How to Feed Yourself for $15 a Week ∞ Get Rich Slowly
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Saved by 12 people (-7 private), first by anonymouse user on 2007-09-10
- Carlosewollard on 2008-05-09 - Tags food , money
- Swimmifish on 2008-03-12 - Tags article
- Samuelbowman on 2008-01-28 - Tags food , frugality , lifestyle
- Sdohrn on 2007-10-23 - Tags 4lapiazza , lifestyle
- Vertigo568gmail on 2007-10-02 - Tags no_tag
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but the big boxes of loose Old Fashioned Oatmeal — would last slightly longer than a week, even if I ate it every da
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. I don’t know why, but dried milk tastes terrible when stored in plastic.
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Stay far, far away from wheat products because you don’t know when your financial situation will be better and you could do permanent damage
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Half a package of ramen is plenty filling when it’s in a soup. I add vegetables and canned beans
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Dry beans, lentils, split peas with potatoes and a little stock makes an awesome but incredibly cheap meal.
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but rice and miso soup for three meals a day (this is a typical “poor person’s diet” here in Japan)
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Although I don’t do this now, I once lived on $15 a week for food in the early 1990s. This was helped by the fact that my workplace fed me five meals a week, but I was still carrying the weight of sixteen additional meals (for slightly less than a dollar per meal). This was not easy or comfortable to do — I did it by necessity — but I believe it could still be done for $20/week in most parts of the U.S. Also, while I was satisfied at the time, the fare was probably a bit more spartan than most would willingly eat.
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Go for the “red-band” bananas, the ones marked down because they are very ripe or at least ripening too quickly for the store’s liking. Here, they cost 29 cents a pound.
Potatoes are extremely cheap and they bake well in the slow-cooker. Cook more than you need for one meal and use leftovers for potato soup, or slice and fry them and serve with scrambled eggs for a fast, inexpensive supper.
When eggs go on sale, buy a couple of dozen and have scrambled-egg sandwiches for dinner, and boil them to make egg-salad sandwiches for lunch.
Potatoes are extremely cheap and they bake well in the slow-cooker. Cook more than you need for one meal and use leftovers for potato soup, or slice and fry them and serve with scrambled eggs for a fast, inexpensive supper.
When eggs go on sale, buy a couple of dozen and have scrambled-egg sandwiches for dinner, and boil them to make egg-salad sandwiches for lunch.
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For starters, buy yourself a little jar of red curry paste, thai fish sauce, and jasmine rice or rice noodles. That will cost you about 6$ even if buy a popular grocery. Add a small amount of meat on sale, fresh basil and lemon grass, veggies, and coconut milk and you can eat a lot of food for 2 people on 5$ a day easily
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They do not provide bags (you can buy one or bring your own)and the shopping carriages work just like the airport carts used to: put a quarter in to get a carriage, put a carriage in to get a quarter. As a result, they don’t need to hire anyone to police the parking lot.
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Dried beans, and dried grains (brown rice, millet, quinoa, etc.) are very inexpensive when compared to animal based proteins
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