food

bread and peanut butter
ramen
canned fruit

Eggs, rice, lentils, black beans, chicken leg quarters. Anything you can combine a coupon and a sale on.

Go to Asian market, buy a giant bag of rice ($20). Spend $10 and you can get a jar of yeast and two bags of flour, that's enough for 4-5 large loaves of bread. Every week you can spend $6 on vegetables and $6 on less expensive proteins like ground beef, egg, whole chicken. The other $20 goes towards cleaning supplies, spices, and other things you like (peanut butter is a good option, so is oatmeal). There, you'd actually be eating a healthier diet than most people too, and you won't be going malnourished.

plenty of pasta & tomato paste (I assume I'm allowed to use the spices I already have in the house). A medium sized ham, rice & Dry beans. Big bags of frozen vegetables, cans of tuna, a few bricks of good cheddar cheese. Cheap white bread (freeze it so it doesn't go bad)

get second job

What I normally buy. Maybe scrimp a little further.

Some of it is buying more staples, some of it is buying cheaper cuts and things.

Cheap processed ham is about $2/kg if you buy it in a roll of sandwich meat, it's not the good stuff but it will make a sandwich and be ok on pizza (not that we can afford to make pizza often on this budget though).

Bread flour is cheap, get Strong Flour, that's what you make bread, pizza etc from. Bread premix is pretty cheap too but the flour might be cheaper, also get some bread improver, packs of dried yeast, milk powder, a 4L tin of olive oil (or so), tins of tomatoes, get the big 5kg bags of onions and potatoes, go to the middle eastern or indian stores for your lentils, beans, rice and similar stuff. Also get a big jar of minced garlic, it can add flavour to a lot of cheap dishes.

Cheese is maybe to expensive to get on this budget but you might be able to get a large packet of shredded mozzarella or something from an italian bulk food store. You can get a big thing of cheap yoghurt from the indian stores too.

Look for the discounters and similar stuff, just walk in and see what's cheap...you might find you're eating a lot of frozen ravioli or something but it will be a good way to add variety with a large amount of cheap and quite good stuff, you just sacrifice reliability and have to take what they're selling off at the time.

ramen ramen ramen

>>1498195
This. Rice in Asian stores are so awesome.

Is $100 supposed to be low or something? Couldn't that buy 1000 subways?

>>1498225
1 subway = 5-10 USD
10 subways = 50-100 USD

>>1498225
>implying one subway is $0.1

ok i'll bite (lol get it guys!, i said "I will bite" as in eat xD)

I would get canned tuna. all that my 100 dollars can afford. canned tuna but the ones that you can open without the can opener.
wait a sec, i will also get a water purification system.

I shall drink water on rainy days that purifies from my purifying system and i shall canned tuna :3

45 litres of milk ~ $60
5kg bag of white flour ~ $10
2 cartons of eggs ~ $7
Medium block of cheese ~ $5
Small bag of brown/raw sugar - $5
Tin of yeast ~ $5
Block of butter (500g) ~ $5
Small jar vanilla extract ~ $3

I've got bread, vanilla quiche, pasta and milk. Delicious.

I'd probably use my money as wisely as I could, and stock up on the staples, such as brown rice, potatos, black beans and cat testicles.

$100 for a month? lol That's $25-$50 more than I spend right now on food per month.

The same stuff I always buy. That's a fortune.

>>1498265

Op means $100 for all food, not just $100 allowance money to buy candy and pizza on the way home from school.

>>1498270

hahaha BURN.

also, I'd just like to say cat testicles

>>1498273
Seconding the cat testicles. These really are a staple but I cannot find them now that I live in a civilized part of the world. Can you help?

>>1498276

Start tripping, that way you won't have to retype it every time.

>>1498276

I would try some of the smaller, ethnic markets in strip malls in your area, as they tend to have less regulated goods, such as vegetables grown on local farms and cat testicles.

>>1498270
lol I love it when some anon pops up and actually thinks that food is expensive. It's like they are only speaking from experience and they don't have very much experience.

Candy and pizza bought "on the way home from school" would be far more expensive if you intended to live a month on it. Try not buying shit junk food that's way fucking overpriced. Prepackaged shit is murder on your wallet. Homemade foods made with bulk-bought staples is far cheaper than anything else except homegrown foods.

100kg of fire

>>1498278
Well ok. I'm having trouble finding drugs to complete my trip, though.

>>1498279
Thanks man!

>>1498285

So enlighten us.

I"d like to believe it's possible to live on $50 a month and not hate food.

I tried it in college one month when I was completely broke and the campus was deserted for break. I managed to make it on $60 but I ate the same shit for nearly every meal and I did a lot of baking.

Do you have a full time job?

>>1498288
fuck you I have tea leaking out of my nose now

>>1498285
HOLY SHIT YOUR SO SMART THANK YOU FOR THE ADVICE I AM ETERNALLY GRATEFUL MASTA

It you even need close to $100 a month in food then you are a fat ass that need to stop eating or someone that thinks that name brands and imported shit is better than generic and local shit. You're the reason the USA economy took a nose dive. You have no clue how to properly spend you money properly.

What is even funnier is that the OP isn't American.

>>1498185
id just buy $100 worth of eggs

not kidding.

>>1498291
Learn to bake, pretty much. And buy bulk foods. Also coupons and sales can pretty reliably cut down costs significantly.

>>1498296
[spoiler]America propsers when you waste money buying and working harder. [/spoiler]

sorry you are part of the cancer killin america poor generic faggot buyer

>>1498298

I work about 60 hours a week and I can't sit around baking all the time.

I could probably cut some costs by packing sandwiches for lunch and not buying expensive local eggs and milk (inb4 you post another rant), but the eggs and milk are non-negotiable and the sandwiches, well deli meat isn't exactly healthy.

>>1498301

>>1498311
Well I wasn't intending to rant. Also you can save a lot of time baking by planning stuff out right. Prepare the dough in the morning/evening and let it rise in your refrigerator (doesn't work as awesome but who cares, you'll still get decent tasting bread for very cheap) during the work day or over night.

Best sandwich is kale, salame, and mustard imo. replace some of the deli meats with greens and you're good.

I guess when cooking, figure out ways to spend wait time constructively (i.e. cooking more things and packaging them to eat through the week, etc.)

What is it with all the budget trolls these last few days? 100 is baseline spending not exuberant. 50 is poorfag spending.

>>1498207
Yeast in super markets is stupidly expensive everywhere I've seen. I just order 2lb bags off amazon.

>>1498323

Yeah kale is awesome, it's what got me through my $60 month in college, that and beans and flour.

It's difficult to plan ahead unless you work literally 9 to 5 every day. I waste a couple hundred bucks worth of food each year because a project suddenly shifts gears and I'm stuck at the office until 9:30 PM for the next few days, and whatever bulk food I made goes bad in the fridge because I'm only home for long enough to sleep and take a quick shower. Being able to expense some of my work meals helps, but it still feels bad to toss a bunch of food in the trash each weekend.

I've found that it's actually far cheaper for me to just live from meal to meal than try to plan ahead. You people with predictable schedules and tons of free time have it easy when it comes to living frugally.

>>1498291
>Do you have a full time job?

I own a PC repair and graphic arts business. Meaning I have a lot of free time since I make a good bit of money for only a little bit of time working. I won't include gardening in this since that's like cheating (which I plan to do all fucking next year when I build a greenhouse!) I also fish and hunt, but I'll not include that either.

Anyway, I don't buy prepackaged stuff. I buy things like whole wheat flour, dry legumes, brown rice, potatoes, vegetables, fruit, and whole milk (from a neighbor.) I make my own butter, whipped cream, and cheese from the milk. I make pasta, pie crusts, and bread from the flour, potatoes, and rice. I make alcohol from just about anything except the milk of course. I buy cheap spices at the dollar store (dohoho.)

I've been eating pierogi the past 3 days. I have 4 kinds, peach cobbler, fruit medley cobbler, spicy potato, and Italian cheese blend. I've had them boiled, fried, steamed, and baked. I made a lot of them and froze what I didn't eat right away. I've never made them before and I went a little overboard with them. They are awesome.

Well, the point it that you need to buy bulk food staples and make good food with that. Prepare meals in bulk and freeze the extras for later.

>>1498335
>Field Too Long Error

I spend anywhere from $50 to $75 a month on food. The thing is that I don't even need to spend that much. About half the food I buy goes towards meals prepared with friends that I share time with. Maybe I just live in an area with a very low cost of living?

Looking at the local IGA paper randomly ($USD):

4lbs potatoes: $0.98 (I normally buy 40lbs at a local farmer's market for about $20 and those 2 bags last all winter and feed about 3 people)
48oz Canola Oil: $1.48
Boneless Beef Cubed Steaks: $2.98/lb
Boneless Pork Sirloin chops: $1.88/lb
Cantaloupes: 2 for $5
8oz Mushrooms: 2 for $3
Yellow Onions: 2 three pound bags for $3

I don't see milk listed so I don't know it's price to compare with. I buy it from a neighbor for $2 a gallon. It's really not that difficult if you really try to shop around for the best prices and actually do some math while you're standing there looking at two different items trying to decide what the better price is per pound or ounce.

If I add gardening, gathering, hunting, and fishing to this then I only need to spend about $10-$25 a month on food.

You buy a suit from the store.

To get a job.

You broke motherfucker.

>>1498325
>50 is poorfag spending

Not really. Learn to shop. I'd much rather have that extra $50 to spend on fun stuff. I'd really feel stupid spending $100 a month on food. It's like paying $2500 for a fucking Mac when you can build a PC for less than $500 and it'll be more powerful than the expensive Mac.

Why buy a single $5 double whopper big mac bs sandwich when I can spend $5 and make 4 of them?

Or you could just buy a cheap gun and some bullets, then hold up people for their money to spend on food.

Teach a man to fish, as they say...

>>1498328
It's $2.79 for a 3-pack of Fleischmann's here. At Walmart I think you can get 3 times that amount for the same price. The cool thing is that you only need one packet. You can put it into a large quart jar with water, sugar, and flour. It'll keep growing and you can keep taking like a cup out and replacing that cup with new sugar, water, and flour. You can make bread every day with the same thing of yeast so long as you keep a loose lid on it and keep feeding it. I've had one packet last a month and I was baking bread every day.

I don't do that anymore because I'm living by myself now. so, I only make bread maybe 2 times a month. I don't eat that much bread.

>>1498343
>suit

wat?

>>1498362

There are these things called offices, and people go into them and spend lots of time doing god only knows what, and somehow when they come out money goes into their bank accounts.

One of the special rules is when you ask if you can participate in this tradition, you have to get dressed up in a suit and they ask you questions.

In some cases you're expected to continue wearing the suits during those times you go into the office and bathe in the flourescent overhead lights.

There are some documentaries on TV, I forget the name. "The Office" maybe?

>>1498367
>long reply

LOL I thought "suit" was a typo. That's all.

Carry on.

>>1498367
>bank accounts

Logical flaw. Have fun losing all your money when the economy completely fails and the banks go under, taking all your money with them.

>>1498376

Let me guess, your small personal library consists mainly of The Turner Diaries, the Left Behind Series, and Atlas Shrugged for when you want to read something "intellectual"

>>1498347
>I'd really feel stupid spending $100 a month on food.

I wouldn't, because I like good food. That's why I'm on the food board.

>>1498376

You keep your money in a sock between the mattresses, I take it?

pasta
eggs
peanut butter
canned tuna
rice
cheapest possible canned/frozen vegetables

>>1498389
I'm a fat neckbeard of 230lbs and I eat like a pig on tasty good food and only spend $50 a month. I don't exercise much in the winter.

You can enjoy your fast food. I'll enjoy my fresh produce and homemade food.

Dunno how much I spend on food in a month since I'm not a poorfag scraping by.

I know I ate a steak last night and drank some red wine. I spent $150 at Costco 2 days ago. The stuff I bought will last more than a month, but that won't be all I buy this month. I like variety and freshness.

I would buy a sack of rice, the biggest bag of pasta they sold, then divide up the remaining cash and go weekly to buy fresh vegetables with it.

also if you spend a penny on drinks, youre an idiot.

Where the fuck do you people live that you can survive on $100/month?

I lived in the SF Bay area, now in new york. Even when I was putting together almost-anorexic meals, I was spending at least $300/month.

>>1498393
Fireproof gun safe actually. It's literally the safest place for it. No one steals a 800lbs gun safe from a basement.

>>1498383
Never heard of them before. Googling makes me think it's a bunch of religious bullshit. Why would you know about them unless you read them?

>>1498405
>I was spending at least $300/month.

D=

Holy fuck dude!

How much was the food? Where were you shopping? If that eating out? List prices so we can compare!!!

>>1498406
> Why would you know about them unless you read them?

Reading a lot = reading about a lot. Including about ideas that differ from my own.

Also, haven't heard of Atlas Shrugged? That I have trouble believing.

>>1498413
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged

Nope, never heard of it until now. I read mostly academic books as a child and teen. My library is like a research library. I've only recently discovered sci-fi, hard sci-fi, horror, and fantasy fiction.

I don't seem to like "government topples", dystopian, or anarchy subjects. They are counter-productive.

Atlas Shrugged is the kind of decadent propaganda that could only come out of the richest and most privileged country in the world. Don't read it - it's trash and irrelevant to the lives of 99% of the world's population.

>>1498429
From reading the wiki on it, it does sound like crap.

>>1498431
It's for angsty trustafarian teenagers who don't want to spend their money to help out other people.

>>1498429
Ignoring that it was written by a defector from a communist country...

It has good points and bad points. Use your brains. Take what is useful from any theology, and toss the rest. Yes, that includes the fucking bible.

200 microwavable cheeseburgers

Atlas Shrugged = rich teenage revenge fantasy