CHEAP LUNCH IDEAS? HOW TO SPEND $10 a week on food?

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I’m on a budget & trying save $2000 this month lol so what can I get for $10 for lunch all week? I don’t have a stove in my apartment studio only a mini griddle and microwave. I want like 2 different meals for Monday to Friday eat. Not even burgers are cheap to make, $5 pack buns , $10 for meat Patties.🙃 I get sick with frozen food. I have a lot of bread tho. But tuna sanwdhiches aren't appetizing or cup noodles ramen either.

Rhizomorph · Accepted Answer

Girl, work as a server in a retirement home and you will get free meals everyday lol I know your post has a different context to what I’m saying but I worked at one for 6 years (retirement home) and never went hungry nor did I ever really “have” to spend money on food because I worked somewhere that let me take it home for free. Now: I currently work the pizza station inside of a grocery store and I steal food alllllll the time from the deli case (working the pm shift makes it easy to not get caught) I know that sounds like a stupid idea to steal from your job but the food at this job is so overpriced that it’s hard to resist certain things on some nights… plus my job makes it so easy to get away w/ so 🤷🏻‍♀️
All I’m saying is, working in a food service job has spared me the pain of budgeting for groceries.

Although, the only things I could “maybe” suggest… buying rice, pastas and eggs.
Rice expands, makes you feel fuller faster, usually lasts a long enough till the next paycheck.
Honestly though: you may need to up that limit by 10$ bc only spending 10 really won’t get you much but more than sandwich supplies
20$ budget Seems more realistically sustainable compared to the 10$.

Dinklex3 · Accepted Answer

Egg sandwiches with romaine/spring mix on the side or in the sandwhich.

NamerOfStars · Accepted Answer

Even if you limit yourself to two meals a day, that's fourteen; seventy one cents per meal won't go far. This isn't ordinarily the type of thing I'd encourage, but I know what economic desperation is like.

Get yourself a rice cooker- yeah, it's a small outlay of money, but you can probably find one at a resale shop for a few bucks. Then go to a grocery store- a club one, if you have access- and buy a big bag of rice. My local Costco has 25-lb bags of rice for fifteen bucks. That'll feed you for a LONG time, WAY more than the week and a half it'd take to account for the fifteen. Of course, rice by itself is pretty damn bland, but with some effort, you can scrounge up the occasional bit of sauce or other flavoring.

LiamSawyer · Accepted Answer

Go to your local food bank and get makings for sandwiches and canned goods, eat some meals at a local soup kitchen that provides a bowl of soup and a piece of bread free followed with a free coffee. You're only allowing yourself $0.47/ meal so you need to get some free food somewhere as you can't even buy a Mr. Noodles soup for that a lot of the foods at dollar stores are long past their expiry dates and I doubt you'd find a whole meal there for.47 cents. Even a can of soup on sale is.50 cents.

MTC29 · Answer

I think that prisoners are allowed more $$$ per meal than you are allowing. Don't like Cup of Noodles or tuna? On your budget, variety doesn't enter in the equation.

Figure on rice and beans, and plenty of it. That's what the people eat in countries where having ten bucks a week for lunch would be a dream come true.

Fromdusktilldawn · Answer

10$ a week? Damn thats hard. Depending on what country you life that'll be really difficult. Its easier if you have a backyard where you can plant some stuff (fruits, vegetables) or maybe even go hunting if you want meat

Kingofkings1992 · Answer

10 bucks a week? You must be joking

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