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Originally Posted by SilentKnight
A lot would depend on how well you take advantage of the grocery sale flyers and coupons, too. My wife spends time looking at all the grocery flyers and waits until items are at really good sale prices before stocking up (especially orange juice and cheese slices). She's a rather thrifty shopper...rarely pays full price for anything. Often times we'll just do without something until it goes on sale price - no hardship.
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Some friends and I did a version of the $29 a week challenge several months ago. I think $29 a week is the average of what people get. We looked it up and found out that the most a single person could get is $190 a month. So we decided to try to live on just that. We also lived with the restrictions of that meaning we wouldn't buy anything you can't buy with the food stamp card.
I came close. I ran out of money with about 4-5 days left in the month. My two friends that tried it with me didn't do as well. One just gave up after about 2 weeks and the other ran out of money with about 10 days left.
It was interesting and certain gave me some perspective on just how much we spend on food.