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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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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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[–] ericbomb 2 points 5 months ago

Hahaha you busted me!

Atomic Shrimp is 100% who inspired me to make this community because I LOVE his videos. I love the creativity he shows in cooking on such a smal budget, and also is a weird way of teaching the important things in cooking. Instead of focusing on "this thing + that thing = food" he goes "I want flavor X, and I know z and y combine with other things to make that flavor, so maybe together..."

I was actually just thinking I should change rule 1 for high quality video blogs to allow my boy.

Was just thinking I should rewatch some of these to steal ideas. I remember him talking about an apple tart he made turning out amazing so might try that soon!