Living on £1 a day

bigjoe

sinar wrote: »

I think it would help if you could go foraging for food, where I live there are lots of wild blackberry bushes, and this seems to be a great year for blackberries, i can easily collect a couple of KG in an hour or so.

It helps if you have a freezer to store them in, obviously make sure you don't pick any by roadsides as they may be polluted with traffic fumes, if they are not near any farmers crops they will probably be organic too.

Fantastic year for wild blackberries / brambles. They were available by the bucketful. Perfect for jam.

But that £1 a day woman, she was going to fre food functions, eating at friends, etc., We can all live for a pound a day if someone else is paying! :beer:

Ken68

Taste apart I think it possible to find out the cheapest protein and calories and vitamins that meet nutritional needs. And minimize costs by not freezing or preserving. Doubt that Tesco and Sains. will help.

lotielot

It's possible. Everything is possible. But why would you do that, unless you a having financial difficulties.

patchwork_cat

The thing is there are people like 'a girl called jack' who do have a very limited budget for food. She had problems due to tax credits I believe.

On the whole I feel that families don't have the same poverty unless they are in debt as single people and god help us as a country if they cancel benefits for under 25's. ( yes there are some in their family home playing x box, but plenty others who aren't)

Clutterfree

zygurat789 wrote: »

Are you a professionally qualified dietician? I'm not, but I just wondered how much store to place on your view.

Take it or leave it.
I choose to leave yours!

Ken68

lotielot wrote: »

It's possible. Everything is possible. But why would you do that, unless you a having financial difficulties.

Because of this being a money saving site.
Live on the least.

Pippin12

I live on about £3.50 a day not counting tea/coffee/soft drinks and tbh really wouldn't want to cut down further as I know I'd feel deprived.

Nada666

Ken68 wrote: »

Because of this being a money saving site.
Live on the least.

No, live on as much as you like but pay less for it. That is the credo.

meg72

Ken68 wrote: »

Taste apart I think it possible to find out the cheapest protein and calories and vitamins that meet nutritional needs. And minimize costs by not freezing or preserving. Doubt that Tesco and Sains. will help.

I find that freezing and preserving actually keep my costs down.
I buy reduced when I see it and freeze , pickle or dry. I also grow and lot again to freeze or dry, for instance I have frozen 10lbs strawberries, raspberrys, gooseberrie , 10lb Rhubarb and 5lbs green beans. So freezing and preserving saves me a fortune over the year.

geordie_joe

lotielot wrote: »

It's possible. Everything is possible. But why would you do that, unless you a having financial difficulties.

There's a million reasons

To prove you can
To save for a holiday
You see it as a challenge
You don't think you have anything better to do
You want to right a blog about it
You want to write a book about it
You want to get a tv programme out of it
You think it will make you famous for 15 minutes

etc. etc.