<prompt> Human: Im analyzing my 2017 credit card statements, and the biggest part that stuck out to me was food spending.Using the credit cards spend analyzer tool, I spent approximately 300 a month in restaurants, and 200 on groceries. A chunk of the restaurant bill was expensed on my work, so its marginally lower.Im approximately 450 a month on food. Is this particularly problematic? I could be on my schools meal plan which goes for about 2K a semester, so Im still doing better than what most other students are doing. Food accounts for about 33 of my discretionary spending not including rent or bills etc.Obviously theres a lot of room for improvement since I see many people promoting the 300month guideline. But Im very into fitness and as an above-average sized male, its fairly reasonable for me to go beyond that. I could go on the rice and chicken diet, but sometimes school pressure just drags me towards diners or semi healthy fast food options. If Im running late for class Ill just end up grabbing brunch from whatevers on campus. My TDEE is 2800 cals a day, so that is 40 more than the standard 2000 benchmark.Should this be a particular concern for me? This cost hopefully will go down if I split it with a SO and start packing my own lunch cooking breakfast more often. For what its worth, I still have over 15 of my gross income set away for retirement.  <response>: Food costs vary a lot with area cost of living and your personal choices. If youre looking for some officialish guidelines, the USDA comes out with cost of food plans: We spend much more than that, but that includes fairly liberal restaurant and coffee shop use. 