Even at my local multi-ethnic market, some each of Middle-East, Asian, Indian, and Hispanic, I couldn't come close to enough calories to live on for a dollar. Even if I combined all three of us in the house.
We could come close sometimes. They frequently have fruit for 23-33 cents a pound, chicken leg quarters for 59 cents a pound, and other similar prices but we'd have to save to be able to buy in bulk since those prices aren't always available.
And that's one of the problems with living at that level. You can't save for a few days or whatever to buy things for more than that day's meal and you certainly have problems getting refrigerator or freezer.
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Date: 2009-02-26 02:46 am (UTC)We could come close sometimes. They frequently have fruit for 23-33 cents a pound, chicken leg quarters for 59 cents a pound, and other similar prices but we'd have to save to be able to buy in bulk since those prices aren't always available.
And that's one of the problems with living at that level. You can't save for a few days or whatever to buy things for more than that day's meal and you certainly have problems getting refrigerator or freezer.