It will not be gourmet food but 4 dollars a day will give you quite sufficient and nutritious food.
Rice and Beans = all the calories you need and protein in the beans. Also very cheap.
Eggs = $2.50 a dozen.
What ever fresh veggies are on sale.
Also take a multi-vitamine a day.
I buy fish for 3 dollars a pound.
Chicken can be bought for a dollar a pound.
Pork can be bought for 2 to 3 dollars a pound.
You will not be eating steak.
Red beans and rice with a poached egg on top and some greens on the side — that’s a meal fit for a king in my opinion. I could easily and happily live on $4 a day.
Made a nice coq au vin, chicken legs lots of carrots ,onion some bacon.Served on rice.
The wine was FREE! Leftover from an event and destined for the drain.$20.00+ stuff!
Six good servings for 4$
Chicken at $1 a pound? Boy, not in my town. Freakin’ hamburger is like $6 a pound.
[[You will not be eating steak.]]
Sure you will, I know plenty of restaurant dumpsters where you can hang out and wait for a 1/2 eaten steak to get thrown out- complete with spices- just cut away the parts that look like they have been gnawed on