An acute financial crisis in a single wallet. A situation familiar to most people. I didn't calculate the expenses, there were unforeseen expenses - and now there is only one week left until the next salary and the question is: how to live on 500 rubles all this time?
Instructions
Step 1
First of all, calculate all the expenses that cannot be avoided over the next week. This can be travel expenses, payment for a mobile phone or the Internet, cigarettes (for smokers), and so on. Consider if you can minimize them. For example, use the “promised payment” service, live without access to the network for several days, walk, and so on. Subtract the unavoidable costs from the amount you have. Everything else is for food.
Step 2
Inspect your home's food stocks. A bag with vegetables lying around in the corner of the freezer, leftover cereals, pasta or jam … Now is the best time to put them into action.
Step 3
Don't make the two common mistakes people make when saving on food. First, don’t try to buy instant noodles or other “just add water” products with whatever money you have left. Contrary to popular belief, this is far from the cheapest way to eat. A pack of regular pasta can be bought for almost the same price as a box of "disposable" noodles - and you can eat them for a couple of days.
Step 4
Secondly, do not divide the money you have into 7 days and do not try to buy food “for fifty dollars” every day - it is much more reasonable to make up a weekly menu and buy food for it. For example, a whole chicken goes beyond the daily budget - but with proper planning, you can eat it for a whole week (two days - we fry the legs, another two days - we eat the breast, and the leftovers will be enough for a huge pot of chicken soup).
Step 5
When planning a "crisis menu", focus on soups (and hearty, and inexpensive, and long enough), egg dishes, cereals, pasta, seasonal vegetables and other cheap products. For example, breakfast - oatmeal, lunch - lean borscht, dinner - pasta fried with an egg.
