I Spent $20 on Food for One Week | One Dollar Meals

I tried spending only $20 for one week on my food! I didn’t go hungry and I managed to eat relatively tasty and healthy food all week. Every ingredient was accounted for – even pantry staples like salt, oil, and sugar – and everything was measured to insure I was staying within my budget. My main strategy was to eat roughly 600 calories per day of flour, since at 3 cents per 100 calories, flour is probably the absolute cheapest thing you can eat. It’s also very versatile! Bulk eggs also came in very handy. At just 9 cents per 80 calories, eggs are an amazingly cheap, versatile, and delicious source of good fat and protein. If you want to see what else I did, watch the video!

Dishes I cooked: milk tea, scrambled eggs in butter, homemade tortillas with butter, baked chicken with rice and carrot salad, homemade spaghetti with sauce, banana peanut butter crepes, breakfast burrito, cabbage chicken salad, refried beans with rice, chicken’n’dumplings, biscuit with honey, chicken quesadillas, chicken chow fun.

Timestamps:
1:02 my grocery haul
3:42 going over the numbers and my plan
8:02 what I ate every day
31:25 what I ate my first day off the week
32:25 closing thoughts

The Numbers:

Home food that's already accounted for (or parts of new food I'm buying):
10 cups flour: $1.20 (5,600 cal)
2 cup raw rice: $1 (1300 cal)
Red rose tea: ($0.04 per bag) $0.60
6 cups Russian tea (6 cents per bag): $0.36
7/8 of a Canned milk: $0.77 (500 cal?)
1 cup veg oil: $0.44
9 eggs: $0.81
1 cup beans: $0.75 (700 cal)
Half a gallon whole milk: $2.75 (1,200 cal)
1/8 of a bag of potatoes: $0.25
10 carrots: $1.20
Half a stick of butter: $0.44
An onion: $0.20
1 tsp Baking powder: $0.04
Salt: $0.01
Sugar: $0.01
Pepper: $0.01
1 tsp Italian seasoning: $0.12
¼ cup red wine: $0.49
1 can tomatoes: $1.07
2 cloves garlic: $0.10
Meyer lemons: $FREE
Grapefruits: $FREE
Total: $12.63

Winco food I just bought:
1 banana: $0.20
10 chicken thighs: $3.56
Cabbage: $1.60
1/2 of the winco cheese: $1.55
Winco total: $6.91

Addons/Subtractions: (these were ingredients I either added or subtracted throughout the week as I discovered what I needed or didn’t need.)
4 eggs: $0.36
1 russian teabag: $0.06
-5 carrots: $0.60
2 TBS peanut butter: $0.08
2 tsp honey: $0.19
1/4 tsp chili powder: $0.01
½ tsp chili powder: $0.02
-1 cup rice: $0.50
3 eggs: $0.18
4 tbs butter: $0.44
1 egg: $0.09
-1/2 cup veg oil: $0.22
-2 potatoes: $0.16
1 cup Russian tea: $0.06
-1 cup red rose tea: $0.04
-1 ¼ cups flour: $0.15
-1 carrot: $0.12
-2 TBS oil: $0.05
2 tsp honey for biscuit: $0.19
1 good teabag: $0.20
2 TBS cream: $0.14
2 tsp oyster sauce: $0.04
½ tsp chili powder: $0.02
1 Russian teabag: $0.06
½ carrot: $0.06
1 Russian teabag: $0.06
1 clove garlic: $0.05
-1/8 head of cabbage: $0.20
1 rooibos tea: $0.20
-1/8 onion: $0.02

Grand Total: $19.99

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