Fast Food Eats Up Your Money

re: Fast Food Eats Up Your Money

Madeline Holler — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:59:41 GMT

That's a feeding tube? I thought she just had a boo boo! Of course now I'm wondering what kind of mean parents dangle a Big Mac in front of their liquid-diet kid!

re: Fast Food Eats Up Your Money

Kris — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:52:46 GMT

Sure, we buy a take-and-bake pizza at the grocery store every Friday. Costs us $24 a month, so yeah, I guess that's more than the $8 Netflix. (Books, music, and most video games come from the library or are sold used when we're done with them.) Baby doesn't eat the pizza, of course.

What I found really odd, though, is the fact that the baby grabbing for the hamburger in that picture has a feeding tube, so is clearly not eating enough calories by mouth. Sort of an odd context for the picture.

re: Fast Food Eats Up Your Money

Jenn — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:43:09 GMT

Ok, maybe it's our grad school lifestyle, but I don't buy music or movies or video games and books are a rare, rare treat so the approx $10/month I spend on fast food would definitely be higher. Unless we count my husband's school books which sometimes exceed our monthly food budget. Sigh!

re: Fast Food Eats Up Your Money

Yvie — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:43:15 GMT

Hmmm...how much fastfood do I secretly give my kid? Twice every month when we have the chance. Hahaha. Admittedly we love fastfood but we don't really shed all our money on that.

A large portion of our money goes to the bills (yep, sadly), on groceries, our baby's basic necessities, and sometimes his toys. :)