Couple + 2 young kids. We spend around $800/mo on groceries split evenly between WF and Lidl.

We do meal plan and we eat out as a family once per week on avg plus the odd lunch out here and there for myself of my wife.

Yeah the Safeway app is pretty great...I'm surprised more people don't use it.

We (two people) spend maybe $600/month maybe $700 at most and eat pretty large meals. When we eat meat, it’s usually chicken or fish and we buy it at costco and keep it frozen until we need it. Most of the groceries we buy at the store are fresh produce or dairy/eggs/oat milk. We very rarely buy steaks, frozen foods, and prepared foods from the grocery store (except rotisserie chicken).

We usually plan out 2 meals a week that will last 2-3 nights each and then eat out or order in 1 night. Planning out meals and eating the same things for a few nights probably helps keep costs low.

Single dude. Probably about 350 but I’m serious into fitness and eat a high protein and high fiber diet

This is real simple, use a reputable realtor for apartments in this area. Stay away from ads online, and then you don't have to create an account to ask stupid questions on Reddit.

Guys don’t worry crime is down

~$500 for 2 people, purely in groceries. Mostly from local co-op with more expensive organic/sustainable foods and the like. Less in the summer when our garden is producing.

We go out to eat sometimes, which obviously is more expensive. Usually $50-70 per outing.

my cats are driving me crazy. im convinced if i spent every moment of free time playing with them it still wouldnt be enough

This is such a microcosm of what is so messed up in this country.

this is fine

Man it’s always great to see uppity folks who gentrify a neighborhood then complain about the over priced POS they bought in the middle of the hood… just cause you live across the street now Karen doesn’t mean the anything lol … I guess you all all will replace the McDonald’s with a Starbucks or a gluten free dairy free nut free purple haired waitress place and all will be right with the world lmao

My Spidey-sense is tingling.

Overrated I'd say

Is it even "rated?"

These kids are misbehaving, but they aren't hurting anyone. Kids in less privileged parts of the city are involved in actual crimes

Actually this is something you are absolutely wrong on. It's not widely distributed. In terms of homicides and violent crime it is highly concentrated east of the river and if it's west of the river in Ward 5. But even then its not close to ward 7 and 8.

Petty theft is more widely distributed, but that is the case everywhere.

There is a geographic element in DC. It's not like the entire city is actively dangerous. There is definitely a geographic element to it. It shows up in the data as well.

Crime is absolutely getting worse right now and residents are rightfully concerned, but I remind anyone that when you’re being fed immediate updates about every crime in the city, it leaves a perception that crime is way worse than it is. A carjacking a day sounds like a lot (and is still unacceptable), but there are literally thousands of cars on the streets of DC at any given time. Same for robberies—thousands of people on these streets daily and we might hear about one or two a week. I pretty much never feel unsafe here, but I also adjust my behavior to lower my chances of becoming a victim, as anyone should even if your chances are already low.

In addition to what others said about having your documents, I suggest first going to the SW inspection station, then going to the DMV to get your license and to register your vehicle. You do not need a DC license to get your inspection sticker.

OP, Giant is very much over priced. I highly recommend finding a Wegmans instead.

Whole Foods has good produce but also can be pricey - we mostly shop at Wegman's now and have stopped going to Safeway, Harris Teeter, TJs, etc.

We have a scale and weigh things like ground beef. Chicken breast I try to buy the packages that are close in qty and lbs, so I can make it easy, one breast per meal is close to a lbs. We have deli containers and use plastic wrap sometimes so it doesn't take up too much space, but just our normal fridge freezer. We recently moves to a house out of our condo, so we have a basement finally where we store our shelf stable items. I bake all our bread, so we buy flour in bulk 25lbs bags that sit in containers, making loaves as we need.

Edit: Wife will make large batches of freezer meals for quick meal night,s like 4 lbs of bolognese and separate into 1lbs portions that can be a quick 1lbs pasta night. Or make soup dishes that can be poured over rice/quinoa to make it go farther.

Yes but I didn’t know names, just half remembered the Washington Post article about the investigation. ProPublica does real good work.

Because panhandlers and squeegee-men have a knack for figuring out who’s new to a city. Had one pick the new guy out from a group of us and spray his shoes to “clean” it and demanding money. Now this was in Chicago.

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Those who wear horses...

Have you seen it in person?