I tried living on a budget for this month and tried cooking my own food. 98$ is what I spent for the whole month ( I have supplies to cover two remaining days of March)
I cooked my own food. Except for 3 situations when craved for fast food - 15$ spent on that (included in 98$)
The below are things I bought and I tried cooking ethnic foods
Veggies - I targeted the cheap and essential ones.
1) Onions ( 1.27 - 1.50$ / 3lb bag)
2) carrots (around 90 cents /lb)
3) Tomato ( .98 cents - 1.49 /lb)
4) Potatoes ( 2.77 - 5 lbs)
In addition to this I bought celery once for fried rice.
Meat
1) chicken breast (1.99 /lb)
2) chicken legs (2$/lb) Took the market down ones
3) stew beef - 3.99/lb ( just bought once)
4) eggs
Other items 1) bread 2) eggs 3) milk 4) rice and lentils from ethnic stores (Indian) 5) Naan and paratha - 6 pieces each (1.99 each)
Things I had already in my pantry - Salt , Sugar , vegetable oil, spices and coffee
I learnt that cooking daily can save you money plus you get to eat healthy. The downside was the number utensils I had to clean on a daily basis.
Apart from the 3 instances of eating fast food, I didn't eat anything out. No Starbucks. But I made use of the free coffee promos from McDonald's and DD.
Sorry again if this isn't a right subreddit to post this
March 29, 2017 at 01:26PM
