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Posted: 7/8/12 7:33 PM
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For the past 6 months I have focussed heavily on healthy eating. In the interest of being thorough, when I say healthy I mean juicing, smoothies, organic produce, loads of raw foods whenever possible, almost nothing fried, even when I cheat. But I do have about 20% cheat intake each week. That's up from 10% healthy and 90% cheat before. My cheat meals usually factor more dairy than normal, and grilled meats like burgers or steak.
But I've been spending way too much money. I bought a $9 box of crackers recently for fucksakes. My hot bar meal at Whole Foods was $18. Juicing sometimes runs me $30/day. I took a stab at grocery shopping for the entire week last month and spent $110 on what ended up being 4-days food. I'm not eating excessive calories - I'm eating excessive dollars.
So it got me thinking about seriously limiting my budget and perhaps most importantly, resetting my mindset and getting the fuck back to reality.
But the real challenge is going to be feeling good while doing it. Is it possible to eat healthy on $30/week when you live in St Louis? That's the real challenge.
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Cans of tuna and brown rice
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Brian_WCN - Cans of tuna and brown rice
Anything not so "survival" based?
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Posted: 7/8/12 7:36 PM
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Depends on your size and appetite.
Rice, cans of tuna/Salmon, beans, spaghetti, couple of potatoes, eggs and with the rest get vegetables.
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you can eat a $1 mcchicken or chicken sandwhich from various fast food places. Its delicious and will fill you up every day for the entire week.
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i have done this... loafs of bread, mustard, packaged sandwich meat= breakfast,lunch,dinner
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only buy stuff that's on sale
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Posted: 7/8/12 7:40 PM
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I would suggest buying cheap/discount food that when added together cost less than $30.
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I'd make a a huge pot of chili. 30 bones will make you a fuck ton of good chili.
I can eat it everyday.
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Posted: 7/8/12 7:42 PM
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Lol. Tons. 2 packs of chicken legs. 5 bucks. 2 steaks. 6 bucks. 5 cans of beans/ Veges 5 bucks. 5 potatoes. 3 bucks. Kool aid packets. 1 dollar. Box of cereal 3 bucks. Gallon of milk 4 bucks. Block of Raman noodles. 3 bucks.
Breakfast lunch dinner for 1 week for 30 bucks.
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Beans, rice, cheap cuts of pork. Hell you could do a pork roast that will last you all weak easy. At my store this week they had a whole pork loin for like $18 and thats a few good sized roasts or could be cut into pork chops.
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Posted: 7/8/12 7:44 PM
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eggs, chicken, rice
save small amount of funds as morale food
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Go to Aldis.
Get 6# of hamburger, $13
bread loaf, $1
Sandwich meat, $3
Hamburger helper, $2
Milk, $2
boneless chicken breast, $5 for 2#
4 cans veggies, done
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gnomejeebus - Lol. Tons. 2 packs of chicken legs. 5 bucks. 2 steaks. 6 bucks. 5 cans of beans/ Veges 5 bucks. 5 potatoes. 3 bucks. Kool aid packets. 1 dollar. Box of cereal 3 bucks. Gallon of milk 4 bucks. Block of Raman noodles. 3 bucks.
Breakfast lunch dinner for 1 week for 30 bucks.
Interesting. But don't any of you eat fruit?
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Chicken and rice with dif vegs
Lunch meat and bread for sandwiches
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Posted: 7/8/12 7:59 PM
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good point. You can get half a dozen bananas for like two bucks
peanut butter and banana sandwiches, son. BAM!
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as much tuna and ramen $30 can buy.
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Unpeeled whole carrots are cheap, as is broccoli. Bag of generic cheerios ad half gallon of store brand milk. Chicken thighs or legs. Rice is cheap too. And grape drink.
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Spaghetti (and tomato sauce), milk, eggs. Live long and prosper.
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Pckg of spaghetti 2 bucks
tomatoes 2 bucks
Mushrooms 2 bucks
Garlic 1 buck
Veggie ground beef 4 bucks
12 bucks for dinner for 4 nights
Peanut butter 3 bucks
Jelly 3 bucks
Bread 1 dollar
Lunch for the week 7 bucks
Cereal 3 bucks
Milk 3 bucks
Breakfast for the week 6
Garden burgers 5 bucks
Lunch if u get tired of pbj and dinner for the other 3 nights- 11 bucks
Dozen bananas- peanut butter and banana sandwiches for breakfast or link of u get tired of the others and a good snack
2 bucks
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at ht 99 cent store i get a 10 pound potato sack, several packs of chicken nuggets, loaf of bread, rice,lentils, oatmeal....
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Buy a whole chicken ($3-6) and then ether roast it or quarter it and cook each quarter as you need. Make pasta dish with one hind quarter, grill one breast, make stir fry with the other, and get crazy with the last hind quarter. Save the bones and other bits and turn it into stock to make a vegetable soup for lunch. That is 4 to 6 meals depending on how you spread things out.
Other things you should buy to have on hand:
Rice
Potatoes
Flour
Eggs
Sugar
butter
With just the last four on the list you can make so many things.
Look up "traditional" or "ethnic" meals. Most people in the world don't have money, so they already have meals designed to be cheap.
Pancakes are a very inexpensive and easy thing to make for breakfast. Don't buy the mix though. It is more expensive and doesn't really save you any time.
Biscuits are inexpensive and easily made from scratch. A great way to fill out a meal.
The more time you spend preparing food the cheaper it will be.
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As a college student, my 5 day weekly food budget it 30-45 bucks. I eat almost no rice or breads or noodles and only buy meats vegetables and fruit for breakfast.
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Posted: 7/8/12 8:20 PM
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http://www.lapolicegear.com/wise-bucket-60.html
2 meals a day makes it under 30 bucks a week
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UGCTT_zackthewop - Pckg of spaghetti 2 bucks
tomatoes 2 bucks
Mushrooms 2 bucks
Garlic 1 buck
Veggie ground beef 4 bucks
12 bucks for dinner for 4 nights
Peanut butter 3 bucks
Jelly 3 bucks
Bread 1 dollar
Lunch for the week 7 bucks
Cereal 3 bucks
Milk 3 bucks
Breakfast for the week 6
Garden burgers 5 bucks
Lunch if u get tired of pbj and dinner for the other 3 nights- 11 bucks
Dozen bananas- peanut butter and banana sandwiches for breakfast or link of u get tired of the others and a good snack
2 bucks
Are you making your own spaghetti sauce? This is a great great list. How do you make the sauce?
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