Help! How to live on $75 per week in college

[Peasie]

I need your ideas. My son lives on college campus in an apartment with full kitchen, living room, dining room. He has his own bedroom in a four bedroom, two bath, apartment that he shares with three other guys. He is not on a meal plan this semester and is budgeting $75 per week for food alone, including an occasional Subway sandwich. What should his weekly grocery shopping list look like? He eats meat, does not like fruits, and eats only lettuce and spinach as vegetables.

[kia027]

Re: Help! How to live on $75 per week in college

care package of ramen noodles from costco -- dem go a long way
High protein foods such as eggs (the incredible edible egg)

meat as im side dish daily
fresh potatoes
lots of spinach and tomato & lettuce

avoid the packaged meals but learn to make meals from scratch as the basic ingriedients are cheaper than buying packaged.

[Peasie]

Re: Help! How to live on $75 per week in college

You got me thinking. OK, so for one week of groceries:

1 doz. eggs
16 oz. grated cheddar
8 oz. margarine
1 loaf whole wheat bread
1 package ziti
1 package spaghetti
1 jar spaghetti sauce
Special K cereal
1/2 gallon milk
1 lb. sliced turkey from deli
1 lb. sliced provolone from deli
1 jar peanut butter
1 jar grape jelly
1 package pre-washed romaine lettuce
1 package pre-washed baby spinach
1 small jar mayonnaise

wonder how much this comes to?

[kia027]

Re: Help! How to live on $75 per week in college

i would think 8oz grated cheese and 2 packages of the spinach, lettuce

add some nuts and beans tooo

[CeaBee]

Re: Help! How to live on $75 per week in college

what about meat for dinner?

if he buys a whole chicken (and will eat the whole thing) he can get it relatively cheap.

i see thin sliced sirloin cheap

ground turkey and ground chicken cheap as well

just teach him to look out for the specials on meat and tailor him shopping accordingly

[Peasie]

Re: Help! How to live on $75 per week in college

Problem is I don't trust him to cook ground beef or chicken. He can cook turkey burgers in a pan, all the same. He also likes veggie burgers.

More ideas please

[kia027]

Re: Help! How to live on $75 per week in college

crock pot - slow cook the beef from mawning till night
rice cooker - rice & peas

eat more beans check out traderjoes.com

see some recipes from trader joes they are healthful yet not too expensive

[CeaBee]

Re: Help! How to live on $75 per week in college

him gwine want meat i think.

give him some tips and unnu cook it together when him come home to visit?



man (if him is a regular meat eater) cannot live on turkey burker alone.

[CeaBee]

Re: Help! How to live on $75 per week in college

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Killa_Tilla</div><div class="ubbcode-body">crock pot - slow cook the beef from mawning till night
rice cooker - rice &amp; peas

eat more beans check out traderjoes.com </div></div>

doan encourage the male of the species fi eat more beans

maybe the chicken can go in the crockpot too?

[kia027]

Re: Help! How to live on $75 per week in college

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: CeaBee</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Killa_Tilla</div><div class="ubbcode-body">crock pot - slow cook the beef from mawning till night
rice cooker - rice &amp; peas

eat more beans check out traderjoes.com </div></div>

doan encourage the male of the species fi eat more beans

maybe the chicken can go in the crockpot too? </div></div>

why gaslight pups?

wid the spinach im should well regular

[Gen]

Re: Help! How to live on $75 per week in college

depending on how cheap the whole wheat pasta is you can subsitute that for the regular pasta

mi nuh see nuh beverage pan the shopping list like OJ, Juice etc

him not gwine need snacks too

fi wata just get him the brita jug

mi hope the odda people dem nuh nyam out him food like my suite mate dem used to do


<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Peasie</div><div class="ubbcode-body">You got me thinking. OK, so for one week of groceries:

1 doz. eggs
16 oz. grated cheddar
8 oz. margarine
1 loaf whole wheat bread
1 package ziti
1 package spaghetti
1 jar spaghetti sauce
Special K cereal
1/2 gallon milk
1 lb. sliced turkey from deli
1 lb. sliced provolone from deli
1 jar peanut butter
1 jar grape jelly
1 package pre-washed romaine lettuce
1 package pre-washed baby spinach
1 small jar mayonnaise

wonder how much this comes to?

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[kia027]

Re: Help! How to live on $75 per week in college

and one a dem cutta tings like
so im can mek im own sweet potato and french fries.. and maybe occasionally slice an apple

[diabolical_Tanya]

Re: Help! How to live on $75 per week in college

Is man him name soh mi noh know wah unno a chat bout

weekly groceries list

Big box of cereal - 5.00
5lb of potatoes - 5.00
value pack of fast fry steaks (bout 4) - 10.00
5 cans of tuna - 5.00
2 box of tuna helper - 5.00
tub of margerine 3.00
2 loaf of bread 4.00
big jiff (bi-weekly) 5.00
big Jam (bi-weekly) 5.00
doz eggs - 2.00
bacon - 2.00
big jug of sunny D - 4.00
pound of sugar - 2.00
10 packs of coolaid - 2.00

Dats about 60.00 him can tek the 15 weh leff and buy chips an toilet paper and soda.

[Gen]

Re: Help! How to live on $75 per week in college

[ILP]

Re: Help! How to live on $75 per week in college

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Peasie</div><div class="ubbcode-body">You got me thinking. OK, so for one week of groceries:

1 doz. eggs
16 oz. grated cheddar
8 oz. margarine
1 loaf whole wheat bread
1 package ziti
1 package spaghetti
1 jar spaghetti sauce
Special K cereal
1/2 gallon milk
1 lb. sliced turkey from deli
1 lb. sliced provolone from deli
1 jar peanut butter
1 jar grape jelly
1 package pre-washed romaine lettuce
1 package pre-washed baby spinach
1 small jar mayonnaise

wonder how much this comes to?

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your list doesnt look too bad, but keep in mind things like mayo, jello, margerine, pb you wont be buying weekly...so you can use that money to buy other things. now for college students frozen veggies work better than fresh one (and they are cheaper). so he could also alternate with that too. My grocery sells those very large bags of corn, peas, spinach, etc. So your son can buy those and supplement (when needed with fresh stuff).

I see your son eats boxed cereal. Bagged generic cereals are the rage. BabygirlA is a fan of Capt. Crunch. My store sell something in a bag called &quot;Crunch from the Capt&quot;...yeah, looks and tastes just like Capt. Crunch (she says). I can buy 2 bags of that stuff and she gets the equivalent of 4 boxes of cereal, but I've paid the price of say 1 box.

Also...pasta is cheap, so he could say buy it once a month. I get dry angel hair for 2 (sometime 3) for $1 (and whole wheat too). So your son could buy all his pasta, say at the beginning of the month and then he can spend his &quot;pasta&quot; money on other things during the rest of the month.

75 for a college student is doable.

Also...does he eat hot dogs and them kinna things? Someone suggested eggs...dont sleep on that....basic protien and they are cheap.