The challenge ….
3 days …. 9 Meals …. $24.00
If I only had $24 and had to use that $24 to buy 3 days worth of food (9 meals)
Questions I thought of as I approached this challenge included
- Could I actually do it?
- What would I buy?
- How healthy would my meals be?
- Would I have leftovers or would I be wondering if I had enough to last the full 3 days?
Here is what I came up with for a menu for the 3 days.
- Day 1
- Breakfast
- A bowl of Oatmeal
- 1 cup milk
- 1 egg
- 1 banana
- Lunch
- Cheesy Mac-n-Beans
- Ingredients needed
- 1 box mac-n-cheese
- 1 can diced tomatoes
- dry beans (cooked)
- Dinner
- Tuna Sandwich
- Ingredients
- 2 slices of bread
- 1/2 can Tuna
- 1/2 T Mayo
- 1/2 slice Onion
- 1 cup Milk
- Day 2
- Breakfast
- A bowl of oatmeal
- 1 egg
- 1 cup milk
- 1 banana
- Lunch
- 1 Tuna Sandwich
- Ingredients
- 1/2 can Tuna
- 2 slices bread
- 1/2 T mayo
- 1/2 slice onion
- 1 cup milk
- Dinner
- Day 3
- Breakfast
- 1 bowl Oatmeal
- 1 cup milk
- 1 banana
- Lunch
- 1 egg salad sandwich
- Ingredients
- 1 egg
- 2 slices bread
- 1 T Mayo
- Onion
- Water
- 1 banana
- Dinner
- My choice of either
- Leftover boiled dinner
- or Leftover Cheesy mac-n-beans
- 1 cup milk
As you can see I was able to figure out things that were healthy, but also ended up getting mac-n-cheese which has a questionable degree of healthiness to it.
Here is a list of the items I would need to buy for this menu with prices for items based on the prices at Warren Shurfine where I was given permission to take some pictures of items on my list so I could include them, here’s a link to the video I posted on YouTube for the PAMHI $24 Challenge.
- 1 pound bag of dry kidney beans – $2.19
- 1 box of mac-n-cheese – $0.75
- 1 small sweet onion – $0.99 per pound
- 1 small head of cabbage $0.59 per pound
- I purchased one that day and it cost about $1.29 for a roughly 2 pound head of cabbage that day
- 1 small box of Oatmeal – $1.49
- 1 gallon of low-fat Milk – $3.41
- 1 dozen eggs – $1.19
- 1 – 5 ounce can of Tuna $1.09
- 5 pound bag of potatoes – $2.99
- 3 bananas – $0.69 per pound
- Total amount I would have spent for items on this list was about $21.00
Special thanks to the folks at Warren Shurfine for giving me permission to take the photos of items found in the slide show I made to go with this post.
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