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I'm probably going to sound like an asshole here, but groceries are really cheap - a bland, boring but reasonably healthy diet for an adult costs $3 per day. I'm worried about a lot of things, but not groceries.
Which means you don't understand poverty.
As a homeless person, it's the most expensive time of my life. Time is expensive, because I don't have a car. I use the bus for most things which means waiting, and delays, and more waiting, and walking 10+ minutes between the bus/train and the destination. And I live in LA.
I'm solo, I don't have kids who are constantly growing and regularly need new clothes. I'm not paying rent. I'm not paying utility bills. I don't pay a car payment, or for gas. I'm getting unemployment, and saving what I can to try to afford something in life that doesn't suck. No car maintenance. I'm lucky that I live in a homeless shelter, but the food is hit or miss, and they're cracking down on what we can actually buy for ourselves. They won't let us buy in bulk like ramen, or cookies, or protein shakes. They want us to only buy things that can be consumed "day of". I got the stink eye for bulk buying multivitamins and fiber pills.
Lots of other people have 1 or 2 jobs, but the jobs barely pay peanuts, plus a lack of benefits. I used to work at iHeartRadio, a multi billion dollar company, and I wasn't permitted to get benefits because I was mandated to a max of 29 hours a week. And often poor paying jobs are further from housing than better paying jobs, which means longer commutes, meaning less meal prep time, less family time, less self care. So cheap food like McDonald's β being extremely calorie efficient for the price β is the regular go to. Or spending a lunch break to get an expensive 7-11 snack.
And even if someone isn't buying McDonald's or 7-11, and they're actually being frugal, many Americans are 1-2 paychecks away from homelessness. Because we have virtually no worker protections, no work-life balance, minimum wages that are stuck 16 years in the past, while inflation and housing and education skyrocket. People are often stuck in their life conditions with little to no hope for their future.
These very people are struggling to survive. They aren't getting a chance to live.
In America, it's easier for a housed person to become homeless than it is for a homeless person to become housed.
Resonant post. Well done.
I hope you find contentment.
Empathy may be beyond your grasp but you might someday reach for perspective.
These people get paid to eat and drink thousands of dollars of the fanciest food while you eat beans over a broken sink. And you are the one paying them.
Kinda like saying you're not worried about housing because a shack in the woods is only a couple hundred bucks lol
Not trying to be argumentative, genuinely interested -- what's a healthy $3 a day diet? Cos I'm trying to cut my groceries bill down and spending like Β£2 a day and being confident that it'll be healthy would be honestly pretty great peace of mind
I'm not the OP, but this one is pretty simple to answer. So you need three things to survive - calories to burn for energy, protein to build and maintain muscle, and vitamins to help keep your organs running smoothly.
Beans and legumes are densely packed with protein, it's basically the second best thing next to animal meat, and they are generally inexpensive to buy. You can buy them canned or dried in bulk and it lasts basically forever either way. So that covers your protein intake.
Similarly, rice is also very cheap, plentiful, and filling. Carbs are a great source of calories that give you energy, so you want to get the best bang for your buck and get a sack of rice or millet. It also lasts forever when properly stored, so buy the gigantic bag of it at the store and save with the bulk pricing.
Most vegetables provide basically nothing in calories, but are loaded with tons of vitamins, and if you get a healthy variety of them you can cover most or all of your bases without having to rely on vitamin supplements. Plus, as long as you are not shopping for organic produce, vegetables are generally pretty cheap to buy a good amount of. Spoilage is an issue, so you can't really buy in bulk, but some keep longer than others and assuming you live near a supermarket it's not difficult to get fresh produce to cook every day.
So the answer is, if you buy in bulk you can eat beans and rice with veggies or a side salad and have an incredibly boring but nutritious and filling meal. If you have spices in your spice rack, you can go a little nuts with trying out different things to see how it affects the flavor just to get some variety in your palette, because trust me, you will get sick of beans and rice even if you are saving tons of money on food costs. Even the most frugal people I know understand that it's not a proper long term solution, it's a struggle meal that can carry you to your next paycheck if you are in a pinch.
Mm I had thought it would be some combo of rice, beans, and veg. Thank you for the writeup,. it's much appreciated!!! What about this solution makes it not viable long term? What's missing?
If you're blessed with the ability to eat the same thing every day and not get tired of it, by all means, it could go on for as long as you like. Even stuff I really love to eat gets tiresome after even a few consecutive repeats, so something like beans and rice which is very plain and not that appetizing to me is usually only good for two or three meals before I can't stomach it anymore and my brain convinces me I would rather go hungry than eat it again. Then regret sets in the next day and I buy lunch from somewhere else.
I am not blessed with that ability. However, I am blessed with a very large credit card debt and a very tight budget so it's time to put varied meals aside for a few years π«‘
It's mostly beans. They're about a dollar per pound dry, which is approximately 1,500 calories, so a grown man needs just $1.50 per day to supply his calorie needs while getting a decent amount of protein. Other dry bulk goods (rice, flour, etc.) are comparable in price, have less protein overall, but supply specific amino acids that beans don't provide much of. Relatively cheap vegetables (sweet potatoes, carrots, cabbage, etc.) can provide vitamins but I would still take a vitamin supplement if I were on this diet, at least because since it's vegan there is no B12. People who eat meat will have an easier time.
Beans are amazing to be fair. I usually do some sort of chickpea/kidney beans/bell pepper/sausage salad thing for lunch, it's cheap and I think relatively healthy but I always worry that I'm missing some massively important vitamin. π Energy drinks have tonnes of B12 in though so that might make the diet easier? Although they also have taurine (not vegan?) and a bunch of other nightmare ingredients...