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Engineer eats efficiently for $2.50 a day (2016)

46 days, I'm trying to spend less than $2.50 a day on food. This is an account of the food, the costs, the science, and the fun of that experiment.

The ability to choose very specific products, quantities, and prices from their whole selection is a very nice feature compared to other shop-at-home systems which allowed the store's shoppers to easily blow out your budget with a poorly-chosen subsititution. ItemCost Corned beef, 5 oz$0.94 Cooked cabbage$0.15 Fried potato chips$0.18 Cake$0.40 Daily Total$1.67 For dinner, I had a big plate of the last of the spaghetti, along with a salad and some more spicy bread. @ ($1.96/(10 floz))$0.39 Butter, 2 tablespoons $0.12 Mae Ploy Noodles subtotal:$0.70 Daily Total$2.45 I happened to be watching an episode of Simply Ming in which he and one of his guest chefs cooks several dishes with offal.

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