Situations in life are different, so the ability to live on a small amount with the mind is extremely useful. A girl blogger named Anna found herself in a difficult financial situation, when at best 5,000 rubles a month remained for food. She shared her experience on the blog, in the article you will find her recommendations. It is worth immediately clarifying that in order to fit into such a budget, you will have to abandon trips to cafes and canteens, purchase ready-made food and semi-finished products, cook only at home. Also, the girl has no subsidiary plots.
Simple and seasonal foods
To meet the budget, Anna switched to simple products - these are cereals, beans and peas, seasonal vegetables and fruits, chicken, eggs, pasta, dairy products, pollock, canned fish, chicken liver.
It was important for the girl not only to save, but also not to lose her health, so she decided that she would not buy cheap but low-quality products - margarine, cheese and sour cream substitutes, sweets with the addition of dyes, sausages and other food with a dubious composition. I also had to abandon exotic fruits, with the exception of bananas, non-seasonal vegetables.
Products by weight
Anna stopped buying tea bags, brewed ordinary Krasnodar leaf in a teapot. In addition, she noted that it is more profitable to buy products by weight, the same cereals, pasta, sugar, coffee, spices, and not pre-packaged, since you do not need to pay extra for packaging.
Menus, Lists, and Inexpensive Meals
To minimize food costs, Anna had to learn how to create a menu for the week. In advance, she wrote out the list of the most inexpensive but satisfying dishes: cereals, soups, stewed seasonal vegetables with chicken (potatoes, cabbage, zucchini, cauliflower and so on), navy pasta with vegetables, scrambled eggs, homemade pastries (pancakes, pancakes and pancakes, pies, apple charlotte, pizza, rolls), buckwheat with chicken liver, cottage cheese with sour cream, minced meat dishes (meatballs, stuffed seasonal vegetables, cutlets, casseroles), simple seasonal salads with vegetable oil or sour cream, mayonnaise. The benefit of culinary sites is now very much, you can find recipes for every taste, including budget ones. Using this list, the girl made the menu.
The presence of a freezer also helped. If some perishable product from the list was sold by stock, the girl took to the stock and froze (for example, milk, eggs), and preparations of vegetables and fruits were sent to the freezer in the season, as well as prepared dishes, if something remained underfed.
In order not to buy too much in the store, Anna previously compiled a list of products and strictly followed him.
Achieving Modernity - Food Sharing
Sharing is an English word that means "share." In other words, it is an economy of joint consumption, when people exchange things, give them, or use them collectively. To do this, create separate sites, but most often sharing services work through regular groups on social networks. Anna found a group in her city, in which people gave out food that had become unnecessary. Usually it is tea, cereals, home-made preparations that were not managed to be eaten during the season, spices, sometimes even sweets and cookies. Food not expired, this is an important condition. You need to respond quickly to ads, as there are enough people who want to pick up products. Repeatedly Anna took products from such announcements, it cost free, except for the cost of travel in public transport.
“Oddly enough, with a limited budget, you can eat quite varied and tasty, however, much more time has to be spent on cooking homemade food,” the girl concludes. “When my financial situation improved, I began not so strictly following my own rules, sometimes going to the cafe, but overall I continue to eat the same.”