Help BK budget! How can I live on $200/month for food?

[Antonio the Sixth]

Oh wow... $200 a month would is $7 a day. I have no idea how it's even possible to survive on that budget in Los Angeles. I hope cost of living is a lot lower where you live?

Anyway, what I do is that I usually have only one meal a day (usually from fast food, since my cooking abilities are very limited), plus a snack (usually Oreos or ice cream). That still amounts to about $15-20 a day from what I've seen, but again hopefully prices are lower for you. Of course that's not a very mainstream choice.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I try to cook meat twice a week, but if I ate meat all week Alcon and others would rightfully get mad at me. Other stuff I know how to cook just take too long.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Anyway, what I do is that I usually have only one meal a day (usually from fast food, since my cooking abilities are very limited), plus a snack (usually Oreos or ice cream). That still amounts to about $15-20 a day from what I've seen, but again hopefully prices are lower for you. Of course that's not a very mainstream choice.

sweetie that is a large amount of fast food! Even $15 worth of McDonalds is an obscene amount of food for one sitting. Like you can get 48 chicken nuggets for roughly $15, or 2 large big mac meals. Pretty much same levels of food at other well-known fast food places. I can only hope you aren't eating out at Checkers a lot, whose food is probably unmatched in its generous helpings of grease.

Get those arteries checked

Nah, I can't stand McDonald's. The one I go to most often is Subway, which is a bit more expensive but not quite as unhealthy - otherwise Rubio's and Sbarro's. I take the standard meal, with a bottle of water and occasionally a side. That generally amounts to $10-15. I'm assuming it might cost more in LA than elsewhere. $5 for snacks is a rough and probably exaggerated estimate - must probably be more like $3.