For five days. Could you do it for just five days?
I’m not sure we could. There are five of us, so if I look at ??5 for a day for the family it does make it easier. Today while I was shopping, just top up food, I paid careful attention to prices.
5 apples – 79p per lb. They came out at ??1, so there’s a fifth of it gone on one piece of fruit each.
We could buy the really cheap bread, at 47p a loaf. We usually make our own, but to buy the flour, the yeast, the butter would probably push us over the limit for one day.
No butter. Dunno what we’re going to put on the bread 🙁
Let’s skip on to the main meal, and see if we can make any savings there we can carry backwards as it were. Cheap pasta. 20p for a packet. So we could chuck in a decent sauce, at 80p to make a main meal for five for a pound.
(I’d use a can of tomatoes and just make up a sauce, but you’d need some herbs, and again, that would push me over the limit.)
So let’s see, we’ve spent ??2.47 so far. No fruit juice for the kids, can’t afford that, they’ll have to drink water. (Which we all do as well, tbh, but it’s alongside our other drinks.) But we’re short breakfast, drinks and something to put on the bread for lunch. Tesco do a value cooked ham for 0.62p which would cover most of us for lunch (I’m vegetarian), taking us up to ??3.02.
Milk. We’d have to have milk. It’s 89 pence for 2 pints, or you can buy 8 pints for ??2. I’d do that if I were doing several days shopping tbh, as that would last us the 5 days with some left over.
??3.91. Leaving ??1.09 for something for breakfast, and something for me for lunch. And I guess neither dp nor I are getting our coffee or tea today. Tesco used to have value cornflakes for 31p, but they aren’t listed on their site atm. Shame. I can have a value jam at 38p though, which gives me lunch at least. 71p left. Tescos cheapest cereal appears to be 75p now, so I can’t quite do it out of one day’s budget, but there would be some to carry on to the next day. That would be the only way to come anywhere near this.
Why am I even thinking about this? It’s down to a blogpost I read over at fuelmyblog’s blog. The Live Below the Line Campaign is asking ppl to consider living on ??1 a day for food and drink for 5 days this May, and blog about it, to raise awareness of the 1.4 billion ppl on this planet living below the extreme poverty line. It’s a thought provoking experience – I challenge you to see what you could buy for ??1 per person in your family. Can you live that way? What gives first? Let me know.
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ETA I thought this was a blogging campaign to raise awareness. When I’ve gone through via the links on fuelmyblog to the underlying charity site, Live Below the Line, it appears I’ve signed up to fundraise too. I’m not going to actively fundraise – you are very welcome to contribute if you wish to, but as I’m already fundraising for Oxfam build a library on here, I think it would be confusing to add another charity. I did set up as a team though, so if you want to join the Liveotherwise team, blog your achievements and fundraise, I’d be very interested to hear how you go on with it.
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