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wolfy42
10/13/18 1:23:12 PM
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I did a quick search and you can get a case of 20 bags of pasta (1 pound each) for $10 (online for that mattered, delivered to you).

I would need to check and see how much it is at winco etc, but you might be able to get it for even less then 50 cents a pound.

That being said, even 50 cents a pound is probably around the cost/ratio of ramen (from what you listed it was 25-28 cents a package). It's probably about 1/4th a pound per package....so the pasta is actually cheaper.

Which means............

You could afford the sauce as well for the same price as the ramen.

There are can's of sauce...forget the brand name, that are normally $1 a pop at safeway etc, and less then that other places. Same size as the other brands, and comes with spices etc in it already. Might even be able to find them on sale or in bulk some places for only 50 cents a can.

More then enough for 4 meals (one pound of pasta), so your total cost would be about the same as the Ramen noodles.

But you said you like meat. The cheapest I found a 10 pound 80% ground beef was $10.81 on the internet. I know you can get it for less (believe i've seen it for $6.00 before on sale). At safeway you often get the max packs of ground beef for $3/pound and they put them on sale at night 50% off. Many other stores sell the ground beef for $1 a pound the night before they expire.

Even at $2 a pound which I am sure you can find, 1/2 a pound added to 2 jars of sauce, and then frozen would make you enough sauce for a week easily (each jar is 4 meals add in the 1/2 pound meat and you might even stretch it to 10 meals if your light on the sauce (but not on the flavor...use some spices to help it along and a bit of oil).

You are not going to want to eat ONLY pasta, but you could do this as your main meal.

So total price for 10 meals or so:

2 1/2 1 pound packages of pasta at 50 cents a pop is $1.25
2 cans of Heinz pasta sauce at 50 cents a pop $1.00
1/2 pound of ground beef at $2 per pound $1.00

Total cost for 10 meals 3.25 or about 33 cents per meal.

Compared to 25-28 cents per ramen (and honestly you are probably gonna eat 2 ramen if it's a meal).

You also get real meat this way.

I would actually toss in one large french roll $1.00 per 3 days...it's cheap and lets you soak up every last drop of sauce. That and the pasta could actually be all you eat, although I'd suggest a few other things to go with it and be a bit healthier. The french roll is very filling though and would boost your cost by another 33 cents a day...to 66 cents total.

Leave 33 cents more to make you eat on $1 a day.

Remember that french bread? Can use it for more then meal, and it's good ot get some veggies soooooooooo.

Bullion cubes are extremely extremely cheap. Get some of those and some veggies. The options are wide on the veggie front...here is a list of the cheapest prices of veggies. Potatoes are the cheapest at 19 cents average a pound, but cauliflower is cheaper then brocoli florets at only 40 cents a pound. Using the list you can certainly make a interesting beef and veggie soup every day for 33 cents to go with your french bread as well.

I would probably round things out a bit with eggs for breakfast (you can usually get 18 for $2-3 most places)....allowing for 2 eggs every morning as well.

https://www.mymoneyblog.com/cheapest-vegetables.html
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