<prompt> Human: Hello rpersonalfinance,You might remember this thread from a few weeks ago: What is a reasonable cost per meal per person? by uconstarrWell, I was interested to figure out what this subreddit feels as a group is actually frugal or extravagant, and here was a thread with hundreds of comments of what everyone spends on food, and how they felt about it. So I collected a bunch of data from that, and produced a fancy chart.Fancy ChartEDIT: Switched chart to CostMonth. See bottom.Some quick takeaways and explanationsThe size of each bubble is how many different comments gave those numbers. Frugal seems to be about 100 per month per person, but potentially up to 200month for a single person. Reasonable seems to be around 200 to 400month. Extravagant seems to be 400month and up. usocaldad threw out some numbers that are pretty close, depending on how you read the chart. Good job!As you might guess, a frugal cost per person for a single person 250 is only reasonable for a couple and is extravagant for a family. Here are some completely evidenceless guesses for why that might be: Saving money on meals is easier at scale, especially if one or more adults is not employed. If youre wasting money per person, the more people you feed, the more you waste. Finally, with more people total cost increases, so youre more likely to hit a real world limit on how much you can spend.If youre interested in more scientific numbers, uplural_of_nemesis and ueDUB4206 pointed to two different USDA sources. See the post by uplural_of_nemesis for a quick summary. About the dataIn case youre interested in how I collected the date, here are the details: First, heres a link to the data I started at the top of the thread sorted by best and worked my way down expanding all comments, on Tuesday 2014114 around 5pm PST. I included any number whether it was opinion, how much they spent themselves, or someone they knew. This was never going to be scientific, as the thread asked for opinions. If the comment included whether they thought they were being frugal, reasonable, or extravagant, I recorded that. I did not guess based on the number. Some were inferred, eg: you do what you have to in college I would record as frugal. Very few people actually answered the question in the original thread. We mostly seem to measure food costs by month, and have to do math to get the per meal per person amount. I ignored any amount for a single meal. If I encountered a range, I would average mean the high and the low. I entered data until I hit about 200 data points, when I honestly just got tired. Again, this was never going to be scientific. I would sometimes make multiple data points from one comment, eg: I feel like 1meal is cheap, and about 5 is pretty up there. I threw out a small number of data points with very high cost per meal, anything above 1000month. I didnt think wed learn anything from those, we already know extravagant has no upper limit. Since I was scrutinizing everyone elses numbers, I thought it only fair to include my own here and in the chart: Over the last 6 months, Ive averaged about 450 a month or 5 a meal. This is higher than I would like, but much improved since Ive been following rpersonalfinance and tracking my spending carefully. My side job involves quite a bit of travel, which makes reducing this difficult, but I still try. I considered posting a Google Form for an actual survery, but decided I could start with this and see how everyone liked it.I hope everyone enjoys this. Let me know if you have any questions!EDIT: Removed link to Google interactive version, since it does not seem to be working correctly. EDIT 2: Changed chart and numbers from Cost Per Meal to Cost Per Month, since that matches how users reported, and is better for rPF anyway. Heres the old cost per meal chart, same data, different scale:  <response>: Hey! I remember that post and being fascinated by peoples opinions. Thanks for following up! This is very interesting. 