If you love flushing money down the toilet and wanting to set your own hair on fire, you should definitely look into living alone. There are few burdens of adulthood more frustrating than buying tons of food and throwing it in the trash along with your bank statement and sanity. This is made all the more maddening when you hate grocery shopping, but you have to do it roughly 30 times a week because everything goes bad and the world is a terrible place. As someone who has lived alone in the middle of a city, I feel your pain. Luckily for us, the Internet is chock-full of food tips that will help us save time and money without also having to sell our souls to the Dark Lord.

Let's start with grocery 101, shall we? Make lists, people!

Don't be like me. Don't go to the grocery store hungry without a list and then come home with nothing but cookies, cupcakes, and disappointment. Think of what you need to stock up on and write it down so you stay on track. (You definitely need 30 chocolate bars. Don't let haters tell you otherwise.)

Plan your meals ahead of time.

While you can probably think of 30,000 things you'd rather do than sit and plan your meals for the week, busting out the planner will help you get organized so you know what you have on hand and what you want to do with it.