I went shopping and only had $5, I bought 5 yogurts and 2 bags of lettuce.

So that's a meal you would eat out and a drink or separate items and drinks? Take care

you are right, everything but the fruit, and I would miss my fruit for certain - but like you say in season I can pick fresh berries - out of season though and they are too expensive to place on my $5 grocery list :( thank you for rating my response, I appreciate it. It was a fun discussion!

You're welcome. I like my discussions to be fun or challenging or both. Hope to see you in many more.

Oh you're really good at this! Everything but fruit. But if it was summer I could pick berries to put into the pancakes or eat out of my hand. Good job and thanks. Take care

That's a different perspective. Thank you very much and take care

No, writersedge, it's probably not cheaper, I think. My estimates were based on cheapest brand (owned by a super store). Change the brand and you will find $5 worth almost nothing, well not exactly, but surely not as plentyful as it would seem from my first response!

Bag of potatoes, probably 5 dollars on their own. Bread and a few apples here. Or coffee and donuts (box). I'd have to choose one of the above. Where I live, things are expensive. Yogurt is usually 75 cents to 85 cents, so I was proud to get it at 50 cents! Lettuce ranges, but a bag the size I bought, a pound has been around 3 dollars for one bag so two bags for 2.49 was excellent. This is really interesting. Two out of the three of you live in much cheaper places for food than I do right now. Take care.

Sounds like you could eat breakfast for a few days. The people who bought bags of beans and/or Ramen noodles made the $5 go the farthest in the discussion so far, I hadn't even thought of that. Yes, $5 really doesn't go very far. Take care

Sounds like you could eat breakfast for a few days. The people who bought bags of beans and/or Ramen noodles made the $5 go the farthest in the discussion so far, I hadn't even thought of that. Yes, $5 really doesn't go very far. Take care

I was very lucky, yogurt was on sale for 50 cents each at Price chopper and 2 bags of lettuce for the price of one from Dole. I looked long and hard for the best for my money and I think I did OK. Thanks and take care.

you could also buy a gallon of milk and a small container of plain yogurt with this you can make your own yogurt, plenty more than the 5 containers you purchased for $2.50 sweeten your homemade yogurt with honey, jelly, or fresh fruits. yum.

Very true, but I wanted a salad of yogurt and lettuce every day for 5 days. I've never really tried to make my own yogurt. I should try it sometime. Take care

Hi Peavey, Good amount of food sounds like to me and really stretching a dollar. Good ideas for someone down to their last 5 or trying to stretch their money. Thanks.

True, very true. Respnder #7 had some good ideas for making it go farther and so did all the advocates for Ramen Noodles (which I can't eat). Yes, peanut butter and bread go a long way, I'm impressed that you could still aford bananas after that, but it depends, if I bought the peanut butter at the dollar store for $1 (small jar), I could probably make it go pretty far, but there isn't much peanut butter there. But I'd loose money hopping from store to store. Take care

Sounds like you'd have most of the food groups with the $5, good idea, thanks for your response.

I use yogurt on the lettuce for salad dressing. Wow! You could buy much more than I. One large yogurt would be $2.50 to $3.50 depending on the kind right now. Eggs are $1.99 to $3.99 right now depending on the size. So cheep yogurt large plus small eggs would be $4.49 and I couldn't do much with the 51 cents left over. Prices must be good for food where you live. That's good. Take care.

Now look at the healthy food list you started and look at what it ended up changed to. Oh those kids, sweet tooths just like me! Take care and thank you for responding.

That was my lunches when I studied in Canada. Now that I've looked at the responses, I think I'll be buying beans with my 5 and some other stuff, too. Take care and thanks for your response.

I liked Save-a-lot when we had one up here. They had lots of low salt and salt free items. Also some stuff in light syrup. Now we only have Aldis, still good, just less stuff I need. Take care and thank you for responding

Like response #4. They tax food where you live? We only have it taxed if it's cooked or fast food, only under certain conditions. But if you still have to do stuff to it or it's a basic like lettuce/carrots, then it's not taxed.

I've done that before in Vermont. They have huge sandwiches that must be cut in half and eaten for two meals. In Northern NY where I live, a 5 dollar sandwich would only be good for one meal, trust me. A sub like from subway could be cut in half and used for tow meals. Yes, I like some of the ideas. Next time I have 5 dollars, I have all kinds of choices that I didn't think about. I used the five yogurts and lettuce for 5 meals. Take care

See number 2 response above, that writer did a lot with 2.50 of that kind of money. These responses here certainly do range. Interesting the different things one can or can not buy. Thanks for your response and take care.

You and my husband could survive a long time on ramen noodles. I have high blood pressure-salt reactive kind. 7 packs of ramen noodles would give me a stroke. Doesn't hurt my feelings, though, taste like a salt lick with a hint of some other unidentifiable flavor that I have to look at a package to figure out. Right now, veggies are 40 cents a can here, they're 3 for a dollar most summers, but this summer they were a little more than that. Soup, same problem as ramen which is a bummer, I love soup. Tuna, on sale is sometimes that. But all that on sale at one time, that would be neat. Bread at a dollar a loaf either French or would have to spend more gas to go to the old bread store. But you have got a really good line-up for food. I use a yogurt on salad for lunch. I have bought cheese by the slice at my corner store. Ask for 10 slices and gotten it for around $2.00 or less, depending on the cheese, most Swiss and Provalone are low in salt for me. 10 slices of lunch meat might me around that and you'd still have $ for your loaf of bread. So you could eat for a week and I could only have lunch for 5 days, you're very good at this. Take care