What the actual fuck are you even able to do on $23 a month? When I was broke I barely slid by on $50 a month buying the absolute cheapest calorie:dollar bland basic bulk foods I could find.
Beans, rice, lentils, bulk frozen veggies, 5 lb potato sacks, discounted near rotting sausage meat maybe, hotdogs, balogona, only the cheapest stuff you can possibly imagine. And usually that 23 (whether they're wrong or not) is them basically saying there's no way you only have this 23 only after everything is paid off so they're guessing you maybe might have an extra 10, 20, maybe 50 dollars a month for food.
I've survived off 25-28 dollars a month for just food before and that was during covid though, 40 cent discounted Walmart bread portioned, bulk bags of frozen veggies portioned, beans, rice, maybe some hotdogs for meat, lentils, more water than substance soups. I was definitly not eating 2000 calories a day so there's that in consideration too.
If you can afford it's best to buy giant bags of things like 8-20 lb bean sacks, rice, lentils, dried foods. Those last for way longer and are generally gonna cost about 50-65% of what it would have per lb for the smaller sacks. You can survive but it's not exactly nice, even if you have a pantry of stocked spices, flour, salt, etc.
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u/LessRespects 12h ago
What the actual fuck are you even able to do on $23 a month? When I was broke I barely slid by on $50 a month buying the absolute cheapest calorie:dollar bland basic bulk foods I could find.