Editing Frugality (section)

== Food ==
If there are products you keep buying over and over again. Consider checking their value, other brands, and if you can find bulk discounts. In my case, I drink a lot of Pepsi/Coke Zero. And I've come to the conclusion if you're paying 1$ CAD per liter or less, you're doing fine. For example, a pack of 6x710ML bottles is 4.2L, meaning you'd need to find it at 4,20$ or less. You'll often find also that packaging plays a huge part in product pricing. a 12x355ML can carton of Pepsi is almost never under a dollar, because aluminum is just that much more expensive to acquire and manufacture with than PET plastic bottles. This applies to all products.

While we're on the subject of food, check local charity offerings, you might find baskets, which are available to everyone. It's not because you deal with lots of money that you can't be broke. Being broke happens to all and these people understand. Feed yourself dammit.

Use restaurant-specific apps. e.g. McDonalds, Subway etc. Using them over Doordash will often save you a lot of cash, because they subsidize delivery fees, and points rack up quickly. If you go eat somewhere with friends, snag their bills and steal their points as well. In the McDonalds points rewards, the best is always fries for 4000 points, large fries. I've done the math. This is about 1,50$ more value than the other rewards.

If you're hungry for afternoon restaurant munchies, [https://www.toogoodtogo.com/en-us Too Good to Go] has bulk restaurant food that would otherwise be thrown away at a reduced fee. It's usually whatever didn't sell that day and is getting stale. Sometimes they only have baked goods, and then you pick it up in a short window, or give detailed instructions to an Uber Connect driver, which doesn't always work.