How To Eat With $20 A Day For A Family Of Four?

[Zeitgeist]

I struck up a conversation with a stranger while sharing a table at a coffee shop. Anyway all things lead to the cost of living and he revealed without elaborating that after all the typical bills, his family survives on just $20 a day for food. Wonder how he manages that!

 

[makapaaa]

 

[Zeitgeist]

Pernyoh, family of four human beings lah bukan anjing!

 

[Leegimeremover]

Save 2 days, buy 4 very high quality choppers and parangs as well as paper bags. Learn from LKY. Armed robbery.

 

[popdod]

Go to any economy stall and tell the stall boss....
4 plates of rice with curry sauce.

Still have some loose change for 4 cups of soya bean.
See....life here is better than North Korea.

:p

 

[rickws8437]

Ren Pi Ren Qi Si Ren... (No two person are born equal therefore cannot be compared)

 

[wendypoh]

For $20 a day, people can still do better than instant noodle with egg.

 

[zhihau]

no no no...

go for the long haul. grow your own tapioca or sweet potato.
buy a huge bag of rice, cook porridge with minimal rice and a load of sweet potato. if our folks can do it in WWII and survive, we can too.

 

[Sammael]

I struck up a conversation with a stranger while sharing a table at a coffee shop. Anyway all things lead to the cost of living and he revealed without elaborating that after all the typical bills, his family survives on just $20 a day for food. Wonder how he manages that!

BF nasi lomak - $4
Lunch loti pata - $3.20
Dinner teochew poridge - $6 with small dishes n kaim chye

Total 13.20

Why cannot survive???

 

[wendypoh]

Realistically, if you cook and eat at home, $20 a day is more than enough. Of course, don't count on expensive items.

 

[silverfox@]

Realistically, if you cook and eat at home, $20 a day is more than enough. Of course, don't count on expensive items.

$20 a day

lunch
is able to cook a pot of whole chicken in curry
plus 1 plate of eggs
rice

dinner
pot of vegetable soup
leftover curry chicken from lunch
plate of stir fried pork
ikan kuning.
rice

Unless we are talking about 4 heavyweight champions at home, then $50 also not enough:o

 

[DerekLeung]

Eat like that prepare to die early !

 

[Conan the Barbarian]

When you have $20 a day left after deducting everything, live too long
also useless.

Actually, $20 a day if cook at home for 4 is quite sufficient if shop properly.
Just that its quite tough on everybody with no more extras to spare.

 

[Cestbon]

$20 is enough for family of 4 if self cook 3 meal with decent dish like Chicken, Fish and Vegetable.

Morning dish
Fried Bee hoon, fried eat and hotdog cost less than $5 for 4 person.

Lunch and Dinner
Fried/Curry/Chicken soup(one whole chicken), one vege, cheap fish like kunning and plus one big pot rice cost less than $15 for 4 person.

 

[myo539]

..... Anyway all things lead to the cost of living and he revealed without elaborating that after all the typical bills, his family survives on just $20 a day for food. Wonder how he manages that!

Probably he missed his family going to Chatterbox for his chicken rice, plus his after-meal cappucino. Of course $20 not enough - read about the chap in this forum who spent $450 on a nite at KTV?

Here is my bill for an average family of four :

One whole big chicken at $5.80; a tray of 30 eggs at $4.30; 3 bundles of kang kong at $1.20, 4 pieces of tou fu at $1.00;1 kg of ikan kuning at $4.50; half kg of tou-gay at $0.50; 3 pieces of tempeh at $1.00; and 1 big bottle of coke at $1.50. Place of purchase : Sheng Siong.

The buffet meals at many restaurants and hotels are still full of people. There, you got the whole picture of what life is like in Singapore. Not everyone is rich; neither is everyone poor.

 

[bebo]

$20 a day, one week $140.

$140 can buy more than enough food to cook at home and feed the family of 4 for a week. Of course, don't put too much or too expensive on the table

 

[silverfox@]

Probably he missed his family going to Chatterbox for his chicken rice, plus his after-meal cappucino. Of course $20 not enough - read about the chap in this forum who spent $450 on a nite at KTV?

Here is my bill for an average family of four :

One whole big chicken at $5.80; a tray of 30 eggs at $4.30; 3 bundles of kang kong at $1.20, 4 pieces of tou fu at $1.00;1 kg of ikan kuning at $4.50; half kg of tou-gay at $0.50; 3 pieces of tempeh at $1.00; and 1 big bottle of coke at $1.50. Place of purchase : Sheng Siong.

The buffet meals at many restaurants and hotels are still full of people. There, you got the whole picture of what life is like in Singapore. Not everyone is rich; neither is everyone poor.

Yes, these days meats in supermarket can be far cheaper than what we get at wet markets. Vegetables can buy those cabbage, lettuce from wet market. And if buy 1 week groceries for 4, $140 is enough and wouldn't die.
Of course, the aim is to survive with decent food and not luxury food we are talking about

 

[Katana]

instant noodles?

 

[twinseeker]

$20 per day for family of 4 = ($20/3)/4 = average $1.66/pax/meal

Assuming $1 allocated for breakfast, balance $0.66 spreadt across lunch & dinner, hence, averaging $1.99 for lunch or dinner.

Still can't afford a decent plate of econ rice (2 vege, 1 meat), which is priced at average $2.30-2.50. And possibly short by $0.01 to afford a simple plate of charsiew/wantan noodles, priced at average $2.00-$2.50.

A bowl of plain rice priced average $0.50 (heard some places $0.80-$1.00).

 

[silverfox@]

$20 per day for family of 4 = ($20/3)/4 = average $1.66/pax/meal

Assuming $1 allocated for breakfast, balance $0.66 spreadt across lunch & dinner, hence, averaging $1.99 for lunch or dinner.

Still can't afford a decent plate of econ rice (2 vege, 1 meat), which is priced at average $2.30-2.50. And possibly short by $0.01 to afford a simple plate of charsiew/wantan noodles, priced at average $2.00-$2.50.

A bowl of plain rice priced average $0.50 (heard some places $0.80-$1.00).

When you only have $20 to spare a day for your family of four, then you must start to cook, rather than eat out.

Unless you say, don't know how to cook and must eat out, then I can tell you, you tell the economical rice stall to add more rice and order veges.