Can you eat on $2.00 a day?

A friend of mine told me last week about this website devoted to the challenge of eating on a budget of $2.00 a day. According to that link:

"$2 a day is the global poverty line below which people are defined as living in poverty. The World Bank produces estimates of the number of people living in poverty, and in 2004 they estimated that in 2001 2.7 billion people were living on less than $2 a day. Of these, 1.1 billion people lived on less than $1 a day, the level of extreme poverty" See World Bank data here.

On this link you can read statistics about poverty in the U.S. The largest demographic shown is children under the age of 18, and single women represent the largest adult demographic. 

If you are interested in getting involved, visit Live Below the Line on this link for more information.


I can't think of a better recipe to include with this post than Moosewood Lentil Soup. A bag of lentils costs $.89 or less, and most supermarkets offer tired but perfectly good "soup veggies" at a steep discount. This is a nutritious, yet very inexpensive meal. A small handful of rice added to the pot makes it a complete protein.