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Eating Experiment
Posted: 2:21 pm, March 31st, 2010 in Miscellaneous
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$20 is pretty crazy. There was a woman who lived on $1 a day and blogged the whole experience, but some people complained about her accounting methods. I think other people have done similar...?
I applaud you if you do this though... I know that if I really had no money (and stopped letting other people feed me), I have enough food in pantry-items to eat for a good month before I'd start starving. In fact, I was hoping quitting my job would be a natural diet for me but I seem to be gaining weight =(
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my thought? find a checkout guy/girl that "sweethearts" you.
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One month with $20?! Bag of rice? That's all I can think of.
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Good luck. $20 might be do-able. All home-cooked meals and NO going out then. Just eat a LOT of oatmeal? Or congee?
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Back in high school and college, when I was slightly more attractive, I actually got a lot of freebies from other guys. And they were all straight.
I might hit PathMark with a coupon book? I saw an episode of WifeSwap (don't ask) where this coupon clipper spent $10 on $80 worth of stuff. I might resort to that if it gets difficult... but that would feel like I'm cheating.
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shop at the 99 cent store.
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Good luck, dude. That's a very tight ship you will be riding. You will be eating lots of one pot meals made of ingredients from cans along with a cheap filler like rice. I can cook usually one meal to last me one week, but that usually costs me $25. That wife probably has nothing to do but look through coupons. If you do actually go through with this, I think you will find that meat and generous friends are luxuries.
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Honestly though Dean, coupon clipping is for those who don't mind eating canned/bagged/processed food. I've yet to see coupons for fresh vegetables or fresh meat. I know this is one of the big debates about the way people eat across this country, but... yeah.
Do previously purchased pantry items count against your monetary total?
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peas and macaroni...dirt cheap and delicious.
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BTW, family #5 should be ashamed of themselves...
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Yeah, I'm leaning towards bulk grains and beans. I'd skimp on/abandon meat and maybe take some vitamins to keep my body in tact.
I don't know if I can cook one-pot meals because they probably won't keep well unless they were heavily salted/frozen afterwards.
Yvo, I thought about excluding my existing pantry from the count but decided against it because I have a lot of 'luxury' items in there that would warrant some sketchy accounting practices for me to make budget.
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dumplings, rice, kimchi, spam. done.
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"dumplings, rice, kimchi, spam. done."
Mooch fodder. Just pour it in the trough.
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I'm sure a few of you have already seen the Time slideshow that depicts what people eat around the world and how much they spend on groceries per week.
A friend recently relayed to me an account of a starving artist he knew in NYC who can scrape by for about a week and a half on $5 worth of couscous and has been living this way for about three decades.
So I was thinking... can I get through a month of meals on just $20? Or is that too ambitious? I'm not counting rent, utilities, or freebies from friends.
I hear if you live near a wheat farm in Arkansas, you can get a 50lb bag of unprocessed wheat berries for about $7. I wonder if New York has a place like that...
Thoughts?