Ramen noodles, beef or chicken are $1.94-$2.12 at Wal*Mart for 12. I’ll have to look at the box again. 2 a day, that’s 6 days. I bought crackers for $1.75 on sale at the grocery stoere. $4 you can eat for 6 days. Not well, but you can eat.
Wal*Mart also runs a dozen eggs for 58 cents a lot of the time around here (Midwest). Boil them and you can eat 2 a day for 6 days.
$5 spent, probably, with tax.
I ate them for two weeks (and drank no soda, just water) 10 years ago.
Didn’t. Lost. A. Single. Pound (I’m sorry to say, LOL)
About 10-15 years ago, there was a sort of ongoing thread on one of the sites I used to visit with suggestions on how to feed a family of 4 on $20 for 5 days. Super simple. Not rocket science.