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Re: Cheap food: can you beat this price in your country?
by
Hamza2424
on 17/03/2023, 09:11:25 UTC
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 snack.

Ok, So let's consider it you said 0.57$ which is around 0.60$ for easy calculation, and 1$ in PKR = 282, and 0.6$ will be around 169PKR so let's get started after the 42% inflation in my country on basic food consumers goods there are still some options so for an average person a day time meal in Pakistan is Roti and Curry of lentils or vegetables. Roti will cost 75 including 3 Roti and vegetable Salad/yogurt and 60RS for a single person Curry that's it. Believe me, that is enough for a person to spend a whole day and it's considered a full-day meal in my country. The total cost is around 170RS.

If we consider the same meal 10 months before it will hardly cost around 100RS. Anyway, for the Daily wagers in my country to reduce their living costs who work in outer cities there are Ehsaas Program for their free Quality food and Sheltering directly managed by State on the funding of Federal. This way the Small Wagers can save their food cost and save money for their loved ones. I admire such systems, unfortunately, the maximum of these programs is Paused by the recently Imported Government in Pakistan but still, we belive that soon this hard time is gonna end.