Topic: Cheap food: can you beat this price in your country? - page 6. (Read 1263 times)

It's cheap but I guess you don't eat it every day, do you? Cheap food tends to be unhealthy but in many countries, especially developing or undeveloped countries, people eat it to survive. And they are still healthy.

Maybe it's okay if you eat food like that but not every day because our bodies need nutritious food intake. So think before you decide what to eat.

the picture of instant noodles that you show is very familiar to me. but the packaging is slightly different from here. is that new packaging? Or is it in another country?
and these noodles are indeed the cheapest noodles in the country where I work now. it costs only $0.099USD per pack. And it is quite filling when eaten when we are working overtime. and I often eat it when I have to work late until midnight. and I eat it at midnight.

and I usually add 2 sausages at a price of $ 0.066USD per 1 sausage. then I bought a fresh fruit flavored drink at a price of $ 0.132USD per bottle.
so the total price I spent was only $ 0.363USD. but an hour later I feel hungry again. and I went back to look for other snacks at the snack shop on the side of the road.  

What country are you talking about friend? 0.57$ meal is full, is it too cheap? That kind of amount here is called "Trentalog" It has rice, eggs, and a hotdog or ham. Or maybe a lucky me pancit canton plus One rice.

       Apart from what I mentioned, I can't think of a meal like that price that can be bought in a restaurant it's not even a restaurant that I can buy, I said instead in Carinderia which is like a Canteen that is really for those who can't afford to eat in restaurants.

Indeed, saving or cutting spending will not be able to make us rich, instead, we should find ways to increase income. I know there are many people in difficult circumstances, and choosing cheap foods is what they are doing, but I will not do so because cheap foods are often foods that are not good for health. I prefer to have nutritious meals, and then I will try to do a little more to make up for that spending rather than eat poor quality food. If we think we can save it in that way, sooner or later, that savings will be given to the doctor. Think simply, as long as we have health, we will always have the opportunity to make money.

I want to know where is it?

In my opinion this is classified as a restaurant that provides rice at a relatively cheap price, in my area you will pay as much as $ 1.31 for one portion of food, unless you are willing to buy a pack of food (rice) on the side of the road from a seller who uses a wheelbarrow for $ 0, 65 per portion. This price is still quite expensive for one serving of food in the area where you live and in our area places like this are not included in the restaurant category.

Let's forget about what is called a restaurant or eating house according to the version of each of our countries. But as far as I know in your area it is much cheaper for one portion of the cost of one meal, I assume an income of around $ 197.14 a month is quite large and you can afford to live luxuriously in the area where you live, if you calculate the need for one meal and the amount of income we get from the assumptions I mentioned we receive every month.

Hit us hard. We are just more focused on budgeting like we spend most of our time to budget and we are just having temporary solution on this and not a permanent one like having another source of income so that we wont be sacrificing our food budget. Having another source of income is the solution so that we wont be eating cheap and unhealthy food which we need to find another job or side hustle that can add to our income so no need to budget our money

Where I am live, food stalls are popping up selling food cheaper than usual. We can buy 1 full meal for only $0.72, while the normal cost that must be spent at other places to eat is $1.05. Indeed, the portion is slightly different, but that is enough to help the cheap labor to be able to enjoy meat and the good thing is that it is available in quite a lot of places

If you do really think off on getting yourself that freed into that kind of limitation on trying out to cut up your expenses but on the time that you do have multiple sources of income then you wouldn't needing

on minding this stuff.Im not saying that wise spending and expense handling is bad but most of the time you would really be forgetting if you do know that you have multiple income sources or simply could sustain.
Speaking about cheap food then it would really be varying on different places on the world considering that economical situations and conditions would really be that different.
We do have different handling in regarding on our finances, if we do see  that we could save up then stick into that principle.

People who are looking to just eat the same thing and cut from their expenses do not know how to get rich. In order to get rich you can't just cut your costs, sure it would be a smart decision if you spend responsibly, I am not saying go out and buy the newest iphone each time a new one comes out, nor saying you should eat at 3 michelin star restaurants everyday, if you can find a meal for a dollar then that's great, 4-5 dollars? That's not too terrible neither.

However, the real way to get rich is to earn more, because that's unlimited, you can cut your costs down to a minimum and can't cut down more, but you can earn unlimited amount of money, focus on your revenue instead.

Someone should start posting pictures in this thread, plain numbers does not show what we get for those <1$ or 10-20$ meals. It might turn that the trick of cheap food is small portion or a mix of rice/pasta with vegies, that dont cost much in general. cheap food does not equal cheap ingredients.

Cheap food can be like this:


Or it can be like this:



In first case you will get a diarrhea in couple of hours and hungry again, in second case you will at least have some taste and be well-fed for 3-5 hours.

A poor country is not a synonym for an undernourished or undernourished country. I used to travel the world often and a lot, visited about 50 countries, and I have something to say
For example Thailand. A beautiful country, indescribable nature, culture... and cuisine Yes, a tourist usually sees tourist beauty. I like to travel away from the tourist centers on my own and see real life. I won’t say what the dollar rate is now, I was there when it was about 30-32 Thai baht / dollar. I'll give you a specific example. Phuket Island, small family restaurants on the waterfront, in the Karon Beach area. Lunch cost about 15-20 dollars. It was tom yum soup, king prawns, vegetables, beer, snacks,... Lots and delicious. But this is a tour area. If you go north, to less touristy areas, everything changes there. Yes, there are no king prawns and lobsters, but there are vegetables, eggs, chicken, pork, rice, fruits. There you can eat in a cafe for about 2-3 dollars, this is a full meal. And if you take not a cafe or small family restaurants, but what is called a "dinner" - lunch already cost 1-2 dollars. But lunch included a light broth with greens, rice, some seafood or meat, juices / fruit drinks ... Portions are not as huge as in the tourist area, but quality products, and quite enough for lunch even for me, with my weight of just over 100 kg: )
I was in Srilanka, Bentota. Dinner at the hotel restaurant - 35-40 dollars. Dinner in a restaurant on the beach - 10-20, drive inland - and dinner is already 3-5 dollars. And this is a complete meal, not only carbohydrates and fats, but also vegetables, meat, seafood.
Was in Mexico. At first I was in Cancun, then I went to see the country. In small towns, you could have a good meal with Mexican cuisine - for 2-3 dollars. But this is the price of a wholesome meal - vegetables, meat, corn tortillas, juices, fruits.

And I think that in other countries, with a not very high standard of living, the availability of good and healthy food is also not a very big problem, and you should not focus on the cheapest and most unhealthy. I agree only in relation to countries with a low standard of living and difficult conditions, for example, countries where there are not enough areas with less fertile land.

For 0.57$, you have rice, toasted cassava flour, and black bean stew with pork meat, we call that a package meal, it can be considered cheap and you can't lose there.

It's just that right now I don't see such a price here, the cheapest package menu that I see is at 1.55$ overload as we call it here, in short, it's enough for this amount. But only a few restaurants have it here.

In my county people have big heart. Many people provide free food to those who cannot afford
There are places where people can get free meal . . there are some places where they would even charge penny and would provide big meal to the whole family.

I agree with you on this. I also come from a country with low income and a standard of living but with a cost of $0.57 per meal. I've never seen that in my country, at least $1 per meal. In the context of high inflation and crisis, high food prices, to get a meal at such a low cost, I doubt that food can't guarantee quality for our health. Unless OP is talking about a charity diner subsidized by charities.

That is why others will say unhealthy foods are delicious. I really don't care about the foods I've eaten since I was a teenager; I don't care if they are healthy or not, and I also always eat at those cheap food stalls to save money and play those computer games, but that was a really wrong move as it could really affect my health. Eating healthy foods is sometimes expensive, and only a few people can afford it. That is why those poor families usually tend to rely on cheap food to survive.

Yeah it is not balanced properly.

I mentioned the chicken soup I can make at home for 1.35-1.50 a meal us prices

Occasionally supermarkets sell large pork roasts 13 pounds with careful slow roast you can rend most fat out and then shred the meat. Maybe 7 or 8 pounds of meat after fat is rendered and bone removed.
Good Frozen veg on sale say broccoli ,stringbeans ,carrots,cauliflower. 5 pounds of it can be five dollars.

So 13+5= 18.00 toss in a pot with tomato sauce a few more dollars. maybe 3 so 21 dollars.

very low carb. proper prep of the pork lowers fat.

If you are diabetic no rice but if you are not diabetic put on a bed of rice . less than 2 dollars

You can serve a dozen people for 24 bucks as you need gas stove to cook it.

With a low carb or normal carb option (rice/no rice)

I can make this two or three times a year with sales.

Basically the chicken soup/stew  along with shredded pork veg rice or no rice. Is likely 70 of the meals my wife and I eat in a year.

We eat 6 x 365 = 2190 meals a year.

The ones above are good for us and low cost.

But even if I want to make  140 meals a year vs the 70 we do make it would be hard to source and hold the food as the sales are rare.

That is extremely cheap, forget about restaurants I doubt many people can even prepare a meal which costs less than that, and we must remember that such a meal is being sold for a profit, so it has an even lower cost for the restaurant owner, making impossible for me to prepare a meal that cheap, however it would be unwise to try to go through your life by only eating that as there are many nutrients that you will not get with that meal, and the rest of your meals will need to provide them or you could suffer from malnutrition.

Many people are correct for pointing out we shouldn't eat unhealthy foods where it's mostly about high carbohydrates and fats, so it's better to find a restaurant where they serve a meal which composed about vegetables and other healthy foods. But many people are forget if those restaurants might use not fresh ingredients, instant sauce where it's contain high sugar, unhealthy cooking process, preservative uses etc.

You need to know the whole ingredients to judge how healthy the foods is, but since restaurants mostly don't care about it and only looking to make people come back to eat since it's delicious, it's better to buy a raw ingredients and cook yourself.

Don't always fry or saute your foods, it's better to stew or grill.

Cheap food is almost synonymous with poor quality or at least not healthy food. All cheap food comes down to a large intake of carbohydrates, fats, including vegetable fats. Yes - it's cheap. But it is always worth evaluating the cost in terms of perspectives and nuances.
Yes, you can eat 2 meals a day for a month for $35. And a year - for conditionally 400 dollars. Cool, someone will say. But ... Tell me - how much does medicine cost you? Do you have unemployment insurance? And such a diet, regular, is guaranteed to lead to problems with the stomach, intestines, and possibly loss of work. This is what I mean - trying to save money - you are setting the stage for huge expenses and problems, already in the near future. I agree, if there is a question of survival, and for some time you need to "get by" on food that will make you faint from hunger. But as a regular meal, I would strongly recommend against such food. It is better to study some new subject area and earn more, so as not to limit yourself to such nutrition.

I believe it depends on which country where you are.

Different countries, different economy which might affect the price of foods that are available. Here in my country, the average price of food per person is like $1 per meal, that's only street food meals we called "karinderya". But if you'll go to a restaurant, average price for them is like $2-$3 or even more depends on how fancy the restaurant is.