Pasta is pretty cheap. By a large can of flavoured fish (tuna with sweet chilli for example), add some oil and a little cheese and that's a meal on its own. Plenty of casserole dish recipes on the internet for under $10 as well.

NOT IN THE GOOD OLD BROKEN USA

Baked beans and egg on toast. Also a packet mix cake.

I have never taken part - but I think it would be very hard to feed a family of 4 for under $10 - that is to say with a good healthy meal. You can reduce the cost of buying veges etc - but don't forget to add the water you use to grow them and any fertilizers you use etc etc.

Make a meal with seasonal veges or frozen. It used to be easy to feed four people for under $10.00 and if you grow your veges hourself you will romp in and be able to make desert as well

Not difficult to do! Eggs, pasta, toasted sandwichs, baked potatoes stuffed with tuna and cheese, salads with lentils or canned beans, rice dishes...

The more people you have to cook for the cheaper per person it will become.

A large jar of chunky pasta sauce (with veg) is about $3, 500g pasta around $1. That's $4 (Aus) for a basic meal, add in some mince or lentils/beans to bulk it out and it should still just about come in under $10

Jamies One Pot Wonder Would End Up Being My One Pot Disaster:D

If you have canned tuna, you can make toasties or stir into pasta sauce. Buy pasta sauce with vegetables in them for a healthier option.

Not in this house.

You can tuna, pasta, and sauce or mince with lentils you can be creative

Not adequately.

I don’t turn on the TV anymore. I do turn on common sense and what I learned from my mother - and yes, it is possible. Who has $100 to feed a family just one meal? The experts who call for such a senseless, almost insulting challenge might. $10 is, and many times must be enough - to create something delicious and nutritious, without creating waste.

Challenge, not challange. I have never "took" part in such a challenge, but I have "taken" part in such a challenge. It's easy as pie. (Pardon my pun). Anyone who can't do that is not creative in any cooking sense. $10 will easily feed 4 people, adults at that, a hearty, well-rounded meal with all the food groups present on the plate. I'll write when it isn't four in the am what that meal is, so you all don't think I'm blowing smoke up everyone's _________.

Poor people face this challenge every day. Gotta know how to s t r e t c h a dollar!

not interested since there are only 2 of us

I think it is possible. Chicken drumsticks $3 a kilo, rice and sauce.

Depends on how you define meal!

I've watched that show 'Extreme Couponing'. Blown away by their savings and what they got. If we had that in NZ then yes it's possible, but we don't. A cauliflower cost $10 NZ ($6.39 US), last year. That's why we grow our own vegetables and fruit.

Yep, do this regularly. Baked beans or spaghetti on toast, or fried eggs on toast. Hotdogs are a good go-to as well.

Yes. Mainly from markdown ingredients.

I have,, Picked up a pack of sausages on mark down $4.50, a bag sliced loaf bread $2. bag of onions $1., a bottle of BBQ sauce $2.40, feed 6 for lunch and still had change, plus 2 sausages left, admitting was all store labeled product, but still tasted good

Soup & bread, no change, groceries are expensive.

fried fritz and tomato soup costs7 dollars and 20 cents feeds 4 easy

If you have family members that cannot eat certain things or need a special diet it doesn't work.

I agree I am sure you can and have done if you don’t eat meat at all. Which means you’re going to have to substitute the diet with something else that everyone likes

Yes, I have a range of economical recipes, and stocked pantry.

I'm sure you can, but have never taken the challenge

If I thought hard for a while and shopped the specials, particularly meat, I could. Lately with our long rainy season veg prices have become a problem. Use by dates mean you can get good bargains in meat on certain days in the supermarkets. Having pasta and rice at home helps If you live in small regional areas it would be harder.

I think you can but it can be extremely hard at the moment. I know I use what we have on hand at home and only shop what we need and menu planning is key to keep your costs down. Always shop in season for fruit and vegetables. We use all our leftovers whether it be as lunches or for the next dinner.

You have to look for seasonal vegetables. But you don't buy at supermarkets or fruit shops in shopping malls. You need to buy at a fruit market shop. They ae much cheaper and all states have them. You buy meat on special.and use less per person. You shop for things on special.

I have done it plenty of time. There is one dish I make which under $10 is a Middle Eastern Dish which has eggs, onions , spices and a tin of tomatoes or pasta and plain tomatoes with herbs.

I've never taken part in a challenge like that, but I do try to cook from scratch as much as possible. Basics like rice, dry beans, potatoes, fresh produce and some meat are great for a budget. Also much healthier then boxed /prepared foods. But, $10 to feed four would be a stretch these days.

The trick is to UNLEARN spending . Use what you have, understand the difference between needs and wants, when shopping, buy seasonal produce, know when items are marked down, understand the sales cycles between different stores, know that buying in bulk in not always a better price or a better option for you personally, not being afraid to try something different, testing cheaper alternative ingredients, substituting expensive name brands for generic, trying food co-ops to share the expenses, growing what you can yourself, cooking double batches of food and freezing, cutting down on meat consumption ( sorry I know people hate that one)… I could keep going, I love this stuff…

Yes, it may just be possible to get some food for a family of four for under $10.00, but what do you call food? I'm quite sure there is a lot of junk out there but how bad off do you have to be to buy it? Perhaps you should look into a food bank? They can fix you up for a few days at no cost (except transport to the facility).

I don’t know I only have myself to feed and a quarter of 10 is $2.50 so I think I might go hungry

I think you can, but you will have to do some work in getting cheaper groceries.

We have never taken part in that challenge but we quite often make healthy meals that will feed 4 - 6 people. It is not difficult

We as a nation Australia throw out so much food as people over buy things and then they go off. They say every household throws away over $2'000 worth of food a year and all that goes into landfill and it's a lot. We need to buy more carefully that is for sure. We are drowning in waste. Extremely sad really and we should wake up to our selves. Not all of us of course as we hardly waste any thing and especially not food.

I did not but I could easily do it if I had to, you have to shop smart and have a plan to do it

Easy to make a lamb mince ragu and homemade fettuccine……lol

I think it would be quite easy. Meat is certainly expensive these days. Pasta and rice are cheap and they are filling. Mince meat is getting up there but the cheap mince is just as good, just has more fat in it. Then they wonder why people are getting fatter. Mind boggles... Salsas are really good and we have them with rice and a little meat, either chicken, sausages, ham, lamb rump etc etc and reasonable cheap meal. It's about making what you have spread further than ever before. I once watched a program about Americans and trying to keep their children fed and they just had Spaghetti Bol and the children after they had eaten said they were still hungry. That made me feel really sad and the mother hardly eat any thing because there just wasn't enough food to go around. The poor woman was in tears. I guess people face these kind of issues every day and we are lucky we don't have that kind of pressure or stress to worry about. We manage, we always have and we always will.

no problem. i buy when things are on special and then cook bulk things and freeze them. i also have a garden where i grow the things i we like and again freeze extras or swap in our local area.

sausages and three veg. Six chicken drumsticks and veg. Pasta is cheap as is rice. Home meals are still cheaper and you know what you are eating

Easy

easy

Bread and sauce and hotdogs

I think you could do it, but how well-fed should they be? It depends on the four people, I think. Some people can consume a lot of food, and others don't eat as much. Also, are they children? Mac and cheese in a box would suffice if you got it on sale and even cook two boxes. I live alone, and I can easily be well-fed for $2.00, but I probably couldn't do it every day without eating the same thing over and over!

Hello you can feed four people chicken pot pies four waters or four juice of their choice and four fruit cups for dessert and have two dollars left.

As someone who spent years making a small budget go as far as possible when feeding 3 adults and 5 children, I believe that I might JUST be able to do it IF I excluded meat. But as everything is constantly increasing in price I truly pity those who, like myself, are on a fixed income, but thankfully my children are raised and I now live alone. Trying week after week and month after month to make interesting food that the family enjoys on a budget is going to become increasingly difficult! I'm only grateful that my mother passed down her grandmother's tips on being frugal to me, but unfortunately many today either missed out on those lessons entirely or they just aren't interested in hearing them! Both my girls grew up seeing me head straight to the reduced products or discount ailes and even my almost 18 year old grandson can spot a reduced sticker at a supermarket at 20 paces so there's hope there yet! I'd HATE to be raising small children today though and I do feel for young families who struggle. Thanks for reading.

Pasta

It depends on the people and what they prefer to eat doesn't it?

I don't think so but I'm going to give it a try

Beans on toast should do it… Haha only kidding

I think some of you people need to start shopping like us poor people lol For Roger I...Store brand bread 1.90, SB mustard 2.00, $3 deli ham, 10 x coffee or choc sachet on sale $3.50 = $10.40 close..and BTW Home Brands taste much better than so called quality brands, in most cases.

Yes I can do this and I have done it quite regularly, I shop markdowns and save wherever I can. I would check my cupboards like I do before every shopping day and then buy the ingredients needed to complete the meal. Homebrand is just as good as name brand and fruit and veg shop regularly have cheap vegetables sold as odd vegetables/fruit etc.

When the experts do this kind of cheap meal, they continually say use whatever that you have in your cupboard. What if you don't have that item in the cupboard, that must add to the cost of the meal. I can make a meal for four people for absolutely no cost, if I use up what's in the cupboard. As I am sure most of us could.

that's got to be a fantasy. hell, four sandwiches takes a loaf of bread which costs nearly four bucks, slices of ham for four sandwiches costs about ten dollars and then there's mustard at about six dollars a jar, oh and what about a hot drink?

Pasta, pasta sauce, day old baguette for garlic/herb bread, cucumber, tomato or whatever is in season for a simple salad (make your own dressing with olive oil lemon or vinegar, bit of mustard etc) easy. That’s a simple one off the top of my head. I do it every day!

With current prices and the rate of inflation, it is not possible to feed four adults a nutritious, balanced, proper meal for under $10. Any view to the contrary is a lie.

It is my Weekly then reheat Daily Auto Pilot Task ... cook in bulk and have your own choices of "take aways" from fridge to stove to table! Could even be like a banquet pick and choose what each person prefers!!

I do it on a regular basis! there is no reason to pay high dollar to cook a good meal just buy in bulk and break into different meals

Can Tuna or chicken added to white cream sauce either caned or made with flower butter and milk add peas (carrots celery ) salt pepper eat over toast Edited 17-Dec-22 09:56am

Head of cabbage boil whole then opened and cooked stove top or oven in large deap pan cooked in butter and onions and crushed garlic salt and pepper n a tap of powdered garlic then add pasta cook on low then top with a strip or two of crushed bacon and serve

Pasta with butter onions can peas and parmigiana cheese

It is much higher chance when you buy most of the items are on sale to feed an type of families but at point

Boxed mac and cheese and buns - are not healthy contains all those chemicals and preservatives and not good for an adult male. The other post suggesting a tuna sandwich is not a "meal" suitable for a adult man doing heavy manual work

Interesting ideas here. Yes you can do this (I am in the US) BUT you have to plan and use your head and use leftovers when possible

boxed mac and cheese hotdogs an buns

Bread..$2.50...tuna..$4.00..mayo..3.50..huge sandwich

No not here in NZ! It is impossible to nutritionally feed an adult male who does hard manual labour every day unless you are making a light lunch or snack eg soups, toasted sandwiches, pasta, macaroni cheese let alone another adult female and two kids. Earlier suggestions on here are neither filling or a balanced nutritious "meal" in my opinion.Edited 17-Dec-22 09:34am

Is it 10$ to buy all the food? Or 10$ to make it all? Spaghetti with hamburger and sauce.

easy bye a bag of potatos loafs of bread chip butty sadwhichs if you can feed 4 on $10 you all must be twiggy

Yes. Buy 8 drumsticks (app $4) 4 potatoes ($1.50) Frozen Mixed veg $3.20) 4 Pears ($1.25) $9.95.

Easy. Pkt Kings soup mix with lentils, 1 tsp chicken stock or chicken stock cube, 1 onion, 2 grated potatoes, 2 grated carrots, 1 to 2 sticks celery and 9 cups water. , Also Fresh Choice regularly has Brinks fresh chicken drums for 3.90 kilo. Freeze if you have room.Can marinate and bake in oven. At same time put potatoes onto bake. Put some frozen mixed veges on. If you do extra potatoes you can mash and stuff with tinned sweetcorn etc and reheat for lunch next day.

Absolutely you can feed a family of 4 for under $10. I used to do it a lot.

Tuna in white sauce spaghetti

Rice with canned tuna, veges and sauce.

Casserole, like tuna or spaghetti.

Rice. Throw in a couple of veggies and or some sauce. Easy. Edited 17-Dec-22 08:16am

I dont think so. Maybe bread, butter and ham you can buy for $10?

ya Kraft dinner maybe for 4 bucks

I have 6, and when we need to.do under $10 we make toasted cheese sandwiches which is $4.25 from woolworths for cheese, $1.90 for bread from Iga and $3.50 butter from woolworths. Or a frozen pizza when it's not on special it's $7.50. And a little fruit.

I DONT THINK I COULD WITH PRICES GOING UP EVERY WHERE I THINK THE ONLY WAY IS TO GROW YOUR OWN VEGIES THAT MAY BRING THE PRICE DOWN BUT THE MEAT IS STILL COSTING MORE THESE DAYS

I am not sure, everything is so high today that maybe twenty dollars is a better price

I have done it but not fir an official challenge. I live on a farm and raise most of my own vegetables and can them. The meat is the most challenging part, especially with inflation! I can do a lot with ground beef or chicken. I shop for deals and often can feed 4 adults for $10 and under—with no left overs! The key is finding special sales or using coupons.

I don’t think you can feed four adults with this challenge, maybe two adults and two small kids

Baked potatoes with cheese,bacon or ham,tomato and coleslaw

Chicken burgers are on the table for $10 or less. Easily done. I have made sausage casserole for less than $10.

Yes I could do it but really don't feel that I have to.

Have not taken part in such a challenge, however if we’re talking about the main meal of the day, I believe I could feed a family of 4 for $10 - catch the fish, 2 cups jasmin rice, 1 carrot, capsicum, sweet peas, 2 tablespoons green curry paste, tin coconut milk, lime and fish sauce - green curry fish, delish!

doubt it

You can, a lot depends what you can get on sale

It is very much possibile and healthy but need a lot of thinking and effort

is it possible yes, is it going to be a healthy balanced and nutritious meal probably not

Think it would be difficult to feed four people on $10 now. Even a packet of pasta is $3. Mite almost get it with home made macaroni cheese. I budget and thank goodness I am no longer trying to feed kids-groceries are expensive enuf for the two of us

Yes, I can feed four people under $10 challenge, but all depends on how Hungary are they.

hunger strike

Have I ever taken part in a challenge to feed four people for under $10 - NO! Would I be able to feed four people for under $10 - YES - as long as THEY are not FUSSY EATERS - and will the meal be healthy - NO!Edited 17-Dec-22 06:03am