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We are both naturally frugal, with the exception of food which we feel to be a false economy as a way to go cheap given it's long term impact on your health,...
I was a starving student, especially in grad school. One of the foreign students in my research collaboration made that exact point. Should have thought of it before. After that, I had no "budget" for food. It cost what it cost, and I mostly cooked for myself. Which caused me to learn how to cook, because the 3 or 4 things I knew how to make got really tiresome really fast. ("Cooking at the Academy" taught me a lot, and was structured just like the lectures I was used to in grad school...so it was perfect for me.)
Prior to that, I would get cello packets of ramen on sale 10/$1. After that conversation with my colleague, I never bought another one.
