$1 A Day Challenge!

Well, for breakfast it would have to be eggs (is there somewhere that you can get eggs from individually?). For lunch I would get a pack of Ramen Noodles (15 cents a package here right now). Dinner is soup beans soaked and then boiled until tender. Don't have enough money for the ham to flavor them though. It would be sustenance.

I go for a noodle. this is the cheapest food I can buy in my country. I can eat this 3 times a day. Besides noodle is a carbohydrate food and rich in protein too. Now I'm eating apples and a glass of milk!! LOL

with 1$ we can survive in this part of world a day. I will buy say 250 gms of rice. It will be enough for me for a day. two eggs, a carrot, few beans, 100 gms onion, a half pound bread. Then will take bread with one egg for breakfast,. will make veg fried rice with rice, vegetables and the remaining egg. it will suffice for lunch and dinner. In evening i will still have some money to buy a small cake or few biscuits.

the only way I know how to each cheapest to buy in bulk. Having to buy food a dollar a time is very uneconomical. Something like spaghetti that you can buy for a dollar a package or cheap spaghetti sauce for a dollar jar to keep meeting all day for a couple of days unfortunately by your rules I would have to save up for two days. Nope, cannot do that.

for one dollar a day challenge i have these: ratio or $ to Peso here is --- $1 = P47.00 (more or less) breakfast - boiled egg = P5.00 half kilo of rice for lunch and dinner = P17.50 viand lunch - can of sardines = P11.50 dinner - noodles and fried egg = P 12.00 total ---------------- P46.00 i still have 1 peso change that i can use to buy candy or bubblegum

Hello Multimastert, this is an interesting discussion! Okay, I have think of what to eat with only $1 in my hand. $1 equal to RM3.50 in my country currency, which is Ringgit. First of all I will use $0.60 to buy a loaf of white bread, it is my favorite food too. So my breakfast and lunch is based on this loaf of bread, should be keeping my tummy full as they are many pieces of bread in a loaf of bread. For dinner, I would go to the super market to have some free taste food and beverage. The super market near my place always has free taste on certain new arrival food or some food on promotion so they will have free taste for customers. After that, I will use my balance of money, to buy a pack of instant noodles. Happy Mylotting!

Hello multimastery. If I only had one dollar to eat with a day, I would not have much choice, but cook porridge noodles with some cheap vegetables for my meals. It would be very difficult to live on like this for a long time. For one day it is ok though. Take care.

Hi multimastery! I think that this is one of the most interesting discussions that I have seen in a very long time and I want to commend you on it! I live in the USA, in NYS to be exact and a $1 a day would really be difficult to live on! I could buy a pack of Ramen noodles and a roll or a package of mac and cheese, store brand and a roll or something to that extent! I would have to drink tap water or choke! I would really have a terrible time doing this for too long since mac and cheese makes me sick and I wouldn't have the money to buy the milk for it anyway!

Probably a candy bar since I can't even get a mcdouble for that. :(

Scary situation, starving situation. But I guess I'm going through such a situation currently. I'm a Muslim and currently according to the Islamic calendar it is the month of Ramdhan (pronounced Ramzaan) and we Muslims practice fasting all 30 days of this month. So I'm currently fasting or practicing Roza in which I have only one principal meal a day. So if I am offered 1$ a day for my meals, I would have 3 eggs with 5 slices of brown bread, honey and 1 glass of milk.

Hi friend.. i would rather eat fruits for a $1 prizes, i love to eat fruits because it contains a lot of vitamins and minerals it is also very easy to chew. Happy mylotting.

I think if I only had $1 a day for food I would either buy a bag of peanuts, as big as I could get for that $1 or a bag of hard candy so that I could have something in my mouth at all times to keep my mouth from drying out.

So one dollar here would be 5 kunas. Simple i would go and buy 4 small ''bread pieces'' (really don't know how to translate that) i would rashen it through the course of the day...one every 6-8 hours and i would drink plenty of water...we have public taps around the city near sport fields. It would be a hard existance but i think you would survive

wow, just 1 buck, per day. well, frist i wouldn't eat nothing all day tell dinner time. then i would go to McDonald's and get the 1.00 and get a burger for a buck.

I'd definitely buy either chicken noodle soup or a can of peanut butter, both are very filling and peanut butter will supply you with the needed calories, i went through this one time.

well. if just cooking at home 1$ is enough to buy some vegetables and rice already. but if eat outside and that's really the headache to eat only 1$ for a whole day. here nothing even cheaper than the baozi and that cost around 10cents per baozi and i think i will buy 10 baozi and eat them.

good thing you reverted to US$ 1 a day. i am sure the Chinese and Japanese will be happy with that. LOL. well in this part of the world, specially in smaller cities you can actually have a treat with such an amount. street food is quite popular and cheap here (so you don't have to cook) and if one prefers to rely on noodles then you can also add a coke to your diet.

To be honest, I probably won't eat anything at all. I'm really religion, and my friends call me nice and stuff like that, but if I had a chance, to help others, then I would do it. One dollar to give to a homeless family means the world to them then the food for me in one day. The homeless family can but grams of rice for 1 day and I have to sacrifice one day's worth of food. Some of you MyLotters think that I'm stupid and or crazy, but honestly, if I had a small chance to help someone else with their lives, I would certainly do it, and pray to God to help me survive my starvation.

Hello.I like your friend.You have raised a very interesting a good question.Yes.If only one dollar a day.What should we eat..So first of all want to eat what food is cheap and can..I have the time at school.The teachers have to teach,"I want to I can to"a class,the students created a simulation of consumption.U.S.dollars should first use this day to have enough food to buy then.Then the remaining money to buy water to drink.Ha ha..I like how the practice?

Eating on one dollar a day in the America is really a challenge. The only way to do it would be to shop around for hours for the buy of the day. If you say one can get no help, the only logical answer is look too see what grows around you and learn what can be eaten. That is what happened before we had dollars. If you must live off what you can buy for one dollar every day, it will not be much in the USA.