Now a days...How will you spend a 100 peso for a day?

Let me try. For breakfast, I will buy P10 worth of pandesal and another $10 for a cup of coffee (Nescafe 3-in-1) and an egg for P5 to be fried scrambled as filling (or you may eat the pandesal without any filling at all. That saves you $5). So, for breakfast, that's 20-25 PHP For lunch, I would buy half kilo of tahong (mussels)which may only cost between 15-20 PHP, a 5PHP worth of ginger and 5PHP worth of dahong sili (sili leaves) then I will cook the mussels without onion and garlic. It can survive with just sauted ginger anyway, before adding water. (I tried that many times) You may or may not add salt but don't forget to put ginisa mix which only costs 3PHP. The beverage here is water. For dinner, I'll just buy 1PHP worth of vinegar or if it's readily available at home, that's good. Then $10 worth of dried fish. And half kilo of rice. You may allow 20PHP for that. The beverage here is also water. The total cost is between 78-94 PHP. It depends if you want crushed tomato or vinegar (either way with pich of salt) as your dip for the dried fish. I already took note of the relativity of the prices as they fluctuate and I presume I'm the only one eating here. Am I right? Pls. bear with my math if I made a mistake with the calculation.

It really depends on how big the family is. If I speak for my own family, it's just mom, sister, and I, so budgeting for food is a little bit easy for us. Normally, we would buy a big loaf of bread from the nearby bakery (38 pesos for the biggest size) and it would be good for three breakfasts (we don't really eat in between snacks). I could say that my parents brought us up to live practical, so even if we open a can of sardines for lunch, we had no qualms about it. We would buy a bunch of pechay for 5 pesos and cook the sardines in some broth, and the three of us can have lunch. As for dinner, we see to it that we eat veggies and fish at least 4 times a week, so we might buy upo (bottle gourd) for 15 pesos, 1/8 kilo of ground pork for 22 pesos. Normally, that would do, but if we still have some money to spend, we might buy half a kilo of tilapia for 30 pesos. We were lucky that the small market is just walking distance, so no need to pay for fares. Nowadays, there are sections in the market that allows "tingi." You could really save from that. And if you noticed in the vegetable sections, there are so many vendors selling sliced up vegetables and for just 15 pesos for half a kilo of veggies for chopseuy or 20 pesos for half a kilo of veggies for pinakbet. I guess it's really important for us to learn how to make dishes look more than there is to it. For example, if we have a can of corned beef, instead of just heating it like that, we can opt to buy a bunch of baguio beans (green beans) and some sotanghon (vermicelli noodles) that is packed just for one dish, it cost 10 pesos I think, and cook it with more broth. That way instead of feeding just two persons for one can if eat as is, we can feed four hungry tummies. Times are really rough now, but I think the key to live a stress free life is to appreciate the fact that we are still living. So what if we can't eat in Jollibee today, or so what if we only had a can of sardines in our pantry? With a little imagination and creativity, we can really cook up a feast.