INSIDE EDITION meets a woman, who can whip up a hearty meal of homemade chicken noodle soup and fresh corn muffins for less than a dollar!
The healthy, delicious and inexpensive food items are how Rebecca Currie eats every day. She just spent a month surviving on $1 a day!
So how did she do it?
"I only had a dollar so I had very simple ingredients and most of my meals were very simple," says Currie. The computer programmer from Durham, North Carolina, buys inexpensive whole grains and she also cooks everything from scratch. She uses frozen vegetables and adds rice and pasta to make her dishes more substantial.
"It's all fresh food," she says. "It's the best food. The food you make yourself is so much better than the food that you buy."
INSIDE EDITION gave Currie $7and took her shopping for a week's worth of groceries. She bought pasta, tomato sauce, eggs, beans, rice and even had room in the budget for fruit.
Pointing out some of the things that didn't make it to her shopping cart, Currie says, "I didn't buy any junk food. I didn't buy any chips. I didn't buy any soda. I didn't buy any candy. I didn't buy any cookies."
What she also didn't buy was any meat.
Currie shares her personal philosophy on meats. "Meat is one of the biggest expenses and you don't need meat every day."
The diet is a little extreme. After about a month of eating for a dollar a day, Currie has lost about 10 pounds and she doesn't plan to do it forever. "You don't have to do anything crazy like I did. But you can look at the types of things that I did and learn from that and learn how maybe you can apply that to your own life."