Actually eat healthily for £1 per day

Whilst it is nice people try and point out cheap options they ignore the following:

1) cost of running a fridge and freezer 2) calorie intake and how people are all different 3) large supermarket nearby and only you hanging around the reduced counter

With that I'm sure a very short small inactive person could live well on this amount and intake but we are not all small inactive people.

A few years ago I was in hospital, I eat breakfast, dinner, evening meal and late night snacks and had seconds on every occasion. I was not overly active and bordering on totaly inactive. I slept lots as well. In short I eat almost twice the ` so called` reccomended calorie amount. I had nothing like worms or the sort and over a 2 week period I lost over a stone in weight. Now I'm large frame, over 6feet tall and male and a active brain yet was phsicaly inactive, eating twice the so called daily calorie intake and had no medical issues like worms or digestive issue at all and I lost weight. In short my my personal calorie intake is over twice what the so called average is and when I read articles like this it is hard not to feel persecuted as other read them, take them as fact and then think you are wrong. Yet the facts show, as well as common sence that not everybody is the same.

The acticale on the BBC was born out of benifit cuts and was showing how somebody could eat cheaply, it totaly ignores that a even the `so called` average daily intake is 2000 for a women and 2500 for a man and that men and women are paid the same amounts, with that most of the replies and posted menu's came from small frame short people and females (no offence intended btw). With that I'm jelous I'm not a small female and able to eat less to lead the same quality of life. Sadly that is not so and that is te case for many people. We are all different and there is no cookie-cutter way to say this will sort everybody as it won't, or shoe shops would have shoes the same size and that would be it for everybody.

What I find worrying is the mentality that some people have and wil impose based upon this and what might be good for them is not good for others and they will not know any better as the `reccomended intake` gets bastardised from being average to the normal for all.

That said, not everybody has a garden to grow their own vegtables and that helps hugely, sadly I can't but we all have windows and a small window ledge herb garden can help loads.

I would also say baking your own bread helps as well on many levels.

Beyond that your down to mapping out what time what supermarkets reduce items, keeping it to yourself and playing hit and miss that others not in the same situation as you as there are only so many reduced items.

I have found you can eat cheaply, or you can eat healthy, but as a non vegan/vegatarian it is extreemly depressing.

There is a subreddit on this, tagged by the CHEAP keyword http://www.reddit.com/r/fitmeals/search?q=CHEAP&restrict...

The idea that everyone has time to do 'X' if they only wanted it bad enough is complete BS.

For people that work two jobs, have a family to take care of, commute several hours, have a sick spouse and sleep there is no more time in the day. No matter how badly you want it.

Unless you or the author of Rework know of a magical formula to make the day longer than 24 hours or how to operate on little to no sleep.

Actually it's interesting to look at what people in developing countries (who typically only have £1/day or about that) eat: http://imgur.com/a/mN8Zs

You are absolutely, without a doubt, incorrect. Making up random guesses about your caloric intake is exactly why people think all sorts of crazy nonsense about metabolism like you do. You were eating less than your recommended intake, not double it. You just suck at estimating. Most people do. There is no way you were eating 5000 kcal in the hospital, they won't even let you.