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!

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.
A meal should have at least 400 calories
Meals should be replicable and not rely on crazy discounted items
Feel free to post failures!
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.
This is mostly a challenge on creativity and thinking outside normal cooking rules. Sometimes the result will be learning why a rule exists.
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)

submitted 5 months ago by Voyajer to c/33_cent_meals

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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!

[–] ericbomb 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I changed the rules to allow my boy, and also added that you can skip "pinch of salt" "dash of oil" and the like! Also so that videos like him work.

I mostly want to avoid people posting recipes that no one has actually tested yet, so videos where the content creator eats them sound great!

[–] Voyajer 1 points 5 months ago

Awesome, the idea of making sure people have actually tried the foods does make sense.