Shopping the other day I decided to buy a frozen chicken. 1.5Kg for less than $10.Cooked on the BBQ in a Dutch Oven yesterday. I had the drums for lunch yesterday with corn on the cob also cooked on the BBQ and a spud cooked likewise.
Left-over chicken will give me 4 more meals. Given $1.50 cost per day for veges (the corn and spud yesterday cost me less than that) that's about $17 for meals for 5 days.
Politicians keep telling me that the poor can't feed themselves with the minimum wage but there I'm feeding myself for less than one hour's minimum wage - for 5 days.
Could someone be fibbing?
An aside: Lunch today was a small amount (about one hamburger patties worth) of mince cooked with 1 cob of sweetcorn cooked yesterday on the same BBQ and cut off the cob, half a tin of peas with their brine, red sauce, ground pepper and beef stock to flavour.
Cost:about $3.50.
Feeding yourself has never been easier and is still cheap - if you are prepared to think.
UPDATE: I have now had 4 meals off my 1.5Kg chicken and will get another two.
Today's effort was two-minute noodles, chicken with veges left-over from other recipes, Tomato, Mushrooms, Peas with a touch of spice.
Note: I'm a fat bastard. Meals need to be of significant size to satisfy.
I figure one meal a day for a week will be less than $30.
Lazy bastards get in excess of $1,000. per week on he DPB. How is feeding the kids a problem?
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