You can eat quite well on $3/day. $1.50/day of food is comfortably above subsistence in the US. A diet of strictly rice and beans will net 1500 calories for $.

You can eat quite well on $3/day. $1.50/day of food is comfortably above subsistence in the US. A diet of strictly rice and beans will net 1500 calories for $.30 - $.50 per day. That's not an appetizing diet, but provides a base number for calibration. Cheap eating discussion: http://forum.earlyretirementextreme.com/topic.php?id=599 http://forum.earlyretirementextreme.com/topic.php?id=599