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Live 2 weeks on a €50 grocery budget

"What if you could eat for 14 days for the price of a single dinner out?"

Why this is so fun

You'll discover which meals are surprisingly cheap and delicious — lentil soup that costs €0.40 per serving yet tastes like you put real effort into it. After two weeks, you'll look at your receipts differently, and you'll have a small repertoire of dishes you've truly mastered.

Someone who did this

Joris (29), Groningen — junior accountant, cycles to the office every day and honestly barely cooks

On day four I was standing in the Lidl on the Herestraat going back and forth between a bag of lentils for €1.19 and a tin of chickpeas for €0.89, and I realised I was actually doing the maths — cents, just literal cents.

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First 3 steps

  1. 1Plan all 14 dinners in advance using affordable staple ingredients
  2. 2Shop at Lidl or Aldi and use seasonal vegetables
  3. 3Log what you save and what you spend it on
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