One Pound a Day Diet

[d000hg]

£53 a week is easy. £7 a week is a bit tougher Althougg if you get your food fresh from the market it's alot cheaper (80p for a pepper at Tesco!).

£53/week has to cover everything else as well as food, other than your rent. Saying one person can live off £53 at the supermarket each week is easy. You could have steak and wine every night for that budget

£1/day - not TOO hard if you don't have allergies and don't mind eating the same thing several meals/days in a row. If you ruin something, you're stuffed though, you have to eat it anyway. Like the story of some friends who were living on a shoestring and used some crazy chillis, thinking they were regular peppers, in a big dish. That was their food for several days, so they had to eat it.

People in Africa seem to manage it..

Things are a trifle cheaper there dear.

[KentPhilip]

but £1 per day

People in Africa seem to manage it..

[Gittins Gal]

£53 a week is easy. £7 a week is a bit tougher Althougg if you get your food fresh from the market it's alot cheaper (80p for a pepper at Tesco!).

Not round here. Our local market is full of stalls run by trendy downshifter types who think it's Borough Market. The prices are inflated accordingly.

[SpontaneousOrder]

£53 a week is easy. £7 a week is a bit tougher Althougg if you get your food fresh from the market it's alot cheaper (80p for a pepper at Tesco!).

[minestrone]

What about the one pound turd a day diet?

I bet some on here are on that one.

[SimonMac]

I have eaten a pound of chocolate today, does that count?

[AtW]

Are you and your friend somehow arithmetically challenged?

No.

£53 per week is at least £212 per month, I could probably live on it (if all is spent on food), but £1 per day

[amcdonald]

WTF has living on a pound worth of food a day got to do with IDS?

Do your bowels suffer from IDS after living on the diet ?

[minestrone]

I could live on £53 in benefits a week, says Iain Duncan Smith | Politics | The Guardian

Are you and your friend somehow arithmetically challenged?

[AtW]

WTF has living on a pound worth of food a day got to do with IDS?

I could live on £53 in benefits a week, says Iain Duncan Smith | Politics | The Guardian

[Gittins Gal]

Cricket! makes Jack Monroe's recipes look positively sumptuous.

[minestrone]

WTF has living on a pound worth of food a day got to do with IDS?

[AtW]

A friend and collegue of mine is living this month on one pound a day diet

Blog here: One Pound a Day Diet - January 2014

Donations are welcome - they will go to the food charity our well fed MP Ian Duncan Smithers (who said he could live on £53 per week but refused to try it) said is interfering with policy