what groceries can you buy for $20 to last one person for a week?

Question

breakfast,lunch,dinner,snacks,& desserts.

Answer 1

Breakfast:
Gallon of milk
Box of cornflakes or store brand cereal

Lunch (PB&J or bologna sandwiches - bread, PB and J can also sub as breakfast):
Loaf of bread
Jar of peanut butter
Jar of jelly
-or-
1 lb bologna

Dinner (pot of chili, pot of tuna and noodles)
1 pound of ground beef
onions
2 cans tuna
2 cans beans
2 cans tomatoes
1 bag egg noodles
1 can cream of mushroom soup
frozen peas

Dessert:
Premade or boxes of pudding (use gallon of milk)
Little Debbie Starcrunches, Swiss Cake Rolls, etc.
Apples, bananas


ohhh, and lots of crackers for the chili!

Answer 2

Buy in bulk, you'll have to cook, make many meals then freeze.

If you can get enough dough together for a few weeks, you can go to a sams club or costco (they can let you in with a free pass if you ask.) and buy ramen, dried beans, whole chickens, maybe tomato paste or whatever depending on what you want to make.

My first job out of college, I lived a week on $10. Though it was a while ago, it didn't buy a lot. But a crock pot will cook up a chicken with some rice or whatever and make a passable meal.

Hang in there!

Answer 3

oatmeal is good for breakfast, a loaf of bread for toast, the bread add peanut butter for sandwiches. Ramen works and costs about .15 a pack. Dried peas makes pea soup with some onions and carrots good, filling and cheap. A dozen eggs does not cost much and goes far. Pudding mixes, jiffy muffin mixes are very cheap.

Answer 4

If i only had $20 i think i would buy Milk & Cereal, bread,cheese, lunchmeat, ramen noodles, and if i had any money left over i'd buy a few tv dinners and a bag of chips. You can also buy pudding or jello for a dessert.

Answer 5

Get some beans and a ham bone or ham hock and make a big pot of soup. Get a bag of cornmeal and make cornbread to go with the soup. Other inexpensive soups are beef vegetable. (not canned soup)
For breakfast, stick with toast and butter and bananas. For lunch, get tomato and lettuce and whatever lunch meat is the cheapest to make sandwiches.

Answer 6

oatmeal, the kind you have to actually cook, a gallon of 1 or 2 percent milk, rice, dry pasta and beans, cheap chicken parts, tomato paste or sauce and jello. THen go to the library and check out a book on cheap eats and cooking. Good luck soon to be called "slim" !

Answer 7

boxes of cereal like 20oz box es such as cheerios for less then 5 dollars unless their onsale, that will last two weeks if you eat one serving each day and yogurt 10 of them when onsale for 5 or less last one to two weeks, hot pockets when on sale 3 for 6 or even get progesso or soup that you can buy tons of and save and try ice cream when their like 2 for 5 that would help save money or even chips ahoy or oreos or bread and make toast for breakfast or sandwiches

Answer 8

Ramen noodles for all of the above.

Answer 9

i would get some deli meat(turkey, ham) and bread and possibly cereal, and oodles of noodles and pasta and a can of pasta sauce.

Answer 10

Not Much.