P50 school snack per day
August 19, 2009
I came to this idea after reading a blog post at The Cheapskate Blog telling about the conversation of two friends who decided to minimize there daily spending after realizing the fact that there are so many people around the world who live in a one dollar food per day.
And of course many of us couldn’t follow it without rules so here is what they end up.
1. All food consumed each day must total $1 for each of us.
2. We could not accept free food or “donated” food unless it is available for everyone in our area (i.e. foraging, samples in stores, dumpster diving).
3. Any food we planted, we had to pay for.
4. We would do our best to cook a variety of meals; ramen noodles could only be prepared if there is no other way to stay under one dollar. (We had six packages and would buy no more.)
5. Should we decide to have guests over for dinner they must eat from our share; meaning they don’t get to eat their own dollar’s worth of food.
As you can see it’s a real challenge considering that it just started from a conversation which turns to a daily money saving technique. Anyway here’s mine.
1. All school snack consumed every break time should not exceed 50 pesos just for me.
2. I may accept free food but of course it should be from trusted people only, I don’t wanna end up in hospital.
3. I don’t plant.
4. I don’t cook either what I mean is I don’t usually bring prepared snacks, it’s uncomfortable and hard to manage when inside my bag.
5. Hey it’s my food. Buy your own!
Well I just wish I can follow all of them. But usually I don’t eat at school since most school snacks doesn’t meet my budget and if ever there is it’s usually just a burger, flakes, fries and coke float in combination. Anyway it’s not a big problem when I usually had a quick chow before going to school.
To let you know I’m currently trying to save money but up to now I don’t even have a cent on my wallet but I do have a hundred in my secret storage. So I’m going to give this a try and I’ll update you as soon as their are improvements, if there are.
