$1.75 a day poverty diet challenge

[Ultralight]

bae and Jane, queue up the hair shirt jokes you have on your broken records, cuz here we go!!!!!

Alright: There seemed to be some interest in how I plan to live for one week on $1.75 of groceries.

Here are the rules:

• $1.75 a day. You can spend this all at once, all $12.25 of it or in any increment you choose.
• If others are doing the challenge with you, you can pool your money for bulk buying power. I will be doing it with one person, maybe two.
• You can use the salt, spices, and cooking oil you already have at home
• You cannot accept gifted food
• You cannot scavenge
• You cannot forage

I think that is all the rules.

I have done this three times before. Twice I was successful. But back then it was $1.50 a day, apparently inflation changed it to $1.75.

[Alan]

No thanks. I spent much of my childhood on a poverty diet, and not one designed to inflate my frugal chops. Good luck though, and count yourself lucky it only lasts a week.

[Ultralight]

...count yourself lucky it only lasts a week.

That is part of the point.

[razz]

So tell me again why you are doing this please?

[Ultralight]

So tell me again why you are doing this please?

Well, I have found it a good way to work on self-discipline, a way to cultivate more empathy, and to save a few bucks. It is like a "fiscal fast."

It also feels like a spiritual experience.

But a friend of mine asked me to do it with him. Going through a difficult shared experience with a friend tends to deepen the friendship.

[Ultralight]

So tell me again why you are doing this please?

Well, I have found it a good way to work on self-discipline, a way to cultivate more empathy, and to save a few bucks. It is like a "fiscal fast."

It also feels like a spiritual experience.

But a friend of mine asked me to do it with him. Going through a difficult shared experience with a friend tends to deepen the friendship.

[Tiam]

This is a cool link for $1.45 meals (not a day).https://youtu.be/zjeY6Bzg6jw The challenge is the price of a cup of coffee a day. It might have some ideas. I have to say, in my life, $1.75 a day is not a challenge I would want to take on. I like the Cup of coffee one better. But if a person WANTS to do it, more power to you!

[Ultralight]

This is a cool link for $1.45 meals (not a day).https://youtu.be/zjeY6Bzg6jw The challenge is the price of a cup of coffee a day. It might have some ideas. I have to say, in my life, $1.75 a day is not a challenge I would want to take on. I like the Cup of coffee one better. But if a person WANTS to do it, more power to you!

Thanks for the link!

[Ultralight]

I will probably get a bag of rice, a bag of lentils, and perhaps a tube of oat meal.

Some bananas, carrots, and cabbage will be my fruits and veggies.

In my previous experience, rice is the king. Gotta have as much rice as possible.

[dmc]

Not for me.

But good luck.