Feed a family on just $21 a week???

I live in India and I can say that $20 is enough to feed a three member family for a week if the family belongs to middle class. I know that it is not possible in America. Where does the lady live? An asian country? Thanks for providing the link, I will go through it if I find time. Happy mylotting.

Sadly that's all I could afford for groceries during the slow season for my family a few years back. These days with things inflating in cost vastly from what they were a couple yrs ago you can't do it. Now if you can go to a store that doubles or tripples coupons then you can do it! The store that does it here only allows like 5 coupons and you have to spend a minimum of $25. SO unless you want to buy extras beyond the handful you have coupons for go for it. But I don't usually have the money to waste there. SO unless I know I"m going to spend atleast $25 then I will. Also I don't get the newspaper as the coupons are a waste to me 9 of 10 times. I do my best by going to Aldi's and just watching the sales.

i don't think i could do it there is 6 of us, i wish i could do it . there is this lady here that will get over $200.00 in food but only pay $23.00 from all the coupons she uses i havve no clue how she does it i would love to know all of there secrets.

I have no idea how you would do this. $21 buys us food for about two days around here. we've tried cutting this number down, but the best we can do is $40 per week - and that was 2 years ago for 2 of us. Now it's more like $65 per week for the 2 of us.

Reading through the article, I see that they're relying partly on what's already in the pantry, which makes a tremendous difference. They also caution that one shouldn't follow the plan too often because of nutrition problems. I see it as do-able, but only now and then - not such a great feat if one keeps a well stocked pantry. Then you'd only need dairy, fresh vegetables and maybe fruit, although canned fruit or juice from the pantry would be fine for a week.

i don't think that we can survive that much only within a week. maybe from time to time but not every week. specially i do buy some expensive vegetables from time to time like broccoli. anyways, but it depends on my appetite. there are times i don't have much appetite sometimes i do want to eat a lot.

I would think that the only way it's possible is by using coupons and then getting the cheapest of the items sometimes they have roast here for .89 a pound and I get that divided into 4 different packages to make it smaller portions but we still end up spending about 60 a week on food and there is only 3 of us to cook for.

Wow this is an amazing story. Truthfully I probably spend $20 a day in all my expense:) Now,m they are truly a real saver, and so surprised it is not from a poorer third world country, as this is almost impossible in countries like Australie! Now, I hope she is only experimenting with this, and hope she does not have to live like this forever!

I am on disability and get money for food in the middle of each month. I actually could go to the food bank for some stuff if I really wanted but most times I don't because I don't need it.
I shop at 4 different places. One I use coupons as they have double and even triple coupons some weeks. One has specials that are good so I check out their ads to see if I can get something at a better price. Another is a place that has mostly it's own products, so the prices are generic equivalent, they also do other things that keep the price down. The final place is a scratch and dent place, the food is good but it's stuff that a regular store doesn't want on it's shelves.
Between all of them I get most of my shopping with my monthly food but I've never tried to go that low because I like to treat myself and my kids when I have them at least once a week.

$21 a week would be a wonderful amount of money to be able to feed our family of four, but I know that we can't do it. At least not where we are. On my most recent trip to the grocery stores. One regular grocery store and the other was a warehouse club I spent $191 to feed our family for two weeks and I felt like that was doing really good. I'm buying things in more bulk though so some of the things that I bought on my last trip won't have to be bought again on my next trip. I also spend a little bit more on food because I like to have the good stuff. I still haven't had the chance to make it Aldi's but I'm planning on trying it out this week.