$1 A Day Challenge!

i am with you, noodle can full fill our stomach and yes it can be alternate or substitute for rice..

Yeah I like those noodles too that would work!

No I don't know if eggs are sold individually. At least I've never seen them here in the US.

Yes! but here in the philippines you can buy here individually anywhere also because every body here has their own chicken

I believe if you go private you can easily get eggs individually, though it isnt exactly the cheapest food around but it is good in proteins...

Sure wish I could by individual eggs here too, would make challenge for me much easier.

Seems like that can of meat would be about a $1 alone unless you know where to get it real cheap.

yeah it's $ 1 with tax.

Ok for you, you can't have any water with your noodles so you must eat them dry

Wow I see this noodle thing is popular in this thread, mixing with the bread you'd be filled with that's for sure. As far as the supermarket stops goes I have connects and would make sure they're Closed when you get there coz you can't have any help in this $1 a Day Challenge

Hello again, you never mentioned that I can't go for free taste in your discussion, ! But it is okay, I still can have an instant noddles as my dinner! That all for the $1 callenge! I hope to eat as much as I can after the callenge!

You just made me think about something needed here at MyLot. I just realized that there is no way to edit discussions here. That would be a useful feature to have; it's in every other forum I'm a member of.

But yeah we'll keep it no help, that would get too easy for some people for this challenge. But you're still allowed to get Free Smells out the supermarket tho. I read somewhere that if you smell food and imagine eating it could possible make you full. Mind over matter hmmm

Hold on let me clear things up.. I mean $1 a day in your own currency not $1 US. So could you still survive with that measly buck in your own currency??

First of all, our currency is not Dollar. then 1 Rs= 0.02 $. Can you think anywhere in world anything eatable can be obtained in 2 cents?

Hello Subha, I agree with you, there is no way we can get a food with 2 cents. In fact, this is an interesting discussion.
Multimastery, maybe you should stated clearly before you post the discussion. Evry one here think of $1 callenge is in US dollar.

Ok you got me, my bad, we'll just keep with $1 US to keep it simple. Trying to get into all the different World currencies is confusing.

Hello friend, it is okay, I just want to make it clear and so that more member can join this discussion. I hope to see more response and check out how they survive with only $1 for a day!
And Subha, I like your response, you made $1 to the maximum with nutritious food some more!
Happy mylotting!

Yeah it would be rough. And even rougher because in this Challenge we all have to be totally independent with our dollar without any outside help.

That souunds like a winner jayrene! Can you do that where you live with it being $1US. We have decided to stick with $1US to keep discussion simple across the board.

did you not see what i wrote above? i thought i made it clear i even had the ratio of $1 (one US dollar) to our money here which is Philippine peso.

we use US dollars here to spend, we change them to our currency first, if you get what i mean before we can buy anything here.

my post was really simple if you had seen the exchange ratio...

we DONT use US dollars here...

sorry forgot to put the DONT.

I cannot buy just one egg here, and a can of sardines cost more than a dollar. Rice and pasta are cheap and I could probably get them at the bulk food store.

While one might eat for a dollar for a limited time, nutritionally you would soon run into health problems due to a nutritionally poor diet withoug some fresh vegetables, or even vegetables of any kind, as you concentrate on poor foods like rice and pasta.

you can have variety of foods here everyday for that US$1. if ever, the next day, i wont be eating the same thing again, except for the rice, as we are rice eating people. we can have vegetables as viand the next meal, which is also cheap here. what i wont be able to eat with that small amount is chicken, pork and beef meats.

Do you think you could survive for 7 days like that? I might but I'd be super weak that's for sure! Sad thing is that some people really have to live like this.

Yea it is said. But i'm afraid that's how this world is one will starve so another can eat.

We're just sticking to $1US now because when I started discussion I didn't think about all the currencies out there. So $1US should help you scrape by for the day

(Anyone else posting we're sticking with $1US to keep things simple)

Right now the Canadian dollar is close to the American dollar. I think 1$ American is presently about $1.08 Canadian, so I have a few cents more!

A dollar might buy some rice and beans at the bulk food store, and maybe a bullion cube for flavour. A couple of tea bags and powdered milk for drinking. After a few days of this kind of diet I would be craving a nice salad.

I think the only way you could sustain yourself on a dollar a day is to forage for wild foods. You would have to harvest berries, mushrooms, and nuts you could find. Also you could snare some pigeons and if you had some equipment maybe the odd fish. Greens during the summer could include dandelion greens, shepherds purse, etc.. Foraging for acorns and leeching them could feed you for days.