I guess it can be done, but I wouldnt be happy about it.

But I do! Let's see. I spend $40 a week. We haven't eaten out in over a month. So that is 21 meals a week for 2 people. I even did a little bit of stockpile replenishing. And that included some tp and paper towels and vinegar for cleaning.

We don't eat Ramen noodles. We eat really well. Last night was a meatless night, but the night before was broiled pork chops that I had bought for 99 cents a pound.

Cathleen

Beans & Rice
Mix rice with black beans, add a little Tabasco sauce and cumin for seasoning.

Buttered Noodles
Egg noodles with butter, sprinkle a little grated Parmesan and basil on top

I think it could be done, but I'd tire of it after a few days.

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We do it on less. Our monthly grocery is $80-90 for 2 adults. We don't eat out and I don't feel like we are lacking anything. Although I am a person who don't 'enjoy' food and eat cereal everyday for breakfast and a pb&j sandwich for lunch. I never pay over $1 a box which last 7 days. I make my bread, stock up on pb for less than $.50 a jar and make our own jelly from the mulberries, blackberries and strawberries in our yard. My dh is also not picky and usually only eats one meal a day.

I can do it and have done it.
Kraft mac and cheese-.50 per box, on sale, got a ton.
canned veggies-.37 per can
canned fruit $1.00 per can (30 oz size can) usually lasts three days
Ramen-.10 per packet
Rice-$1.00 per lb
dried beans-free
Frozen fish sticks or chicken nuggets-I can get about four meals per box
Totinos pizzas-$1.00
Baby carrots-$1.00 per lb
Hunt's Spag. sauce $1.00 per lb
Noodles-$1 per lb
Bread (hamburger and hot dog buns too) $1-$1.25 each

I could go on. Many times when dh is gone, I will make easy meals for the kids that probably cost me $2.00.

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we could that would be 5 bucks for the five of us.. alot of the meals i make equal out to 5-6 dollars for dinner and that includes meat veggie fruit what ever.. i think you have to be thrifty with your money.
example french bread pizza
1 loaf french bread(.50 day old cart they have them every time i'm there and they can be frozen)
1/2 can a pizza sauce .40
1 bag pizza cheese 1.88(i purchase on sale and freeze)
pepperoni .62 (i can get 4 usages out of a big bag of pepperonis)
also can add any leftovers so i count that as a zero since cost was in a previous meal..
grand total= $3.40 and that feed 5 people add a fruit or salad and it is still under 5 bucks.

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Yes, if you go with whole foods and take time to cook. I actually found it easier when all four kids were living at home. It helps if each kid will come up with a specialty which they make from scratch (for example, one kid learned to make lasagna, including home made noodles; one learned to make tortillas, and so on.) Making cooking and baking a hobby instead of a chore really helps. You can bake a lot of bread, rolls, and buns at once and freeze them. If you explore other cultures you can come up with varied meals which are healthy and cheap. Mexican, as mentioned, is familiar and inexpensive, and leads to learning some Cuban and Brazilian dishes. We love Indian foods, especially various vegetable curries, with brown rice, and all sorts of Oriental stir fries, again with brown rice. Pasta comes into a lot of different cuisines, so you can use it as a base and vary things quite a bit. We buy rice, oatmeal, bulgar, etc. in bulk from a food coop, and dried beans and pastas from Aldi or Walmart, and store them in big glass jars (from pickles.) We freeze produce in season and use it all year. If you enjoy canning, that would be even better in that you'd free up more freezer space for storage of things you buy at special sales.
The fewer processed foods you buy, the more money you have to spend on more nutritious and better tasting foods. I think a lot of people can't really even taste food anymore because they are so used to the over salted or over sugared prepared foods that are so prevalent these days.
A good starter cookbook is Whole Foods For the Whole Family, published by La Leche League. Vegetarian cookbooks, especially the Goldbeck's American Wholefoods Cuisine, give tons of simple recipes that taste good. gail

I am sure that I could do it but I doubt we'd be a happy healthy family.
There are already quite a few ideas on how you could make it work.
I know I would miss variety.

We could do it, but only if we had to. DH and I have turned cooking into a hobby, and it is frequently one of our splurges. We enjoy trying new things, and preparing complicated dishes. We cook together almost every night. So I would NEVER do it willingly, but if it came down to it, we would be capable.

Ramen with tuna. The sodium content of ramen is through the roof so I don't bring it home much but he ate that for weeks when deployed to Guam.


I think I could eat for $1 per meal as long as it was a cumulative deal and I got $90 for meals for the month. Oatmeal is about 17 cents a package. Eggs are pretty inexpensive and can be made in various ways so that you don't get too tired of eating them(and could be utilized for breafast or dinner). Beans could be spiced up in different ways(with bbq sauce, with enchilada sauce, etc,etc) and eaten with rice or cornmeal for a complete protein. Throw some mushrooms bought at kroger from the bulk bin in with some green pepper into $1 spaghetti sauce and you'd have several meals. It would not be an overly easy month but if I had to do it I could.