Welp… A couple factors: I have an amazing GF that cooks basically every day we’re at home (I do the dishes and we’re both happy with that arrangement), and there’s student life, plus some more things.
- We visit family often on the week-ends so we don’t have to feed ourselves for one or two days at least every 2nd week.
- My GF created a weekly food-plan that amounts to 35 CHF per person per week for food. Anyone interested in seeing that? EDIT: Here’s the food plan! Completely vegetarian, and many base materials are from an ethnic store in Oerlikon where you can get bags of dried beans/chickpeas/lentils/… for a very good price (wild guess: 1kg of soaked beans costs a bit over 1 CHF). Seriously, have a look around for non-traditional stores around you; about 20% are really useful to visit occasionally.
- We receive cash gifts from our combined families to go out eating every one or two weeks for an evening that doesn’t appear in that statistic. Eating out often amounts to using toogoodtogo.ch and our Seven25 (GA after 19:00) to eat in the train, which doesn’t cost much either.
- We do a lot from scratch. Even cleaning supplies are all put together from raw ingredients. Other household expenses like trash bags or a new soap dish are also in the ‘groceries’ category.
- It’s not for a total of 52 weeks * 7 days * 3 meals. Grandparents often invite us for a week of holidays in the summer, other family parts invite us for other holidays.