Food I eat in CBD under 10$

As part of #mindfulspending, one thing I have taken care of in expenses is my food expenses. It’s not that I restrict my food to a budget everyday but I do have a budget ceiling for my food expenses.

I would restrict myself to not go to restaurants more than 2 times within a week unless there’s a special occasion.

And I would normally budget my office meal expense per day to be at most 10$.

My daily expenses on an in-office day would be

1. Breakfast coffee/toast - 0~5$ (0 if I settle with office snacks and coffee ~ 5$ if I ended up eating breakfast sets and anything in between)

2. Lunch - the budget usually varies on whether I ate breakfast or not - 10$~4$ (I don’t restrict sharp 10 but I do have a mental bar of 10$ per day so on days I didn’t eat breakfast I would go to some food courts and choose from there or those I had breakfast, I would settle in hawker Centers)

3. Dinner (snack/fruit) - I don’t usually eat dinner but if I happen to have extra money from my 10$ budget of the day, I also thought I haven’t given myself enough food so I might snack 😂😂

Food in CBD area is expensive?

Not if you go to market and eat. Or there are even affordable air conditioned ones in CBD but of course, you need to size the portion.

The queue is crazy but it’s everywhere and I would say the service is quite fast. Usually if it’s not too hot and can find seat, I would eat there but if it’s too hot, I will Tabao and eat back in office.

Usually I would go to hawker centres

1. Amoy Hawker

2. Shenton Way

3. Maxwell

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