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Eat a lot of soup. The hot water fills your stomach and stops your belly from aching. You can put any mixture of vegetables in soup along with some starch (pasta, rice, barley, diced potatoes). Add chopped onion if you like. Voila, soup. Eat it with some bread, it's even more filling.
Sometimes bakeries sell day old bread at a lower price than they sell fresh bread, so that is one more suggestion.
Starchy foods, like potatoes and bread and rice and pasta... they are generally filling, and they have a decent amount of calories in them to fuel your body if you do a lot of physical labour.
Do you have good advice to save money on food expenses? Also is enough to have 2 meals per day, a small breakfast and small dinner and also be productive to perform my job duties?
Eastern Europeans eat healthier than we do.
I just came back from my weekly grocery shopping trip,went to 2 restaurants,the place is half full,kind of disappointing as most weekend people do go out for brunch and lunch is usually packed.
well,as for the 3 supermarkets,they are not as crowded as they should be on weekend,all prices are higher,but all are well stocked ,no empty shelf.
I buy those whole roasted chickens from the grocery store and they are delicious and cheap. One of those is at least 5 meals if you make wraps, fajitas, etc out of them.
Buy high quality goods that you can get many meals out of. I buy Barilla non-GMO gluten free corn/rice pasta and can get 6-8 meals from it at $2.69 a box. It was $1.89 a year ago...
Portion control is the secret, but it requires a bit of experimentation and the ability to calculate price per serving use.
1) Get a weight scale.
2) Calculate price per use for each food item. I personally convert everything to grams for ease of use.
3) Once you do step 1 and step 2 of a variety of foods you want to include, you can then piece together a daily meal plan to basically the exact cost.
4) Buy all generic brands to save money.
Ex: a PB&J sandwich: price per slice = $0.03. One sandwich with two slices is $0.06. You can adjust the amount of peanut butter and jelly accordingly based on your hunger needs, but: 14g (grams) of peanut butter is $0.05 and around $0.03 for a serving size of jelly. That's $0.14 per sandwich, which I'd categorize as "dirt cheap."
It may feel weird to weigh your food if you've never done it before, but it works in controlling overeating and waste.
Based on the above, back when I did this, I got to the following with no cooking:
- Bread
- Peanut butter
- Grape jelly
- Yogurt
- Applesauce
- Tortilla chips (no sauce). I kept this serving size to around 30g.
Price per meal of the above was $0.94. So two meals is $1.88 and three is $2.82. $2.82USD per day is cheaper than I'm eating these days, but if I had to live like this again, I could do it.
This is just an example mix, as I had other mixes that had greens in there as well, and on occasion, some candy. If you choose foods you can cook to make large batches, you might be able to eat even better and cheaper, but you would break down the price per use the same way.
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