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- usern4me, on 10/07/2008, -6/+94Eat five
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5 dollar...
5 dollar footlongsssssssssss - NoHardFelines, on 10/08/2008, -5/+74$0.20 top ramen
$1.00 mac and cheese
$1.50 Hamburger Helper
$0.60 cheap bagged pasta or rice
welcome to my cupboard - AlbinoRaven, on 10/08/2008, -16/+68Powdered milk, tuna, soup mix, rice and frozen veg if you are a suburbanite that cares more about their lawn than saving a penny. Land is for one thing and it is not to impress your neighbours.
Damn the US is screwed. If this is the best they can do, it's pretty sad. I buy a cow...yes a whole cow for $500 per year, cost me about 120 to hang and cut. Works out to about 12 a week for meat. Grow veg in the summer and can some of it. Most of it rots because my neighbors grow veggies too and honestly most veg doesn't last that long. Tried giving it to food banks with the big "***** you, it has to be certified". When are plot grown potatoes and carrots certified? So I stopped giving anything to the little *****, stupid soccer moms and dumb ***** organic ***** suckers.
$25 is pretty easy to do with a couple of kids. The kids have to understand that fish is caught (not bought), meat is not half your plate and potatoes/veg/greens are staple (have more potatoes). Although I work in the city and have run my own IT company for years, How stupid is it to forget how to sustain yourself. Mind boggling. Some day the power will go out and my bread and butter will not come back on. The economy up or down, I'm going to eat well and healthy. Apparently at $25 most of you are still dogging for starbucks and Macdonald's.. - jamaph, on 10/08/2008, -0/+47It's called being in college.
- lanismycousin, on 10/08/2008, -1/+42this sounds like what a lot of college students go through lol
- idavidtang, on 10/08/2008, -0/+29Not challenging enough. Try budgeting $25 of gas for a week.
- jamaph, on 10/08/2008, -3/+29I'm throwing out the cliche' for this one.
Easier said, then done. - palehorse864, on 10/08/2008, -1/+24Mexican food?
- JessicaSarahS, on 10/08/2008, -0/+21$25 a week?!? Where do I sign up? :D
I grew up really poor, and as a family of 5, we were lucky if we even had that much! But we made it work, my mother was an excellent cook and we were very frugal. Eventually, things began looking up for us and I'm out on my own, but that same mindset of frugal eating did stick, which may be for the better. But I end up wasting my money on video games and computer parts.
Looking through their grocery lists, I can see areas where they could have skipped, leg quarters instead of whole, bag of rice instead of box, no bottled water! But they were new to it, so I'll cut them some slack. - Dimbleby, on 10/08/2008, -0/+20Ughh...I agree but it just ain't healthy man. All that f'n sodium and sugar in that stuff.
I CAN live for days off a nice pasta salad though! Mmmmm!! I haven't eaten Ramen in about hmm...8 years. - linagee, on 10/08/2008, -1/+21Did they include the costs of transportation to the grocery store, refrigeration, and the heat required to heat the food? Passed off as trivial costs to these folks, they would not be trivial to someone actually eating on $25/week.
- Navicerts, on 10/08/2008, -0/+19it must be fierce when you crap.
- yoda17, on 10/08/2008, -0/+18I grew up like this. Just a few months ago I wanted to see if I could get away for $1/day. I succeeded and was pretty good, but a lot of rice and soup and beans. Everyone called B.S. though. I expect it will be those people who do not fair so well for a while.
In our small garden that we had, during the summer we generally had more food than we could eat for a family of 6. - jamesdew, on 10/08/2008, -0/+17MMMM an onion for lunch
- elliott9, on 10/08/2008, -2/+19your math will not always keep you safe
- eelwrolyat, on 10/07/2008, -0/+16I laughed at the commercial that called them "yum rockets." Maybe it was Quizno's?
- inactive, on 10/08/2008, -1/+16You are not buying a cow for $500. A 1000 lb. steer at .80/lb. is $800. you are buying a calf and you'll not net more than 50% usable meat. Or around 250 lbs. Then slaughter, cut and wrap and freezer fees bring your cost closer to $2.00/lb. You will save money. But your numbers are off.
My family of four eats for less than 150/month. But I raise pigs, milk goats and cows, and sell vegetables. That 150 is for peanut butter, flour and vitamin supplements. - neonoodle, on 10/08/2008, -2/+17It's easy in urban areas if you replace "hang a cow" with "steal food from your neighbor."
- inactive, on 10/08/2008, -1/+15This is absolutely asinine. Most people can't grow their own food or buy a whole friggin' cow. It's not that we've forgotten, it's that, well, for one thing, if you're living in an apartment in the city, that sort of lifestyle just isn't even possible.
- OfficialJoe, on 10/08/2008, -2/+15a) A homeless man on Digg? Maybe it is because I am not from the US that I don't quite understand this one and
b) bitter much? - h0ser, on 10/08/2008, -0/+13a bag of potatoes is 2 dollars, a bag of onion is 2.50. That'll last ya a week. If you need more, splurge local in season veggies and fruits. Food is only expensive if you want a wide variety. Heck, you can buy 50 kilo bag of gruel for 20 bucks or so, that'll last ya a year.
- Tbyrd073, on 10/08/2008, -0/+13I was gonna say I did this for 4 years....whats so tough? Pasta is dirt cheap to buy and make and you become quite proficient at finding ways to make Ramen and other mundane things taste a lot better without much money.
- jamesdew, on 10/08/2008, -1/+13Yes they can but that requires education, generally people who understand how to survive on $1 a day are clever enough not to have to.
- headband, on 10/08/2008, -2/+14I budgeted about $250 a month for food this semester but last month I only spent about $100
60 tacos can feed me for a long time and thats only about $30
a 5lb bag of chicken strips for $12
15lb bag of potatoes for $4
supplies for 24 pizza pockets, $10
20 or so peanut butter & marshmallow sandwiches $7
big bag of generic frosted flakes and milk ~6
pancake mix $4
thats really all I would need for the month but i still buy a few other things like cake and bacon because its good. - frontporsche, on 10/08/2008, -4/+15I wonder if electricity cost, for the stove, was part of that $25.
- cam0man, on 10/08/2008, -3/+14absolutely ridiculous?
I spend $9 for 5lbs of boneless chicken breasts at safeway, $3 for a gallon of milk, loaf of whole wheat for $2, 36 eggs for $3, peanut butter $2, package of cheese $3, 1lb of turkey meat $6, $5 for some veggies. That's $34ish, lasts me more than a week, provides all three meals, and a good ratio of my macros - plus it's california, i'm sure the deals are better in other parts of the country. I normally spend another $15-20 so I'm NOT living like I'm on food stamps , but I don't think it's too unreasonable.
By the time you use some seasonings and mix up your variety of veggies, it's a pretty good pantry full of nutritious eats. As cheap as $1 double cheeseburgers are, this covers all my meals pretty well.
You have to realize the point of all these programs isn't to make you live comfortably. If people on food stamps were eating salmon and tbones for all their meals why the hell would anybody work? ***** a job, i'm gettin me some food stamps so I can forget about pasta for every meal and I can live in the lap of luxury! It's gotta be tight money to encourage people to find ways of sustaining. - OfficialJoe, on 10/08/2008, -0/+10Apparently it also doesn't help with the whole language spelling type thing.
- yoda17, on 10/08/2008, -1/+11Why'd he go to the hospital? A lot of people can live fairly well on $1/day and be very healthy.
- inactive, on 10/08/2008, -5/+15dumb ***** organic ***** suckers? really?
- tokyoturnip, on 10/08/2008, -1/+11Boo ***** hoo.
Food stamps are to help people get back on their feet, and get by for the short term. - inactive, on 10/08/2008, -1/+11I used to live like that.
Tuna cans, pasta and mayo can do the trick. Initial investment of about $20, eat for about a week, 1 meal a day (big plate). Assuming the remaining $5 will cover the water and stove gas to cook the pasta.
If you want to add Parmesan cheese and oregano, that could be more $5. - grungefan, on 10/08/2008, -0/+9Not bad, unless you're talking about for the environment. Go buy one of those real-time water filters for your tap. Then you'll spend even less on water per day.
- ReverendSin, on 10/08/2008, -1/+10As a permanently disabled unemployable adult my food allotment is 100$ a month from the WA State Department of Social and Health Services. This was reduced from 162$ when I became homeless (no shelter expense = less food stamps) where previously my meal allotment was 1.77$ per meal it is now roughly 1.11$ per meal. Factor in the fact that I have no long term storage for groceries or a clean healthy place to prepare meals and it's no wonder that my health is deteriorating further on only a single meal a day with whatever I can afford from Safeway that's either ready to eat or requires little preparation. Sadly hundreds and hundreds, maybe thousands and thousands of people in WA State and hundreds of thousands across the country, many of them elderly adults with absolutely no means of earning supplementary income are in WORSE situations. What I get, along with my modest 340$ a month income, is considered to be sufficient for a single adult male to subsist off of, even above normal in terms of allotment.
But hey, so long as the illegal immigrants get free health care we're all good right? Right guys? Right? Guys?..... - Maynza, on 10/08/2008, -0/+9I call *****, is it possible to eat for $25 a month, I am sure you could make it work if absolutely necessary, but there is no way you do that.
- psykiv, on 10/08/2008, -1/+10It's $25/wk, per person.
So you're saying that $400/mo for a family of four is ridiculously low?
Even today, $400/mo for a family of four will get you quite a bit of food. Maybe you should try shopping at Costco or something? - inactive, on 10/08/2008, -0/+9Gah, I remember when you could get Mac and Cheese for only $.33 (and I'm only 25).
- inactive, on 10/08/2008, -0/+9Most likely because he didn't know why he had to eat, only that he wanted to. Nutrition isn't really well-known beyond, you know, the food pyramid, or whatever.
- jeenyus2004, on 10/08/2008, -0/+9I was living off that for a long time, don't even need a stove if you have a micro.
- riverstyx, on 10/08/2008, -0/+9Wish you all the best, stay safe.
- Dotcommer, on 10/08/2008, -1/+10Oh man, you dont even know....
- zip000, on 10/08/2008, -1/+10A few weeks ago I got this major craving for Ramen. It only lasted for a couple of days, but it was very strong. I was raised on Ramen, so it is almost like comfort food for me...which strikes me as fairly sad.
- linagee, on 10/08/2008, -1/+10I blame public schools for not teaching proper nutrition at every grade level.
- kinseyincanada, on 10/08/2008, -3/+11a lot of people dont live in an area where they can keep a cow, if you live anywhere in a city this is just a fact, sure out tin the country side this is easy and most likely pretty common, but in todays city-society this elf sustaining aspect is impossible.
- desertDenizen, on 10/08/2008, -2/+10Interesting, but you sound a little freaky and angry.
- iignotus, on 10/08/2008, -0/+8Actually it's more like GBP 19.00 now. Yay for worldwide economic crises.
- jasonliman, on 10/08/2008, -1/+81 pack of chicken thigh - sale for 69cents per pound = around 8 pounds for $6
pan fry one thigh for each meal
Two large five pounds value pack of spaghetti = $10
Two can of whole tomatoes = $4
Three bag of whole lettuce = $3
Two pounds potato = $1
1 box of brownies mix = $1
Total $25, It will last you a week
or
1 pack of 8 pounds pork, 69 cents per pound = around $6
1 pack of celery = $1
Two cans of whole tomatoes = $4
1 pound of black beans = $1
some chilies = $1
Five pounds potato = $3
Three bags of lettuces = $3
Two pounds of carrot = $1
Just throw everything in a pot of water, salt and pepper for 2 hours.
1 box of brownies mix = $1
choice of spaghetti or rice or bread = $6
another suggestion, always buy food from Mexican's supermarket or Asian's supermarket, because they are not own by greedy big corporation.
The best value is in Chinatown's market. These places always pack with load of angry Chinese house wife. Go after 6pm, those markets usually lower the price of the left over because newer goods come in daily. Sometime you can even find lots of fresh vegetable in the dumpster.
- rameznabel, on 10/08/2008, -0/+7ZING
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