What are the cheapest and healthiest lunch meals you can buy at a grocery store?
Bring a knife with you. Buy a bun, ask for a slice of cheese, two slices of your favorite deli meat. Slice the bun open, make a sandwich.Buy yourself one piece of ripe fruit or perhaps a small avocado to add to your sandwich.For less than $8 bucks you can get a sandwich and piece of fruit. If you really want to add to it, a bottle of water.Vanisha's suggestion of making a salad is also quite sound, and very healthy. You'll just need to bring something to hold it in unlesss you how with the salad bar choices you seem which can be pricey.If you don't like deli meat, you can get envelopes of tuna, or simply go vegetarian with avocado, tomato, slice of onion. Yum.
In Beijing, China, is it cheaper to buy at a supermarket and cook at home or eat outside?
A2A. It is a seemingly simple question but difficult to answer. Too many variables affect the costs. I would think cook at home is cheaper.During my first 6 years in Beijing (2006–2012), I hired a house maid to cook for me. She went to some wet market to buy the ingredients. I don't remember anything costly at all. She cooked normal Beijing home dinner which is eatable. I sometimes cook burger, ribeye steaks, or pasta during weekend, only remember two pieces of premier quality ribeye cost about 80–100 RMB from western (Jenny Lou or April gourmet) or Korean market.In my second time back to Beijing from 2015–2017, I started to eat out a lot. I am a big eater for a girl. I can startle a stranger on how much I can eat and I only eat at higher rating, good restaurants. I usually spent from 90 to 180 RMB per meal when eat out, alone. I ate two meals a day plus a cup of coffee at Costa (30RMB) in the morning. So my cost of eating out is about 200 to 400 a day. That is significantly more than cook at home. But again, you can always choose mid to low fare restaurants which can cut cost to less than 150 a day.The location of the city is very important in terms of cost too. I lived at Sanlitun which is one of the most expensive areas in Beijing. Beijing has a population of almost 20 millions, easily a size of a country. There are much cheaper district to live in BJ, which you have to explore.
Where can I buy cracker meal?
Any supermarket. Look in the section with items like flour and cornmeal. My mother uses it a lot, and she has no problem finding it. Also, a good substitute is matzo meal.
What cheap food can I buy with $20 to survive for a month?
There is a surprising range of foods that can be purchased from discount grocery stores to enable a frugal diet, however, $20 will not stretch to a full month depending on where you are. As Anonymous, there isn’t any additional information such as where you are and working condition. For now, the response is moving forward with the thought that the OP is in the States, likely in an urban area and has a roof plus kitchen. If you don’t have the last requirement, then food kitchens are part of your immediate future while seeking thrift kitchen tools.To survive on a frugal budget, cooking your own food is an imperative. Asking a question on Quora hints ongoing access to the internet via phone or PC, so look to websites that cover cooking on a SNAP budget or seek basic recipes.Foremost, protein needs to be covered, such as beans and rice. Discount grocery stores sell 1–2 pound bags from around $.60-$1.50. Occasionally 2lb bags will show up in Dollar or 99Cent stores. Look for ethnic markets in urban communities as some of these carry these cornerstone diet essentials very inexpensively and often in larger 5lb bags for less than $10 for both needs. A combination of beans with rice, such as Red Beans & Rice, is a complete protein. Sustaining and will keep the gray cells perking. While you are working into these bags of veggie protein, I would strongly press seeking a food pantry or bank for supplement source of foods to stretch this very meager budget.Look to farmer’s markets toward the end of their day for boxes of produce they don’t wish to pack home again; consider offering to run errands for the vendors, assist in loading or unloading for end-day bags of food or tips. Look for greens, carrots, cabbage, potatoes, the relatively inexpensive vegetables that will augment the beans’n rice diet. If your location is not an urban but rural community, then there will likely be town organizations or churches that have food box projects to aid those in a monetary pinch.If farmer’s markets are not a ready source, check any local grocery stores for their policy on end-day disposal of sad produce such as apples, bananas, peppers, anything you can use. You can purchase cheap canned or frozen veggies, but if a bag of free only entails cutting out bruises, it’s easier than diving in the dumpster later and saves a few more dollars. If the latter becomes your last option, watch yourself as not all communities or corporate markets are kind if they don’t condone this.
Is eating out cheaper than cooking at home?
It is much more expensive to eat out. If you spent $30 at a restaurant for one meal, imagine how many groceries you could buy at the grocery store for $30, and how many meals you could make with those groceries. You can buy a pound of hamburger, a can of spaghetti sauce, a box of spaghetti noodles or other pasta, and a loaf of french bread for $5 or less, and have plenty of leftovers for lunch or dinner the next day, too. With this scenerio, that still leaves you $25.
What are the cheapest things to buy at the grocery store?
Some don't understand 'really strict'. Beans and rice. Dried beans cost less than one can and will make more than six cans worth, once cooked. beans and rice are a complete protein. An onion and a bulb of garlic can go a long way! If nothing else, those four things for under $2. Onions boost your immune system. If you are that broke, you need to be eating at least half an onion. Garlic is a natural antibiotic. Ever read the poem of Cabbages and Kings? Cabbage is very good for you and is dirt cheap. Given the choice, I'd rather take the cabbage over the ramen.