Living on £1 a day

MrsE_2

Edwardia wrote: »

I wouldn't compromise my health by living on 29p noodles, personally. I think it would be feasible though to live on £1 a day if you had an allotment and grew your own.

I eat at least 5 portion of veg, salad or fruit per day. Without growing your own you couldn't possibly get 5 portions & protein every day.

spbankie

Just how ridiculous is this going to get. I lived on seven pence, I lived on zero, I lived on minus £40 a day and so on???

£1 a day for two people that "a girl called jack" supposedly lived on is 50 pence per meal (assuming she only had two meals) which of course works out at 25pence each for her and her son. As one of the previous posters pointed out the minimum calories required per day is 1400 for jack and her 3 yo would require very similar. That would equate to 700 calories for her and him for each of her two meals a day. 700 calories from 25 pence- good luck.

Packing your meals full of low cost veg - full lettuce 8 calories, 52 calories in a cup of carrots, and so on, is a non starter. Even taking lentils which was a suggestion above - cheapest price on mysupermarket works out at 40p per 200G. With that amount of weight you would get approx 226 calories. So you have spent more than your budget and you are still 412 calories short.Remember you have 25 PENCE per person, per meal

In addition I am presuming they drank water, because ANYthing else, even the cheapest tea bag or diluting would cost money she could ill afford.

Think I'll start a blog on how I lived on nothing for the last ten years and see what gullible fools believe it.

Why do I even read these threads!

Calorie source http://caloriecount.about.com/

COOLTRIKERCHICK

I had that book a few years back, and she lived somewhere where there was a lot of functions going on with free food.

Don't forget she done that quite a few years ago, and food prices have shot up since then..

I think the key thing here is to shop 'smarter' so your shopping budget balances out over the year.

become a savvy shopper, and look for those reduced items, and learn how to 'stretch' the ingredients..

Personally I think you will struggle even if it was £1.50 - £2 per day.. especially if you got to take a packed lunch to work etc

Also I could not manage without my cuppas:D

Halifax81

Closest I have gotten is around £2 per day, I'm going to try and lower this when my next batch of food has been eaten out of the freezer

Roxy07

Halifax81 wrote: »

Closest I have gotten is around £2 per day, I'm going to try and lower this when my next batch of food has been eaten out of the freezer

Do you bulk buy alot?

Halifax81

Roxy07 wrote: »

Do you bulk buy alot?

No never, I plan my meals in advance make them then freeze them.

Roxy07

Halifax81 wrote: »

No never, I plan my meals in advance make them then freeze them.

Oh I find bulk buying saves alot of money.. I do both.

Coopdivi

dlusman wrote: »

I would agree that it isnt possible if you are buying at "normal" prices. But it is totally possible without sacrificing quality ( and I do it regularly ) by buying yellow lable at up to 90% off.

That's fine if you've got access to shops which drastically reduce the price of groceries but what happens if you haven't: you live in a village for example?

I live in a fair sized town and I've never seen huge supermarket reductions on food.

I have a couple of Co-ops close to me which will occasionally knock 50% off foods for quick sale but they'll still cost £2-3. Their bins are often full to overflowing with dumped food.

The Sainsbury's in the town centre are even worse. On Christmas Eve, half an hour before closing they reduced hundreds of lines to half price and that was it. They weren't going to go any further. They'd rather dump their food than sell it cheaply.

Asda, Tesco and Morrisons might have these huge reductions that you claim but, because all their stores are on the edge of town, I'd either have to spend £4 on bus fares or walk 8 to 9 miles.

dlusman

Coopdivi wrote: »

That's fine if you've got access to shops which drastically reduce the price of groceries but what happens if you haven't: you live in a village for example?

.

Hence why I started my comment that it wouldnt be possible if you where buying at "Normal" prices

Coopdivi

Back in March I lived on about £14 a week for a while. I had enough to eat but it was a boring diet.

The first week I had economy minced beef turned into pasties, lasagne, curry and baked potato topping interspersed with bratwurst sausage for hot dogs, casserole and a fry up with eggs and baked beans.

The second week was hm pizzas topped with sardines and pineapple for three days, chicken thighs made into curry, casserole and roast with leftovers on the seventh day.

Weeks 3 and 4 were a repeat of the above. Extra meals during each day were frying pan bread made from flour, milk and marge and topped with baked beans, egg or jam.

Fortunately by the fifth week I got some money which enabled me to have a more exciting diet.