There is a PDF document that described with recipes
for a whole month how to live on 130 Euros per month (3 meals a day) - and still eat healthy stuff.


http://download.stern.de/media/sterntv/Kochplan_2Pers.pdf

Unfortunately this is in German, but maybe you can guess the ingredients....or you could use Babelfish or ask me if you are interested.

Originally this was thought as a guideline for unemployed people who have to cope with 351 Euros per month (without rent & bills which is paid for by the government).

Toby, any chance of a translation? I'm having to live on very little at the moment and am not eating as healthily as I would like. I've had to cut out the variety of fruit I used to eat and go for the cheapest meat possible which often tends to be fattier than more expensive cuts.
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"Always look on the bright side of life..... tetum tetumtetumtetum....."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHPOzQzk9Qo

It is a lot to translate, but here is the first day:

breakfast
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Quantity Ingredient Price
4 pieces breadrolls 0,68 €
50 gr. marmelade 0,10 €
40 gr. butter 0,14 €
2 slices cheese 0,32 €
4 cups tea/coffee 0,40 €
2 yogurt 0,38 €
2 oranges 0,57 €
sum 2,59 €

lunch (beans, bacon & pears)
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Quantity Ingredient Price
350 gr. streaky bacon 1,50 €
500 gr. green beans 0,40 €
500 gr. pears 0,60 €
375 ml. water 0,05 €
little bit salt 0,10 €
little bit sugar 0,10 €
375 gr. potatoes 0,17 €

- cut the bacon into pieces
- wash&cut the green beans and put them into the pot
after the bacon
- add the pears without removing the skin
- add sugar, salt and water
- cook it for 45 minutes
- peal the potatoes and cook them in salty water for 20 minutes


Quantity Ingredient Price

4 slices black bread 0,26 €
100 gr. Thüringer sausages 0,50 €
2 slices cheese 0,32 €
40 gr. magarine 0,07 €
2 pieces tomatoes 0,17 €
2 cups tea/coffee 0,20 €
2 pieces apple 0,60 €

Other stuff
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1,5 Ltr. mineral water 0,19 €
2 pieces chocolate pudding 0,38 €


sum 8,39 €

(based on supermarket prices of Aldi or Lidl I assume)

how many people is that for?!

2 people.

There is also a pdf for 3 people:

http://www.stern.de/tv/sterntv/539709.html?file=Kochplan_3Pers.pdf



http://www.stern.de/tv/sterntv/:Zum-Download-Glinka-Meiers-Kochbrosch%FCre/646083.html

Just thought, is that 130 Euros per person?
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"Always look on the bright side of life..... tetum tetumtetumtetum....."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHPOzQzk9Qo

Yes....I had a quick look at all the recipes and different days....sometimes it is less then 8 Euros, sometimes a little bit more. For example there is also a recipe that involves salmon and red-wine...and also a cheaper one..so on average 4,40 Euros per person per day.

Maybe someone should write something similiar for the UK....I guess if you did that, you would also be invited on tv shows there and become famous such as the 2 guys who have written this book in Germany.

As far as I remember most food is more expensive in the UK however....so it might be 120 pounds in the end instead of 120 Euros.

If you have a garden you could save even more and grow your own vegetables.

I've just done a quick currency conversion. 130 euros is approxiamately £110 a month. I feed me and my daughter on less than £200 a month so I'm doing slightly better.
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"Always look on the bright side of life..... tetum tetumtetumtetum....."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHPOzQzk9Qo

My maths might be crap, but groceries must cost a heck of a lot less in Euro using countries than my local Aldi and Lidl.
40gr butter for 0.14 euros?
I buy 250gr butter for £2.09.
Maybe someone else can work that out, but it seems to me it would only be correct if I buy the cheap crappy margerine-made-in-a-chemical-factory.

I have looked at the Aldi website in Germany:

250-g butter (Irish butter) costs 0,95 Euros

http://www.aldi-sued.de/de/html/product_range/sortiment_preissenkung.htm?WT.z_src=main

But German butter is cheaper as far as I remember...

This means you pay 3x as much for butter in the UK ????

Cool, I could make money and bring lots of butter the next time I fly to London - and sell it for 1 pound

The sad thing though is that before the Euro, everything was 50% cheaper...so it would have been about 0,50 Euros before the introduction of the Euro.

In other countries such as the Czech republic or poland you only pay about 0,05 Euros for butter I assume...remember it to be really cheap there compared to Germany.

So you can guess how much importers of good make on foreign products? Or the government on import taxes?

Aaaaaaahh!!!!!!!!!!!! Now I get it !

Now I know why you are not allowed to bring food into the UK - not because of the foot&mouth disease - but just in order to keep the prices up ?

In theory 10 or 20 people from the UK could get together...rent a refrigerated truck....go to the continent...buy lots of food for 3 months, go back to the UK and share it...or maybe 100 people.

My mistake - £2.09 500g.

I usually spend in the region of £30 per week on food and everything, excluding petrol and utility bills. I live alone, so I guess I am not doing that bad. I dont think my diet is especially unhealthy.

Move to Nepal, there you can stay in a 4* guest house, eat out for breakfast lunch and dinner, go out to a bar and listen to live music every night and get blind drunk and all for about £2-3 a day.