What I Ate On $1.50 a Day // Budget Friendly Vegan Meals (Days 1-3)

From May 1-5 2017, I will be spending only $1.50 per day on food - the equivalent of the extreme poverty line. Here are all of the meals I ate on the first three days of the challenge.

*If you have money to spare, please consider donating to one of the following organizations that help to end world hunger. I encourage each of you to do your own research and select a nonprofit organization that most resonates with your values!

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[ImSupposedToSleep]

I didn't think about the effects of being hungry on your daily life. It made me realize that it can become a vicious circle when you don't have enough money to spend on health and food. Your education suffers from it and that makes it harder to get out of poverty.

[abigailkinghorn]

This is the only person I've seen do this who didn't do shit like "And I added a little of my $500 truffle infused caviar for just a bit of flavor". She actually honest to god stuck with her ingredients.

[lfosshc]

Spices are a good investment for any one on a budget. They can elevate any meal to a whole new level. Start off with cayenne, paprika, cinnamon and cumin.

[Sam-gxhb]

Should have cooked the rice with some tomatoes instead of adding it later. Also, taco seasoning is like 50 cents and a tiny amount in while cooking rhe rice adds a lot of flavor.

Source: I lived this life.

[oohbintyboo]

I really appreciate you raising the point about not being able to concentrate. When I was teaching, I had to regularly stock my room with granola bars because my growing middle school boys were often hungry and would be unable to concentrate. This often leads to "acting out" and unless you take a step back and realize that they need their basic needs met, it was easy for other teachers to just discipline these students when in reality they hadn't eaten (sometimes in days). I hope others will do this challenge too because this conversation is so important. Thank you :)<3

[bsummers]

I grew up hella poor and my mom would turn regular rice into Spanish rice and damnnnn that shit is amazing. Spices really do save your food.

[MiVidaBellisima]

I like that she actually cared to make an attempt to understand someone else's lifestyle and struggles. Much respect

[mufasaiii]

a great way to thicken soup is by adding potatoes. they're very filling, cheap and pretty healthy. just boil them really long to get them real mushy. or regular time boiling just for tatoes in your soup

[TaraShulerAuthor]

Having grown up in poverty, I LOVE this video. I used to eat mostly ramen noodles and beans and rice, and it was boring and definitely didn't satisfy me. As a consequence, I really appreciate food more. In fact, I gained a LOT of weight when I was able to start buying my own food. I'm working on eating healthier, but I still don't have a ton of money even though I'm better off than my parents were for sure. I love fruits and veggies, so that helps. Thanks for these videos!

[icannotchoose]

I think being honest about the difficulties of the challenge of important to show why poverty is such a huge issue.

[WeWillBeRemembered]

I really appreciate your honesty about the food and the acknowledgement of the privilege many of us have with affording healthy food. You put yourself in an uncomfortable challenge to truly recognize a worldwide problem first hand, and I think that's very commendable. Really enjoying the series.

[deadsoon]

This is more food than I ate when I still lived in Venezuela. Sometimes it'd only be rice and ketchup, or yam and plantains. Chicken was a luxury. Vegetables were scarce. Fruit was almost like dream. Even water, sometimes.

[Thestarrycherry]

This really makes me think about the children who do not have the privilege of adequate nutrition and how it affects their mental, emotional and psychological being, thank you.

[esmeraelillywing]

I sincerely appreciate your bringing attention to this topic. It's a real struggle, people seem to gorge themselves on the regular, and don't realize what truly poor people go through. My little family (hubby, me and our 7yr old son) went through a really bad time for about two years. I couldn't work because of illness and my husband for part of it had a very low paying job, and then no job at all for a while. We had to walk three miles up a hill to get something from a store because we didn't have gas in the car, nor insurance on it, obviously. Any gas we had had to be used to get him back and forth to work. I often couldn't buy groceries at all and had to depend on local food banks. I thank goodness for them, so now I try and donate whenever I can because they kept us alive. More times than I can count, my husband or I (or both) wouldn't eat at all just to make sure our son did. I learned how to support 3 people for about $5 a day, that's all inclusive. I would make clothes, or repair and mend ones we had because we couldn't afford new clothing if something ripped or got stained. And we also didn't have running water in the house for about 4 months at one point. It was an incredibly depressing and painful time, neither of us likes to think about it, but I think it brought us closer together. I found out later that most couples break up over finance related issues, so now we joke that if we could survive that, we could survive anything together. :) Anyway, thank you again. This was much appreciated!!

[HistoryHighwithLisaMarrie]

I would have spent the 50 cents on an onion or a bell pepper to make the other food more bearable.

[sararazor]

Wow it made me so sad when you were talking about being hungry at school and not being able to focus because it makes me think about kids who might be hungry at school.😢 it’s good that you shed light on this

[carmiethegreat]

It would be really cool if you could make a "vegan for a week" video that includes recipes and a "shopping list" based on a reasonable budget.

[SharonGisselle]

As a poor college student, this video gave me many food ideas without breaking my bank. Thank you so much for this video.

[tothediaspora]

Investing in affordable spices and herbs makes even the simplest meals become incredible

[MadiMonkey]

You eat how I eat. But instead of beans and rice, we eat pasta almost every lunch and dinner. Sometimes I try to make something different, because my son gets tired of pasta. We just don't have the funds for that, though. I don't like saying that, but that's the way it is. After the week is over, my bank account is dry. I'm just thankful that I can feed my son.
Just think. There is always someone who has it better than you; there is always someone who has it worse. We should be thankful.