$32.00 a month in Groceries??? Get out!

This is how one person could live on $32.00/mth in groceries. Not that I would want to do this, but I find it personally interesting. I over hear people talking about there ridiculous grocery bills every week. People will say to me, "I costs us $200 a week to feed my family of four." Telling me this as if, "that's the facts people!!". That's, apparently, what it takes to feed four mouths (two of which are under five years old). So naturally my reaction is, 'You're obviously completely stupid with your spending!!'.  Of course, this is what I say in my head (it would be wrong to criticize someone...right? :p).

Soooo.... this dry, storage supply of food is gluten free and consists of  300* lbs of Rice, 60 lbs of Beans, 60 lbs of Sugar, 16 lbs of powdered Milk, 8 lbs of Salt, and 10 quarts of cooking Oil.

Here's what "Seek these Things" blogger has to say:

"If you ever had to live off just this food, you could eat 13 oz of uncooked (about 39 oz. cooked) Rice per day, and 2.5 oz of dry Beans. You would have 5 teaspoons of Oil, and 2 teaspoons of Salt to cook and season with. You would need about 36 oz of clean water to cook your rice and beans.
Your 16 lbs of dry milk will make 80 liquid quarts of milk, that’s about 7 oz of prepared milk each day. Milk reconstitutes at a ratio of 1 to 4, milk to water, but you could probably stretch it further, and make it taste much better, by adding your 2.5 oz of Sugar to it.   You would also need between 0.5 an 1 gallon of clean water to drink each day.
This diet would provide between 2100 and 2700 calories each day, depending on how much of your cooking oil was consumed with your food.  (1460 white rice, 240 black beans, 600 cooking oil, 0 salt, 160 milk, 240 sugar, 0 water.)"
*Yes, only 300 lbs, not 400 like in the picture


I think it's interesting to compare what we 'think we need'... with what we would 'actually need' to survive.

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