<prompt> Human: Hello all, I have been using Mint to track my Net Income and growth over time. As of late, if feels like I am making only minimal progress or some months even a net loss. I am trying to sort out a budget and would really appreciate any advice.I am 26 years old working as a Project Manager in the software industry. The role is grossing me 45kyr and I end up taking home around 2950 after tax per month.Currently, my average month looks like the following: 1050 Rent incl. utilities, 799 Food Groceries, Dine Out, etc., 200 Bills 100 Internet, 61 Mobile Phone, etc., 192 Student Loan Repayment 12k remaining, currently making minimum payments, and anywhere from 300-700 on General Shopping expenses.I was also putting away around 125 per week into my TFSA, although I stopped this a couple months ago to reign in some credit card debt.My goals right now are to just build up a stable base. The TFSA is mostly my emergency budget, and I dont have a stable RRSP or equivalent retirement flow.EDIT: I should also mention I am Canadian so the TFSA and RRSP are savings vessels.Any tips?Assistant: 799 for food seems very high to me. Thats 26.6 dollars per day. Do you dine out twice a day typically? I think this would be the easiest area to trim down.300-700 on general shopping expenses also seems very high. What are these shopping expenses?Human: Yeah, I am looking deeper at food expenses now: 282 Grocery, 243 Restaurant, 112 Work Lunches. So I think Ill just need to really reign in that Dine Out spending.For other shopping, thats anything from Clothing, Supplies, Entertainment, Hobby, Gaming.  <response>: Okay. 282 243 112 637 for food which is much more reasonable than 799. Do you know what the discrepancy with your original estimate is?300-400 for other spending is reasonable, but not 700. Why such a large range? Do you tend to splurge at times? 