Eating Cheap
Lets face it- going out to lunch every day can get costly. Here at MindComet we're social creatures - we often go out in small groups to lunch, sometimes daily.
For months this was the routine for me, until one day I realized just how much money I was spending on food every month. Going out to lunch can vary between 5 and 15 dollars a day, depending on where you go, and that's just lunch!
So, for the next month, I am setting a personal goal for myself to not spend more than $10 a week on food. Yes, that's $10 a week. It's a little more than a dollar a day, but it's really possible, and if I can pull this off, I will save almost 200 dollars. In one month. Pretty good savings right?
But alas, fellow MindCometeers and Cakeplow visitors - I need your support!! For the moment I've stocked up on Ramen and hot dogs, but there must be other things to eat that are fairly inexpensive - right? If you have any recipe ideas, please share! You know where to find me - I'm in that corner cube with the stack of Ramen underneath my desk.
For months this was the routine for me, until one day I realized just how much money I was spending on food every month. Going out to lunch can vary between 5 and 15 dollars a day, depending on where you go, and that's just lunch!
So, for the next month, I am setting a personal goal for myself to not spend more than $10 a week on food. Yes, that's $10 a week. It's a little more than a dollar a day, but it's really possible, and if I can pull this off, I will save almost 200 dollars. In one month. Pretty good savings right?
But alas, fellow MindCometeers and Cakeplow visitors - I need your support!! For the moment I've stocked up on Ramen and hot dogs, but there must be other things to eat that are fairly inexpensive - right? If you have any recipe ideas, please share! You know where to find me - I'm in that corner cube with the stack of Ramen underneath my desk.
posted by MindComet at 12:15 PM
9 Critiques:
PBJs, tuna sandwiches, or some easy veggies (lettuce, onion, cucumber) which you can keep al fresca or add tuna too, for example. you can spread the goods across a week. good luck! you are a brave soul to forgo the clusters that head out to lunch!
12:48 PM
Have you ever made rice with Cream of Mushroom, or Chicken, or whatever soup? It cheap, it's good and it sticks to your ribs.
It's called "Souper Rice" clever huh?
1:27 PM
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1:32 PM
Can I buy you a salad because your money savings diet is just screaming for nutrition...
1:33 PM
Ummm...hotdogs and ramen? tou must be about 23 correct? Yeah...that is crap college food! LEt's get you going with something that won'y KILL you!
Fruits, cold cuts, sandwhiches etc. Camples chunky soups with a salad etc.
Don't eat ramen and hotdogs...you'll die.
9:42 AM
you can still have burgers and fries on $10 a week. Make yourself some veggie burgers at home (costs about $3.00) and bake some home-cut fries in the oven.
1:46 PM
BANANAS! AND MULTIVITAMINS! DO IT!
2:16 PM
$10 in a week? It'd take me a month to go through that much.
Of course I eat a granola bar for lunch from a bulk box that I got at Sam's Club which stays in my drawer. And it is often because I am just too lazy to make lunch in the morning and too cheap to buy it. Ok... it always is because of that.
3:22 PM
Don't forget protein, fiber and vitamins. I'd recommend bulk buying somethings from Costco - eggs, chicken breasts, fruit, spinach, etc.
1:48 PM
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