I'm a broke student and I'd like to be able to eat for, like $20 a week. Any tips? suggestions?

Thanks.

buy mac n cheese? or boxes of instant noodles

you need nutritional value, give up something else besides eating

$20 a week? I'm not too sure that's possible... is it?

well you could eat for 20 a week, but eventually you are going to get sick from malnurished diet...

Pending on your income, look into qualifying for low income food places. (i.e. interfaith food bank, etc...)

you might be able to do it if you made all of your meals at home...

but if you're going out to eat, stick to the dollar menus

Well, say you at mac and cheese three times a week for a week. You're still looking at about $21. And that is the absolute CHEAPEST you could possibly eat...

Brutal - I feel for you dude. It's been forever since I was a starving student!

Man, the way your thinking your gonna end up in epic failure. I understand that you are broke, but eating 20 dollars worth of food a week is gonna cause major health issues in the future for you. Its virtually impossible for your body to function normally on 2.85 cents a day, you will deprive your body of its nutrients over time, your immune system will be compromise, and you will become sicker more often, plus your penis will lose the ability to become erected (the last one was for the lulz).

I'm assuming that you are taking a full semester of courses, if that is truly the case, for next semester I would recommend you take only 3 classes, and free up sometime for yourself to bring in additional income.

Perhaps you can sacrifice something other than food to save some money. IE. Purchasing things that you really don't need, getting a cheaper cell phone plan or get rid of it all together, cancel cable/internet, surf the web at school.

All suggestions, but please don't deprive yourself of food in hopes of saving a couple of bucks.

Man are you serious? When I was broke while travelling I set my budget at 20 euros per DAY. I realize it is different and that I couldn't buy cheap food at bulk from a market but man my budget was 7x more than yours and I was still malnourished as fuck!

Rice and Multivitamins.


But as said, you WILL get sick eventually.

Instant Kimchi soup bowls, loaf of bread, powdered milk.

Dine and dash.

$20 a week? seriously? I could barely survive on $20 a day.

$10 a day is pretty realistic for a student. You MIGHT be able to whittle it down to $50 a week. but $20 a week is absolutely ridiculous.

Admittedly $20 a week might be asking a bit much.

Though, I'd still appreciate any help in eating cheap and healthy.

Cheers.

$20/wk?? That's brutal!

Well, The Dollar Store up by the Beddington Coop has a lot of cheap canned and boxed foods. They have bags of pasta, rice, canned tuna, tomato sauce, KD, etc. all for a buck each. I think instant noodles were $1 for two. Anyway, you should look into the interfaith food bank. Not sure if you're at the UofC, but I think they have a program for starving students. The farmer's market is also cheaper than the Safeways/Superstores for fresh produce.

The one thing that I used to eat a lot of was KD w/ a can of tuna and some hot sauce or a plate of rice and make a sauce with a can of cream of mushroom soup with some browned ground beef and onion.

You need more than $20 dollars a week in food to live. Seriously think about where you can cut out. Do you have a car? What kind of bills do you have? Internet, cellphone, cable? If you can't cut anything out, there is the campus foodbank.

I remember reading an article about starving students that were making use of the campus foodbank, they interviewed one of the students who described how difficult it was to afford food when she had to pay her cellphone bill - talk about priorities

Read this-
http://hungryforamonth.blogspot.com/
it can be done for cheaper (at least in the US).
It's in reverse chronological but hey you're a student you can figure it out!

Get a job cooking.... all the snacking will keep your food bill low.
or just get a better paying job that still works with your student schedule.. there's lots.

the safeway brand ichiban is like $0.33 a pack.

then buy a bag of frozen veggies for like $5

and some eggs for like $5

then mix em all together.