Feeding your family: With $2.00

$2 is not a lot! I feel for you. I think that I would go for pasta, rice and beans. They all contain good protein and carbohydrate. You can survive on just those for a short time, anyway. It is making them tasty that is where the art comes in. Tinned tomato is usually very cheap but, apart from that, avoid tinned goods (though tinned fish and corned beef are usually much cheaper than the fresh equivalents). You should buy pasta and beans dry. They take longer to prepare but your time costs you nothing. Pasta cooks in 20 minutes, anyway. Beans need soaking overnight and boiling for an hour or so. If you have an oven, you can bake bread at easily half the price you pay for it ready baked. Even if you don't have an oven, there are breads that you can make in a skillet or on a griddle. Flour is cheap (and even cheaper if you can buy it in bulk, of course). I do a mean pizza with a little flour, yeast or baking powder and water (plus salt and pepper or herbs). I top it with tomato or tomato and cheese (if there is any). We don't NEED meat (though we often WANT it, of course). If you only have $2, meat would be the first thing to cut out. I always look on the 'Reduced' shelf first (which is at the back of our shop). Sometimes I find things reduced by a half or more. Vegetables, even if they look a little tired, are good for flavour and vitamins and fibre. Now and then I find meat, pizza or a quiche down to half price. I wish you good luck (and, hopefully, a few more $$)!

Ramen noodles or Burritos, maybe some Banquet potpies.

I would buy the biggest amount of dry beans that I could find. Beans are healthy and filling. For each cup of beans you cook you get 3 cups of cooked beans. For one pound you get 7 to 9 cups of cooked beans. Make a soup and it will go a long way.

i would go with beans, they are filling and nutritious, the dried sort. You should be able to get a few pounds. Enough to feed a person if you are eating light.

I would buy a loaf of bread at a low price and a cheap range orange juice at my local supermarket. On the way home I would buy a few cheap vegetables and fruit at my local market place. Like the bread might cost 60 cents and the orange juice 70 cents, the bananas 30 cents and the potato 40 cents. I would hope to be better off financially next week. I would take a walk and seek food like blackberries from the bushes if possible.

Well this is a toughie and definitely a thinker (question). I think that If I were to only be able to spend $2.00 for an entire week I would have to look through my cabinets first. I'd look for things that I have and see what I could make as a meal that would stretch for an entire week. If I had enough ingredients I would then write down the ingredients I don't have and see what I could buy that would only cost $2.00 of course with the use of coupons. I would buy what I could buy, and if the question permits (if your question permits) I would borrow what I needed from a relative or neighbor. The first thing that comes to mind that stretches for atleast a few days is Spaghetti. My fiance and I live with his parents and that's actually what his mom cooked for us last night, lol! I hope this answers your question! I appreciate the response on my discussion! Have a great day and happy mylotting to ya!

A sack of beans. A bag of brown rice. Combined in a meal they provide all of the amino acids in a complete protein. They are filling, and have lots of healthy fiber. They can be served separately, rice can even be served sweet for variety. Beans of all types are the cheapest way to eat that there is.

I don't really know what $2 buys as I'm in England but I'll try to relate it to £2 English sterling. Pasta and rice are cheap, and noodles are quite pleasant to eat, and cheap. Potatoes are very versile and a staple food, so perhaps a few potatoes, for jackets, chips, mash, etc. Bread has to have too much with it, so I'd leave that as a stopgap. Eggs, rice pasta or noodles, potatoes and cheese would be my first choice. Then after that, I guess any fruit or veg I could muster. £2 doesn't go very far at all these days. Brightest Blessings.