Sentences with phrase «spend the money on food»

In Lebanon, for instance, an IRC report found that 87,700 Syrian refugee families each given $ 575 via ATM cards spent the money on food, clothes, fuel oil and getting out of debt.

Which is better since I can now spend that money on FOOD!

With the holiday season quickly approaching, your donations will allow families to spend their money on food, clothing, and other essential needs.

Many of those changes could result in multibillion - dollar shifts in how the government and consumers spend their money on food.

Millennials are more likely to spend money on food than material goods.

«It would be bad to spend all your money on food, for example, and have nothing for rent.

I love to do these pretty food tables at parties for a selfish reason too... if you're already spending money on food, use it as a party decoration and get extra mileage out of it.

You will spend money on food, vet bills, toys, and more.

«We spend money on food, restaurants, entertainment, we bring up friends.

A lot of the time, the not - so - forward - thinking students end up spending this money on food or beer.

As long as you like to spend your money on food, this card is a great addition to your cashback armory.

These students, however, spend money on food and gas, so having these categories offer bonus cash back if they use their Discover it ® chrome for Students card is ideal.

As someone who has a plug - in hybrid available when I need it (and who prefers to spend my money on food, not cars), the «200 + miles of range is a necessity» dogma has always left me confused.

Although you might feel you're taking a risk spending money on food ahead of time, keep in mind that different vegetables like different conditions, so if the tomato crop is poor for a few weeks, the salad greens might do very well instead.

«How you eat and how you spend money on food is the biggest defining factor in most budgets, besides rent... Whether we know how to shop, go out to eat, order takeout, or don't know how to properly store food — these things will define hundreds of dollars each month.»

Not exact matches

Flush with cash withdrawn from the equity in their homes and other borrowed money, Canadian consumers have gone on a spending spree with gains spread across a wide variety of retail sectors, including vehicles, building materials, home furnishings, clothing and food.

And always spend money on good food.»»

... as a result, more than 11.2 million families end up spending more than half their paychecks on housing,» money they could otherwise direct toward transportation, education, food, clothing or savings.

Working at home is isolating and if you camp out at a coffee shop you can end up spending too much money on food and drinks.

Foodies, for example, spend a disproportionate amount of their money on food, beverages and goods at big - box stores, possibly because they live in larger households with adult chlldren or other family members.

On the flip side, now that I know how much money I'm blowing through each week, I will actively take steps to limit how much I spend on fooOn the flip side, now that I know how much money I'm blowing through each week, I will actively take steps to limit how much I spend on fooon food.

Just because you are hosting doesn't mean you have to spend tons of money on food, or spend many hours cooking.

That second scenario seems more likely, which means that an opportunity is opening up for someone to come in and cater to people who don't want to spend a lot of money on food.

Still, we found even more ways to save last year, like riding our bikes to limit money spent on gas, switching phone plans and limiting junk food at the grocery store.

But when individuals have more money to spend, they tend to migrate up the food chain to restaurant takeout or prepared items from the rotisserie counter instead of buying more frozen fare, notes a recent report on the sector from research firm IBISWorld.

The average American spends 70 % of their money on housing, transportation, and food, so if you can spend less on them (say 25 % or so, then you can bank the difference).

The reason more people don't have high networths is because they don't want to cut out all the «little crap» they spend money on: coffee in the morning, going out to lunch, going out to dinner, going to a movie, buying that thing you will never use, letting your food spoil, having to pay interest on your credit card... congrats, there goes your earnings.

There is huge progress being made and it's largely because the industry is seeing that Millennials are not going to be spending their money on processed foods.

Over the span of 2000 - 2016, the amount of money spent on food by the average American household increased from $ 5,158 to $ 7,203, which is a 39.6 % increase in spending.

Higher farm productivity also made food cheaper for all consumers, leaving them with more money to spend on other goods and services.

Their children withdraw the funds to their card with low cost and spend money on school supplies, tuition or food.

We heard a number of concerns from people struggling to find affordable places to live and still have money available to spend on food, utilities and school clothes for their kids.

Just think how much more peaceful a place this world would be if we spent the money on guns an military might on healthcare and clean water, food, and clothing.

What I have to wonder is, if we, as a Church, trust God to work and bring people to Him, or if we feel like we have to «help» by providing all these material possessions (which in the end are meaningless, the money spent on them might be better spent on improving the community, providing food for hungry, support for ministers and overseas missionaries).

I guess I just feel like many American Christians are succumbing to the material, consumer - driven ways of the society around us and are forgetting the beauty of simplicity — to use the money that we might have spent on the latest CD or DVD from a Christian artist and give it to the food bank, use it to buy supper for the person you see out on the street or as a monthly payment to sponsor a missionary.

Of course, some might suggest that the church ought to have spent money on the emergency food pantry instead.

Technically, everyone spends «most» of their money on «personal pleasures» like food, shelter, and clothing.

After one particularly offensive show on Aug 19, 2010 where he and his cohost, Crank, spent the morning railing against the «mentally diseased perverts» everyone else calls gay, preaching that women aren't equal to men and should be home raising the kids and making dinner, and Blacks need to kick their drug habits and get a job instead of freeloading off his hard earned tax dollars by trading in their food stamps for drug money, we started a blog documenting his abuses on the air waves.

Fast - a-Thon participants refrain from eating from sunrise to sunset and donate the money they would have spent on food to charity — this year, to Islamic Relief, which is directing money to flood victims in Pakistan.

I often feel guilty about the house I live in, the car I drive, the food I throw away, the money I spend on clothes.

1) Charities spend their income on necessities, such as food and utilities, which ever - so - slightly re-orients our economy toward recession - resistant products, rather than luxuries 2) Charities spend their money quickly, but on independent schedules, making for a smoother stimulus effect on the economy 3) Charities make purchases tax - free, meaning that $ 1 spent by a charity generates a full $ 1 of private economic activity; furthermore, much of those tax revenues are recovered as income tax on the grocery stores, utility companies, etc. that might not have received that income otherwise 4) Charitable giving is by far the most democratic way to improve society; from birth control to bombers, government assuredly spends money on something you don't like, and charitable giving restores your say - so 5) Charitable donations are tax deductible, meaning you keep those tax dollars in your local community 6) Charitable donations provide the funds necessary for volunteers to serve the needy, thus giving «the average citizen» a chance to meet and interact with the needy, breaking down stereotypes

Whole Food is the only company on this list that I would spend my money in.

The San Francisco study actually found that 94 percent of panhandlers spend whatever money they get on food, compared to just 44 percent who spend it on drugs or alcohol.

How about giving the $ you would have spent on food to someone in need, WITHOUT judgement about what (s) he does with the money?

A cut in consumers» paychecks — with the expiration on Jan. 1 of the payroll tax break established during the recession — might mean less traffic for many restaurants, or a reduction in the amount of money people are willing to spend on casual food.

Health is wealth and while I don't mind spending more money on high quality food, it has been our experience since switching to a whole foods, plant based diet that our grocery bill has drastically lowered.

«We are talking to the city council about how much money they spend on prison, schools, hospitals — places the city runs — and how much money it spends on food in those areas.

As I'm still a student and working only part - time I've also made the decision to spend more money on food than other stuff like clothing or going out etc..

I can't imagine how much money I've spent on things like butter, flour, and sugar — fun fact: I originally dabbled with using the domain «flourbuttersugar» — or how different my life would feel without getting to connect with so many sweet and truly wonderful people through food and the internet.

In this day and age of amazing and endless food blogs, I feel a bit weird about spending actual money on cookbooks, never mind pre-ordering them.