"I live in an apartment with my son-in-law and my daughter. I raise chickens."

"I am married and I have two kids.
There are families back in India for whom [a 100 dollars] is like a monthly income"

"I'm always thinking budget, thinking practical."

"We met online and it was love at first email.
Money means getting by. We're unemployed, starving artists sort of thing."

"I live on campus with three other girls.
Usually everyday I have pizza rolls. I don't think I'm good with money at all."

"[Food] is a communication. It's making people happy.
I live by myself. Unless I'm meeting friends somewhere, I eat alone, probably watching TV."

"I get 1,110$ a month, puts me pretty close to, if not under, the poverty level."

"We've got three kids, a dog and a boat.
We love to gather around food and celebrate our family and friends."

"We love cereal.
I kind of see food as fuel, nothing more."

"Food is sustenance. I used to [cook], I used to love to do it, all that's gone because I can't see."

"I don't necessarily like his style of cooking. One time he made me Vietnamese Norvegian gambo."

"I would say food is just a medium for community, family."

"Food means nourishment, especially since being older, [it has been] very important to eat the right things."

"When you have a child and you have to make ends meet, you could go to the cheapest store and $100 barely stretched."

"I like to cook fresh food so I got greens. I get UberEats and stuff sometimes. I spend about $150-200 per month on it."

"I feel like normally when we spend $100 it's not ever on this much food. We were like wow we can actually get a lot for $100."

"We try to have dinner together, at least the nights we're at home at the same time. We don't watch TV while eating"

"I spent about a quarter of the $100 on baby formula. I always cook dinner for me, my boyfriend and my daughter"

"Usually I spend about $50 on groceries. I don't come from a family that has a lot of money. So that kinda sucks when everyone else is going out to eat and you just have to stay home to save money."

"I would say I'm really striving to be middle class, but I don't know if I am quite yet.
A hundred bucks means like a couple of days worth of money or one frivolous night of indulgence.
I would say I drink at least six days a week."

"My room consists of a mini fridge and a toaster oven to cook pizza rolls."

"I just buy little snacks that I can add to my school day.
I spent a quarter of my budget on honeycomb. I love honeycomb.
I don't cook. I eat out almost every day"