One Dollar A Day Diet. (vegetables, carbs, gluten, running)

[okpondlady]

I found this on Yahoo News there are a couple of links. The first one is the people's blog and the second one is the interview with GMA (I think). They lived ate on ONE DOLLAR a day...for a whole month. I am being sorta sarcastic here because I know LOTS of people that can do that and do, depending on where they live.

http://onedollardietproject.wordpress.com/


http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=11055727&ch=4226713&src=news

What do you think?

[Huckleberry3911948]

been there done that.
grits n eggs is my favorite tool.
thought for the day
the terrible part about people that are used to
sleeping on a bed of nails is they see nothing wrong with
asking others to do the same.

[charolastra00]

SO unhealthy... Way too many simple carbs and not nearly enough vegetables and fruit.

[okpondlady]

Of course it is unhealthy..but so is starving to death. The point is the BILLIONS of people in the world that do live this way, with malnurishment being the end result.

[GloryB]

I could probably live on 30 cents a day worth of Ramen (sp?) soup for quite a while....but it lacks the nutrition needed for long term health.

[fjtee]

If you know how to shop intelligently using sales and coupons, then for one person I believe it might be possible to do this in a healthy manner. You may not be eating the foods you typically enjoy, but in time almost anything can become palatable - bring on the quinoa! Also, no marathon running! Need to conserve that energy.

[charolastra00]

Originally Posted by okpondlady

Of course it is unhealthy..but so is starving to death. The point is the BILLIONS of people in the world that do live this way, with malnurishment being the end result.

Well I'm one of the millions of poor Americans with food allergies. I absolutely CANNOT eat dairy products or gluten. This diet would literally kill me- or at least cause a couple thousand in hospital bills!

[Woof Woof Woof!]

Originally Posted by charolastra00

Well I'm one of the millions of poor Americans with food allergies. I absolutely CANNOT eat dairy products or gluten. This diet would literally kill me- or at least cause a couple thousand in hospital bills!

Rice and beans is what they ate. I don't think they ate much milk.

[jtur88]

I buy chicken leg quarters for 53 a pound (a year ago thwy were 39). One pound serves 4, if you use it as the meat "condiment" in a pot that contains mostly onions and a can of tomato pate, and serve it on rice, pasta, or whatever. Use your imagination, go ethnic. Add curry powder, dollop plain yougurt on top, voile!---Indian. I also buy chicken hearts or livers or beef liver for under 1.29 a pound, no skin, bones or waste.

Make very nutritious spaghetti sauce like this: A whole onion, a whole green pepper, a can of tomato paste, some garlic cloves, all in the blender, then cook it while the spaghetti is cooking.. Add a little olive oil to give it body, and a dash of red wine for authenticy (the alcohol boils away) and whatever Italian spices you've got. Add a little bit of chopped up raw bacon or Italian sausage if you want, before it cooks. Kids will love it and grow big and strong and smart. Stop buying Ragu's overpriced salt and chemicals. (Important: Don't tell the kids its good for them, or what's in it.) If they say "Eeww, yuck, this tastes wierd", tell them you added some wine to the Ragu to make it more authentic. They'll get over it.

[NCyank]

Originally Posted by fjtee

If you know how to shop intelligently using sales and coupons, then for one person I believe it might be possible to do this in a healthy manner. You may not be eating the foods you typically enjoy, but in time almost anything can become palatable - bring on the quinoa! Also, no marathon running! Need to conserve that energy.

You're absolutely right about this. We eat for less than $1 per day/per person and it isn't ramen noodles and PB&J. Last night we had all beef hot dogs, homemade macaroni and cheese (with whole grain pasta) and steamed broccoli. Yum!!! The kids usually eat grits and eggs or oatmeal for breakfast, have fruit & veggies in lunch every day (if they don't pack it for lunch it is their after school snack) and veggies with dinner every night. We eat very well on a very small budget.

You have to be a smart shopper. I got milk for $0.89 cents per gallon this week because it was near expiration. I only bought 5 gallons to put in the freezer. I would have gotten more (like 15) if I had more room but I recently got a bunch of FREE frozen veggies and didn't have room for more.

Now this couple could do much better with a little more know-how. I feel bad they ate PB&J every day for lunch!! I had a steaming hot bowl of turkey vegetable soup (made from scratch) for lunch yesterday....I'd be happy to give them some pointers if they really want to learn.