{"id":621318,"date":"2023-03-23T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/23\/food-diary-how-a-36-year-old-marketing-manager-eats-on-500k-600k-year-in-san-francisco-ca\/"},"modified":"2023-03-23T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T21:30:00","slug":"food-diary-how-a-36-year-old-marketing-manager-eats-on-500k-600k-year-in-san-francisco-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/23\/food-diary-how-a-36-year-old-marketing-manager-eats-on-500k-600k-year-in-san-francisco-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Diary: How a 36-Year-Old Marketing Manager Eats on $500K-$600K\/Year in San Francisco, CA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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4:15 p.m.<\/strong> I haven’t eaten anything since the oatmeal and of course I’m starving. I planned to stuff my face with some cashews before I pick up the smaller kid from daycare, and as I walk I realize I didn\u2019t actually grab any of those cashews. But my husband stopped at the Indian grocery store\u00a0Madras Groceries<\/a> in Sunnyvale and grabbed a few things: dosa batter, curry leaves, paneer, and a few snacks like my favorite chai biscuits (Parle-G, IYKYK) for a total of $23.55.\u00a0<\/p>\n

6:15 p.m.<\/strong> I\u2019m not in the mood to cook so we decide to get to take out from a local South Asian place called\u00a0Zareen\u2019s<\/a>: chicken tikka masala, naan, a chicken burger, and a beef wrap for a total of $52.51. Husband and son pick it up after the kiddo’s swim lesson, and we all eat together. (And by eat together, I mean we take bites of food between trying to get older one to eat and trying to get baby fed and ready for bed.) Some nights, I don\u2019t feel like I actually eat dinner because it\u2019s just bites of food between chasing people.<\/p>\n

Wednesday total: $76.06<\/p>\n

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Thursday<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

9:15 a.m.<\/strong>\u00a0My husband makes egg breakfast burritos with salsa, super easy and delish. I have that with some coffee and go off to do some work. I remember to take out chicken from the freezer for dinner tonight!\u00a0<\/p>\n

4:30 p.m.<\/strong> Lunch was non-existent, I forgot to eat again! After picking up my daughter from daycare, I make a quick trip to Whole Foods. I try the old \u201cdon\u2019t get a cart or basket\u201d move. I get mushrooms, bacon, Yasso yogurt pops on sale for $4.99, and a couple more things. Total is $34.65.\u00a0<\/p>\n

6:30 p.m.<\/strong> For dinner, I make a really quick chicken stir fry with soy sauce, Sichuan peppers, honey, sambal, cashews, mushrooms, and shirataki noodles. It\u2019s SO delicious. It\u2019s a good reminder that I need to make the time to cook and eat together as a family. (Little one has a non-spicy version of chicken stir fry with just soy, ginger, garlic chicken and mushrooms.) After dinner, we sit down and watch some of the cartoon\u00a0Bluey<\/em>. We have a thing where each of us picks an episode and we try to reenact some of the scenes. Great way to get some energy out before bedtime.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thursday total: $34.65<\/p>\n

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Friday<\/strong><\/p>\n

8:30 a.m.<\/strong> I\u2019m at\u00a0Philz<\/a> picking up two oat milk lattes.\u00a0($12.90)\u00a0The kids were up again last night\u2026 They seem to take turns waking up between 3 to 5 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n

9:30 a.m.<\/strong> Eggs for breakfast. We\u2019re down to two! Plus lots more coffee. We love our Nespresso and have been trying out all different kinds of pods. I love the Vivida pod.\u00a0<\/p>\n

1:30 p.m.<\/strong>\u00a0After I finish up some back-to-back meetings, I have lunch. I actually use the dosa batter! I make us some super crunchy dosas topped with cheese and my signature spice blend\u2014it\u2019s a unique family recipe that we put on everything. I call it \u201ceverything Indian seasoning\u201d and it has cardamom, cumin, coriander, turmeric, red chili powder, ginger, black pepper, fenugreek, onion, garlic, coconut, sesame\u2026 I have been going to a local commercial kitchen and making batches. I\u2019m planning on selling it at a farmer\u2019s market next month too. I\u2019m really excited about it.<\/p>\n

6 p.m.<\/strong>\u00a0We\u2019re on time for dinner reservations! We go to a local yakitori place called\u00a0Yakitori Kokko<\/a> with another family. We get so many things: Kiddo tries chicken skin, chicken heart, and whole anchovy, and we also get wagyu skewers, scallops, takoyaki, asparagus\u2026 and lots of sake. Total is $173 per family, they pay, we send our portion over Venmo, the baby is losing it at this point. After dinner, we pick up\u00a0Tong Sui<\/a> in San Mateo for dessert. Two puddings\u2014one regular, one taro\u2014for a total of $17.90.<\/p>\n

Friday total: $203.80<\/p>\n

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Saturday<\/strong><\/p>\n

9:30 a.m.<\/strong>\u00a0Breakfast: Last egg and bacon on some toast, then off to ballet class for the kid. It was another night of both kids waking up at odd hours, so I was basically awake from 2 a.m. to 4:30 a.m. My Oura Ring kept sending me alerts that it was \u201ctime for bed\u201d… taunting me. The baby is going through teething and the three and a half year old is scared of his own shadow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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4:15 p.m. I haven’t eaten anything since the oatmeal and of course I’m starving. I planned to stuff my face with some cashews before I pick up the smaller kid from daycare, and as I walk I realize I didn\u2019t actually grab any of those cashews. But my husband stopped at the Indian grocery store\u00a0Madras […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":621319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[775,23606,534],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-621318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-year-old","8":"category-diary","9":"category-financial"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}