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I was checking out at the grocery, amd the checker mentioned to me he has a tight food budget: $25 a week. He relies on Taco Bell. And i started thinking...how would i survive on $25 a week (single working person).
So what would you eat or make? How would you make that work out? Would love to see your ideas!
Pork roast 2-3lbs @ $6.00 (or whatever beef, chicken cut is on sale and under $2 per lb)
BBQ Sauce 1.00
Bread 1.00
Margarine (oh no, I'm one of those) 1.00
Eggs (18 count) 2.50
Potatoes (5-10lbs) 2.00
Carrots (2lb bag) 1.00
Bananas (2lbs- lots of bananas) 1.25
Seasonal fruit (pears are on sale for 19c per lb) 3lbs, rounded to - 1.00
Canned refried beans or whole beans x2@ 1.50
Tortillas 1.50
Milk 1.75
Oatmeal 1.50
Mayo 1.25
Meals:
Breakfast:
Oatmeal with seasonal fruit
Eggs and a slice of meat with some fried potatos
Or a banana
Dinner
Roast with potatoes and carrots
Steak (slicing off a bit of roast before cooking) with baked potato
Use leftover roast in BBQ pulled pork sandwiches
Snacks:
Carrots
Pears
Bananas
Hard boiled eggs and toast
I was checking out at the grocery, amd the checker mentioned to me he has a tight food budget: $25 a week. He relies on Taco Bell. And i started thinking...how would i survive on $25 a week (single working person).
So what would you eat or make? How would you make that work out? Would love to see your ideas!
I would look for subsidized food. Locally, there is a gleaning group that sells 60# of assorted product for $10. What I did not use, I would trade to others for other items.
Also, I would look for salvage grocery stores where my dollar would be stretched.
Go vegetarian and purchase unrefined whole foods in bulk units if possible. Avoid eating out. Shop only the perimeter of the store. The perimeter is cheaper and also healthier. Shop discount grocers but be careful of their markup.
Beans and rice and rice and beans, prepared in tasty ways.
Frozen greens, string beans or other green vegetable.
Raw veggies like carrots.
Root vegetables like potatoes.
Tofu - can season and bake
Whatever fresh fruit is in season and on sale.
Dried fruit like raisins.
For lunch take soup in a thermos and sandwich.
For breakfast, steel cut oats with or without milk.
Bread.
Peanut butter and spread of choice.
Ok, admittedly, this menu does not have much variety, but with the budget given there is not a lot of money for variety and in writing it out its easier just keeping it simple. I thought that I would do something that was not rice/beans/pasta focused, although there is some pasta. And this is something I would really do and eat
Cook the chicken in a pot with a carrot, celery and onion. Remove the chicken and shred it. Save some chicken to have chicken pieces and fruit for some lunches or chicken on Bisquick biscuits. Split the broth, frozen vegetables and shredded chicken into 2 pots. Add 1/2 the macaroni to one pot, you have several servings of chicken noodle soup. Make Bisquick dumplings to go over the contents of the other pot and you have several servings of chicken and dumplings. When tired of the chicken and dumplings and soup take the remainder and put in a pie pan and make a Bisquick biscuit to put over the top and bake, now you have a serving or two of chicken pot pie.
Breakfasts eggs and Bisquick pancakes as a bread (I eat pancakes dry or with margarine or jelly or fruit) or Bisquick biscuits.
Lunch 1/2 the package of macaroni with the spaghetti sauce, should be a few servings. And several days of pulled chicken or hard boiled eggs with fruit, celery and carrots, Biscuit biscuits or pancakes for the bread.
Dinner chicken noodle soup, chicken and dumplings, chicken pot pie.
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