Could you eat for a week for $50? 

I spent $ 490 in the supermarket at the weekend. It was a big shop, we bought some wine, and some products will last … But still. This is a lot of money for a grocery run (added receipt). As shown in the next graph, the cost of food increased.

On the Internet, I usually encounter people who ask advice on how to flex their food budgets as they usually continue to bite the cost of living. Last week, a young person made a desperate entrance: How can I make a $ 50 food budget last week?

This is an interesting question. On the Internet, there are several people who produce content to show what is possible, including @dollareredıners in the USA. Tiktok and Youtube account by Rebecca Chobat Recipe Videos for Meals This can be done using materials from the discount store dollar Tree. (How to cook a dollar tree, thanksgiving day dinner For only $ 20 completely took off.)

Frankly, I’m far from spending very little. But if you eat at home and have a refrigerator, cooker and some kitchenware, there are ways to achieve it.

The first obstacle you need to clean is to make sure you have enough calories. The most economical way to buy calories in a supermarket is herbal oil and herbal oil cheap (Therefore, all the foods processed these days).

A $ 6.60 canola oil has enough energy (68,000kj) to give a person strength for almost seven days.

(We work in the theory of a person who needs about 10,000kJ a day – if you are young, male, physical, or if you are tall, you may need more; if not, you may need a little less.)

So you can go in theoryMeet your calorie needs less than $ 50 a week. Of course, it is difficult to imagine a more disturbing idea than living pure oil. So to discover the second highest way to buy raw calories, rice.

A rice of $ 8.50 has 71,000kj and can give an adult person strength for more than seven days. And of course rice and oil unified It becomes less disgusting. Here we work towards a fried rice path!

Throw a little salt ($ 2 for a 1kg bag) and some vegetables ($ 2.80 per kilogram, frozen) and you can make a delicious meal. Not delicious. But edible. It is difficult to eat three times a day for seven days in a row but not sheriffs. You can go to the bed by feeling full and you may not even be sculpable.

Also, we have not yet blown the budget. So forget a week for $ 50. Can we make a month for 60 dollars?

Don’t eat a month for 60 dollars. Is this possible?

Without further ado, I present my shopping list. Below is a plan for how to survive month In a food budget of $ 60, food More Just shopping at fried rice and Woolworths.

(Pay attention to the amounts, for example, we buy three single liter cardboard milk. Each cost $ 1.65.)

So what do we get out of this shopping list?

Breakfast

Oats and milk. 150g oats and 100ml milk. Oat porridge or muslim, call. There is protein there. Not too much. However, some (13g in 100 g and 100g oats in milk). This meal offers about 30% of your daily calories. You also buy a cup of tea (tea bags are very cheap, a hot drink luxury in the list).

Lunch

Red rice. Recipe above. White rice, oil, salt and frozen vegetables. We don’t want half of our calories to come from the oil, so the canola oil package is not a package -sized package I mentioned above, but we will make 750ml oil cover per month.

There are about one third of your daily calories for lunch.

This mixture of frozen vegetables contains carrots, zucchini, potatoes, green beans and sweet corn. 8% carbohydrate, 3% fiber, approximately 1% protein and i assume The rest is pure vitamins.

Evening meal

I hope you love rice! Dinner is also rice -based, brown rice this time. Accompanying our carbohydrates will be lentils prepared with curry powder, some oil and the same frozen vegetables. Dinner has a little more than one third of the daily calories sum.

The lentil has protein at 25G per 100g. If we increase daily protein intake, we are in about 50g, which necessity For men (64G), but some women (46g) advised.

Here is a graph showing the calorie content of each dish.

Assumptions

A good thing about this shopping list, as most of the recipes do, there are some staples in the refrigerator. It is budget for all oil and spices.

Bad thing: No gap. You burn a meal or leave a plate, you’re hungry. Every calories you buy should be eaten.

Also: There is no energy budget to run the electricity or gas or refrigerator. However, more than that assumes that there is a lot of time to cook and there is a refrigerator to store bulk cooking. In fact, a kind of poverty that will direct someone to eat like this, usually comes with less options for unstable accommodation, limited control over the use of time and storing food.

In this way, cooking and eating, as logistics, probably, you probably access all these assumed luxurys-a drawer full of small system boxes to put a fridge with a refrigerator and fried rice. And this is not the level of control generally It is associated with serious financial poverty.

Issue

For all of us, thinking about what to do in a crisis is a useful way to see what is unnecessary. Did I really need to buy everything in my receipt?

But I want to hear what to do. If you need to eat cheap food, what would you go?