Posted on 09/23/2013 1:20:00 PM PDT by wbill
I do it now.
Sometimes, not every day.
Here’s another...can your pundit get a good breakfast in a major chain restaurant for $5, including coffee and a generous tip? I can!
“Sometimes, not every day.”
Because I don’t have to.
I couldn’t unless I absolutely had to, because I rarely eat rice, wheat, oats, potatoes, or pasta.
Ha!
My sister’s husband often jokes about the fact that growing up, Spam was a little out of the family budget for a couple of years (big family, lean times) So, he learned to like a cheaper competitor’s product called “Potted Meat.”
Of course, I’m not much better. I’m a sucker for Underwood Chicken Spread (that little can with the devil on it). Lord only knows what sort of ‘chicken’ goes into that!
Let’s be honest guys, we COULD eat on $5 a day, but who the hell would want to.
I don’t want the same thing for breakfast everyday.
I don’t want the same thing for lunch and dinner everyday either.
We want variety. And I’ll pay extra to have my kids eat well.
For breakfast they’re going to have cereal, oatmeal, eggs, bacon, sausage, toast, pancakes, eggos, fruit, breakfast bars, and an occasional donut or two.
They may not have a new pair of Nike’s every month, but they are going to be well fed.
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That's strange. I often miss lunch if I'm not hungry.
If I went with bulk flour, sugar, beans, rice, etc etc etc....I'd be well under budget.
Heck, I can put together a crock pot of spaghetti sauce for well under $20 that feeds my entire family for 3-4 nights. It's better than anything you'd get in a restaurant. We usually freeze a couple of nights worth, it tastes better left over. :-) And the sauce makes an awesome pizza. :-) :-)
But it takes a little thought and effort. Can't have folks on welfare, who have little to do to begin with, putting forth any of that.
This is such nonsense. First it was all those starving folks who needed food stamps (oops food assistance). Now it is the food insecure.
Can I survive on $5 a day for food? You bet. Do I eat better than that when I have the funds....you bet.
Eggs, cereal, rice, potatoes, in season veggies, the occasional bit of meat or fish. That’s easily done on $5 per day
Wilson’s Potted Meat Food Product is what we used to get.
I ate enough of it when I was a kid and Mom and Dad needed to streeeeetch the budget a little. (Or more than a little. We didn't have SNAP back then......)
It's good baked, with a little bit of clove on top. Or, in a "ham salad" sandwich.
I like it fried
I should know, I've eaten it often enough.
My food probably eats a lot of rice, wheat, oats, or potatoes. Shame to feed pasta to pigs, except as recycled garbage.
When they assert that some large percentage of US food goes to garbage, they want you to ignore that many pig farmers get a contract to collect food garbage from government eateries (like prisons or schools) and the garbage goverment food is fed to pigs) with supplemental food used to correct for any nutrients not in the garbage.
Yes, and I do.
I had 3 eggs/2 strips of turkey bacon and cup of coffee for breakfast. $1. Lunch...scoop of yogurt from a large container with a few berries .75. Dinner...Gourmet sausage cut up with 1/4 box of angel hair pasta with chopped tomato,onions and garlic. Maybe $2 with half left over for lunch tomorrow. Maybe eat an orange later for snack .50. So for $4.25 I ate like a king.
Because of our kids' ages, there was a time when we were paying simultaneous Catholic school tuition (both high schools and grade school) for 10 children. I assure you we ate on less than (an inflation adjusted) $5 per person per day. And yes, it meant a lot of eggs, chicken, hot dogs, farina, mac and cheese, and peanut butter. Maybe the hot dogs and mac and cheese aren't healthy, but they're tasty and full of protein and if you're getting exercise, hot dogs and mac and cheese once a week won't hurt. At least, it hasn't seemed to hurt our kids.
Maybe if you buy the yeast in bulk (Costco has it). My wife sometimes uses a bread maker (from Amazon, although they do turn up at Goodwill) and although fun as a hobby, the loafs made from small units of yeast are not cheaper than the various sale breads we buy at Safeway or Winco and you have to consume the product quickly. Additionally, I am accustomed to the mass market bread and it is hard to make the switch, although I certainly would in an emergency!
I am not a foodmaker myself so can't comment much on the ingredients but saw this on mint.com (seems you could find a cheaper recipe).
I flipped to the American Sandwich Bread recipe in my favorite all-purpose cookbook, The America’s Test Kitchen Family Cookbook (third edition, 3-ring binder). The recipe calls for whole milk, water, butter, honey, bread flour, yeast, and salt. Basic bread ingredients.
Using Peapod.com, I calculated how much each ingredient would cost. Note, I did not include the cost of ⅓ cup water because it is negligible.
At $3.69 per gallon of whole milk, the 1 cup of milk called for costs $.23
At $2.99 for four quarters, the 4 tablespoons of butter costs $.37
At $3.89 for 12 ounces of honey, the 3 tablespoons of honey costs $.49
At $5.49 for 5 pounds, the 3 ¾ cups of bread flour costs $1.23
At $.50 per package, the 2 ¼ teaspoons of yeast costs $.50
At $.99 for 26 ounces, the 2 teaspoons of salt costs less than 1 penny
That brings the total cost of handmade bread to $2.83.
Yowza!
That answer has been "yes" virtually every year of my life. My baby and I have tons of food in the freezer, but sometimes we just don't feel like cooking any of it. So, after a brief moment of uncertainty, we order out. The uncertainty is over whether we should order Italian, Chinese or Mexican. I didn't know that made us "food insecure." Thank goodness we don't grade our toilet by that scale.....
(PS, we've been re-reading "Citizen Clinton." The parody of Mad, Mad, Mad World is a timeless jewel! Thank you so much for that!)
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/406007.The_Kudzu_Cookbook
The Kudzu Cookbook: Cooking Up a Storm With That Wild & Crazy Vine That Grows in Miles-Per-Hour!
http://www.gagirl.com/southern/how_to_grow_kudzu.html
Gardening Tips from Down South: How to Grow Kudzu
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Not so. The caloric requirements of women vary, just as men's do. I know quite a few women who are 5'7" to 5'9". While 1100 calories a day may be doable for a woman of 5'1" to 5'4" or so, taller women need more calories, and the requirements of women with fast metabolisms vary as well, not to mention those who run, lift weights or do other forms of exercise.
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