Sentences with phrase «spent food money»

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Most mobile food entrepreneurs spend several months, often while waiting for their truck to be retrofitted and their backers to fork over some startup money, experimenting with various menu items.

The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline is at its lowest level in four years, giving U.S. consumers billions more to spend this holiday season, but that extra money is being offset by higher food costs, which account for a bigger chunk of most consumers» budgets.

Flush with cash withdrawn from the equity in their homes and other borrowed money, Canadian consumers have gone on a spending spree with gains spread across a wide variety of retail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.

The items aren't part of a promotion and don't cost the fast - food chain much, but they are able to bring in customers who don't want to spend much money.

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.

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.

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 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.

Having set numbers for the different aspects of your party will help you spend less money; otherwise, it's temping to just pick up more and more decorations (or food) in the spirit of throwing a fun get - together.

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.

A company spends money to develop and market a new food product over one or two years, and then that product sells or doesn't in the next year or two.

Says Edgar A. Falk, author of 1001 Ideas to Create Retail Excitement (Penguin), «Food centers can build revenue and goodwill, encouraging people to spend more time and money in your store.»

The goal with McPick is to convince them to spend more money and to shake the chain's reputation for serving cheap food.

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.

Of the millennials who responded said they spend money they don't have to keep up with their friends, nearly 60 % buy food, while one - third buy alcohol.

«The story was glorious when they had lots of money in the bank, but they went madly after customer growth and spent it quickly,» says Anil Joshi, an investor and founder of Unicorn India Ventures in Mumbai, who didn't invest in food delivery companies.

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.

The well - funded dairy lobby spends a great deal of money (an estimated $ 80 to $ 100 million each year — ironically paid for by the higher prices consumers pay), persuading federal and provincial politicians that supply management «protects the family farm,» «ensures food security» and that, because these farmers are so numerous, doing anything to upset them would be political suicide.

So, if a restaurant has been dealing with a lack of clientele, then it will be highly motivated to pursue whatever means it can to get customers into its seats, eating its food and spending money.

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.

food for thought: how many billions of your money was spent to capture or kill him?

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

If you don't have time to spend with the homeless themselves, and wish to donate money, if you have local organizations that provide food, toiletries, clothing and even shelter to the homeless, give them the money to buy those need items for the homeless and you can be reasonably certain your money is actually helping the homeless.

But he somehow followed me home and I ended up giving him food, a cup of tea, more money, and spent three hours of my time listening to him preach to me about the dangers of authority, the polluting properties of money, the harm of ignorance of the world's conspiracies, and the end times.

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.

Sometimes my prayers have words, sometimes my prayers manifest as tears or as laughter or as longings, as actions and as anger and as gentleness, as work to do and as songs to sing and food to cook and babies to hold, as how I spend my money and my time, as friendship and solidarity.

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

As a consequence, my wife and I spend more time and money offering food from all over the world to friends from all over the world.

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?

Now — Just IMAGINE if all that money that was spent by anyone to support Chick - Fil - A that day was instead given to several homeless shelters and food kitchens.

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.

I mean the one that was really unexpensive... I basically spend all my money in almond butter, do you think that Blender / Food processor will work for doing nut butter in general?