The average man has two to three times the upper body strength of the average woman. The math makes sense.

Thinking about food costs, i spend about $80 weekly at the grocery store - for food; this figure doesn't include non-food items.  While i buy a dinner portion from the hotbar, i seldom eat at restaurants - don't need the extra costs...or the heartburn.

Anyway, got to thinking...two to three times...manly muscles need something of more substance than noodles, salads, lettuce wraps (with just one slice of lunchmeat).  Men like real sandwiches in their lunch bucket - ones containing more than rabbit-fare.

So, last night, i pretended that i was a 60-something bachelor - clean living, money careful.  What would bachelor-bob put in his cart, each saturday?  Certainly more than 2/3rds a pound of turkey breast for his weekly lunches.  As for dinner, a man wants a real hamburg... no wait, probably two.  Same goes with pork chops - one little skimpy one?? Nuh-uh!  And he wants lima beans AND a nice healthy serving of apple sauce.  And a tall glass of milk, with a snack cake for dessert.  Oh, forgot...he eats breakfast too.  A real breakfast: a big bowl of cereal with toast - and lots of jelly on it - with a big glass of milk.  He then grabs his lunch bucket (not some skimpy girlie thing) and heads off to work.

Anyway, he buys good food - am not talking prime rib and caviar.  What he would need for the week to cover three daily meals and some snacks - bachelor-bob doesn't want to morph into bachelor-blimp.  His bill came to $180.  This amount includes one jar of whatever condiment he may be running low on and whatever two or three cans of soup or green beans.  The snack item may be chips or nuts.  Oh yeah, a 12-pack of soft drink (bob isn't into beer ... or it's blimp-factor).

Anyway, his annual food costs come to around 5k extra, than that of 60-something spinster-sarah.   While her extra 5k goes to the guys who cut her grass and maintain her car (bob does most of that himself) sarah is careful to put aside even more because she doesn't have the upper body strength to be toting roof rolls up ladders.  As for another 2nd storey project, that one will be contracted come spring - it's just another sort of job that most men could do - for the most part - themselves.

Is what it is, in the world of grownups.  Men and women have different abilities and needs.  Lord created us that way.