Pesto pasta night - aka Really Cheap Dinner night
1/2 box wagon wheel pasta - $ 0.49
1/2 jar of pesto sauce - $ 1.25
Total: $ 1.74, or $ 0.87 per serving
Not much to say about this. Filling, yes, but lacking in things like vegetables.
I was curious to see what the total dinner cost has been for 2 servings for the last few nights. Here it is:
Per serving:
Monday: $ 1.78
Tuesday: $ 2.16
Wednesday: $ 1.25
Thursday: $ 0.87
$ 6.06 per person for 4 days worth of dinners, or an average just over $ 1.51 per person per day for dinner.
I recently had a conversation with a friend about how hard it is for people who subsist on food stamps to have a healthy, satisfying menu on such limited funds, but I think this may prove that it is possible without resorting to all packaged junk as I did the last time I tried one of the food stamp challenges. Yeah, I didn't last long on that one, which limited participants to $ 4.72 per day for all food and drink per person.
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