How do you survive on $4 a day?

You do realize flour, potatoes, and dried beans are a thing, right? They give you practically unlimited calories for almost nothing.

>tfw spoonfeeding

$1 breakfast, $2 lunch, 1$ evening snack

idiot.

>>7975483
sorry I should have said thrive instead of survive.

>>7975484

if it were me I would probably just do 2 meals at $2 each, that way you get the added benefits of daily fasting

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>>7975463
that's 408 yen. That gets me 3 hot dogs, a bag of rice, and 2 pieces of friend shrimp over at the seinyu grocery store

>>7975514
I like friend shrimp :)

apply yourself and make $50 for a Costco membership, buy rotisserie chickens, survive.

>>7975489
he's not far off

you could probably pull off ramen for brunch and red beans and rice topped with a sausage for dinner

you also might be able to make a big batch of chili and make it last

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shit on a shingle is really cheap and despite its name it tastes pretty good

>>7975571
>dish that requires milk or cream
>cheap

Yeah, no.

>>7975574
you could substitute a jar of white biscuit gravy on sale for a little over a dollar and the chipped beef packets are usually a dollar

>>7975463
If you are in a rural or semi rural area you can learn to forage for common edibles. Or you can learn to dumpster dive. Also take up fishing. Learn where soup kitchens and food pantries are. Many pantries can also hook you up with stuff like toilet paper, soap and other small items.

>>7975587
>premade gravy
You've never been poor, have you?

>>7975612
Not this poor, no. But I'm trying to help at least. What about oats for breakfast? Is that doable in op's region?

>>7975627
The quick rundown then:
anything premade is a money sink. If you're not living on a super thin margin, usually it's not enough to worry yourself over, but if you are on the margin, it's killer. Like premade gravy? It's not as good, but you can make a gravy with just oil, water and flour.

Oats are a good poverty food, basically think on staples: beans, rice, pasta, oats. Then a little stuff to add in to make the above more palatable.

For me it is four McChickens, the best fast food sandwich.

>>7975463
I've live on 25 a week for the past two years in college

I've done just fine with what I buy

usually something like
>rice
>beans
>cheese
>sour cream
>tortillas
>bread
>pasta
>sauces
>hot dogs occasionally
>flour
>sugar
>syrup
those are the basics of what I buy every week

4 4oz bags of cheese curls from the dollar tree

>>7975463

3 one dollar banquet meals. there are probably 25-30 different varieties. use the rest to purchase frozen broccoli

beans and rice is your best option, sweet potatoes are good as well, you arent going to be eating anything fancy but you'll be healthy and fully fed

you have to eat your food at least two times, get all the nutrition

>>7975756
legumes, pastas and grains mah nigga

>>7975784
i forgot pasta
muh poverty nigguh

>>7975463
Thats like $80 pesos, i can eat like a king with that

>$13 chilaquil torta
>$17 order of tacos outside a metro station
>$40 dinner at some cheap restaurant
Minimum wage feast

>>7975514
I want to decapitate that slut and fuck her corpse.

go to a local soup kitchen and also apply for food stamps

>>7975463
The answer is dried grains+beans. And get an electric pressure cooker, because they're too much of a hassle to cook without one. Frozen vegetables are also excellent, cheaper and more nutritious than fresh.

Let's imagine you're doing all of your shopping for the week up front

28 bucks could pretty surely pick you up chicken thighs, which I've seen in packs of 4 for maybe five bucks

Several pound bags of rice, lentils, beans, or what have you for pretty cheap and you're likely to not go through the whole bag

Big fucking tube of oats

And I'm sure I'll get autists screaming at me about it but potatoes too

And if you're in dire straits, hitting up soup kitchens and seeking gubmint help shouldn't be below you

Drink semen

>>7975514
But a single onigiri with shrimp at Lawsons costs close 200 yen how

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Ramen and Malt Liquor

>>7975483
Don't forget carrots and rice, my friend

>>7975463
For me i actually have to do this. Rice, carrots soy sauce and salt for flavouring. Then chickpeas, tuna, eggs(a bit costly) or some other kind of beans for a protein.

Some times I'll get some luxury and buy colliflower , cabbage or broccoli. I think i eat okay even though I'm ridiculously poor.

>>7975636
This. Oats a perfect! Flavor it with either apples, honey or jam. Then you can eat breakfast every day for pennys.

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>>7976204
>honey or jam
>pennies

>>7976211
You don't need to use the whole jar. Just enough for some flavour. Its really hard to eat porridge every day with no extra flavour or milk. But apples do work if you can't afford jam or honey.

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My work provides free fruit and does a lunch once a week

I haven't paid for lunch in over 5 years

>>7976211
Just have to learn to get your condiments for free from gas stations and fast food places.

>>7976235
good point

>>7975463
You use the 4$ to buy a knife and you go innawoods

>>7976668
In your dreams.

28 bucks a week could get you a decent amount of sandwiches. $2-3 for a loaf of bread, ~3 dollars for a thing of ham or turkey. I'm probably overvaluing it because I'm googling bread prices

That's like 1-2 sandwiches a day per week for roughly 6 dollars. I'd probably die doubling it to 3 sandwiches a day and spending 16 dollars on fruit juices and things like lettuce and cheese. That was basically how I lived going through elementry school. How malnourished would I end up?

>>7976234
You eat lunch once a week?

>>7976736
Yuck. You'll end up malnourished eating that every day.

>>7975985
>$

>>7976763
i just eat fruit on the other days and pocket extra for the weekend

just buy cheap stuff thats healthy

brown rice or buckwheat or quinoa or even bread and oats

brocolli/cauliflower/brussel sprouts - serving per day

spinach - serving per day

carrots/ tomatoes/ corn p day

flax seeds

peanuts or peanut butter for snacking

beans such as kidney or black beans or butter beans for dinner (good with tomato sauce and some carbs)

frozen rasberries to add to breakfast

spice of choice

bananas

potatoes if you will

>>7975463

macaroni,tuna,frozen veggies

pack of coffee every 2 weeks

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Why does this thread make me so hungry in a good way.

Please keep talking about cheap food.

>>7976234
you're a god anon

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>Box of brown rice and two bags of bean
>Meals for the whole week

Voila.

http://www.leannebrown.com/
She wrote a book on how to eat healthy with only 4$ a day.
Pdf is free give it a go.

>>7975463
$4 a day comes out to about $120 a month. The trick if you only have that $4 each day for instance from tips or something is to but carryover items. These would be items that last longer than a day.
Loaf of bread
Eggs
Pack of balogna
Hot Dogs
Rice
Pasta
Peanut Butter
Jelly
Oats

As you gather up items you can then afford to spend a day on more expensive items with some of the left over money from previous days or just with the $4 you have each day like maybe a cheap package of chicken, sliced cheese. A pound of ground beef, Mustarrd, mayo, Milk, Cereal, etc.

Avoid eating fast food.
Fix your own meals including brown bagging your work lunch.
Try to improve your cash flow so you have more sheckles to spend each day.

>>7976970
you need meats though

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>>7977029
Don't

>>7977050
porkchops

>>7977050
Don't what? Die of B12 deficiency?

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lmfao anon harden up

>$6AUD week
>old bread
>beef stock
>onions
>milk
>cereal
>beans

keep chickens for eggs

grow vegetables

fertilize with chicken shit

repeat

>>7975463
>How do you survive on $4 a day?
Take a look at the generic food label thread if it's still up

>>7977062
Keep chickens. You have land. Your rich!

By not being a Europoor.

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>>7975463
With planning and a small garden.

>>7977121

>this mofo has never kept chickens

my nigga i have 10 chickens in 6 square metre enclosure

cost almost nothing to keep

if they fuck i have more chickens

if they stop laying i have a delicious bbq

for other meat i fish with homemade lures

>the life

>the feeling of catching another living animal on something you carved with your own hands

its good man

>>7976841
It's originally a Spanish symbol. I wouldn't be surprised they use it.

>>7975463
Buy a chick for a dollar every other day until you managed to get 10.
Go to bakery's before closing and either ask for stale bread or wait until they throw it out
Come back home and feed them the bread
In 3 - 6 months you can kill them for food
Remember to acquire 10 new chicks a month

>>7977151
but what do you feed them?

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>>7977151
Ya chickens cost me about 10 bucks a month. It'll more more in the winter when they can't feed themselves on my 1/2 are lot plus 1/2 are of woods next to me. Now if they would just stop eating my god damn tomatoes.

Learn to make Casserole. Most Casserole can be made with $4.

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>>7977169
>>7977154

they get standard chicken feed, $10 for a few kilos, a few kilos is a fucking lot.


Nah sorry mate not running fucking Newtown Community Farm, more like rupture farms kk

>>7977163

this. but you arent relying on them for meat - learn how to fish, and if you really, really, really want chicken meat you can get a kilo for a fiver or less.

homegrown chicken meat is just a great side effect of chickens stopping laying. cunts.

My neighbours used to keep hens & 2 peacocks (fucking annoying btw).

A fox killed them all one night and didn't even eat any.

>>7977206

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXpsllN1CVk

Bag of Rice
Either cook up beans too, or if ya wanna be quick a can of beans will be like $.65-$1.50 depending on size
Hotdogs or Sausage can be found for $2 if ya lower your standards.

Always leave a bit in the budget for Tony's or whatever mixed seasoning ya like.

>>7975514
>>7976179
>>7975992
>>7975520
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziX1oQRiA3w

>>7977215
hgxhgxkughvlkjb;nkkkkkkkkkkkkkknhjiokhihoih

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>>7977229

>>7977151
I don't even have a room let alone space to keep a chicken. You're rich.

>>7975463
get a job in a kitchen and the chef might give you a bite to eat if you're really struggling that badly

>>7977148
Nice doggo! St.bernard? Love the way his gums drop.

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>>7975463
Easy

>>7977791
>tfw tax doesn't make it four dollars even

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>>7975463

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>>7977832

>>7975463
>commit crime
>go to jail
>eat for free

You arent going anywhere in life anyways. Just steal a boat and have some fun first. Stop at a marina. Dine and dash. Steal a dog too

>>7978009
that was my dog, asshole

>>7978023
As long as you put a collar on the pupper the police will return it after they shoot OP and take him to hospital before prison

>>7977832
Wow I have to pay .75 per green pepper in north Appalachia. It was $1 each before a produce shop opened.

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>>7978009
If you're going to go to jail somewhere, get jailed in Norway. Look at this ffs

>>7977791
>>7977812

I've always wondered, in a situation like this, if you talked to a manager and explained you literally had JUST four dollars, would they forego charging you the tax? Or would you be SOL?

>meat
Buy whole chickens and separate in to whatever pieces you like, stupidly cheaper

>vegetables
Shit on sale, shit from the chinese market

>fruits
No

>grains
Buy dry and in bulk

>seasonings and sauces
buy as you see fit because you'll be spending less than $4 a day

>>7975463
Dude sausage party spoilers, come on

>>7979186
I can see OP sitting there right now. Eating scramble eggs that probably taste good to his palate. Frig off Jr. SAUSAGE MAN.

>>7979264
>fruits
>No
:(

Can I buy deer corn in bulk and just boil it?

oats and milk

>>7975463
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLoA3QrRHhs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMy_hMtugRs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybqt8SFkFLg

>>7980833
never mind it can have axfoliant in it which can cause cancer.

>>7976940
She probably wouldn't have felt as disgusted if his hands weren't scaly as shit

Breakfast:
Oats, cheap toast with leftovers, fresh fruit if it's cheap.

Lunch and dinner:
Buy big bags of chilli flakes, salt, and cumin, along with oil. Lentils/beans and rice/pasta/couscous/polenta with cheap (possibly frozen) vegetables will be your staple, seasoned with the cheap spices you bought in bulk, and supplemented with small quantities of canned fish and minced beef every now and then.

Don't forget the oil, especially if you're not adding meat or fish, you'll need the fat. And don't try to save money by loading up on carbs, they'll just make you hungrier.

>>7979186
Stop perpetuating this meme. Go watch Varg's youtube videos on the subject if you don't believe me. Not even a Somalinavian.

>>7975463
get a fucking job lowlife

bag of flour a 18pack of eggs and 99c per pound whole chickens.

I'll assume since you're poor that you have a lot of time to do shit; so get to baking and roasting.

I'm hungry for meat. What do?

>>7982243
dirt cheap hotdogs or bologna.

>>7975463
rice, some sort of beans/split peas/lentils whatever, frozen shit, bread?

so start out with a loaf of bread and idk some butter or whatever now you have $6 for the next day

do shit like that and you can save for multipacks/bags of frozen poultry/veg etc.

>buy a big bag of beans on day 1
>buy vegetables day 2
>buy sale meat or big bag of rice day 3
>buy seasoning/spices day 4
>refill when necessary

4 cans of ravioli from Walmart at 80¢ a can with a left over of 80¢

>>7980056
absolutely yes to fruits no

>>7982243
seitan

>>7982592
> 4 cans of dogfood

>>7982851
you are a fucking dog

>>7975463

learn to make your own bread, maybe even try making flour out of what you can find if you're really hardcore, scavenge for discounts and coupons, cheap protein, think eggs, chicken. make sure you're good on spices, NEVER buy premade, etc, stuff like beans you can get bagged and make yourself instead of heating up stuff from a can, freeze things that are about to go bad, try to invest in bulk wholesale membership, Costco is a godtier.

>>7982243
sausage or the cheapest stuff at the deli

I don't think I could, my weight maintenance calorie level is above 3000

>>7981063
You're part of the problem with society.

>>7982885
Make flour? Flour is cheap bud.

>>7982937
There are very little problems with society if you aren't a worthless NEET.

>>7982974
Fuck you, troll

>>7977812
>>7979207
Some situations cashiers are kind enough to let you skirt by. If you're in Oregon though, no sales tax.

>>7981006
>loading up on carbs, they'll just make you hungrier.
m8 all I eat are carbs and I feel great

see: durianrider and freelee the bananagirl

>>7979186
Damn, son. That's nicer than my dorm room in college.

>>7982903
that isn't even hard if you're willing to commit to pounding down inhuman amounts of rice and beans every single night

it's monotonous but it's shockingly nutritious for being bottom of the barrel tier struggle food

>>7975571
Use refried beans for this. It's the best

>>7975702
what the fuck
people actually eat like this?
you remind me of those kids in hs who ate dorritos and monster energy for lunch everyday

>$4 a day

Why 4? Why

>>7984142
I could never afford lunch when i was a kid :(.

>>7979207
The cashiers are covering for your poverty ass out of their own pocket. I fucking hated hobos like you. They don't really have a choice to say no to niggers like you, because it's clear that when you're petty enough to bum changes off a minimum wage slave, you're gonna be petty enough to talk shit when you don't have it your way. These cashiers get fired if their register has more than $3 difference than what the computer calculated in their 8 hours, and believe me, it adds up quick.

>>7975526
buy gift cards instead, no membership required

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>>7975483
>eating flour

what is wrong with you people?

>>7986581
Where is this, walmart?
When I worked a cashier job in high school, the register was routinely off by more than $3. Sometimes as much as $20 over or under. Nobody got fired over something like that.

>>7986819
moral relativists and social justice warriors have brainwashed millennials into thinking you can eat flour or as I call it, the white jew

trump will put a stop to this, only normal food will be allowed

>>7975463

7-11 has a 1/4 lb hot dog and drink meal for two dollars. They're about 1200 calories per, if you really stack up the toppings on the dog.

Wa la.

>>7975463
Rice, beans, and a multivitamin.

Cheap shitty vodka too if you have any extra money.

>>7986819
add water (free)
add salt (close to free)
bake
make hardtack.
simple.

I spent $22 a week on groceries for the last three years.
I eat a lot of perogies, Sauerkraut, waffles, griled cheeses, and mandarine oranges

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>>7975463
breakfast is a hot pocket for ~0.50

brunch is half a can of canned pasta for ~0.40

lunch is ramen for ~0.20

afternoon snack is popcorn at ~0.20

dinner is the rest of pasta for ~0.40

midnight snack was 48 oz of hard beer for ~2.50

Did that for 6 months more or less working for this fucker.

>>7986942
Are you making the pierogies? I eat >$5 worth a meal of frozen ones.

>>7986972
It's like $3 for a bake of 30 here, I usually way 6 a meal getting about 5 meals maybe 4

>>7986849
a hot dog has like 400 calories, how the fuck big is the drink?

>>7986854

cool, is the oven free too?

>>7975463
A quick way to make unwoven bread is flour, baking soda, and water. Replace the water with milk if you got the cash. Lived on it as a poor college student in Hungary

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>>7987217
all you need is a pan and a plug in burner for 20 dollars
I'm >>7987252 and speaking from experience
>pic related

>>7975463
4 a day is 21 a week so:
.89 for eggs
.99 for wheat bread
1.65 for a bag of black beans 1lb
.95 for a steam bag of corn
.95 for a steam bag of veggies × 3
7.78 for 2.25 pounds of boneless skinless chicken thighs
1.98 for a 3lb bag of white rice
You got some money left over. Where the fuck do you shop at?

>>7975463
So that's $28 a week.

You can easily get a big pack of rice, a few gallons of water, peanut butter, bread, noodles, fruit, veggies and probably even some cheap meat for that.

There, you survived.

>>7977791
There's enough food there to fill up a child for a few hours...maybe.

>>7987382
umm...sorry but i don't want to die of carbon monoxide poisoning, thanks!

>>7987446
how big are your children?

that was enough to fill me up for two days as a teenager (no recollection before then)

>>7987652
Those burners are a million times better than the piece of crap electric ovens i see some people attempting to cook with.

Grow your own food

>>7977268
Leave the city and build your own house

Ramen and eggs.

>>7975463
For brekkie 4 eggs .84 or $1 to round. Homeade bread at .50 a loaf which supplies 12 slices 2 slices for brekkie 8 cents for 2 slices. 1 potato for hashbrown .15 Total breakfast cost $1.23 sometimes it increases if I add OJ or bacon.


Lunch chicken I buy 2 whole chickens for $14 at $7 each they can supply lunch dinner for 4-5 days bones including for stock/soup. Best deal here but I'm lazy to calculate so I'll use chicken thighs. 0.45 for chicken thighs in my local ethnic market I'll buy 20 pounds for $9 which are about 46 chicken thighs. $0.19 each thigh 2 for lunch. 0.38 for protein rice is pennies for seving. Broccoli 8 oz is .35 half bell pepper .35 half onion .25 lunch price is $1.33


Dinner 2 chicken thighs 0.38 2 potato 0.30 1 half onion .35 2 carrots 0.14 rice broccoli 0.35 Stock .15 to make gravy.

Dinner $1.67

$4.23 total this doesn't calculate cost of spices nor cooking oil but I do reuse bacon grease and do use chicken fat if I don't make gravy to make my next days lunch.

>>7987685
How I'm supposed to grow hamburgers and canned food?

>>7987217
You can make a solar over. Out of trash and it'll get hit enough bake unleven bread.

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>>7987652
>carbon monoxide poisoning
>from a plug in burner
Are you retarded?

>>7975463
box of spagetti~1.69
I large jar spagetti sauce~2$
makes 8 servings, eat 2 servings a day, you can also pick up a carton of eggs for 99c, costs a little over 4$ and can feed you for approximately 4 days, thats how u survive for 4 days on ~4$
/thread

>>7987761
huh..i live in scottsdale can i just use the dash board of my hyundai solaris instead?

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>>7975662

>>7986825
Not every store has shit manager like yours do

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In Australia, from the local supermarket i'd go:

$1.10 bag of oats
65 cent can of beans
65 cent can of sardines
$1.60 1kg mixed veggies (shitty stuff, but it won't kill you)

Now I'm obviously missing fruit, but considering I won't eat a whole bag of oats in one day, I'll assume I can put the savings towards some cheap stuff

>>7987899
Make a black box lined on the inside with sinfoil and you very well be able too.

>>7975463
Just pool together the 28 for a week and buy staples: rice, potatoes, chicken in bulk, frozen veggies etc. Pretty much how I lived in college. I also bought bananas since they were cheap and delicious and a 6L package of water since tap water in my area is really basic. With some budgeting I could afford eating out on weekend on a local kebab place

>>7987973
Also, it's worth noting both my grandmas are farmers and raise animals so I was able to get fresh veggies and eggs for free sometimes.

buy $28 worth of dried shit like beans, rice, and powder milk every week

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look into middle eastern dishes like Balela
>pic related

>>7975483
you realize that in most places flour potatoes and beans are not actually all that cheap...and you need other shit to survive right? you can't just eat carbs... you need protein and fats... they are expensive...

>>7988204
>in most places flour potatoes and beans are not actually all that cheap
You're getting ripped off. Find out where immigrants shop, go there.

>you can't just eat carbs... you need protein and fats
Grains+beans gives you complete protein. Oil is very cheap per calorie.

>>7975463
Almost 200 pesos here in the philippines, i can just buy something to eat for a day with 100 php

Blabla, rice, blabla, beans, blabla, potatoes

But really: Go fucking dumpster diving, there's some great stuff there

>>7988225
>Philippines
You know Mac?

Look up the brothers green eat on youtube. They have a few videos on how to survive on 3$ a day. The stuff they make seems restaurant level. But they start with 21$ and buy things for the whole week, wich is the smart thing to do