Hallo allerseits,
Ich bin ein ausländischer Student, der in Helsinki lebt und eine persönliche Herausforderung ausbricht: Vom 1. Juni bis 1. September möchte ich nicht mehr als 300 Euro für Lebensmittel ausgeben, nicht weil ich muss, sondern zu lernen, wie man besser budgetiert.
Ich bin mit den Lebensmittelgeschäften hier nicht sehr vertraut und würde mich sehr freuen, wie ich mein Lebensmittelbudget intelligent ausdehnen kann.
Ich wiege ungefähr 215 Pfund und hoffe, im Sommer Gewicht zu verlieren. Ich habe vor, regelmäßig zu rennen/joggen, und obwohl mich das normalerweise weniger essen lässt, möchte ich immer noch genug Eiweiß und Kohlenhydrate bekommen, um geistig funktionell zu bleiben, Gewicht zu verlieren und sich gut zu erholen.
Glaubst du, das ist machbar? Wenn nicht, wie viel mehr müsste ich realistisch gesehen, damit es funktioniert?
Alle Vorschläge zu billigen Speisenoptionen oder guten Orten zum Einkaufen in Helsinki als Student würden wirklich viel bedeuten.
Vielen Dank
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Good luck, that’s not possible.
How did you come up with this stupid idea?
Sounds like you faked your VISA fund requirements and now your cooked. This, of course will be impossible and stupid, but you do you.
Check discounts and specisk discounts at stores.
There are free food giveaways for people in need.
Check online if you can buy cheap soy (if you eat it)
Maybe also see if you can fish or collevt berries when tje time comes.
Sorry if this feels like a rage bait or anything like that. I know 300 euros sounds unrealistic these days.
I’m just genuinely curious to hear everyone’s thoughts so I can learn and build a plan around the advice shared here. Thanks again
I mean you might be able to make it work if you literally only eat noodles and plain rice. Besides that I’m not sure how you intend to keep a balanced diet on what amounts to about 3,5€ per day.
Eat cheap carbs, cheap vegetables and get protein from beans etc. Probably doable if you can cook decently.
You can start dumpster diving. Grocery stores throw away valid foodstuff
300 € divided by 92 days = 3,26 €/day. That’s enough to eat a diverse, healthy buffet lunch at the university cafeteria every day, plus have maybe some porridge / self-baked bread at home.
Good luck, let us know how it went (if you’re still alive by the end of it)
Lol, I don’t know how you could think this is possible.
Rice and beans. It’s gonna be a long and miserable 3 months but it’s somewhat doable.
Please don’t go to the food bank.
Cook yourself
On summer is good time to collect and recycle bottles and cana from streets/parks on the weekends. Youll get exercise and money to add to your budget.
You don’t eat less when you run, wtf is that? A hour of jogging at your weight is closer to 1000 extra calories which is probably 35-50% of your daily total energy expenditure. That food is going to cost you.
Edit:without trying to run and lsoe weight, I’d say it’s doable. Easiest way is imo to intermittent fast, eat megalunch at school cafeteria and porridge/rice and beans otherwise
You can always survive on rabbits. You may also buy a fishing pole and a sleeping bag and move beside a lake. I think you’ll even have some leftover money for beer to enhance the fishing experience
Just gonna give you the inside tip, do curry cabbage, buy curry and white cabbage in Lidl, get minced meat on discounts, buy rice and carrots wherever that isn’t k market, broth cubes from pirkka, this is food for less than 2 euro a day, did this challenge for a month and ended up using 87euro for me and my girlfriend during an entire month, also making Indian daal with couscous and buying bread to dip from the app ResQ club, 5 euros for about 20 euro worth of bread and freezing it, I reckon if I put more effort in it I could do 1 person for 35 euro a month this way 🙂 Hope it helps!
– it doesn’t require a lot of meat, the fullness of the cabbage dish is from the cabbage and letting it soak up water while boiling + rice, be generous with curry, makes it very tasty and not spicy due to water boiling it into the vegetables.
You can get rice in bulk from Asian food stores, myllynparas macaroni is probably the cheapest pasta. There’s the carbs covered.
Protein will be tough and is usually most expensive, protein rich quark or rahka is probably your best bet, ~2€ for 45g protein, say goodbye to meat on that budget. Edit- saw some other good ideas here like eggs and beans. But I’d recommend some kind of animal protein (if you eat it) rather than just beans.
I’d recommend spending some of this money on a multivitamin because your food is going to very bland and nutrient deficient. Then if you have any extras you can put for spices and seasons, butter, etc.
Good luck, sounds like an extremely boring diet! If you want to spice it up you can forage for some fresh berries haha
Rice and beans.
Places to get cheap(er) food:
ResQ
Fiksuruoka website
Matsmart website
Supermarkets 1 hr before closing (stickered products)
the cheapest, most efficient and simplest thing to do?
rotate potato/rice/quinoa etc. with eggs/meat/fish. this has you covered with like 80-90% of what your body needs, the only things you might be low on are some vitamins.
if you somehow have extra money, you could add vegetables, dairy, fruit, nuts and that basically gets you to 100%. take wholegrain over refined grain too
if you: hunt for discounted single-ingredient foods like I mentioned; keep as much variety as possible in your diet; don’t waste your money on processed junk that you don’t need then this should be possible. if you’re trying to lose weight then yeah a slight caloric deficit means you spend less on food
canned fish and no additives peanut butter are really great too. tons of protein and healthy fats for long, steady energy
I’ve tried to manage with 100e per month and as long as I was lucky it was kinda doable. Lucky meaning that I found those -30% items after 2100hrs, which made it -60%. But that was before the 2022 and the current inflation. And even then that wasn’t a healthy way to survive. And you doing it for three months in a row, at the current state? Nope, not a smart idea in any way or form. You’re too young to gamble with your health like that.
Rather than „only this much for three months“, try to set 25e budget for a week, and try to keep it healthy. Don’t punish yourself if you go over the budget. Just see how much it costs to eat healthy per week and try to stick to that.
You buy 146 kilograms of xtra pyttipannu. It is 98 days until September 1st, including today, and xtra pyttipannu contains 1490 kcal per kilogram. You get to consume 2220 kcal per day.
I did this for several months in university (in the United States), not because I wanted to, but because I was very poor. It was NOT good for my health. I had a cup of instant noodles for both lunch and dinner, and oatmeal for breakfast. That is not a nutritionally balanced diet. I had no energy, felt irritable constantly, messed up my menstrual cycle, and even my skin broke out and developed terrible acne.
You need fruits and vegetables in your diet or you will develop vitamin deficiencies, and it can mess up how your body produces important hormones.
If you don’t *have* to do this, I really recommend rethinking such a small budget.
What I once dis was to give me a budget of 200€ or so for a month, and then gradually decrease it until I did find the sweet spot for savings and living quality.
I don’t think spending only 100€ a month is possible, if you want to have a healthy diet
If you don’t have to, but just want to learn how to budget better, just do it on in theory. Getting nutrient deficiencies will not teach you to budget better. Of course you can safe money by only eating noodles but you don’t need to do it for knowing that, what new knowledge does it give you to actually live on such a diet