Quote from: summonerrk on Today at 06:23:26 PM

Quote from: uneng on February 16, 2023, 05:47:43 PM

Just found a restaurant where the individual meal costs only 0,57$! Meal composed by rice, toasted cassava flour and black bean stew with few pieces of pork meats. Feeds one person decently and the taste is good. You can eat the whole month for less than 35$, considering lunch and dinner daily! That is perfect for cutting expenses with food!

Do you know any restaurants which serve cheaper meals than that where you live? It must be a meal, not snacks.

It sounds great - cheap and delicious, but you won't be able to eat like this regularly. Rice is good to alternate with noodles, buckwheat, pasta. Pork meat is good meat, it contains vitamins B12 and B6, but pork is better to alternate with chicken. You wrote about beans - but it does not cover the entire diet of vitamins from fruits and vegetables. We need to diversify them. Plus I want sweets - glucose is needed by the brain. Therefore, you will not be able to spend $ 35 a month. I think it will be twice as expensive.

I think people generally don't care too much about the nutritional value of their food, instead, they value food's taste. Old generation and even younger one seems to be this way. If you tell my father to eat oatmeal, broccoli and other healthy goods that taste terrible to improve his health, he will go crazy and kick you.
It's not only about my father, people generally taste what tastes delicious, that's why a lot of people have diabetes, high cholesterol, heart problems, stomach problems, kidney problems (a lot of soda, low water intake). They think that if they buy multi vitamins in pharmacy, it will fix all of their issues, some people even think that if you eat cranberries during the summer, it will be enough to keep your body saturated with C vitamin for one year.

Well, I pay 32 Euro for food that lasts me for 2-3 days. And I buy in supermarket and cook it myself at home. I imagine, with my money, one month's expenses on food would be enough for me to eat in Brazil for one year. Maybe I should become digital nomad and immigrate in Brazil Cheesy

Btw I usually eat chicken breast, eggs, beans, some fruit, some yoghurt. Everything is super cheap except chicken breast and eggs. Probably 80% of expenses goes into chicken fillet and eggs. 1KG breast costs 10 Euro and ten eggs costs between 2.5-4 euro. Well, I workout and wanna keep my big muscles, maybe that's why expenses are so high (you wont' see single person in Germany spending up to 600 euro a month on food).
But cmon guys, how is $35 enough for food? What's the price of 1KG chicken fillet? What's the price of 10 eggs? What's the price of healthy food in your country?

I ask this question to everyone here who comes from countries where food costs so low:
Imagine I am a bodybuilder who competes in Mr Olympia classic physique and I eat 700g chicken fillet every day, 300g salmon, 5-10 eggs (egg whites), 4-5 bananas, two cottage cheese, oatmeal, rice and some vegetables.
Can someone do me a favor and briefly tell me how much would my expenses be? In Germany, it's up to 600 Euro.
P.S. I need the food to be good quality, so don't include low quality foods into your calculation.