could you feed yourself on just $1 per day?

One dollar is about forty-six or forty-seven pesos here in the Philippines. This is already good enough for those who know how to shop and cook. For that amount, I can cook a decent meal for me and my mother. And it does not include instant meals. One of the good things living here in the Philippines is that the vegetables are fresh and cheap. I can buy a bunch of bokchoy (pechay in tagalog) for less than P10, so that's just a few US cents. So, to answer your question, yes I can survive on a dollar a day.

not sure how much each sandwich cost bit 4 of us have survived several days on tomatoes and cheese sandwiches for we are plum broke!

Well, I'm not sure it would work for me. Just me by myself that $1 a day would be pushing it. I MIGHT be able to manage $1 a meal but not a day. Adding to that, there are 4 of us in my family. That would round the total to $4 a day but I don't think they'd deal nicely with it. I don't as it stands already cook for 4 people. I cook more for like 6-7 people. We usually don't have much leftover either. I keep a lot of things like fresh fruit and vegetables around. I also always have canned soup and pasta, bread, dressings and sauces, rice. I have ramen noodles too but when I make them, we put egg in them, or I stir fry them with cabbage, onion, carrots, broccoli, etc. I suppose since you can calculate per serving, I would definitely be checking all of the knock off items - sometimes you can get things for a quarter or less of the cost and it's simply because the packaging is messed up or a can is dented or the label is ripped or something. Also bulk things are better deals - buying 5 lbs of hamburger at a time especially if it's on sale is good, larger bags of pasta, a large jar of sauce, etc. I'm figuring that you'd buy fresh things in season when they were super cheap - like if you could get corn 10 for $1, that's when you buy corn. If you can get cheap ground beef, buy it cheaply and then just use less than normal, for instance if I use a pound for 4 people, I'd use a half pound. Eggs can be pretty cheap, cereal is also pretty cheap (per serving). Bread isn't too bad, you can still get a loaf for $1, and if you only use one slice, that makes more servings. Boullion and broth and dry dressings like italian and ranch make good seasonings, as well as sliced or chopped onion, green onion, cilantro, and garlic. Potatoes can be cheap, so boiled or baked potatoes are good ideas. Cheese quesadillas, roasted chicken (if you can get small whole chickens for 59 cents a lb) - after which the leftover chicken can be used in another meal - soup. I'll have to see what some people come up with here.

I think I could do it maybe. I mean I go to the grocery store once a week and normally get $150 USD worth of groceries and pay under $20 after coupons. My store doubles them up to a dollar and anything over a dollar become two dollars. My last visit to the grocery store was $110 and after coupons it was $15 then I have a mail in rebate for $10 so I ended up with an out of pocket of $5. So with a family of 5 I could probably do it as long as I could count the price of after coupons LOL

i could maybe do it the only problem i would have is giving up the soda thats my problem as for my hubby no way he eats a lot as far as my 11 and 7 year old no way either they like to eat and as far as my 3 year old he could with no problem because he don't like to eat my daughter who is 1 i would say may be , what gets me is the pop if i could give that up then i would be able to because i don't eat breakfest and a lot of the times i don't eat lunch and i only eat a little for dinner because i don't like to eat a lot. but its just amazing on how 2 people can eat on a dollar a day.

Well that's an interesting suggestion though it will cause health problems over a period of time. I think I could survive on $1 per day but not for a long time. In my country, this amount could get us a piece of flat bread mixed with egg (50 cents) and a cup of tea (30 cents). Yeah, it appears to be cheap, but it's not nutritious. If I had a bigger lawn, I'd grow vegetables and be a part time farmer.

I am pretty certain I could do it. Did they get to use the staples they already had on hand? I always have flour, sugar, yeast, salt, etc. I always have whole grain oats. As your example stated, dried beans, rice, I would add peanut butter, day old bread if I bought bread, and medium eggs, as they are usually cheaper than large eggs. I would buy marked down produce, or go to the farmer's market.

wow that is something. could i feed myself on just a dollar a day?? i don't know. but i like the way that sounds. then I would put all the money i didn't spend into my savings. i guess if i did my food shopping and then brought my meals to work every day i could do it. i am not one much for cooking, so i don't have ay ideas on how to make this happen

My mother shops every two weeks, and there are five of us and it always works out to be basically five dollars per meal (sometimes a little less). I usually easily eat lunch for a buck when I'm working, too. It's easier than it sounds. It just helps if you're not picky and if you're willing to shop around and sometimes shop outside of stores of make stuff at home.

I am sure I could do it if I really tried, but I am not sure how healthy my meals would be. You would not really be able to buy much as far as fresh fruits and veggies with so little money for each day of the week.

I've read about those people before and they say in their blog that they did not have proper nutrition and they both lost a considerable amount of weight during their experiment. I could do maybe a dollar per person per meal, but not just one single dollar per day. Speaking of eating, hubby is complaining that he's starving. lol. I guess it's time to say goodbye to Mylot for a while and cook something that most definately costs more than $1.

I think you might be surprised to learn that many people around the world eat this way all the time. Not because they are being frugal though, but because they have no other choice. It gives everyone who does have a choice something to think about though, doesn't it?

I know I could do it without a problem. I eat very little as it is. I'm sure if I put my mind to it I could do it. I love pasta, salads, fruits and cereal. I wouldn't want to do it all the time but for a challenge I would love doing it.

Nah, I could not do that, you have to have some serious discipline to do something like that. it would be nice you can save a lot of money, and lose weight in the process, nice post, gave me some food for thought, I will read the article and see exactly how they went bout this, thank you so much.

I think In our part of world, it is possible to feed one person in 1$ per day.May be not so well in these days, but we can survive on 1$ food a day.

I couldn't afford to ever feed myself on $1 a day, my health would suffer tremendously and i would look ilke i'm suffering from malnutrition. My sugar wuold be high from eating sugary products like candy bars, i would go to bed hungry each night and i'd be loosing weight, ew $1, i don't know anybody who can do that for too long ew. I need at least $40 a day worth of food, and sometimes not even that much. I love to eat and i could never survive on eating only a dollar's worth of food a day, ew.

It could be fun only having a dollar a day for food. I think I'll probably buy bags of chips some days and pay a dollar's worth of apples (one or two) other days to stay healthy. Besides apples, I only know of junk food that could be bought with a dollar.

fruitcakeliz hi from hatley well I think the dietician here at GoldCrest must have read that artidle and is feeding us on a dollar a day per person,we have rice, and potato and pasta and more rice and potato and pasta p;lus cooked frozen mix veggies plus more rice and more beans with some meat every so often but the whole thing is the emphasis of rice and beans andd pasta. well I love mac and cheese so that meal gets me everytime but I could do with less rice.

I live in India and one dollar is 50 rupees for me. I can feed myself for two dollars a day. I live in a hostel and the food they provide a day only costs two dollars. I pay more money for renting a room in the apartment rather than food. I pay whol money for the food for a month, but they always go for food which is cheap according to the season.

In our country, a dollar is enough to feed a person for a day. I can survive on veggies and fruits and some meat on the side. even a dessert can still fit in the budget.