Reposting because Reddit deleted all my images for some reason.
Tools used: Google Sheets
Source: Me eating / mobile order apps and banking apps to track spending
– I averaged spending $5.81 per day as of the end of this year.
That’s **$1.13** less on average from September 26th ($6.94 per day)
and better yet, **$1.78** less on average from July 1st ($7.59 per day)
– If you couldn’t tell from the data, I started cooking more and eating out less about half way through the year.
– My go-to items at Taco Bell were the 3 Cheese Chicken Flatbread Melt, Chicken Enchilada Burrito and Diablo Sauce. Usually 2 of one of these per order, then 1 of the other (so 2 enchiladas and 1 flatbread for example). Other times it would be these 2 items, and a new limited time item they have, or any other value menu item, since I find them the most “worth while” to buy and most filling unlike the terribly priced 3 taco combo meals. Some mobile box combos are also very great value, but partially lost in the fact that you’re forced to get a Drink and a side item (which my favorite was Cheesy Fiesta Potatoes, which used to be the Cinnamon Twists but I just fell out of love with them…)
– Some of these Taco Bell visits were Breakfast as well, especially towards the start of this year, since I wanted to try it out and it was on the way to work, so it was easy for me when I had no time to make breakfast.
By far my favorite fast food is Taco Bell, as long as you stay away from the beef, I feel like the beef isn’t as good as their chicken, but occasionally I will get a beef item. (For those wondering, I have 14888 Lifetime rewards points with Taco Bell.)
Yes I know this is **a lot** of visits, and it had to do with a mixture of ease-of-access and mental health.
I was gaining weight slowly up to May, only about 7 pounds. I then lost 15 Pounds since then with infrequent gym visits throughout the year. During May I had just broken into the “Overweight” bmi range, but just barely. I am now comfortably back at a healthy weight and bmi.
Honestly fast food is not all sickening, and I think the reason for doing this was just because I wanted to see how much I was spending from month to month AND what my most frequent offenders were. Was a lot of fun and I hope some other people track their restaurant / fast food visits this year, because you’ll learn a lot about yourself and your spending!
Nice visualisation, this gives me ideas for 2025, thanks!
beautiful, i’m going to try next year
i don’t know if i’m impressed or disappointed
Are you by any chance a CPA lmao
thanks for sharing, interesting data
Could you share your sheet so I can track this too?
wait a minute … you said BK made you sick, yet I didn’t find when you bought it (2nd image)
Fyi jnstead of going to a mc donalds or a taco belly try going to a local burgeria or taqueria. Good and highly probable chance you get more, better and cheaper food.
Greetings from europe
This is pretty sad. Try going to some actual, real restaurants.
I’m really proud of you 👍
You’ve improved a lot over the year in a really impressive way. I assume your body and your wallet are thankful
Wow. That’s a lot of fast food.
I’ve tracked all my family spending, including fast food, since 2011. You ate fast food almost 50 times more often than my wife and I in 2024, and ate out in general about 5 times more often. But because our eating out was almost always getting nicer dinners together, you only spent about twice as much as us on eating out.
2025 will be a great year when you learn to cook and cut out all this crap! Best wishes.
Well, that’s good improvement.
But it’s helpful to point out that eating Wendys’ Taco Bell and McDonalds 195 times in a year isn’t… ordinary.
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Reposting because Reddit deleted all my images for some reason.
Tools used: Google Sheets
Source: Me eating / mobile order apps and banking apps to track spending
– I averaged spending $5.81 per day as of the end of this year.
That’s **$1.13** less on average from September 26th ($6.94 per day)
and better yet, **$1.78** less on average from July 1st ($7.59 per day)
– If you couldn’t tell from the data, I started cooking more and eating out less about half way through the year.
– My go-to items at Taco Bell were the 3 Cheese Chicken Flatbread Melt, Chicken Enchilada Burrito and Diablo Sauce. Usually 2 of one of these per order, then 1 of the other (so 2 enchiladas and 1 flatbread for example). Other times it would be these 2 items, and a new limited time item they have, or any other value menu item, since I find them the most “worth while” to buy and most filling unlike the terribly priced 3 taco combo meals. Some mobile box combos are also very great value, but partially lost in the fact that you’re forced to get a Drink and a side item (which my favorite was Cheesy Fiesta Potatoes, which used to be the Cinnamon Twists but I just fell out of love with them…)
– Some of these Taco Bell visits were Breakfast as well, especially towards the start of this year, since I wanted to try it out and it was on the way to work, so it was easy for me when I had no time to make breakfast.
By far my favorite fast food is Taco Bell, as long as you stay away from the beef, I feel like the beef isn’t as good as their chicken, but occasionally I will get a beef item. (For those wondering, I have 14888 Lifetime rewards points with Taco Bell.)
Yes I know this is **a lot** of visits, and it had to do with a mixture of ease-of-access and mental health.
I was gaining weight slowly up to May, only about 7 pounds. I then lost 15 Pounds since then with infrequent gym visits throughout the year. During May I had just broken into the “Overweight” bmi range, but just barely. I am now comfortably back at a healthy weight and bmi.
Honestly fast food is not all sickening, and I think the reason for doing this was just because I wanted to see how much I was spending from month to month AND what my most frequent offenders were. Was a lot of fun and I hope some other people track their restaurant / fast food visits this year, because you’ll learn a lot about yourself and your spending!
Nice visualisation, this gives me ideas for 2025, thanks!
beautiful, i’m going to try next year
i don’t know if i’m impressed or disappointed
Are you by any chance a CPA lmao
thanks for sharing, interesting data
Could you share your sheet so I can track this too?
wait a minute … you said BK made you sick, yet I didn’t find when you bought it (2nd image)
Fyi jnstead of going to a mc donalds or a taco belly try going to a local burgeria or taqueria. Good and highly probable chance you get more, better and cheaper food.
Greetings from europe
This is pretty sad. Try going to some actual, real restaurants.
I’m really proud of you 👍
You’ve improved a lot over the year in a really impressive way. I assume your body and your wallet are thankful
Wow. That’s a lot of fast food.
I’ve tracked all my family spending, including fast food, since 2011. You ate fast food almost 50 times more often than my wife and I in 2024, and ate out in general about 5 times more often. But because our eating out was almost always getting nicer dinners together, you only spent about twice as much as us on eating out.
2025 will be a great year when you learn to cook and cut out all this crap! Best wishes.
Well, that’s good improvement.
But it’s helpful to point out that eating Wendys’ Taco Bell and McDonalds 195 times in a year isn’t… ordinary.
This is really cool. If you have an iPhone, I’d love to see what you think of [Reflect](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reflect-track-anything/id6463800032). You could import your data into it since it’s CSV
You forgot to add the long term medical costs for diabetes, heart diseases and colon cancer.
vexbolts mass unfollowing dec 31th, spread the word
Any chance you have a copy of the Google sheet? I’d love to track this for 2025
Most American thing I’ve ever seen.
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