Eating on a dollar a day, could you do it?
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- Опубліковано 2 бер 2010
- Eating on on dollar a day? For a month? Is that really possible? One Cal Poly student put the idea to the test, for her senior project. Niki Burns decided it would be a good test and challenge for her, so the project began back on February 1. "The point of my project is just to show people that it's possible to just eat off of less and to be resourceful and not wasteful...At the beginning of the month, I purchased 28 dollars worth of groceries and I made them last throughout the month, and I looked for ways to find free food."
As one might expect, the items she bought were inexpensive, but she made choices she could get creative with when preparing them. "I just knew I really wanted potatoes because they were really cheap and I could do different things with them, like bake them or fry them....I even made potato chips with them for Super Bowl Sunday.
Some of her other food items were eggs, green beans, and chicken. She got free oranges from a tree in her friends' yard, picking them off the tree. She also took advantage of some free food offers that occasionally came along. "I went to Denny's on their free Grand Slam day and I went to I-Hop for their free pancakes."
She kept track of what she ate daily on a blog that she started for the project. Some days there wasn't much variation to the blog entries because she ate a lot of leftovers.
Obviosuly if you had to go into the store daily and spend one dollar, there wouldn't be a lot you could buy for that buck. Maybe a box of macaroni and cheese or perhaps some raman noodles. The list would be pretty limited. Thus, that's why she bought all the food she chose all at once, spending 28 dollars to buy what she needed to get her through the month.
She thinks back upon the experience and says she gained insight on how some people have to live like this everyday. "This reality only lasted a month for me. It is a reality people have to face everyday of their lives, it's definitely opened my eyes."
The learning experience she takes away from the project is a worthy one for her. But is she going out on a "food binge" today, ( March 1st ) to celebrate that she was able to successfully complete her project? Not really, but she does have one thing she wants. "I just really want a nice salad, with walnuts and cranberries on it...and all the good stuff."
Dig in Niki, it's time to put some variety back in your diet.
Annoying how they didn't actually share any helpful info, like recipes, meal ideas, savings tips, etc.
Yeah, I was hoping they actually show everything that she did. The only things I got were: she started the month with a $28 grocery haul and she kept her eyes out for 'free' which included Denny's and asking a neighbor for a pick at her orange tree. Being creative and eat leftovers was something that they hinted on. She has a blog, Niki Burns on Blogger.com, it's still up. I'm looking at it right and I'm going to post on this video my report of it, because this video edited out a lot of what she did to get through the month which includes, at first glance a trip to the food bank and dumpster diving (I don't recommend when it comes to food, but she was determined not to spend any money or as little as possible.)
And if you got food from the food bank, you did not "eat on a dollar a day." You ate off "the kindness of strangers," and that's of limited effectiveness. Most food banks have strict limits on how often you can use them, such as once every three months. Sometimes I think these kinds of videos are made by people who know that they won't really have to go hungry unless they choose to, in order to convince themselves that being genuinely poor "isn't so bad." Yes, actually, it is so bad.
Trish, honey, some food banks allow people to go once a month and "kindness of strangers" costs zero. Plenty of people will pick fruits from trees, that are going to waste, by asking the owner of the property if they can do so, while sharing with the owner. I don't have to go hungry but I want to be debt free, so I have reduced my budget to very little, for now. Week one: $20, next 3 weeks: $7 a week. But I do know how to cook, easy enough to learn watching UA-cam, so zero premade food. I grow fruits and vegetables in my yard (in town), which means free since I planted the fruits trees, bushes and plants years ago. And I save seed from one year to the next to grow vegetable. That leaves things like eggs (very cheap and stock up when on sale-week one), meat always at half price (our local grocer reduces all meats by half the day before the sell by date, I make some (small portion) that day and freeze the rest, If it doesn't come to 50 cents or less per portion I don't buy it, I mostly buy ORGANIC chicken). Rice and beans, of course, that you cook yourself come to pennies a day. "Being genuinely poor" may not be great, but that doesn't mean you have to starve unless you are not willing to do what it takes. What it takes, means zero soft drinks, which if you go to places like Walmart you will see carts filled high with, by people buying with food stamps. Hint, drink water, instead and save enough to eat for a week or two. These kinds of videos makes people who actually give a dang, ideas on how to save and eat better. I eat just fine on little money.
Hey, I'm glad you're able to keep your grocery budget to 150% of the one "tested" in this video ($41 per month instead of $28 per month), and I'm glad you were able years ago to plant fruit trees in your yard (unlike, say, people living in apartments), and I'm glad the food banks where you live permit clients to use them three times as often as the ones in my area (which I know about from having worked for one of the sponsoring churches, not from using them personally), and I'm glad you acknowledge that being poor is "not great." I'm not so glad you called me "honey." Just a tip: That's normally considered condescending. I stand by my point that needing to rely on the kindness of strangers is not the same as actually being able to stretch a budget, and concrete tips from someone who did it truly on her own with the claimed budget would have made this video far more valuable.
Here's what I did living on my own and trying to save. I bought seasonal vegetables and either whole chicken (uncleaned which is cheaper) or beef and cook for a family of 4/5, freezing microwavable portions. I bought lots of rice, made my own bread, used pasta, couscous etc. I'd either roast the meat and have it with a variety of carbs and veggies, or make a one-pot meal with everything included, lasagna or other pasta dishes, biriyani, paella, fried rice dishes, porridge (oats, meat, root veggies), stews (meats and veggies only) all of which included meats, veggies, and carbs, helped me save on gas and electric since I cooked just once a week but I still ate like a king.
I usually cooked rice in advance for 2/3 days, or made bread to last me a few days, and always had couscous available (a little goes along way).
For snack or nibbling, I made hummus, pickles, mayo, aoili. All of these things can be made with cheap ingredients like vegetable oil, eggs, garlic, veggies, vinegar and turned into a meal when you have left over roasted meats and flat bread.
On really low days, i bought corned meats, or canned tuna mixed it with spices, available veggies like potatoes, carrots, peas, tomatoes doubling the quantity, then storing it in the fridge and having it with rice, bread, pastas. or I just made a pasta dish out of it, and had that for the week.
To satisfy my sweet tooth, I had a can of sweetened condensed milk, made my own sponge cake, two ingredient ice cream or my own version of tiramisu which gave me twice as much for half the price.
I made my own potato chips, just cut them thin and translucent, soak them in water for 10 minutes, pat them dry and fry. I bought no other junk and had them with my homemade mayo.
I made sandwiches out the roasts, clubs, sloppy joes or just had a scrambled fried egg and potato chip sandwich.
I found store-bought puff pastry was cheap (in asia), so I made minnie pies, cutlets, stuffed pastry dishes. Usually managed about 20 medium portions which lasted me a long time too. I'd maintain a 1:1 meat/veggie ratio to reduce my cost, and double the portions I get.
I only bought what I needed like one big potato, carrot, onion or whatever was on sale and used it all that day. No waste, no rotting bio in my fridge. My grocery bill only had 5/6 items. The sweet dishes were treats when I had money left over. I usually spent about $16/week and ate like a king. Do not touch cooked food with your unprotected hands no matter how clean it is. I found food keeps longer when not touched during storage.
Hope this helps.
Two words for everyone: crock pot. You can do amazing things with beans, cheap meats, frozen veggies and grains. I once lived off about $70 a month using this strategy.
TheMabes69 g
It's true that some cooking techniques help a lot. Of course, your budget is more than double that given in this video.
BRILLIANT THANK YOU
My daughter use to be so embarrassed anytime we went into a dollar store until she grew up and started supporting herself. Since moving to Los Angeles [ 6 years ago ] she has become a pro when it comes to shopping and couponing. She uses the 99 cent stores to buy a lot her household supplies and food. Now she thinks dollar stores [ or 99 cent stores ] are the greatest thing going. It just took a little growing up for her to see the light.
As of today 99cents store or dollar tree is very popular.You see people with fancy cars and you see them buying at that store.We shouldn't be embarrassed at all.Its our life your own life.Nobody lives your life.N they shouldn't care where people shop.
he’s is a fox
he’s is a lesbian
he’s is a fox
nice UA-cam channel
Eating for $1 per day is very doable. Going to Aldi, HMart, and the Dollar Store enables one to buy beans, lentils, tofu, fresh and frozen vegetables, oil, spices, soymilk, coconut milk, almond milk, whole wheat flour, brown rice, oats, other whole grains, even going to Whole Foods and Costco for bulk items once in a while. Try it. There are many recipes out there to enable one to suceed. Even eating wild mushrooms and weeds, such as dandelions helps. If you only have an apartment with a sunny window, you can grow herbs and some vegetables. You can regrow some vegetables such as lettuce by saving the bottoms and growing them. It takes a little planning, but the food is delicious. You can freeze, can, or dry excess food.
In Australia nothing is a dollar... Not even at dollar stores the most you could get for a dollar is a chocolate bar
Even ramen is at least 1.25 here in canada
Kate Johnson you can get a 12 pack of ramen in the U.S. for about 3 bucks! They sell individually for 25 cents!
in the uk instead of a dollar store we have an alternative called poundland and barely anything in there is for a pound/dollar (even though there motto is buy everything you need for a pound under one roof) the most you can get for a pound is a small chocolate bar or some bad cheap make up
Same in Greece but with euros the only thing you can buy with 1 euro is instant ramen and candy
We were able to buy a 12 pack of Ramen for 1.25. We bought 30 dollars worth. Never went hungry again.
I got over $300 with the groceries but with coupons and special ads and sales I only spent $80 and that was enough to feed 3 kids and myself
what state do you live in?
thats good. The cost of living is a little cheaper in most places in Texas compared to Los Angeles.
I live in Texas and I love it what state do you live in and are things more expensive
+oseme thompson I know it takes a little juggling my budget but it can be done I am holding down two jobs and got three little it's difficult but at the end of the day is it worth it I don't want to go back on the system
I live in Los angeles. Los angeles is generally more expensive than Most places in Texas. Having a family and working 2 jobs is tough. You are trying. I wish you the best. Maybe if you train to get a highly paid skill would be a great suggestion
Yeah, she is really noticing that she is missing the healthy stuff. Craving the vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients she used to consume in those greens, cranberries and nuts. That is the stuff that doesn't come in cheap food. And some people don't have a neighbor with oranges Medical bills and co-pays ain't cheap either when a person is more likely to get sick from lack of fresh fruits and vegetables, lean protein, and complex carbohydrates. . But this was an example of many things to learn from her experience.
when you are out of luck than you can follow her
i buy a big bag of kale for 76p....a bag of tomatoes for 70p... i dont know what you're on about tbh.
I lived on 9K/year when I was in school in Orlando. That amount took care of food, rent, internet and cellphone. I ate pretty good and even went out to breakfast and dinner.
+Luis Donado i calculated that for Sweden where I live and that is almost what you get from welfare here, you get a bit more but around that sum.
I love shows like this! When you are on a budget it forces you to be more creative!
I eat a healthy diet on 2-3 dollars a day, but I cook everything, buy no prepackaged foods, and eat vegetarian dishes. It takes some effort but eating healthy on the cheap can be done, it's just that most people aren't willing to sacrifice certain foods they like.
One of the coolest senior project ideas I've seen or heard of.
Great video and project!
We need morning more people like her. Treasuring what you already have and making full use of everything you have
eggs are affordable protein. carbs are mostly all affordable. harder is getting fresh vegetables and fruit.
Joey Suggs fresh veg is overrated if you buy it and it sits there for a week to two until you use it. Frozen is snap frozen at is peak. It's often better.
Unless you live in an apartment, you can plant fruit trees and bushes and vegetables. Freeze the excess or learn to can and dehydrate and you can have it all year.
In 2017 it's still possible to eat for a dollar a day per person. This is how:
Buy bulk directly from farmer in quantities for a year, grow vegetables and fruits, use powdered milk, keep hens, buy meats at rock bottom price for the year, or butcher your own goats etc, bake all of your own bread, and go fishing.
The price of soybeans are $10.50 for a bushel, (60#)
to make tofu, miso, tempeh, soymilk, and bean sprouts
Wheat $4.00 @ bushel (60#)
make all bread, cream of wheat crackers, seitan, pizza flatbread etc andfor wheat sprouts and wheat juice
oats $2.50 for a (32# bushel) (note that is 2 cents more that a container of oatmeal at walmart that weighs 2# 10 ounces.)
for oatmeal granola bars, cookies mix in meatloaf, bean loaf etc.
corn @ $3.33 a bushel (56#)
cornbread, corn tortillas, tamales
It's mainly just a matter of catching a farmer standing outside his field and arranging to buy it.
If you look online you can find ways to feed chickens for free.
I sure wish to connect with someone in a northern state where bukwheat grows to arrange a purchase and ship it to me.....
It could be done but a lot of the food would probably be high in carbs.
Aldo Solares
Fuck off,,,
Ulrich Schmidt
You to.
Ulrich Schmidt
I'm not a kid.
What's wrong with carbs?
psyd effex
Nothing,,but alot of them tend to be fattening. They are usually cheaper.,,but not a good source of nutrition in themselves. But sometimes people have no choice,,I've had to do it before because of lack of money,,and it sucked.
I admire this girl. This is what I want to do...Not be wasteful cause it's destroying our earth. I never knew how but she is giving me an idea
Clearance veggies at Kroger/Ralph’s. Good stuff including the salad kits for 99 cents. I eat a salad a day sometimes two. Plus they have the clearance regular veg for a buck for that red mesh bag. Ramen was 17 cents a pack on sale today and I took two packs and mixed in a 79 cent bag of clearance spinach.
You may have to shop more frequently but the savings really add up with the clearance stuff.
That's so cool! Fresh, delicious and organic.. Way to go Kubwa :)
If you are going to live off one dollar a day, then you need to be very resourceful with money and calories. The utmost important thing is grains. If you have grains, then just one cup of brown rice or white rice can supply about 200 calories. White rice lasts longer and is more absorbable, so it should be the better deal. Next come your veggies. Buy fresh or frozen with minimal ingredients. After veggies, you have to search for meats and fats. Chicken is usually the cheapest kind of meat, and with chicken, you get protein and fat. Fruits, dairy products, sweets, and the finer things are actually unnecessary, so you may avoid those things until you can afford them.
I think there is alot you could eat on $1 a day.Like making dry beans in the crock pot noodles veggies and the like !!
+N.E.Arkansas Trash Trucks&Lottery yes, it is doable. By everything generic and use coupons.
I think her project was fascinating and wish the website was still available. We still keep the grocery budget very low, near $1 per person, per day, even though we don't have to. But, we grow our own vegetables and herbs, enjoy hiking and foraging for wild edibles like mushrooms, watercress, nuts, berries, and greens. We harvest the green pods from redbud trees, which are like snow peas and so delicious. They freeze well and we can eat them all year.
The sort of foods we buy are one ingredient foods like coconut oil, brown rice, chia, quinoa, and amaranth in bulk, spices and herbs that we don't grow, avocados, certain vegetables we don't grow, and sea salt. We get apples and peaches by the bushel from a local orchard and make apple butter, apple sauce, desserts, and vinegar if the fruit is too bruised to eat. We prepare everything from scratch, even condiments. Steel cut oats for breakfast with a bit of coconut oil and some apple sauce or crushed peaches is a very, very inexpensive meal, like 10-15 cents a person. Eggs from our own chickens, soups, stews, salads, lentil meatloaf, bean burgers with chickpea flour buns, venison traded from friends for our excess produce, homemade pizza, there is no lack of variety. You have to want to do it, and you have to plan your meals and waste nothing.
There was a time when I was in some dire circumstances and had to manage on $3.50/day living in Asia . What I did was buy tons of vegetables and a either whole chicken or beef and cook for a family of 4/5, freezing microwavable portions. I bought lots of rice, made my own bread, used pasta, couscous etc. I'd either roast the meat and have it with a variety of carbs and veggies, or make a one-pot meal with everything included, lasagna or other pasta dishes, biriyani, paella, fried rice dishes, all of which included meats, veggies, and carbs, helped me save on gas and electric since I cooked just once a week but I still ate like a king.
I usually cooked rice in advance for 2/3 days, or made bread to last me a few, and always had couscous available (a little goes along way) for long days that would have otherwise made me get takeaway with money I should have paid rent with.
Awesome
Ive been doing the challenge for two weeks now. Ive been blessed because things just started happening this week. I got a twenty dollar tip and Ive got free food from my job. Last month I got free food from apps. I was going to do my grocery list but decided to do the challenge.
That's pretty good!
Thank you! I think so too, plus the fact I live in the in-law suite of one the houses, so I save on transportation as well.
I have to budget for two people, $212 a month. That works out to, rounded up, $2.36 per meal. And we've been living just fine this way for years.
I did the 50 cents a day thing for a year or so but it was in the nineties when a dollar did more. Had a little plastic steamer and 25 pound bag each of oatmeal, rice, lentils, split peas, and navy beans. Foraged in the alleys and vacant lots for dandelions, cat’s ear, lamb’s quarters, nipplewort, deadnettle, chickory, purslane, thistles, nettles, chickweed, cleavers, broadleaf plantain, dock, mustards (including money plant), blackberries, plums, apples, Asian pears, pears, mulberries, cherries, grapes, acorns, walnuts, filberts, maple flowers, lilac blossoms, rose petals, meadow mushrooms, assorted mints, rosemary, lavender, thyme, marjoram, oregano, and wild garlic, in season, and dried what I could not use right away, then crumbled it up and stored it in a Mason jar. For drink I had tap water and made tea with many of the foraged things, as well as spruce needle tea for health. It worked out.
risa bear you are freaking awesome
I lived on $5 a week, it sucked.
So it's 4th June today and my total food grocery and eating out bill is $12.96 for the year to date. I did this in one of the most expensive countries in the world (Norway), and I have cycled over 5000 miles in that time.
George Corbin wow, you're amazing
beans and veg made into soups , its easy really
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and ramen, ramen is 10 Cents a pack 30 Cents for a day's worth of food
JJ Alan
ramen will not keep you alive
Beans,beans the magical fruit
the more you eat
the more you TOOT :O*
Papa Lung ramen will not keep you alive
Papa Lung unless you cook it of course.
How much it cost in gas to go get groceries and those free food?
Yes dear!
Excellent project!!! $30 I would've included flour to make bread, tortillas and pasta. Also raw grains. Some more raw vegetables and fruits to stretch the $. I agree you got to be very creative!!!
Dollar store ramen noodles and granola bars at my dollar tree. LMAO XD
I am aware that we don't all live on farms. I just wish more people were aware of how much one can produce in even just potted plants. I would recommend starting with potatoes; one of the easiest to grow and most calorie returning plants. I grow a few things in pots on my piddly urban property not only to save money but also get better quality food.
Watching in 2023 and all i really have to say is i think i have that same rice maker.
I hate how the say"it's really interesting!" Or call it a " project! No! Poor people are real! Their lives isn't a project! Or a UA-cam challenge!
She did mention that on 1:55 that it is a reality that people face.
oh jesus fucking christ you are such a pussy. for one, it IS really interesting to people that dont do it, and for two it is a "project" she even stated it herself as she could certainly afford more.
A Raad get a grip school project
Top ramen all day
Better throw a multivitamin in there
troy noble
While there is no one starving in the US there are people going hungry, that's a fact! =)
True. But there is nothing more heartbreaking then when you go to the store and there are no ripe bananas....
I completely agree, my pepe and his whole family were living in a train cart living off of bacon grease sandwhiches. That blew my mind when he told me.
it is easier to buy more variety for less if you stop shopping at chain supermarkets and begin hitting up local international mom n pop stores. here in NJ there is a huge abundance of middle easterm, greek, indian, spanish and italian markets. i like the indian one the most because for example, you can buy 3 pounds of fresh organic tomatoes for a total of $3.99. if i went to the Giant Market, it would be close to $3 for a single pound. A huge sack of rice is like $3 while a small sack at Giant is like $4.
Exactly! When someone who is employed complains about not having enough money for food, I have to wonder what they are spending their money on.
Go to a buffet and bring a container to bring some food home...lol.
There is a buffet here where you order by ipad and I ordered too much sushi and happen to have a ziploc bag in my purse...so not wanting to be wasteful I took the extra food home.
-better than it being thrown out.
Our dennys and ihop doesnt have anything for free. They will show you the door if you ask...lol. her experiment is a great idea though but it would call for alot of self control and eating less...like one well rounded meal with perhaps another mini one
This is the year 2024 but on your birthday if you belong to the birthday club you can get a free breakfast at Denny's and free food at IHOP
This was my reality up until I left home at 17 and then hit a rough spot in my mid twenties thank god I am not starving for food, but groceries are expensive I am thinking of learning the art of extreme coupon.
Davis Fountain if you have access to a computer and printer (like at some libraries), go to coupons.com
have lived on 50 cents a day before for about 5 years
areanna beyer how?thats great tho
I'm guessing ramen noodles?
Travis Wallace yeah ramen noodles. I'm sick of them now.
+areanna beyer That college ramen noodle thug life though :D
+areanna beyer My wife complains that I eat too much gumbo. I will get a $5 chicken and $6 Package of sausage. I then get 2 $1.25 packets of gumbo mix, sure I could make a roux and chop all my own stuff but the gumbo mix is easy to do and takes no time. I cut up the chicken use half the sausage in the gumbo. All told it probably cost me $12 for an 8 quart pot of gumbo. That is my high end meal my low end meal is I use the rest of the sausage in beans. Sometimes I get lazy and use a can of Blue Runner beans which does not compare to this girls frugal ways but I can afford better just rather not bother.
Oh the point well my wife wonders how I can eat gumbo so much I told her she should have seen me growing up. We ate EGG RICE nearly every day for me to eat gumbo every day is like going from ramen noodle to hamburger. That is just what it sounds like left over rice heated on the stove with a couple eggs cracked in maybe an onion for flavoring. The pre ramen noodle of the 1970s. The 80s were when ramen noodle got started and when we really got lazy.
Ramen noodle is tasty if you cook it and add on or 2 slices of American cheese it will make a cheese broth. Other things I have done to make ramen noodle tastier is cracked bacon, what is cracked bacon ? Hormel real bacon bits a table spoon of them in a corel bowl covered for one minute for our microwave. What happens is the bacon gets crisped on the edge of burnt but still tasty and crunchy there should be a little smoke when you open the MWO if you find it burns your bacon add another table spoon or reduce the time not all MWO cook the same you might have to add time to less powerful MWO. Out the bag bacon bits are good but when you crack it it is just perfect for your ramen noodle I often crack it place it in salad.
Oh you see the girl measuring out the rice in the rice pot that is ok to do but what you only have to do is never go over half a pot of dry rice then pour water on the rice and what you do is you dip the tip of your pinkey finger to touch the top layer of the rice I am 6 ft I want the water just below the line where my pinkey finger bends somebody shorter might have the water come up to the line point is no matter the size of the pot that is the best way to insure you cook perfect rice every time. You can make perfect rice every time if you want to use a stove top. Here is what you do. You turn the fire on med high when the water starts to boil you stir the rice that prevents it from sticking then you turn the flame down where it is barely on for gas if you are electric you have it on simmer. You cover the rice with a pot lid if you don't have one that fits get a plate no peek a boo keep it covered for 20 minutes it will be perfect. You turn off the fire and rice is done. Before you stir lower flame and top you might want to have a 20 min alarm ready so you don't forget it on the stove.
when youre in collage or just need to save money, your best friends are: CROCKPOTS, beans, tofu, RICE (strech out your food with it and it pretty much goes with anything), lentils, potatoes, and any cheap peices of chicken that the butcher will practically give for free( necks, gizzards, skin) throw them into boiling water and scrape the meat off or toss it in some soy sauce and garlic and boom cheep chicken wings!
adjusted for inflation she's eating on over $100 a day
I shop the produce markets right before closing time. They mark items down to $1 or less for a basket of their produce they wouldn't sell the next day. Blanch/Freeze and learn to can items and you can stock up for winter. On average I get 7-9 BIG bags of produce for $8 or less. Meat bundles are a great investment also. I'm a stay home wife and mother of 6. Cook and freeze meals ahead of time if you are a busy family. It cuts down on getting take out because you don't have time to cook.
I never thought of that
That was like 5 years ago and it was a store brand but Im sure you can find cheap tuna at Walmart or something still.
Yup! You got that one right! And junk food is made to be sooo tasty!
I still don't understand people's claim: "One dollar a day".
Granted! One can consume no more than am dollar's worth of food a day, but that is an all-consuming mission in itself. Sure because pasta is cheap, and one can get free scraps from the butcher before they hit the bin, and score some week old bread, but what of the expense and time involved in doing so? I mean, people, the periferal expenditure.
That is good, so far I have only figured out to feed my family of 4 on $15.00 a week.
I MADE A SPIN ON CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS THAT IS PRETTY CHEAP AND MY FAMILY LOVED IT I TOOK 4 CHEAP CHICKEN POT PIES REMOVED THE CRUST AROUND THEM THREW THE FILLING PART IN THE CROCK POT ON LOW ALL DAY ADDED SOME CHICKEN CANNED GRAVY AND BOILED A FEW CHICKEN THIGHS I HAD IN THE FREEZER AND BOUGHT A FEW CANS OF WAL MART BISCUITS COOKED THEM OPENED THEM UP POURED THE MIXTURE FROM THE CROCK POT OVER THEM MY KIDS LOVED IT !
My family and I have had times when we had to eat like this to save money. We ate so many packages of ramon noodles that my kids can't stand them to this day.
Ulrich Schmidt I work in a grocery store and see the waste daily. The bakery tosses all cold items and any rolls, bagels, cupcakes and pastry not sold from the individual cases. The deli tosses all hot food not sold that day. It is heartbreaking to see the amount of food they discard when there are SO many children in our community going to bed hungry. Their excuse... the items are temperature controlled and there is no guarantee that donating it would keep a constant temperature and therefore the person receiving the item could be "accidentally" poisoned and the store would be liable. It's a bunch of b.s. - the same thing can happen to someone who actually paid for the food if they don't keep the correct temperature on the food.
That's terrible! I'm sure there must be families in Europe starving like there are here in the U.S. It truly is a crime to allow children and families to go to bed hungry each day and not share the produce just to keep costs inflated.
Denice Ward You hit the nail on the head, it isn't really about the temp of the food etc, it's to keep prices inflated.
Depending on how far she had to drive I would think making pancakes at home would end up being cheaper than Free Pancake day at Denny's.
Bananas are the best "fast food" I can think of. Easy to go into a grocery store and get some for 59 cents/pound & go through the Fast Check-out. She did well to buy Rice, since 7 servings cost about 60 cents & is 1120 calories. Making pancakes is certainly another low cost meal. Beans, eggs, tuna & peanut butter are protein sources.
It`s really not that difficult if you are motivated and you don`t have to look for free food.
When i`ve bought my home, i wanted to go out of debt as fast, as i can.
So i lived three years close to this amount of money and was debt free.
Motivation makes it easy.
:-) I like you style! I was just rubbing it in.
That's quite interesting. Where would a guy look for 'editable' greens?
And I appreciate your polite and humorous correction to my gooberness. :-)
Best deal I found: kraft "Tangy Italian" spaghetti dinner-1.88 plus .40c for contadina tomato paste makes huge bowl of pasta! { @ walmart }
Thank you! LOL!
The point of the project is to carry on with your regular activities *and* feed yourself with what you can purchase for a dollar a day.
Possible, healthy, but no fun at all. It's called the Cuban Menu. One 10 lbs bag of rice, one bag of beans, some lentils, some seasonings, and some tea. Maybe even a pound of sugar for the weekend treats!
grow tomatoes and eat tomoato sandwiches for a couple days a week is really a good way to save. Another way to save is get a friend who grows fruit and get some seeds from him and plant and start your own fruit garden. Tomatoes aren't that expensive. Planting a garden is a really good way to stay in shape and get some vitamin D in your body for free
is it just me or does she have like, the cutest face ....ever?
LOL! Your cat is spoiled!
Its doable. Its actually doable for even a lot less if you are feeding more then one, know how to cook, and do weekly rather then sporadically shopping. I spend 150 a week for fam of 5. Take out 25 for toiletries cat food and such I spend roughly 525 a month. We eat very well, meat every night of some kind or another, as well as fresh fruits and veggies. every night. I spend less then 20 min a week making fresh bread 3 days a week none of that processed crap.
I Think I could do it... I've been eating on something similar most of my life... Of course I live out in the woods. The last few years I've been extremely lucky with the amount of food available to me, but... as a kid most of my food was free... We grew our own vegetables and fruits. There were a few fields around with blackberries as well. Other than that, we stuck to the cheap things and made big meals using free stuff with store-bought. We were healthy and happy :)
Depression foods... My Mother raised all 6 of us kids on them. Potato - rice - pasta - grow your own veggies.
I Could go to the dollar store and buy a 1 dollar 5 pack of raman noodles and that will last me 2 days by 20 cents a roman yum yum
lol what's roman noodles
megan palmer lol guess its a luxury ramen noodles 🍝
Ramen noodles are so unhealthy. Loaded with salt and msg. Better off getting a $1 bag noodels, $1 bag veggies and 4 cans chicken broth for $3. Will last a whole week and easy.
Haha! I completely missed that. I'd have to agree, I can't think of a single 'editable' green. Maybe if I consumed more nutritious food I'd have a better attention to detail :-)
There's always growing your own food too.
+Samuel Monteon Well, not "always." You kind of have to have land. And how many people living on a buck a day can afford to live on half an acre, let alone on a truck farm?
Thank you! :-)
I'm aware there are many "edible" greens, and dandelion is more versatile than just for salads.
Sadly, I'm at a total loss in finding at least ONE variety of "editable" greens.
:-)
Did anyone else misread the title as "Eating a dollar a day, could you do it?"
I eat for a dollar a day pretty regularly. I hate to pay more than a dollar for anything, especially when I only have about $20 to live off of for two weeks between paychecks.
Sure you can. Three dollars for over a months worth of multi-vitamins go a long way towards helping achieve that. Also, beans are rich in nutrients, and extremely cheap. That along with rice, you could manage three meals a day for less than a dollar a day, and still be healthy. Also, there are lots of vegetables you can buy very cheap(carrots, lettuce, broccoli, etc etc) that you could eat sparingly enough to provide plenty of nutrients as well, if you wanted more variety.
depending on the area and how many mouths she has to feed will depend on the amount.. I think where I live a single person can get up to about 200$ in food stamps if the person has 0 or almost 0 income but usually can only keep it for about 3 months unless their disabled. I know it usually averages at about 100$ - 150$ per mouth. They make it so that you have to be smart about your purchase but also slightly comfortable at the same time.. It helps cut down on the stress a bit..
Yeah, they come on debit cards now. I guess to keep better track electronically, so that you cant just sell your booklets off, and I suppose it's easier to load it electronically than to mail them out every month. But, yeah, a lot of people don't seem to realize it's fairly simple to get on foodstamps nowadays.
As a single senior living on Social Security I get $23 a month but I stretch that money by buying a lot of markdown meat and other food items
where the heck do you live dude. your stats are sadly way off VCZ
i think looking for saving over health isnt good. many times the grocery store will let you buy a crate of a particular produce and its much cheaper than buying from the produce dept. and you can split the crate with other people.
Dana Lee you're dense, didn't you understand the point of her project? It was never about saving money
$1 a day? Holly crap! Good thing you did this for a month only! Any longer and you might have suffered from some malnutrition disease!
rice, oats and pasta. some veggies too and your set
I could do it! TOP RAMEN!!
sounds like a good deal
Oh how fucking exciting!!
I probably could. Get a dollar sandwich at Wendy's everyday lol
Home cooking means dedicating some time to it. The problem is that many people have cable TV with 300 channels, and must watch them all.
Next you know? It's pizza or chinese food delivery, at a price that they could spend on a one week's groceries.
Their excuse? 'Oh, I have such a busy lifestyle I couldn't find the time to cook, and much less to shop for groceries.'
I know a single mom who works and needs food stamps, thing is they give her like $500 a month!!! crazy
I ate on $1 a day all through college so why aren't I on the news!? If you're curious my main food choice was a generic brand of hamburger helper(75c) with a generic can of tuna(25c) and I used free water instead of milk.
I'm not suggesting people shouldn't plant edible product producing trees. I'm all for it & have a mini orchard of my own. However suggesting doing this is free is off the mark. It's far from free. Fruit trees ( remember you need what amounts to a male and female of each variety for them to produce) cost between $20 and $50 per. Multiply that times 2. You need to protect these trees from pests which is another expense. And finally watering. My mini-orchard & garden costs about $50.00 a mo in h2o.
Meat was $3.91. Ten years later and it's almost double! Also, she doesn't have much in the way of healthy food. No fruit, nuts, and maybe one veggie. Mostly all carbs.
Nope, couldn't do it. But food prices are also ridiculous high in my country.
I have to live on 28 dollars per week AT LEAST if I want to get full every day.
Full every day? This is purely about getting enough calories per day to survive. Fed =/= Full.
So, for about one hour or two of light work, you can have all the food you can eat, plus take some home with you.
Plus the BIG BONUS! No cooking involved! It was all cooked for you, and you only need to warm it up if you're picky.
During my "starving" student days, we were never hungry, and it was on "Zero dollars a day".
So, what's the big deal?
Considering you'd have to wait for it to grow. They'd starve before they ever got anything up xD
A dollar a day, hmm
Protein:
Tofu, eggs, and half off pork/chicken at like $1/lb when it's about to go expire and you freeze it
Vege
Cabbage (about $1/lb) or broccoli when it's really cheap ($0.75/lb)
Starch
Potatoes... nothing beats them
Fillers
Rice
That's it lol
my cheapest meal is $2.20 a day. or $1.50 if I eat a can of Chili. Still cheaper than any fast food meal. I buy a tub of protein powder ($24e), 3 almond milks ($2.60e) gives me fifteen $2.20 lunches. Or I could get a dozen eggs ($2.50e) cheese ($3.50e), and I could have four .97 cent breakfasts. and the rest I can eat w/e my mom makes LOL. I'd be eating at $3.15 a day for a week.
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