Eating On A Budget: Wrap-Up

The 411 - The 90 Day Experiment

After reading Hungry for a Month, I decided that I would embark on a 90-day social experiment. In which I only spend $30/month on food. The only exception will be things that are freely available to the average person (salt taken from restaurants, ketchup packets from McDonald's, potluck dinners, etc). Buying in advance is fine, but at the end of the month, it all has to add up to $30 or less. I may continue this extreme budget, after the experiment is over. However, I will see how well I did and how much healthier I am come April 6, 2007, when this experiment officially ends.

NOTE: This blog is organized according to date, which means you’ll see the last day of this thing before the first. It might make more sense if you start from the beginning: January 6, 2007. - Which can be done by gooing to the archive section in the sidebar.

Monday, April 16, 2007

Wrap-Up

The 90-day experiment was interesting. I thought it would be easier. However, my will power began to to wain after the first month. One thing this experiment proved is that it is possible to eat on $30 a month. Especially, if you are single and willing to limit your meals to cheaper foods that you have to fix from scratch. Especially as Dave Ramsey says, beans and rice, rice and beans. While I ate a a few more items then that, it became boring to eat the same thing over and over as time went on.
Now that, the experiment is over I am going to start cleaning out my pantry of cans of food rather then buying new food. Time to clear out the overstock. However, the time for this blog is over. I will leave the blog for those who come to read it during future visits. Maybe, by chance it will inspire someone else.
For any future posts about food that I make, it will be an occasional post on my regular budget blog. A blog that, I need to place my main focus on.
Thank you one and all that have read this blog through it's entirety. God bless each and everyone of you. May each and everyone of us become debt-free forever.

6 comments:

Chris Thomas said...: Interesting experiment. Dave would be proud!; April 17, 2007 8:58 AM
A GROWN AZZED WOMAN said...: I enjoyed the read. I might try eating on a budget one day, lol; April 25, 2007 8:39 PM
SavingDiva said...: Great blog! I couldn't imagine doing something like this though!; August 21, 2007 1:14 PM
Budgeting Online said...: Noooooooo! Don't abandon us! $30/month is rough... I see how that would equate to a budget that consisted of primarily beans and rice. And I could also see how boring those meals would get. Let's face it... there are only so many ways you can doctor up a 'bean'.; April 20, 2009 9:14 AM
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