What would be on your 1.00 per day menu, and could you do it? (page 2)

littlerockguy

Ramen noodles or a can of vegetable soup

twolips

I've done this for over 1 month. 2 and a half months actually.

A diet of brown rice with adzuki or mung beens. You alternate the beens. They are seasoned with dahl spices and tamari/soysause. Green tea for beverage.

It's a diet that has been said to cure diseases in the natural medicine world.

Outaservice

TWO CIRCUIT ASSEMBLY BURRITOS AND A CAN OF SHASTA SODA! WAIT A MINUTE, ONE DOLLAR? OKAY, ONE BURRITO AND A HALF A CAN OF SHASTA!

OUTASERVICE

notperfectyet

I'd go for the dollar a day, get really really skinny, dye my hair blonde, marry Donald Trump and fire sixys ass.

Mac

Laughs at mental image of Six with his ass on fire...

mac

( are toasted buns under a buck ?)

John Doe

How much preparation time is allowed? $1.00 per day will buy just about any kind of garden seed you want. Also, it will buy a lot of .22 ammunition. Lots of stuff to eat in the woods. . .

I was thinking about this sort of thing recently, thinking about socioeconomic binds that people find themselves in. Say you had $7 given to you on the same day every week, well you could buy a bag of rice, a few tins of vegies, a loaf of bread, some blemished fruit perhaps and survive quite okay. But if you're earning your living day by day to the equivalent of $1p/d in a place where that won't buy much, how will you ever get ahead? You'd basically be forced to buy a small amount of rice per day, or some sort of carbohydrate that will fill you up for one main meal. I guess the first couple of weeks would take initial sacrifice so that you could put some monies away to make bigger investments. I think I'm going to test this theory out, which shouldn't be too difficult to do on a students budget lol! Think about the best way in which I can utilise a $7p/w shopping budget...very interesting stuff:-)

Tatiana

A $30.00 supply of those vita-pills the scientists ate every day in the Andromeda Strain. Total nutrition. Yes...even I would want Angelina!

Mamacat

If you could get the $60 up front, I think it would be easier to do than the $1 per day. Buying in bulk is less expensive, and you could have more variety. The hard part would be making sure you didn't run out of food before the end, though. The less you eat, the more you will sleep, and you wouldn't feel hungry when you were asleep, unless you are starving. Then, I'd imagine you'd be too uncomfortable to sleep much.

I know some toddlers are picky eaters, and doctors say that even though they may only eat protein once or twice a week, it all averages out in the end. I'd go about it that way...vitamins one day, protein the next, carbs the next, etc.

But, I don't think I'd take a challenge like that. I watch sales and use coupons, and spend about 50-70% of what similar sized families do at the store. We eat fairly healthy food and a balanced diet, and healthy food generally costs more than the ready-to-eat cheaper stuff. But, making the lists and getting the food takes me longer than it would if I just went and bought what I want at the price it is at the closest store.

Oh, and Ramen noodles have too much salt to eat for any length of time. You'd have to drink tons of water to balance that out. I could go a whole day eating just sunflower seeds though. lol

Sparkplug

There is nothing in this life for free...we pay in one way or another.

So..

I would wink at you till I had a well balanced meal that would be taken out of my hide later...

Does that count?

What would be on your 1.00 per day menu, and could you do it?