<prompt> Human: This is crazy! Ive never spent 200month on groceries, to imagine 300wk is insane. And I would think real foodies anyway would also be saving up money and cooking gourmet meals at home.But what solace can it offer to realize that 300 a week put into an S. P. 500 Index fund over the past five years would have provided an annual rate of return of 10.34 percent and grown to 100,354 today? Even saving 300 a week at a 6 percent rate of return would have yielded about 91,000, Mark X. Chemtob, a financial adviser at AmeripriseWhat are some tips you guys would recommend for saving money on eating out though?  <response>: Far be it from me to defend a 300wk discretionary spending habit particularly on that low of an income.However I think non-NYCers need to realize that, living in the city, nobody in this article is paying for a vehicle, car insurance, or gasoline. Many dont have cable television. Many dont need to spend very much money to do things on the weekend. While the city is expensive, its also a place where, counter-intuitively, you end up saving money in some unexpected places. 