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Is it possible to live on €20

  • 14-09-2010 09:43PM
    #1
    Mrs Garth Brooks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,865 ✭✭✭Mrs Garth Brooks


    Im in college and watching my money and not sure if i can afford to pay more for food.

    What can i get for €20 to last for the week? And it'll be the same for the whole year.


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  • #2
    Pookah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 544 ✭✭✭Pookah


    ^^

    You're certainly living up to your username.


  • #3
    Blazer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,540 ✭✭✭✭Blazer


    More to the point..what would I get for €20 ;)


  • #4
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Pasta, beans, bread...


  • #5
    galwayrush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,816 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    I'm self employed, i have to manage on it many weeks.:mad:


  • #6
    Jeboa Safari
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭Jeboa Safari


    Go to lidls and tesco, find plenty of stuff


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  • #7
    PeteEd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 393 ✭✭PeteEd


    Fill your boots:D
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056031197


  • #8
    sh1tstirrer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,485 ✭✭✭sh1tstirrer


    Noodles in moderation every day.


  • #9
    Proxy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 847 ✭✭✭Proxy


    Goes a long way if you know how. You should really bolster that up to at least €30 though. If you make big meals with cheap ingredients like Shepherds Pie/Lasagne/Casserole and refrigerate/freeze properly, they'll last you well over a week. If you cook up some mince with spices/veg, it'll last two days in a fridge in an container (no more!) and works for tortillas, bologna, pasta...

    Best advice my dad ever gave me when I first moved out was, never cook meat from frozen and always make sure its piping hot through - can't go wrong after that :)


  • #10
    Johro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Johro


    Dravokivich wrote: »
    Pasta, beans, bread...
    -and rice. Half the world lives on rice. Seriously though, 20 quid? I'd sweep the road, wash windows, mind children, anything to make it easier. Hard luck..


  • #11
    Gillo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭Gillo


    Two litres of milk 1.80, cerial 2.00, 2kg's rice 4.00, loaf of bread 1.00, Dunnes do a range of meats two pack for 6.00

    Trying to think of the regulars I buy in a weekly shop, it'd be very tight but at a stretch you may be able to survice, the problem would be the stuff you need to initially get such as butter, cooking oil etc. Noodles make a quick and easy lunch, look for a brand called Kookai, decent enough flavour and very cheap.
    Look for stuff near the use by date thats reduced down.

    TBH, no point asking in AH, there's other forums you'll get better answers.

    Also if you're shopping in Dunnes, Tesco, Boots etc, us the value cards to build up vouchers.

    One interesting thing I noticed was comparing prices, most price tags will have the weight per KG, it's not unusual for the smaller packer (eg 500 grm's as opposed to 1KG) to be better value even though you'll expect the larger ones to be.


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  • #12
    Thrill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,485 ✭✭✭Thrill


    Store brand foods are probably the cheapest. Dont know about getting by on just the 20 Euro though.


  • #13
    Pighead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    Spend your money on a fishing rod babes.

    Give HardLuckWoman a fish and you feed her for a day. Give HardLuckWoman a fishing rod and you'll give her an entertaining pastime that will in all likelihood take her mind off the fact that she's starving hungry and enable her to spend her €20 on something cool like tie dye scarves or neon rollerblades.


  • #14
    Oranage2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,129 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    wear a low cut top in a bar - when somebody asks do you want a drink refuse and tell him that you will have some bread and milk instead.


  • #15
    ilovesleep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭ilovesleep


    Weedkiller


  • #16
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,651 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    That's not "living" on €20. That's your food budget.


  • #17
    Kasabian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    HLW if you're in a college near me you are more than welcome to come round and have dinner in the evenings. Easy to add a bit more to the pot.


  • #18
    strokemyclover
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    If you lived anywhere other than Good Oul Oireland, ye'd probably make it kiddo!


  • #19
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Look up the addresses of all your local dog shelters.

    Then search for recipies on Korean websites.


  • #20
    starbelgrade
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    Kasabian wrote: »
    HLW if you're in a college near me you are more than welcome to come round and have dinner in the evenings. Easy to add a bit more to the pot.

    She's trying to figure out how to food shop on 20 a week & you're thinking about cooking her.


  • #21
    Kasabian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    She's trying to figure out how to food shop on 20 a week & you're thinking about cooking her.

    I have a big heart appetite


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  • #22
    Coriolanus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,879 ✭✭✭Coriolanus


    Is this going to be your ongoing budget for food weekly or are you just short this week?
    If you're just short, buy rice milk and sugar and make rice pudding. I know, I know, nasty, but hundreds of millions survive on the stuff.
    If this is going to be ongoing, I'd seriously suggest getting a part time job.


  • #23
    Kasabian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    Look up the addresses of all your local dog shelters.

    Then search for recipies on Korean websites.

    Cats are much tastier,fact.


  • #24
    starbelgrade
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    Kasabian wrote: »
    Cats are much tastier,fact.

    Maybe - but you don't want to raise suspicion. A medium to large sized dog would last a lot longer than a cat & there'd be less trips back to the shelter for more meat.


  • #25
    StinkySocs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 228 ✭✭StinkySocs


    You can buy 5 bottles of red wine in Tesco @ €4 each.
    College is about enjoying life, choose wine, just eat at the wknds when you go home and stock up on stray tea bags, milk, bread, butter, etc

    (its actually nice enough wine - honest!!, Cant remember the name of it sorry but you won't find many wines for €4)


  • #26
    starbelgrade
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    Nevore wrote: »
    Is this going to be your ongoing budget for food weekly or are you just short this week?
    If you're just short, buy rice milk and sugar and make rice pudding. I know, I know, nasty, but hundreds of millions survive on the stuff.
    If this is going to be ongoing, I'd seriously suggest getting a part time job.

    You do know that there are more things that you can make with rice than rice pudding, I presume?


  • #27
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Join a dating website. Put in your profile that you are "up for no holds barred fun". Target ugly, sad, fat or lonely looking blokes. Then meet all the blokes for dinner dates.

    They're guaranteed to pay for the meal. Then you can keep your €20 for make-up or tampons.


  • #28
    Pighead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    StinkySocs wrote: »
    You can buy 5 bottles of red wine in Tesco @ €4 each.
    College is about enjoying life, choose wine, just eat at the wknds when you go home and stock up on stray tea bags, milk, bread, butter, etc

    (its actually nice enough wine - honest!!, Cant remember the name of it sorry but you won't find many wines for €4)
    Rubbish advice. No wonder your socks are stinky. You're life is a shambles if you think five bottles of wine is what the chick should spend her measly amount of food money on.

    Newsflash: You need food to survive and to poo. Wine will not make you poo and if it does it'll be runny and maybe red. Pigheads no expert on poo but red runny poo is never good. Go wash your socks and have a think about where your life is heading. Until then keep the advice to yourself Stinkser.


  • #29
    Kasabian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    Maybe - but you don't want to raise suspicion. A medium to large sized dog would last a lot longer than a cat & there'd be less trips back to the shelter for more meat.


    You get a Tom and a female and breed them , they produce a litter fairly quickly so by the time you get through a litter there's another lot cooking.

    Also good with rabbits but rabbit's taste like human. Not to everyone's taste.


  • #30
    padma
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,874 ✭✭✭padma


    2 Loaves of brown bread,2 litre o milk,bunch of bananas, Bag of spuds, bag of rice from a chinese store, tins of chopped tomatoes, Mixed beans, some fresh veg, tins o tuna, eggs, each week keep 2 euro for things like toilet roll, salt, herbs, cooking oil etc. Stay clear of branded goods, buy in tescos and lidl etc. spoil yourself from time to time and get sthg like chocolate or bags of crisps for tayto sandwiches.


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  • #31
    Coriolanus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,879 ✭✭✭Coriolanus


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    You do know that there are more things that you can make with rice than rice pudding, I presume?
    Not with rice, milk and sugar there isn't? :confused: Some kind of alchohol maybe I guess, but I don't think she has that kind of time.


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