How a poor person eats on a low carb diet

I can never buy two weeks of food for less than 150 euros. So I spend over 300 euros on groceries a month. So when my only income is 279 euros in student aid, this equation just doesn't work. Even though I try to buy the cheapest shit these days, it just doesn't work. Of course, that amount also includes hygiene products etc.

 

 

I don't eat lunch at all, but I eat breakfast at lunchtime. Previously, it was two slices of low carb bread with cheese slices. I still have some of that (now bankrupt companie's) bread left, but now I eat something else. Either two eggs fried in butter, or two slices of grain-free seed crispbread with those cheese slices.

Then it's already afternoon tea time. Sometimes I might eat sugar-free chocolate with that. Lindt is the best, but expensive. There are other chocolates, for example, the Red brand. And Lidl's sugar-free chocolate is just fine, very similar to Lindt.

For dinner, I eat 200 grams of frozen vegetables, usually either carrot cubes, or broccoli. I gave up on fresh vegetables when I got annoyed that they were always moldy. I used to put olive oil on broccoli, but it's too expensive now, and I only use butter for dinner these days. Then some meat. For example, chicken or minced meat. Less often fish, that's expensive too and I can't stand fish bones.

 

For an evening snack, a piece of cheese and unsweetened/unflavored yogurt. It seems like I eat too many dairy products, but I can't think of anything else that's cheap, low-carb, and preferably high-fat. Sometimes I also eat almonds or nuts.

I might also eat Gullon brand gluten-free and sugar-free chocolate chip cookies. That's the only similar product I know of on the Finnish market. I remember with nostalgia the sugar-free and grain-free lemon muffins that were on sale during the low carb diet boom.

In my opinion, I eat too little, and I've lost almost 10 kilos since I lost my job. I weigh 47 kilos now. But even though I eat a little, the grocery bill is terrible...

Well, the first thing I should do is give up tea. It's completely pointless. And I also drink expensive tea, Clipper, about four times a day.

Why do I spend so much money on food?

One reason is the low carb diet. Grain-based sugary crap would of course be the cheapest. And potatoes. Since I'm "poor" these days, I "have to" eat a little potato, e.g. in ready-made meals. Grain-free and potato-free ready-made meals are expensive. What's annoying about the cheapest ready-made meals is that the butter and cream have been replaced with cheaper and unhealthy vegetable oils.
 

I simply have such expensive taste. For example, when it comes to chicken, I usually only like the most expensive oven-roasted chicken. For example, I can't stand chicken strips. And recently it happened that I started to hate chicken legs, as I was nauseated before and after eating them. I'm such a snob that I don't like industrial/packaged minced meat, it should be ground in the store.