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i do not think i would be very happy on that stuff alone.
soup and salad for me are not meals. they go with food. they are the promisary note that food will soon arrive. lol
is that salad just romaine and chick peas?
I usually toss in whatever's leftover in the fridge. Sometimes some leftover pasta, leftover broccoli, even an ounce or two of leftover grilled chicken, whatever I've got. I make my own balsamic vinagrette and use that as a dressing.
The soup is thick and hearty--more like a stew, and served with some sort of bread. After eating it, you would not want an entree.
sorry not for me thats for sure. our food bill for just 2 of us runs about 200 a week.
lots of variation, lots of good things i enjoy eating and we do use alot of pre done stuff like chickens since we both work and hit the gym after work so we have little free time during the week .
quite frankly just our bill for fruits and vegetables can be 30-40 bucks or so
sorry not for me thats for sure. our food bill for just 2 of us runs about 200 a week.
lots of variation, lots of good things i enjoy eating and we do use alot of pre done stuff like chickens since we both work and hit the gym after work so we have little free time during the week .
That's your problem. I was asked to do a healthy food menu/budget to feed an adult for under $200 a month, I did it and then some.
oh it can be done thats for sure. i see folks who hang up tea bags and re-use them. kraft mac and cheese , peanut butter and pastas can all let you live on the cheap but it is all a matter of budget and what you want to spend and how you want to live.
we prefer to eat what we like and enjoy . i love nice creative salads with lots of variation in them . but those usually go with food......
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That's your problem. I was asked to do a healthy food menu/budget to feed an adult for under $200 a month, I did it and then some.
You sure did. Kudos. I usually spend about 300 a month at costco and 150 on western beef every 6 weeks for a family of 4. do you incorporate seafood into ur budget plan?
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Most don't work, so no payroll taxes. The majority of their expenditures goes towards food which is tax free. I'm taking an educated guess that a person actually earning $12K a year pays under $1000 a year in all taxes. If they have kids they are getting far more than that back in an EIC and other entitlements, so they are not paying taxes.
Some states have a sales tax on food. Even poor people eat out, and there's sales tax including when you do that.
If a poor working person gets food stamps and medicaid for their children, yes, that person is still a taxpayer, despite the fact that individual may be getting back more from the government than what he paid in.
With that said, not all working poor people, even those with kids, are on entitlements. Some people do things like rent rooms, live with family, etc. in order to get by off their low paying jobs. And yes, these people are still taxpapers (still paying payroll taxes, sales, taxes, and other taxes).
Unless its the truly disabled, no one survives off entitlements alone anyway. I think these days most do work.
Many do work part time on the books. Others work illegally off the books (but even those pay sales taxes when they purchase things).
Poor people have to buy clothes. You can't walk around naked. There's sales tax. Other consumables people have to buy are things like toothpaste, cleaning supplies, body cleaning supplies, etc. Taxes are paid on these. Most people have cell phone service and/or telephone services, and you pay taxes on these. If they buy gasoline, there's a sales tax on that (transportation isn't free and gas sales are taxed, ditto for airfare if they go on vacation).
That diet sounds like its for a 5 foot woman who is anoxeric. No offense to short women, but I'm a 6'2" guy.
Oatmeal alone for breakfast isn't enough for me. If I had hot cereal for breafast, it would have to be accompanied by a boiled egg, maybe sausage, maybe a smoothie, it depends.
Some of your dinners you say is meant for three adults I easily eat that much myself.
I spend about $300 a month on groceries for myself. Depending what I have to do around town, sometimes I eat lunch or dinner outside the home, so that's more money to my food budget.
If I had a family, there's no way we'd have a healthy diet on $200 a month.
Also, all that processed grain products (none of it sounds like its whole grain, particularly if you're buying it on sale) won't add much fiber to your diet. Thing digestion problems, lol.
Living like a pauper (a person who is so poor they may as well apply for food stamps) does not make you a hero. It makes you miserable, poorly fed, and poorly maintained.
Trying to force yourself to live off $3 meals? How tacky and low class!
You must be doing pretty badly in life yourself if you're trying to live off so little..
A flat tax is a Billionaire’s wet dream.
flat taxation is regressive. There’s no concealing that a flat tax would radically redistribute the tax burden from the rich to the middle class and poor.
Adam Smith, the father of capitalism, to whom economists always turn to for economic wisdom, observed, "It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion."
A flat tax increases the burden on taxpayers with lower incomes, compared with the current progressive income tax. Taxing 15 percent of income for a taxpayer who makes $10,000 a year allows him little to live on, compared with 15 percent of a million-dollar income.
There's no highly evolved society (think Scandinavia) or 1st world-class country that has a flat rate tax.
Iceland tried it for a short time, and gave it up because it's just an awful idea.
if you visit the frugal living forum on city data there are people with money eating like paupers.
it is easy to come up with a diet like that for a week or two but long term that to me would be just awful over and over even if it has a little variation.
the cost of time to do everything yourself is another factor. i also don't see prices anywhere near those local to us.
in fact cheapest pork loin at waldbaums is 3.99 a lb.
after the gym i can eat 3000 to 4000 calories and still be looking to snack.
my motto is soup and salad are not food, they go with food.
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