UPDATE: I tracked my monthly spending on FOOD alone and let Gemini analyze it.

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4 months after post above, this is now my Feb running food* cost (for 1-2 pax):

Malaking improvement vs October 2025! From someone who spends up to 35k/mo sa pagkain--huge chunk of which ay ultraprocessed or fastfood.

Unlike my previous post, di na ako humingi ng mahabang analysis kay Gemini. SMART action steps nalang para maimplement agad.

My ultimate lifestyle goal is to switch na to 90% mostly local whole foods. 8k nutrition and 1k for indulgence (total 9k) ang target ko. Helpful for me ung pagttrack ng expenses as long as hindi neurotic ung approach mo.

How: Track all your food expenses on any app/spreadsheet real time. Kahit yung street food! Kasi it adds up, saka para malaman din ung frequency. [Case in point: Naka 12 trips ako to 7/11 in 22 days. Php 1.6k or average Php133/day. Understandable if meals, eh purely snack and drinks aka empty calories lang ung binibili ko dun T_T]

I used Money Manager app for tracking, then I extracted the data into CSV format. Then I fed it to Gemini.

*For this one, I decided to pull up data ng hindi pa tapos ang buwan, kasi malapit na ang payday at gusto ko maremind yung sarili ko vs mindless spending na naman [nothing wrong with payday treats, in my case lang kasi, for the longest time I would blow more than a day's wage just for one whole day of eating out, na pwede na sanang iallot for 1-2 wks of grocery.]

Prompt: Analyze my ongoing monthly FOOD expenses by giving summary of frequency, category, amount etc. Then provide SMART action steps that I can apply by next week when my next payday comes.