<prompt> Human: I dont get it. I come on here and see people eating on shoestring budgets of a couple hundred dollars or less. How? I dont understand. For the past 2 months Ive been meal prepping like crazy, havent eaten out once, and Im still spend 400 CAD on groceries every month just for me, a single guy. I have made every one of my lunches, generally consisting of some sort of vegetable soup or chili with homemade bread, banana, apple, sometimes stromboli. Often Im STILL hungry after lunch. I then eat pretty much the same thing for dinner. minus the fruit. Breakfast is just a bowl more like 3 of cereal with milk. Even cooking all of my own meals, Im still spending a decent amount of money on food every month. I cant eat any less. I bike 20 miles every day and I have an extremely fast metabolism. Im hungry constantly. And its not like Im eating junk! I made vegetable minestrone soup last week... broccoli and cheese soup, corn chowder this week. Am I doing something wrong here? Every weekend when I go to the store to buy things to prep, I spend 100. I dont waste food, I havent thrown any decent amount of food away in a long time. I eat almost everything before it goes bad other than celery, that stuff goes bad so quickly.Is there anything I can do to get that number down? I used to really like sweets but Im desperately trying to cut back, so instead I just eat fruit. Pomegranates seem to be my vice right now, Ill generally eat a couple a week. But still, thats 10... maybe. Thanks.  <response>: Back when I did personal training, I was eating 2800kCalday on about a 60week budget. The low-cost staples of my diet were oatmeal, eggs, lentils, yams, pasta, peanut butter, beans, tofu, ground poultry, frozen prduce. Heres what a typical day was: 7am: 1 cup oatmeal, 3 eggs 1 yolk removed 10am: protein bar 12: 1 large yam, 2 servings tofu, 1 serving vegetables 3: 2 apples with 2 servings of peanut butter 6: banana, protein powder, milk 730: 1.5 serving ground poultry, 2 servings pasta, tomato sauce 