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One week. $30. The Challenge.
About 9 months ago Brad, Matthew and I were sitting on a balcony in Alexandria having a fairly long discussion. One of the topics we discussed was trying to live off $30 for a week, the general consensus was it would be possible. Somehow, today, I got challenged to actually try and do it. I went shopping today and it’s on… Oh and I spent $28.39!!!
Basically the plan is to document each meal and see how the week goes.
There are a few rules:
- I can’t use food that was in the cupboard; which is easy there was basically none.
- I can’t deliberately get invited out for dinner.
- Any free food I get, such as work lunches (which work pays for), are fine.
- I should try and eat properly: 2 fruit + 5 veg daily, RDI amounts, etc…
And that’s about it… See you all tomorrow for Day 1′s write up!
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about 1 year ago
wow…. that does not look like much food at all…good luck!
about 1 year ago
In hindsight after a few peoples comments it must be noted that the point here is to see if you can “eat for $30 for a week” … I fully recognise there are other costs involved in “living”.
about 9 months ago
Awesome, I similar almost every week just because I’d rather spend money on other things.
$5 for 1 LB of cheese
$6 for 3 LBs of beef
$3 in tortillas
$2 for 1 LB of real butter
$3 for 2 LBs of bacon
$3 For 2 dozen eggs
$3 for various condiments / seasoning.
$5 for 3 or 4 cans of frozen Orange Juice concentrate.
Too bad my:
Rent is $590 a month
Electricity is $120 a month
Cable modem is $60 a month
Gas for heat is $60 a month
Car insurance is $50 a month
So that is like $250 a week without gas and beer.
about 9 months ago
http://www.x-rates.com/d/USD/AUD/graph120.html
Damn last time I bought something on ebay from Australia it was in 2001 or 2002 and it was about half.
http://www.x-rates.com/d/USD/AUD/hist2001.html
Your eggs are twice as expensive there. Here in the US they are just over $1 a dozen.
about 9 months ago
@aric
Good work repeating every week. I don’t know if I’d be able to repeat this every week. I like variety. I should also point out that I had certain conditions in that I had to eat fruit and vegetables – which may have left me with lower quality and/or less “full” flavours (a contributing factor to wanting variety).