@crowbar Your own smoked lox and cured salmon sounds delicious! I hope your homemade bagels turn out well!
@crazyme food prices are high here but once I got into the mindset of being thrifty I found I could eat without spending a lot. First of all, stopping the hemorrhaging of money on takeout food and restaurants, and bringing my own food and coffee to work. I buy at immigrant produce storefronts and I buy the sales. I might travel quite a distance by subway to shop. I never used to have a shopping strategy. Now I food-shop strategically.
One issue though is that as I have become more educated and more aware of how horribly contaminated grocery store food is, I find myself reluctantly spending significant money buying certain foods organic and certain foods online from trusted sources. So my food budget is rather high again. Specifically, I buy eggs, fish and meat online. I have cut back on eating meat and fish and eat more eggs, because uncontaminated meat and fish costs so much. I pretty much don’t eat chicken anymore because of how crazy contaminated it is, but if I really want chicken, I buy it online from a trusted source. Another grocery bill problem is that I am trying to eat low-carb, which cuts out a ton of cheap and filling dishes.