Feeding myself for 3 dollars a day.

So I have about 90 dollars a month to fee myself. And since I have multiple sclerosis I can't really play fast and lose with my health and eat lots of cheap pasta and ramen. I have to eat real food. I won't allow meat in my house because of an issue with germs, heh...so that at least saves me some money as meat is very expensive. I mostly eat fruit, veggies, beans, seeds, and nuts.

So I decided I'm going to post some cost breakdowns of the food I've been cooking. See if I can get my costs even lower and maybe have enough money left over at the end of the month to put away some food storage of staples like beans and rice, etc.

I use my crock pot a lot making soups and chilli so that's what most of my posts will entail.

My first cost breakdown is for some veggie soup I made. I looked at the complete cost per pound/box/can/carton of the item and what percentage of that I used for the recipe and divided it.

1 sweet orange pepper (2 for a dollar), chopped: .50c

3 carrots (bag of 12 carrots 1.49)peeled and sliced in rounds: .37c

4 stalks (approx 12 stalks .99) celery sliced:  .25c

3 green onions (6 onions a bunch at .50c each bunch) chopped: .25c

1.5 cups cabbage (.29 cents a pound) chopped: .17c

1/2 of a 28oz can of stewed tomatoes (full can 1.49): .75c

1 14.5oz can of green beans: .69c

3/4 of a 32fl oz carton of veggie broth (full carton 1.49): $1.12

1 Telma stock cube (box of 36 cubes 4.99): .14c

Few shakes of Worcestershire Sauce (this was a guess): .02c 

TOTAL COST: $4.26  /6 servings= .71c a serving.

The most expensive part of the soup was the broth, and if I used water and my own seasonings I could cut the cost of the pot to $3.14 /6 servings=.52c a serving.

The canned green beans were likewise expensive when compared to the rest of the soup and upping the other cheaper raw veggies to take place of the beans would also work well. I can cut cost on this next time and the soup will still be delicious and good for me.

Still I have to say that .71 cents for dinner is pretty good. If I wanted to add some toast or some rice I could still have dinner for under 1.25 which is within my budget.