Grocery Challenge

[premar16]

NEW CHALLENGE EVERYONE!

If you had only $20 dollars to buy a weeks worth of groceries could you survive? If so what would you buy?

Please share your suggestions with all of us

[msmoneybags48]

I am thrilled, premar16, to be the first to answer this question.  If I only had $20 and had to buy a week's worth of groceries, I would buy a roll of sausage, eggs, bread, ground beef, ramen noodles, and an onion.

[kapeh12]

I pretty much average about $20-25 per week normally.  My weekly buys are basically fruit (bananas, grapes, berries) for my breakfast smoothies (homemade), and a package of deli meat for lunch.  Once per month I'll pick up eggs, milk (rice and/or almond), cheese, oatmeal, raisins, frozen veggies.

Every few months I'll pick up other misc things - like toiletries as needed.  And flour, yeast, butter, honey for making bread (I typically only get these every 9 months or so...haven't bought store bread in almost a year now), and pecans for making granola (one bag lasts about 6 months for me).

I do most of my shopping at a SuperTarget, so I'd also use the Gift Card Granny online router site to buy a $21.50 gift card with the $20 first.  Nothing like "free" money.   

[lbeery]

Milk $3.19 gallon
Potatoes  $2.59 5#  bag
Pork Butt Roast (cheapest meat these days) 6.95  3#
Lettuce   2.00 for 2 heads iceberg
Bread 2.00 for 2 loaves
Eggs  2.89 for 18 eggs
I am assuming I have toilet paper, salt and pepper and either oil or butter for frying the potatoes.  If not, use the fat from the port roast for the potatoes (or you could boil them) and if no toilet paper, hope I have a phone book!

[premar16]

cool ... today I had $14 to buy groceries for me and my sister tell the 7th
I got
potatoes
eggs
bread
ground beef
fresh veggies( carrots and celery)
milk

[dmitchn1]

I have 4 people to feed and they are all big eaters so I would just buy as many ramen noodle packages as I could! 

[premar16]

Milk $3.19 gallon
Potatoes  $2.59 5#  bag
Pork Butt Roast (cheapest meat these days) 6.95  3#
Lettuce   2.00 for 2 heads iceberg
Bread 2.00 for 2 loaves
Eggs  2.89 for 18 eggs
I am assuming I have toilet paper, salt and pepper and either oil or butter for frying the potatoes.  If not, use the fat from the port roast for the potatoes (or you could boil them) and if no toilet paper, hope I have a phone book!

I salt/pepper and butter.But thats a neat trick I didnt have butter I will have to remember that. I didnt have toilet paper luckily I started having a change jar about 3 weeks ago so we used some of that money to but toilet paper and laundry soap.There was 20 some dollars in the jar.Thats a lot change I suggest every do it .Like this shows change adds up

[sdenimandlace1]

I would get eggs, carrots celery, sliced cheese, Pinto beans dry, flour tortillas, potatoes, ground beef.

[cowgirl2116]

I would buy a bag of beans, a bag of rice, milk, oatmeal, butter, 1 pack of lunch meat and 1 loaf of bread.  Whatever is left over, I would go to a meat market and buy some ground beef.

[camellia0]

you can buy a bag of beans (about $1) that would last all week. Lunch meat and bread. You could buy some greens in the produce (less than $1 per pound. Also eggs (these could last thru the next week) also rice, sugar, milk. It can be done, just have to compare prices at different stores.

[alice44]

I have to admit this would be a challenge for me.  Assuming you are figuring only food (no personal or household items) I would get the following:
powered milk
eggs
macaroni
loaf of bread
peanut butter
can black beans
can tomatoes
ground beef

[bianca07]

20 bucks, huh? Um, whole chicken, rice, ramen noodles, bread, eggs

[meg0694]

Bread, milk, beans, noodles, cereal

[5Yari32]

bread,potatos,ramen soup,water,carnationmilk

[pattersondebra]

eggs, macaroni, rice, soup base, cheese, and chicken