Hi everyone I'm new to this I haven't even started the diet yet. I wanted to know is it possible to have this healthy life style and how on a low budget? Any feedback will be greatly appreciated.
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I'm also on a really small budget and looking at how to join this lifestyle without undereating. I live in the uk and have a food budget of £10 per week at best. I'm currently unemployed and have had to give up my car and home just to pay my bills (thank's to wedding debt from a now failed marriage) so there is no wiggle room to allow for a larger budget than this until I finally get employed again. (In case you're wondering how I can be online, I have had to move in with a family member just so I can have a roof over my head). Anyone have any suggestions on how I might be able to do this?
Oh, if you go the markets and the fruits are ripe, try to bargain if you can (be nice). Here in the markets of Portugal, when the fruit is ripe, the price become very low, which is cool but I don't know how it works in UK. Oh, and Perry, Welcome to the 30bananasaday community! :D
Hey, Perry, sorry for the failed marriage. Hope you overcome it. I understand your situation, i'm 20, unemployed, living with with my grandma who doesn't support this lifestyle, so to expect her to help me on this, I would have to starve. Thankfully, I have an income of some jobs I do as a freelancer at www.odesk.com, mainly writing and translating and for me it's enough to buy fruits to sustain myself. You should check that website, if you can write, translate, do websites, become an assistant or work for call center, whatever, go for it. As soon you put your resume and start searching for jobs and working, eventually people will see your resume and contact you. That's what happened to me, people are actually reaching to me and that's good for my tummy. Bananas aren't the only fruit you can eat, but is true that you'll need more fruit to carb up more than 1000 calories from fruit and with bananas it takes less., it's true. But let's say, you really love apples and if they are cheap, than buy a lot. if you really want bananas, go for the ripe ones, here in Portugal they tend to be cheaper. Make sure to search. If you don't search, you'll lose opportunities to save money. But search everywhere near you, if you can dislocate yourself far from where you live, great. Got to the market, make sure to go to each stall to see all the prices and possibilities you have. Search everywhere and of course, don't go for the organics, because you don't have that much. Go to big stores, you may find cheap fruit also, it depends. Search search and search and go to odesk.
I used to do $100-$150 per week where I could get a good amount of things, but when things are tight at say around $50 per week for food, there's not a lot of variety to do it with mostly fruit for the day, but I'll get 6 boxes of dates from Trader Joes for the week (or go to Fernandes on ebay for 10lbs of exquisite dates for $44 which last for 2 weeks ends up being the same price as TJs), 3-5 bunches of bananas (or do the reverse with a box of bananas and some dates), 3-5 heads of greens, either a bag or two of potatoes or rice, coconut sugar to up the calories for smoothies and I'm good.
Others on here have noted that if you talk to the grocery manager you can ask about the fruit they throw away, if they'd offer it for a discount, and if so if they could hold it for you on a certain day to pick up. Some talk about how they can get a whole box of 60-70 bananas for between $5-$15, same with other fruit. This would be even more especially helpful in the case of buying for a whole family. Other wholesale places as mentioned like Costco have even cheaper rates for dates and other things than TJs. Also, if you have an asian grocery story by you, they can be very inexpensive.
And yea no calorie restriction for Raw Till 4, but the minimum for women is 2500 calories. Cronometer.com is a must to get an idea on making sure you at least get that many in per day. The goal would be to aim at at least 1000 calories of fruit for breakfast and lunch. Anymore is better, provides more energy and better results.
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thanks catherine santos for creating this thread. It has been a week that I stopped eating meat and I'm in a really low budget for now. i'm gonna be pretty smart with my grandma to make her buy me some bananas :) Thanks Dominic for this information. Here in Portugal fruits can be cheap but near me the bananas aren't cheap enough. I'm going to try to contact with producers to see if they can make me a special deal in case they have bananas they want to throw away and I'm sure gonna be moving more to get cheap bananas if that doesn't work. Doing a Banana Detox isn't possible for, so I'm gonna stuff myself with cheap fruit.
Tks for the info. I went to the stores I shop in and asked about the fruits and they told me they have to give it only to organizations :( that sucks big time and on top of that I can't find any gamers markets in lehigh acres.
That's what my stores told me, too. :( Luckily I found a wholesaler in town. Have you tried looking up wholesale markets in town?
For dates specifically, I recommend www.7hotdates.com. I got a 12 lb. case of medjool dates for $98. That looks expensive, but it will last me over a month if I eat 16 every other day.
Hi tks for your reply. Well the thing is that my husband is the only one working and I stay home with my two boys. So our budget it tight.
No but that's a great idea tks.
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