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Redditors are so funny someone told me I probably "eat dog food and tap water", have never experienced happiness in my life, and deserve to die because I asked them how they could possibly be spending $100 a day on food for just themself on a road trip in my area (when they complained about the $100 being too expensive), apparently you can't possibly expect people to eat "grocery store food" on a vacation, they need high end sit down restaurants for every meal 🤣🤣

that's ~$70 USD/day...which is ~$20-25 a meal and is significantly lower than the published per diem rates for your area. This person likely was surprised they hit that amount while not eating "high end" meals if I had to guess.

And yeah I wouldn't expect people on vacation to be cooking or eating packaged food....I wouldn't/don't other than snacks. Shoot, $70 may cut it close for a full day of meals at Applebee's. That is far from fine dining lol. Not excusing the reddit meltdown though

 

[JaynaAli]

that's ~$70 USD/day...which is ~$20-25 a meal and is significantly lower than the published per diem rates for your area. This person likely was surprised they hit that amount while not eating "high end" meals if I had to guess.

I recently went to a conference and there was very little in the way of quick meals or grocery in the walkable area around the convention center. My job allows us $100 USD per day on meals using our company credit card when traveling, with a general guideline of $25 each for breakfast/lunch and $50 for dinner. Snacks/drinks are allowed too provided they fit in the overall $100/d allotment. Usually that’s more than plenty and I’ve never felt constrained in prior years, but it was hard to find lunch options that were under $25 at this conference because all the restaurants within a walkable distance were nice sit down fancy restaurants. There wasn’t even a CVS or other convenience type store close by. I ended up skipping lunch one day and just getting “dinner” at 3. But this is a bit of an outlier because usually at conferences I’ve been to there’s more quick/cheap options nearby and in other instances I might have a more accessible car.