Meals that can be made for 33 cents or less!

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Rules: 0. 33 cents was picked to aim towards that mythical $1 a day target!

  1. Posts should be about a dish/meal you personally made that cost less than 33 cents USD, OR a video of someone making it/reviewing it. Just want to avoid recipes being posted that no one has actually ever tasted.
  2. A meal should have at least 400 calories
  3. Meals should be replicable and not rely on crazy discounted items
  4. Feel free to post failures!
  5. No over reliance on bulk purchases. Requiring a single egg from a cartoon of 18 is fine, requiring a single egg from a cartoon of 64 bought from costco, less so.
  6. This is mostly a challenge on creativity and thinking outside normal cooking rules. Sometimes the result will be learning why a rule exists.
  7. Feel free to ignore calculating costs of oil to grease a pan, dash of salt, teaspoon of sugar, etc.

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(inspiration) atomic shrimps famous 1 dollar a day food challenge! Good for inspiration on what to make. (www.youtube.com)
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Black bean potato patty with biscuit buns! (self.33_cent_meals)
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Make black beans (Canned will be more expensive, but easier of course)

Smash the black beans up, and slowly add instant potato's while mixing until they are a meat ball texture, add salt to taste. Roll into ball then smash semi thin so they cook through.

Add to medium heat greased pan, cook until colored and sticking together.

For the biscuit I just did water + flour + salt + baking powder, so like 5 cents.

Add whatever you have handy to make taste good! I just do a little bit of margarine and it tasted really good.

Loved the texture, and I have a bunch of extra patties since I did a decently large batch.

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Video showing off some really cool instant mashed potato uses to eat for 1 dollar a day! (www.youtube.com)
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Going to try out making a black bean burger like hers later!

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(inspiration) Eating For $1 A Day (Full Week) IN 2024 (www.youtube.com)
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She goes a bit over budget at 1.60 per day, but still a great source of inspiration and very well done! Sadly enough the main reason it looks like she goes so over budget is two eggs per day cost so much these days.

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Banana muffins (32 cents) (self.33_cent_meals)
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1 Cup Self rising flour (15 cents) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Z7C6FVK?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

1 Banana (15 cents)

Teaspoon of sugar (idk, 1 cent? 2?)

I blended a ripe banana in a cup of water, then mixed it into the self rising flour along with a bit of sugar.

Put in muffin pan with small amount of cooking spray.

Baked at 425 F for 13 minutes

4/10 plain, I would say a costco banana nut muffin is a 7/10. So obviously worse than any store bought banana muffin, but not offensive by any means. If I was craving muffins this would certainly count.

Hot with margarine and it was pretty good. I feel like cinnamon sugar butter would probably have gone well.

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A Weekend On 97p Per Day - Limited Budget Food Challenge - Day 1 (www.youtube.com)
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Breaks rule 1, but I wanted to share as this is the video that got me into limited budget meals in the first place. As far as I understand he follows the constraints from the community, but he didn't calculate the costs of exceedingly low cost things like water and individual teaspoons of things like spice.

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Banana Pancakes (30 cents) (self.33_cent_meals)
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1 Cup Self rising flour (15 cents) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Z7C6FVK?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

1 Banana (15 cents)

Mush a ripe or slightly over ripe banana into 1 cup self rising flour. Add water and mix until batter texture.

Cook like pancakes

3/10 plain.

Not super inspiring eaten plain, edible, but far more mild than I expected, and texture is, expectedly, not perfect.

Just fine as a vessel to carry jelly/butter/syrup to you though. Maybe a teaspoon of sugar would have helped.