Eating for a buck a day?

[Rob Williams]

With food so freaking expensive nowadays, could you imagine taking care with how you eat to whittle down your multi-hundred dollar supermarket bill, down to something like $1 per day, per person? Sounds impossible, but an article just posted at Time shows that is is, as long as you aren't really too fussy about what you eat:

http://cheapskate.blogs.time.com/2009/08/18/how-to-eat-on-a-dollar-a-day/

That's still an incredible feat, though. I mean, it's $1 per day, not per meal.

 

[2Tired2Tango]

With food so freaking expensive nowadays, could you imagine taking care with how you eat to whittle down your multi-hundred dollar supermarket bill, down to something like $1 per day, per person?

Consider this... Many people on Disability, or, even worse, Welfare, have no choice. They pay their rent, their power bill and perhaps a phone bill and end up with less than $100.00 to last them a month. It's not a contrived diet or an experiment for these guys, it's survival.

 

[Rob Williams]

You make a great point. This article is still taking a look at people who used to spend hundreds of dollars on food each month, and managed to scale it down to $60 for two people, even managing to feed guests they've had over for dinner. It's still an impressive feat in my book.

 

[2Tired2Tango]

You make a great point. This article is still taking a look at people who used to spend hundreds of dollars on food each month, and managed to scale it down to $60 for two people, even managing to feed guests they've had over for dinner. It's still an impressive feat in my book.

It is.

But, having a few peanut butter months in my day, please don't ask me to be all excited about it.

 

[Rob Williams]

Of course not. I don't envy anyone in that situation at all. I have a friend who suffers a disability, and I'm well aware of just how lacking the income can be, so you really have to learn to be thrifty. She luckily has a fair bit of help on the side though, and lives in subsidized housing that has rock-bottom rent (but still nice apartments). I couldn't imagine how rough it'd be in a typical situation on such a fixed and low income.