Hungry For a Month

Malaysia
December 2, 2006 1:58am CST
For the month of December, I’m only spending $30 on food. The only exception will be things that are freely available to the average person (salt taken from restaurants, sauce packets from Taco Bell, free coffee from an office). Buying in advance is fine, but at the end of the month, it all has to add up to $30 or less.
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23 responses
@rishaayu (339)
• India
2 Dec 06
That is good I heard that in Britain the people get free bread and milk and that is gr8 anyone can survive then that is y poverty i sso less in Britain and other developed countries
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• Malaysia
2 Dec 06
nice to hear that.. :)
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@Signal20 (2281)
• United States
2 Dec 06
LOL Why are you doing that? I'd say stock up on some Ramen noodles, usually find them for about .088-.10 a package. Probably be sick of them after the month's over though lol. Good luck!
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• Malaysia
2 Dec 06
lol! thts rite.. but heres the secret :p .. each month i do a new thing and this month am gonna starve :( .. but there are friends who gonna give free dinners for sure :p
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@Lydia1901 (16351)
• United States
2 Dec 06
Why are you doing that? I hope it's not finace problem.
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@krizz420 (4385)
• Canada
2 Dec 06
why are you doin this
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• United States
2 Dec 06
Why do you want to starve yourself? You have to eat or your going to get really sick. salt,and ketchup packets aren't enough.
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@medooley (1873)
• United States
2 Dec 06
That sounds like an interesting test. Good luck with it, come back and let us know how it is going throu out the month.
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@mtdewgurl74 (18151)
• United States
17 Jan 07
I think I could live on $30.00 a month but I would be eating alot of pastas and mac and cheese and ramen noodles which I buy anyhow love them. But if a person does it right and doesnt have to have a bunch of high costing meats and junk food they could live off $30.00 a month a box of spaghetti and a can of sauce is less than a dollar fifty and will last atleast 3-5 meals for a person and alot of cheap canned veggies they can last 2 meals so I think if you did it just right youcould do it and when you have a craving for meat go to a friends or families house for dinner. Also a bag of potatoes they are good source of potassium and will be good to have by itself. with a 99 cent tub of butter. well you probably have done this already so how did it turn out?
@funnysis (2619)
• United States
15 Jan 07
okay thirty dollars for food in the month of december I can se this happening why with christmas and all I bet yhat you have been preparing for this right oh if you go to the hospital caffeteria they have free saltines you can eat.I was wondering since I am late posting you will let us know if you were successful or not won't you I know I can not get by on thirty dollars a month eating I spend that on raw vegtables and fruit.Godd luck and hope you had fun.
@vhansen (2029)
• United States
13 Jan 07
I hope this is just an experiment to see how cheaply you can get by.Ramon noodles are like 10 packs for a dollar here.Also cans of tuna and big bags of frozen vegetables are cheap.Put them all together and they make a decent 'goolash'.Good luck and let us know how it comes out.
@rusty2rusty (6763)
• Defiance, Ohio
4 Dec 06
If you only have to feed yourself....Than only spending about 200 dollars a month to feed a family of sevan.
• Defiance, Ohio
4 Dec 06
I am sorry about that. I tried to add a word in I forgot and deleted some instead. I meant to say..If you are only feeding yourself on 30 dollars. Than that will be easy. As I am spending about 200 dollars a month on a family of sevan. The thing I noticed that is cheapest. I sto make meals from scratch. And meal you make you can strech to two or three. Possible more.
• Romania
30 Jan 07
why you do this?
• Italy
15 Jan 07
are you joking ? Why wouldn't you eat ? If you can pay for an internet connection you can surely afford some food ! Can't you save money from something else ? To me it sounds like a stupid idea, but maybe i am wrong...
@TerryZ (22076)
• United States
2 Dec 06
Thats good if you can really do that. I really dont think I could.
@parlink (184)
• Romania
2 Dec 06
In this december month, I don't know how paid a gift for my daugther, because of no money
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@mcmomss (2601)
• United States
4 Dec 06
Well, I think you picked a good month to do it. With the holidays, you'll probably be able to get lots of meals from friends and relatives. Good luck.
@ossie16d (11821)
• Australia
3 Dec 06
I hope that you have a lot of family and friends who will feed you during December or else where you live food is very cheap. However accepting meals from them, as well as getting sauce, coffee etc from other places is a bit like cheating. There is no way that I could live on $1 per day for food and I am a very careful shopper plus we do have vegetables growing as well as some preserved fruit etc. Good luck to you and perhaps you will let us know the reason for trying to live on only $30 worth of food for a month.
@sweetie88 (4556)
• Pakistan
3 Dec 06
Y r u going to do so?????? Its a new type of diet for me. I live in Pakistan and Pakistani 60 rupees r equal to $1. It means that i'll have 1800 Pakistani Rupees if i'll too do it and i think that these 1800 Rupees r enough for food of a month. Keep on working hard on mylot!!! U'll get good income from here!!!!!
@jennyl (687)
• United States
3 Dec 06
Good luck eating $30 worth of food in 1 month. That seems like it would be very little food. Like $7.50 per week and then the extras you can get at fast food restaurants. I wonder if I could do that. Why is it that you are doing this? Struggling financially? Or is it to spend more on Christmas?
@yorb24 (2179)
• United States
3 Dec 06
Good luck! I hope you have alot of friends and family:)
@kishthedude (1320)
• India
4 Dec 06
i spent 100$per month on food