative, but if you buy real ingredients and do the cooking, its pretty cheap to eat well

*they were on sale, was planning on buying one and some pork, but how could i not?

[Anonymous No.16917165]

>>16915387
Nobody's forced, but it's just drilled into our heads by our teachers and guidance counselors, and the heads of our parents by politicians and the media, that we have no future unless we go to 4 year degree college. And if you're extra good and become a STEM lord, you get 6 figure salary to start and within 4 years of graduating you can pay off your loan and downpayment homeownership.

[Anonymous No.16917169]

>>16915387
Nobody's forced, but it's just drilled into our heads by our teachers and guidance counselors, and the heads of our parents by politicians and the media, that we have no future unless we go to 4 year degree college. And if you're extra good and become a STEM lord, you get 6 figure salary to start and within 4 years of graduating you can pay off your loan and downpayment homeownership. Because theres a giant deficit of STEM majors; which is all totally true and not just a corporate ploy to produce oversized candidate pool for every position, when everyone and their dog is getting a STEM degree from here to China and India.

[Anonymous No.16917177]

>>16915224
>didn't learn to weld instead and doesn't have to pay for shitty useless "student loan"
Dumbass, he could've bought a house 7 years sooner

[Anonymous No.16917187]

>>16917169
>>16915649
Yeah I've been a neet for five years since I got my computer science degree. if you add that to the time I spent in school. I have wasted 8 years of my life doing absolutely nothing and gaining no skills or knowledge. I have no clue what to do. It's too late for me bros. I don't even know how to drive..

[Anonymous No.16917189]

>>16917177
>muh buy a house dude
buying a house is overrated. its not like i have a family or a personality. dont see what id get out of it. my savings just climb and climb and ive got nothing i want to spend it on

[Anonymous No.16917249]

>>$50AUD\month budget
its tough, but you could probably live for a while without being malnourished on just $50 a month.
I used woolies non-sale items as a guide, and its mainly rice, pasta, canned lentils, pasta sauce, chicken noodles, instant coffee and soy milk (soy is 10c cheaper), loaf of bread.
This also assumes you only have access to unlimited hot water (since thats free in most places like 7\11, mcdonnalds, etc), and 1 pot\bowl\container to cook and eat out of.

currently at $1.41 but only 1322 kcal per day. still have another 25c ish left to spend so a pack of beef noodles would bring that upto $1.66 and 1738 kcal per day (which is just under $50\month). if you dont mind throwing luck into the equation, hunting for near-expired items like milk, walking the suburbs looking for 'public' fruit trees, or looking on marketplace for unused food, you could either save a bit more money, or just eat better

[Anonymous No.16917252]

>>16917249
breakfast
>>coffee with milk - 12c - 60 kcal
>>chicken noodles - 25c - 416 kcal

meal
>>100g pasta - 16c - 370 kcal
>>100g pasta sauce - 31c - 59 kcal

>>100g rice - 30c - 350 kcal
>>75g canned lentils - 27c - 67 kcal

total - $1.41 - 1322 kcal


can any anons in other countries do better?

[Anonymous No.16917274]

>>16915224
>which allows visitors to enjoy lunch and dinner items
I first noticed this in fast food threads, why are people calling meals items now? Not to get too skitzo...

[Anonymous No.16917286]

>>16917274
an item from either the lunch menu or the dinner menu. the item could be a meal, but it could also be some peanuts (which nobody should call a meal)

[Anonymous No.16917294]

>>16917169
Wierd how some of us didn't go anyway and got trade jobs instead. Almost like when we sat in the class, and the counselor asked who was going to college, we looked around at all the hands in the air.

Dum is dum. You were dum.

[Anonymous No.16917295]

>>16917274
Items are meal components, brainlet

[Anonymous No.16917297]

>dum

[Anonymous No.16917298]

>>16915380
>$200/month food budget
Fin bro here. Currently at 50€-70€ per month budget.

[Anonymous No.16917304]

>>16915299
$50/day/person seems like a reasonable amount? A meal at McDonald's is around $32, and then you have $18 for breakfast and lunch. You could spend the $18 on lunch if you buyed poptarts for breakfast instead

[Anonymous No.16917317]

>>16917295
Items are anything brainlet. Why not use a more specific word? Or is this to train the cattle to eat items?

[Anonymous No.16917320]

>>16917304
Stop buying the French fries and big macs retard. 3 double cheese. Idk about 50 bucks a week but 32 for a single meal is retardation

[Anonymous No.16917327]

>>16917304
50$/day is obese person

[Anonymous No.16917374]

>>16917317
Take your meds schizo

[Anonymous No.16917384]

>>16915748
quality insight

[Anonymous No.16917389]

>>16917374
I already did why the fuck do you think im on 4chan? I'm not doing some wierd study so obviously I'm either drunk or nursing my hangover same as everyone

[Anonymous No.16917394]

>>16915224
If your food budget is what keeps you from paying your debt you're probably really stupid with your money.

[Anonymous No.16917395]

>>16917249
was backpacker in NSW about 10 years ago. Me and two other blokes pooled our last $15 together for food. we spend $11 total. For a week while we worked in an orchard waiting for our first paycheck. Homebrand pasta and passata and deenz. And all the fruit we could steal.

Three men. $11 for a week.

[Anonymous No.16917396]

>>16917395
Bro that sounds depressing as fuck. Orchard jobs are basically slave labour lmao

[Anonymous No.16917404]

>>16917395
>+ the value of everything you stole
Anyway, eating little for a week is nothing special. $150 for an entire year is pretty amazing.

[Anonymous No.16917422]

>>16917396
>>16917395
>>16917249
cont. (also forgot the homebrand "parmesan" cheese. Yuck)

depressing? it was the time of my life. I will never be as sharp and fit as I was then. collect gibs and work for cash. Rent was free because we were camping Other backpackers taught us how to scam pizza and utilize charities. We learned how to turn our excess fruit in alcohol. We learned to trade. We once walked into an RT Edwards with our Tupperwares full of pasta and used the display microwave to nuke it. what the fuck were they going to do about it? None of us had washed in days. depressing? I've never been so free.

[Anonymous No.16917436]

>>16917374
Sorry, I'm just not gonna eat the bugs lol. Just don't wanna. Not gonna do it.

[Anonymous No.16917440]

>>16917422
Jajaja you think backpacking for peanuts while the boss makes cashews is the only way to learn this shit?
So learning to steal, swindle and create booze is some sort of life to be living?
I can tell you making cider is piss easy and every who works at a juice factory is doing it lmao.

[Anonymous No.16917453]

>>16917317
You will eat the items.
You will live in the locations.
And you will feel it.

[Anonymous No.16917461]

>>16917395
>And all the fruit we could steal.
sorry to bust your romantic idea of your youthful thievery, but there's an unwritten orchard 'code' and I guarantee in the eyes of the guy who owns and runs that orchard you weren't stealing fruit, you were eating fruit.

[Anonymous No.16917540]

>>16915224
So the guy lived on tendies, fries and soda for seven years.........so he could buy a house in LA (aka hell on earth).
The guy is clearly autistic as fuck.

[Anonymous No.16917693]

What a great deal. Idiots seething itt

[Anonymous No.16917753]

>>16915224
>i do NOT value my time

[Anonymous No.16917786]

>>16915350
only jews use the word forced meme to describe a natural meme from the people. the only forced meme are globohomo shit like foreign invaders are called refugees and immigrants

[Anonymous No.16917790]

>>16915299
He's probably not fat... but it sure isn't the healthiest food I'd imagine.

Eating on a poor person budget in general isn't healthy to begin with. It's no different.

[Anonymous No.16918073]

>>16917440
T. Just doesn’t get it

[Anonymous No.16918083]

>>16918073
I know your type, it's ok. You experienced esotericism for the first time while picking apples and feel enlightened by some communal fallback.

[Anonymous No.16918220]

>>16918083
I’m not even the anon that was bumming around Australia picking apples. I’m just stating that your materialist worldview is holding you back.
The people who have never experienced true freedom understand it the least

[Anonymous No.16918263]

>>16918220
Fool you are for you assume I haven't.

[Anonymous No.16918273]

>>16915224
Now that we’ve had this thread 2-3 times now someone post pictures of food from there and the menus

[Anonymous No.16918432]

>>16918263
Because I can tell you haven’t.

[Anonymous No.16918460]

>>16915380
Yeah, the math on this whole thing doesn't add up.
It's literally "this man found the 1 secret that DOCTORS don't want YOU to KNOW ABOUT"

[Anonymous No.16918564]

All this bloviating about college being too expensive and millennials needing to eat shoes to survive is just nonsense made up to justify socialist politics. I went to college for a marketing degree which isn't even a "good one" and I worked in marketing for 3 years, earned from 60k to 80k doing that (three promotions) then switched jobs to work in customer support for a database software we used, and now make over 6 figures. I'm not even a hard worker or some kind of social networker; I'm half a sperg who was diagnosed with ADHD and been browsing this website for over a decade. All my friends got retarded humanities degrees and they all have easy office jobs with a ton of free time and an extremely relaxed standard of living. I have no idea where these poor downtrodden starving millennials are but they must be a bottom of the barrel cohort of utter retards if they can't make it in today's easy world.

[Anonymous No.16918600]

>>16918564
ok boomer

[Anonymous No.16918637]

>>16915329
>should i do this anons
The reason they offer deals like this is because the vast majority of people who pay for them get sick of it after one or two visits and they make more money than they would have if these customers just paid the normal price instead.

[Anonymous No.16918650]

>>16918600
I'm 26 retard. I hope you're still a high schooler and only believe the memes because you have no personal experience to draw from. If you seriously graduated college and can't manage to get an entry-level job pushing papers somewhere, you either aren't trying or you're an utter genetic failure.

[Anonymous No.16918666]

>>16918650
>I'm 26 retard.
Then why do you act like a boomer?

[Anonymous No.16918687]

>>16915775
Frozen boneless skinless chicken breast is $4 a pound, chicken tenderloin are around the same, maybe a bit more. 48 oz 73/27 ground bee is $4 a pound. Can be as cheap as $1.88 per pound when it's on sale.

[Anonymous No.16918695]

>>16915224

>Spend $100 in gas every day for my two free meals

I'll pass

[Anonymous No.16918735]

>>16915550
What's so bad about chicken, pork, rice, veg...? That's just normal food? What do you eat that's so much better than that anyway, anon, I'm curious.

[Anonymous No.16918842]

>>16918666
Well, I'll admit that things aren't as easy as it was for boomers, I mean we have to go to college in the first place to get the same standard of living that boomers got with a high school diploma. The fact that I needed a degree at all to do what I did is total bullshit since I don't even use anything I learned in college to do my job. I could've started 4 years earlier and saved 50 grand. But even still, all things considered, life is not difficult whatsoever and the student loan payments are so small I don't even notice them. Compared to how much I'll earn thanks to the degree, it's insignificant. I would not do things differently if I had to start over.
For comparison I do have a friend from town who skipped college and did the trade route. He's a journeyman electrician in a union. He makes less money than me and has to travel around and actually do physical work, including long hours on the weekends. Plus he has to hang out with boomers and unintellectual dropouts all day. Being a contrarian sperg, I do not exactly like the soymale modern office culture myself, or the gay stuff, but it's still better to be with other people my age who at least know about internet memes and play games, like interesting music, read books, like trying expensive and new foods, etc. I really do not think most people here would actually enjoy hanging out with tattooed old boomers who only talk about cable news and the nagging wife.

[Anonymous No.16918845]

>>16918666
>if you aren’t a learned-helplessness nihilist doomer you are a boomer
What degree of cuckoldry is this?

[Anonymous No.16918909]

>>16917327
>it's trivial to pack on calories eating fast food
>large "frozen coffee", muffin AND breakfast sandwich for breakfast
>includes 2 drink refills AND a mcflurry on top of his QP meal for lunch
>"meatloaf meal" includes 2 sides PLUS a (hopefully) single-person pot pie and EXTRA gravy for dinner
>1000 calories of pie for desert
>this is a typical day
That sounds like the exact opposite of trivial

[Anonymous No.16918924]

>>16915299
>>16917790
>He's probably not fat
Read the article, he stopped doing it because he got insanely fat

[Anonymous No.16919053]

>>16915299
>you WILL eat take out
>you WILL spend $1500/month on food
>you WILL like it

[Anonymous No.16919080]

>>16915224
This guy is a retard for making this public and ruining it for others. My idiot friend used to jet ski to work on NYC and told some reporter he did this and the next day they made it illegal to do that

[Anonymous No.16919094]

Feels good to have my parents pay for M Scs for me and my sister.