Comments on: Could You Survive With Only $25.00 a Week for Groceries? http://www.americanconsumernews.com/2007/11/could-you-survive-with-only-2500-a-week-for-groceries.html Helping Smart Shoppers Save Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:32:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dody http://www.americanconsumernews.com/2007/11/could-you-survive-with-only-2500-a-week-for-groceries.html/comment-page-1#comment-3919 Dody Tue, 06 May 2008 01:14:13 +0000 http://www.financeispersonal.com/2007/11/could-you-survive-with-only-2500-a-week-for-groceries.html#comment-3919 I agree with disappointed. I am a mother of 5. I feed a family of 7, yes 7, on 240 a month. If you can't cook, pick up a few gadgets so you can be lazy. Gadget 1, rice cooker. Gadget 2, crock pot. Both need only an outlet and are for lazy people to cook with. Both cost 20 bucks and will save you their price many time over if this is the best you can do. With your 25 dollars a week: 5lbs of potatoes 2.59 2 lb carrots 1.29 can of oatmeal 1.69 3 bananas 1.00 bag of sugar 1.59 box of tea 1.00 chicken flavor 1.00 2lb cabbage .69 4lbs rice 2.54 4lbs beans 4.00 aprox. dozen eggs 1.89 loaf of bread .89 Total 23.00 aprox after tax There's enough food to make all your breakfast, lunch, and dinner with very little cooking and much more nutrition. If you can dump ingredients in a pot with water and turn it on to return at the end of the day you will have plenty of stew. If you can fry eggs, you can have fried egg sandwiches for lunch. In fact I buy this much for my family of 7 to eat on. I'm sure you can survive on it considering 4 children, one teenager, and 2 adults can live on it. I agree with disappointed. I am a mother of 5. I feed a family of 7, yes 7, on 240 a month. If you can’t cook, pick up a few gadgets so you can be lazy. Gadget 1, rice cooker. Gadget 2, crock pot. Both need only an outlet and are for lazy people to cook with. Both cost 20 bucks and will save you their price many time over if this is the best you can do. With your 25 dollars a week:
5lbs of potatoes 2.59
2 lb carrots 1.29
can of oatmeal 1.69
3 bananas 1.00
bag of sugar 1.59
box of tea 1.00
chicken flavor 1.00
2lb cabbage .69
4lbs rice 2.54
4lbs beans 4.00 aprox.
dozen eggs 1.89
loaf of bread .89
Total 23.00 aprox after tax
There’s enough food to make all your breakfast, lunch, and dinner with very little cooking and much more nutrition. If you can dump ingredients in a pot with water and turn it on to return at the end of the day you will have plenty of stew. If you can fry eggs, you can have fried egg sandwiches for lunch. In fact I buy this much for my family of 7 to eat on. I’m sure you can survive on it considering 4 children, one teenager, and 2 adults can live on it.

]]> By: Disappointed by this post http://www.americanconsumernews.com/2007/11/could-you-survive-with-only-2500-a-week-for-groceries.html/comment-page-1#comment-3168 Disappointed by this post Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:19:27 +0000 http://www.financeispersonal.com/2007/11/could-you-survive-with-only-2500-a-week-for-groceries.html#comment-3168 I linked over to your website from a carnival, I believe, and ended up on this post. College student or no, this has to be the worst spent $25 grocery budget ever. Soda instead of vegetables? LUNCHABLES?? Sadly you're not joking. After reading this post, I am soured on your other financial advice. It seems you are incredibly out of touch with many of the basics of frugality. And lazy to boot! Even if you're not much of a cook, you do have the internet at your disposal to do research on the matter. Hillbilly Housewife, for example, has a <a href="http://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/40dollarmenu.htm" rel="nofollow">$45 emergency grocery budget</a> based around a week's worth of menus for a family of 4-6. With modification, you should be able to feed 2-3 people on the amount of money you spent on TV dinners and cereal. If you only have to feed one mouth, you could substitute in meat or veggies where she's left it out and end up with more variety than you suggest. It's not easy to feed yourself on so little money, but lots of people must and do, with fewer resources than you have at hand. I think this post illustrates more than anything the value of being raised with skills for independent living and learning frugality at the knee. It's a lot easier to already have a "sense" for it, rather than trying to knock some sense into an adult spending 10% of their grocery budget on Mt. Dew . . . I linked over to your website from a carnival, I believe, and ended up on this post.

College student or no, this has to be the worst spent $25 grocery budget ever. Soda instead of vegetables? LUNCHABLES?? Sadly you’re not joking. After reading this post, I am soured on your other financial advice. It seems you are incredibly out of touch with many of the basics of frugality. And lazy to boot!

Even if you’re not much of a cook, you do have the internet at your disposal to do research on the matter. Hillbilly Housewife, for example, has a $45 emergency grocery budget based around a week’s worth of menus for a family of 4-6. With modification, you should be able to feed 2-3 people on the amount of money you spent on TV dinners and cereal. If you only have to feed one mouth, you could substitute in meat or veggies where she’s left it out and end up with more variety than you suggest.

It’s not easy to feed yourself on so little money, but lots of people must and do, with fewer resources than you have at hand. I think this post illustrates more than anything the value of being raised with skills for independent living and learning frugality at the knee. It’s a lot easier to already have a “sense” for it, rather than trying to knock some sense into an adult spending 10% of their grocery budget on Mt. Dew . . .

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]]> By: Carnival of Personal Finance #127 - Wonders of the World | Moolanomy http://www.americanconsumernews.com/2007/11/could-you-survive-with-only-2500-a-week-for-groceries.html/comment-page-1#comment-1133 Carnival of Personal Finance #127 - Wonders of the World | Moolanomy Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:06:08 +0000 http://www.financeispersonal.com/2007/11/could-you-survive-with-only-2500-a-week-for-groceries.html#comment-1133 [...] Consumer News presents Could You Survive With Only $25.00 a Week for Groceries? — An interesting exercise. If I have to live on $25 a week, I am thinking a bag of rice, a [...] [...] Consumer News presents Could You Survive With Only $25.00 a Week for Groceries? — An interesting exercise. If I have to live on $25 a week, I am thinking a bag of rice, a [...]

]]> By: Carnival of Personal Finance #127 - Wonders of the World | Moolanomy http://www.americanconsumernews.com/2007/11/could-you-survive-with-only-2500-a-week-for-groceries.html/comment-page-1#comment-1134 Carnival of Personal Finance #127 - Wonders of the World | Moolanomy Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:06:08 +0000 http://www.financeispersonal.com/2007/11/could-you-survive-with-only-2500-a-week-for-groceries.html#comment-1134 [...] Consumer News presents Could You Survive With Only $25.00 a Week for Groceries? — An interesting exercise. If I have to live on $25 a week, I am thinking a bag of rice, a [...] [...] Consumer News presents Could You Survive With Only $25.00 a Week for Groceries? — An interesting exercise. If I have to live on $25 a week, I am thinking a bag of rice, a [...]

]]> By: admin http://www.americanconsumernews.com/2007/11/could-you-survive-with-only-2500-a-week-for-groceries.html/comment-page-1#comment-1093 admin Fri, 16 Nov 2007 05:29:51 +0000 http://www.financeispersonal.com/2007/11/could-you-survive-with-only-2500-a-week-for-groceries.html#comment-1093 I knwo that my list isn't wonderful (hell, I'm in college)...so I don't cook with a lot of natural ingredients, thus the cereal and frozen food. :) I'm sure if I cooked rice, beans and some basic meats, I could probably end up with more food than I have now. I knwo that my list isn’t wonderful (hell, I’m in college)…so I don’t cook with a lot of natural ingredients, thus the cereal and frozen food. :) I’m sure if I cooked rice, beans and some basic meats, I could probably end up with more food than I have now.

]]> By: pidgeon92 http://www.americanconsumernews.com/2007/11/could-you-survive-with-only-2500-a-week-for-groceries.html/comment-page-1#comment-1089 pidgeon92 Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:07:40 +0000 http://www.financeispersonal.com/2007/11/could-you-survive-with-only-2500-a-week-for-groceries.html#comment-1089 $3.42 a day? It wouldn't be fabulous, but it is definitely doable. Generally in the morning I will have about 1/3 cup oatmeal, with maybe 1/3 cup milk. For excitement I will toss in some raisins. If this costs me a quarter, I would be surprised. Ground beef can still be had pretty cheaply, and they practically give tortillas away. My local grocery often has 1 pound bags of frozen vegetables on sale for $1. How about pancakes? With a bag of flour, some sugar, a few eggs, and a little milk, you can make enough pancakes for a small army. If you need to stretch the milk, powdered is fine for cooking. $3.42 a day? It wouldn’t be fabulous, but it is definitely doable. Generally in the morning I will have about 1/3 cup oatmeal, with maybe 1/3 cup milk. For excitement I will toss in some raisins. If this costs me a quarter, I would be surprised. Ground beef can still be had pretty cheaply, and they practically give tortillas away. My local grocery often has 1 pound bags of frozen vegetables on sale for $1. How about pancakes? With a bag of flour, some sugar, a few eggs, and a little milk, you can make enough pancakes for a small army. If you need to stretch the milk, powdered is fine for cooking.

]]> By: Can you survive with only $25 a week for groceries? - Personal Finance Forums http://www.americanconsumernews.com/2007/11/could-you-survive-with-only-2500-a-week-for-groceries.html/comment-page-1#comment-1086 Can you survive with only $25 a week for groceries? - Personal Finance Forums Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:27:30 +0000 http://www.financeispersonal.com/2007/11/could-you-survive-with-only-2500-a-week-for-groceries.html#comment-1086 [...] Great article shows it is possible, but certainly not very nutritious or appealing… Could You Survive With Only $25.00 a Week for Groceries? » American Consumer News __________________ MikesMoneyBlog – How to Achieve Financial [...]

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