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Eating out is ridiculously expensive these days and on minumum wage (even on the $15+/h local minimum wage here) you can't eat out very often. Can you buy a week's worth of groceries on 40*7.25=$290, maybe $200 after taxes, assuming your housing and everything is paid some other way? Yes $200/week for groceries is plenty for one person who spends carefully. I don't spend anywhere near that much.
$200 sounds about right for what I'd call a semi-fancy restaurant meal for 4 people including some drinks etc. I wouldn't call it cheap in the sense that I would want to do it frequently. It would be a ridiculous luxury for someone on $7.25/h. Try a Costco pizza for cheap filling take-out.
That's a heck of a lot more than I spend on my family of 4 for groceries! Even with an added allergy that means some of the stuff that's normally $2-3 we have to get ~$10 variants of
This comment comes up every single time food prices are mentioned. And it is never useful.
I am legitimately happy for you, but your circumstance is not everyone else's and you may not be doing it on purpose, but making this claim could make someone else who can't pull that off feel like less of a parent, or less of a provider.