How Meal Kits Helped Me Kick My Lunch-Buying Habit — The Financial Diet

Welcome to a column from The Financial Diet, one of our very favorite sites, dedicated to money and everything it touches. One of the best ways to take charge of your financial life is through food and cooking.

After I graduated college and moved to New York City, buying most of my food out became my norm. I wasn't getting myself into astronomical debt, but I certainly wasn't budgeting. After paying off my credit card bill each month, I essentially had nothing left over. Yet it took me forever to realize the biggest reason I had nothing left over was because I was hyper-dependent on one specific habit: buying my lunch out, every single weekday.

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