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Originally Posted by Ms Arielle
This is the same fare given out at food pantries. The already limited meats and veggies has taken a dive, and only 5O% at best of usual. Lots of sugar cereal, cheese nips, canned fruit......all contributes to poor health, not good health, sadly.....
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I love to shop at the Dollar Tree, not for food but they have lots of other fun things.
But I've occasionally looked at their food and just as a thought experiment tried to see if I could possibly survive on food from there if I had a very limited income, and felt I could probably do it for some $20-25/week. Maybe not perfect food, no organic, no grass-fed. But you could definitely remain LCHF.
I mean they have eggs for 99 cents. Get two dozen eggs! $2
1 stick of butter (or was it two?) $1
5 cans of tuna - $5
2 packs breakfast sausages $2
sliced American cheese, 8 slices I think? $1
6 cans of green beans $6
1 small jar of mayo $1
If you were not LC I might throw in box of oatmeal $1
a liter of WHOLE milk $1
If staying LC instead of the oatmeal I might throw in a few small packages of mixed nuts $3
If they feel fruit MUST be included I'd add two small cans of crushed pineapple packed in water. $2
If you got ALL of that including the nuts and the oatmeal both it's still just $25 and would be enough to sustain me for a week. Yeah I understand shelf-stable but these things are mostly shelf-stable anyway. If they can include milk in people's boxes then why not eggs and butter and cheese also?