One way to do it.

Lost, overwhelmed..  You have a hundred dollars a month for food and incidentals.    How do you start.  

Buy basics you can do a lot with.  Buy bulk of those things.  Ifmyoumdimt have enough money for everything bulk in one month, buy one thing bulk, fill  in with a smaller amount of the rest.

• Rice at Costco - 25 pounds is about 8.00
• Beans - they are a dollar for 1.5 pounds at the dollar tree.   
• Cheese.  As expensive as you can find,  buy a Mexican blend to go with everything.    
• Eggs, a whole , Cheap protein that is recommended for your RDA of protein.   
• 2 nice fat chickens.    
• Oatmeal.   It's 7.99 at Costco for ten pounds.       It's a dollar a pound at the dollar tree for a finer grained oatmeal.  Another healthy cheap source of good nutrition.  
• Flour and bulk yeast.    Our Winco has a bulk isle and you can buy it by the ounce if you,need to.    

You can make a multitude of things from these basics.    Take fifty dollars and do your best to get as much of these in bulk.   Take the rest and buy dairy, produce, and canned tomatoes to fill in,  meal plan,   Stair step .   Make small batches of beans and rice so they don't go bad before you eat them up.    

One cup of beans makes three cups.    In bulk, a serving of rice is three cents a serving of beans is four cents.  (1/2 cup at this time) prices fluctuate.   

Scratch cook.    There are recipes in the Internet and on Pinterest for almost everything,   Take easy ones.    

One fat chicken can make 8 meals for two people.    The RDA for protein is 6 ounces a day and that should include eggs.    

• Breakfast : eggs, oatmeal, pancakes, waffles, breakfast burrito. 
• Lunch - leftovers or homemade soup.  Bread 
• Dinner : bean and cheese burritos, chicken soup, chicken casserole with rice or homemade noodles., impossible pie, stirfry, chilli, pizza, sliced chicken breast with rice and veggies. to name  a few . 

By purchasing bulk , even if you have to rotate the bulk per month, you,can stretch your dollars and maybe fill in other meats other months.   Chicken, sausage,  pasta ( I pay less than a dollar - use coupons ) get pasta with extra fiber or veggies of possible .   

Buy fruit and veggies in season.   Don't hesitate to return that bag of potatoes that goes bad in two days.    

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