If 40% is non-food (15,200), that leaves 22,800 for food for 2 months, so 11,400 for one month. That's 368 pesos per day for 3 people, or 123 pesos per day per person. That less than one bandera for a Dominican.
I had a 1/3 lb. hamburger(199/lb) with a salad for dinner. Large salad with tomatoes, onions, bell peppers, and ranch dressing. Add a slice of cheese and a bun - 80 pesos and the salad costs me about 65 pesos, and that's more than your total allowance for food, drink, and snacks for an entire day(?). How much do you weigh?
Honestly I weigh too much lol .... Around 84kg for 180cm. 🫣
That said, we eat once a day ( in the evening), most of the time + a snack at lunch time, usually 2 fried eggs.
The kid eats at school, so only 1 meal a day at home.
I cook meat maybe day on day off. No particular reason, that's just how it pans out.
Tonight was 🍕. Price ? Hardly anything. 2lb of flour, a bit of levadura, a sprinkle of salt, a dash of olive oil and some water. Maybe 150 pesos ? And that will net you dough for 8 pizzas. And then I freeze.
I use 1/14th of a chunk of mozzarella per pizza so 1400pesos/14 = 100 pesos. Again, I freeze.
Tomato sauce, home made. Price, dirt cheap. A bunch of tomatoes, garlic, onions, herbs, salt and pepper, etc..... say 300 pesos, and freeze. Literally weeks of sauce. So maybe 20 pesos per pizza ?
🍆 And 🫒 as toppings..... 10 pesos ?
Maybe 150 pesos for the whole 🍕.
With 🍕 we had coleslaw. 1 large carrot ( 20 pesos ? ) and a piece of repollo ( a large repollo is dead cheap, and will last 2 or 3 weeks ), so maybe another 20 pesos. Grate.
Mayo + mustard + baslamic vinegar, 20 pesos, maybe.
60 pesos for the salad.
A meal for 2 ( the kid was sent off to his mother for the Xmas holidays) for 210 pesos. And some coleslaw left over, perfect for a lunch.
Now, I am not saying all my meals cost me 210 pesos, but even if 3 a week do, eat out 1 day ( remember, a want not a need, so not in same budget ), then the other 3 meals--- that are meat based--- could cost in excess of 500 pesos. I can roast a chicken for just a tad over, with roast potatoes, veg and gravy 😁.
We also try not to waste. And leftovers are stored in Tupperware, used the next day or the day after, usually to make a pasta dish ( another of our favorites is grilled pasta with cheese, again, very cheap meal ).
On another note we also get 1 lunch serving from a neighbour, maybe 5 days a week. A typical bandera : chicken/pork, rice, beans and some salad. That costs 2k pesos a month..... lol. ( Mostly " paid" in platanos and avocados, mind you 😀).
I am no great fan, so either my wife eats half and the dog gets the other half at lunch, or the kid gets it for dinner.
That's a 100 pesos meal..... And I can't imagine the neighbor cooking at a loss ( she does it for other people too ).
We cook from scratch ( when I say we, it's mainly I 😎 ) and that's much cheaper meals than their industrial counter part.
