I can make a decent Cuban meal, but real peasant Mexican food is incredibly cheap, dangerous ingredients, and the technique you learn feeding 12 younger siblings when you’re 14.
lol
In Mexico I can imagine its ... 12 younger siblings and your own brat (or two) more likely
No, no, no, Gwenyth actually meant doing it on
$29 dollars a DAY or maybe a MEAL.
It’d be tough, but we could do it if we tried.
:-) Large Christian homeschool families could teach everyone how to live on a budget. I know so many, and they have their meal planning down to a science. And they eat healthful food.
My homeschool brood is not as large, but teenage boys get very hungry. I have the food budget down to a science, too. There have been weeks when I had $29 total to feed all four of us. (Not an exaggeration.) It’s amazing how creative your meal planning becomes when you’re desperate. Lots of looking for bargains and baking from scratch. Now I’ve spoiled them with all the baking from scratch, though. lol