For this task you need to do 3 things

 

 

1. Can you go to local markets and make a pictures of the products

that are 1.25$ or less?

(Try to take a picture of food you can use to make a meal

eg. flour, eggs, vegetables, meat, fruit,...)

Add your name, country/place and

the price of the product in your currency and in Dollars.

 

 

2. Can you now, make a daily menu for 1.25$

out of the products from your country?

You need to make some calculations and use Maths ;)

(for example: how much is a bowl of cerials, glass of milk, slice of bread, an egg....)

• How much would cost your breakfast ?
• How much would cost some lunch to survive on this money?
• And how about a dinner? Would you have it?

Can you make some "survival" meal and make a video?

 

 

3. And now, the final task - what is your favorite daily menu?

How much you spend usually on your food per day?

What is your favorite meal and how much it costs?

Can you make it and show us the recipe and your cost calculation?

 

 

                                                                                                               

We worked on a menu for a week on a dollar a day, we added the photos of our food to the padlet. But the first difficulty was choosing the supermarket, and checking out the discount section of food that had passed its sell by date, or the very cheap brands (everyday, value range, discount stores) We planned on the dishes for a week we bought a kg of porridge for £1.50 and 2 litres of milk for £1.19) . This is 3.52 USD and would provide a breakfast for 7 days. Breakfast per day 0.5 USD per day.

Day 1, and Day 2 Main meal of the day spaghetti with tomato sauce. Spaghetti cost 20 pence and Tescos own brand Tomato sauce  cost 60p. Total cost 80p which is 1.05 USD but as this was going to last 2 days 0.5 USD

lunch was a banana    7 fairtrade bananas cost 0.90p  this is  1.18 USD which is .17 USD per day. 

 

                                

 

Total cost for first two days 1.17 USD

 

Day 3   same breakfast, Porridge with milk 0.5 USD  lunch was half a tin of rice pudding this cost 40 p which was 0.26USD and evening meal was a pack of budget savoury rice from Lidl which cost 50p 0.6 USD total for the day 1.26 USD

Day 4 Porridge Breakfast 0.5 USD    lunch the other half of the tin tice pudding with a banana 0.3 USD evening meal 3 slices of bread with baked beans 28p   or 0.37 USD   total for day 4 was 1.17 USD

 

Day 5   Porridge Breakfast 0.5 USD ......lunch consisted of everyday range flour two eggs and milk and we made pancakes, the pancake mix would last for two days total cost 0.39 USD ...( we commandeered sachets of sugar  from a cafe..so we did not pay)

Total cost for day 5 and 5 was 0.89 USD

 

It was the end of the week and so far we have spent 6.48 USD  So we have 2.27 USD to spend

Breakfast was porridge again but we were able to add two bananas to this so luxury we spend 0.63 Dollars on breakfat.

Lunch was 3 slices of bacon in a sandwich which cost 54p  or 0.71 USD    and our evening meal was a Tescos special lemon and coriander Couscous mix which cost £0/75 or 0.98 USD   total  for the day was 2.11 USD.

 

We managed for the week BUT several points became apparent.  First of all I was hungry for 7 days, Secondly  the meals were really boring, The third thing is it was unsustainable, for a week yes it could be done but for any longer than that, our health would have been an issue. This was not a healthy diet. When we had a talk from Tafiya at school we were told  that in Uganda when living on the streets, some of the children start taking Mufata, an aeroplane fuel that can be sniffed from a plastic bottle or a cloth. Highly addictive, the children say they take it because it keeps them warm and makes them forget the pain they experience living on the streets. What always struck me the most was that many of the children buy Mufata instead of food. This, Nicola (the CEO of S.A.L.V.E) told me, can be because Mufata is both cheaper than food and suppresses their hunger.

Whilst I can never truly imagine what I would do in that situation, I can see why these children take Mufata. What would you do if you couldn’t afford food but could buy something that made you feel safe, warm and full? The thought, however, of anyone having to take drugs in replacement for food is frightening and heart-breaking.

 

 

 

The students from Guist'hau middle school in Nantes (France) took part in the living on 1.25$ a day challenge.

Here are some examples of what they found out about it and how they reacted to it.

https://padlet.com/stassinsimon/tm0x2povkid9

 

The students' conclusions

 

We think that living with 1,25$ is really hard dayly because in France the prices are growing up all the time ,so we pay more and more without kwnowing it.

It will certaintly change the way we'll buy things in the future by making us care more c about the price of the things that we'll buy.

Adrien and Ethann

 

In my opinion, this shows people how people live everyday with only 1,25$. I think it is really  sad to know some people  still live with 1,25$ today, and we must stop this big problem by helping  assossiations.

It was a good experience to try to be in poor people's place and understand them.

Brune

 

 

We think it's difficult to live with 1,25 $ a day in France because a lot of food costs more than in America.We can't live with just bread and an apple a day because it's not nutritional enough.

Cyriaque and Agathe  

 

Now, we know with 1.25€  we  can hardly have any thing to eat, and we can talk about it to ourfriends and family... We know we are lucky, and because of it, we should act to stop poverty and help people to live in good conditions. When we buy food, we will look at the price to see if poor people could buy it and we will give food to them. We will know food is precious and we mustn't waste it anymore.

Louise and Esther

 

Today in France, it' s very difficult, or  nearly imposssible to  live  with 1.25 dollar per day because  the food is too expensive.When you go to a supermarket you can't split the products and  calculate.

If everybody helps it will change.

Perhaps in other countries you can but in France you can't !

Brieuc

 

 

 

 

We can't buy enough food for a day with 1,25$. This won't change the way I act but the way I think because the cheapest products in a super market are usually the poorest quality.

 

Nina and Clara

 

 

We understood living with only 1.25$ a day is very hard. It's very sad that people don't have enough money to buy food, because without it, we die.

Unfortunatley, we can't really change it, but we have to try doing something, give money to homeless people, talk about it to the people we know... Because if we don't, Earth will turn into Hell.

 

Jules and Lazslo

 

It's very hard to live with only 1.25 $ per day because  food is very expensive. People who have less than 1.25 $ per day can't really eat healthy food. In the future we will have to do something to help people below the poverty line. For example we will have to give more money to charities like the « Restaurants du coeur » or  volunteer for some humanitarian actions. Why do we have to do that? Because everybody must be able, and allowed, to eat as they need and to eat healthier food.

For us, who have all we need, it's hard to realize and to be in somebody'else's place. So, it isn't because we have all we need that we can stop  fighting for equality in the world !

 

Inès and Mei

 

Now we have worked about this issue we think it's very hard to live in France with 1,25$ because the food is too expensive : for example a piece of chicken costs 2$. In the future we could ban  big brands because they sell the most expensive products !

 

Louis and Matisse

 

Today, living with $1,25 a day in France is very hard because the food is far too  expensive. This task helped us   understand better what poverty is,  it's so  hard to eat with only $1,25 a day !

 

Pierre and Mathieu