On his modest budget, the guy managed to go to cafes and restaurants.
The words of the Saratov minister that in Russia, they say, you can easily eat for 3500 rubles a month, deeply sunk into the soul of Vyacheslav Russkin from St. Petersburg. And although this official was rushed to dismiss from the local government for mocking phrases like “macaroshkas are always the same”, her business continues to live: the aforementioned Vyacheslav decided to test for himself whether it is possible to live on 3500 rubles a month. or 116 rubles a day.
Slava filmed his feelings and posted them on YouTube. And in order not to have doubts about the purity of the experiment, as a result, even passed a lie detector test. The dispassionate machine confirmed: Slava did not lie and ate honestly on the pennies allotted to him.
The first thing that had to be abandoned was daily gatherings in a cafe.
“I have a lot of business meetings during the day. And if earlier I was waiting for a person in a coffee shop for a cup of coffee, now I have to sit in the car. “
However, having saved a couple of hundred in one of the weeks, Slava still allowed himself a cup of fragrant Americano. True, I did not calculate that the milk and cinnamon offered by the waiter were not included in the price of the drink and, as a result, overpaid another 30 rubles – for some, ridiculous money, but for Vyacheslav a quarter of the daily budget.
When friends called Slava to a restaurant, he ordered free water from a cooler and salivated, looking at the neighbors’ plates.
“The first week of the experiment, everything was cool and fun. But then something terrible began. I realized that I only need to cook myself. And because of the work, there is little time left for this. The mood worsened because I could not afford, as usual, on Friday evening to go to a restaurant, to the cinema. I began to doubt myself, doubted whether I had enough money until the end of the month. “
At the same time, the blogger continued to visit, but now he took containers with food with him and categorically refused treats. One of the most difficult tests for Slava was his father’s birthday. Imagine the tables are bursting with treats, and the birthday boy’s son is eating pasta from a container.
But by the second week, Slava’s sharp-sighted eye instantly revealed discounted products on the shelves.
“I started drinking tea for 10 rubles. True, it was no longer possible to brew it twice. I bought the cheapest oil – it didn’t taste very good. I bought a sausage for 27 rubles – the taste is so-so. Instead of mayonnaise – mayonnaise sauce for 16 rubles. Cheap pasta for 20 rubles per pack. I used to choose products by composition, I looked at “yeshki”. Now it doesn’t bother me, just to fit into the budget. “
One of the life hacks that Slava discovered for himself is to buy a whole chicken, not a cut one.
“100 rubles per kilo! At the same time, I get two portions of fillets, legs, and throw the wings and bones into the soup. “
An unpleasant discovery for the blogger was the prices of spices. He hadn’t even thought about it before. Now we only have to make do with salt.
At the same time, Slava’s meager nutrition did not affect his weight in any way. At the beginning of the experiment, he weighed 102 kg, and a week later he even gained an extra kilogram. Because … Yes, yes, “macaros always cost the same” – Slava fed on them.
A sample menu for the day looked like this: eggs and a sausage sandwich for breakfast. Soup for lunch. Chicken with a side dish for dinner. For snacks, cheap biscuits with tea. At the same time, no fresh vegetables and fruits – it is very expensive.
On the fourth week, everything was so critical that Vyacheslav constantly wanted to break loose, buy himself a full-fledged business lunch, or at least shoot a treat at a friend’s house. But glory to Slava, he held out!
“In the fourth week, like a prisoner, I counted down the days when this experiment would end. I really wanted to eat normal food. And as soon as it was 12 at night, I immediately went for the shaverma. After a month of fasting, I had some enchanting emotions! I felt all the ingredients: sauce, spices …
In general, this is not life, but survival. It is possible to live on 3500 rubles a month, but only for a month. If you eat like this for six months, I think you will have to spend money not on food, but on medicines and doctors. Because healthy food for such money is out of the question. “