INSIDE EDITION found a couple who lives on $1 a day!  

"I didn't think I could do it," says Kerri Leonard.  Kerri and Christopher Greenslate live in a nice house in San Diego.  They're both high school teachers and wanted to show their students how to get by on a dollar a day during these tough economic times.  

Armed with exactly 30 one dollar bills and a calculator, Kerri and Christopher headed to the grocery store to show INSIDE EDITION how it's done.

They buy everything in bulk, and calculate the cost per serving.  A bag of lettuce didn't make the cut.

"It would still be 29 cents per salad, so that's kind of expensive," explains Kerri.
    
Their total was $29.42.  So far, so good...but living on a dollar a day isn't necessarily healthy.  Kerri says with no fruits and vegetables, they get few vitamins.

And how much food do they get to eat for a dollar a day?

Breakfast is five cents worth of oatmeal.  Lunch is a peanut butter and jelly sandwich that costs about 30 cents.  And for dinner?  Kerri stirs corn meal into boiling water and then sautés up polenta cakes.

"Each of the polenta cakes cost three cents, plus five cents for the pasta sauce and three cents for the spices," says Kerri.

But how does it taste?

"It's actually pretty good," Christopher says.