On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:33:51 -0800 (PST), Sheldon >
wrote:

>On Dec 21, 1:20?pm, sf wrote:
>> On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:32:01 -0800 (PST), Sheldon >
>> wrote:
>>
>> > I'm
>> >positive that if you lived in the US with US money and US prices you
>> >would find it very difficult to eat on a $40/wk budget
>>
>> $40 is doable. $50 each is a good average of what we spend now.
>
>"Doable" (make do) is NOT eating well... doable is subsistance (barely
>eking by).
>

It can be done... doable.
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=doable

Nobody claimed they would eat lavishly on $40 a week. The question
is... could you "eat well"? I could. Obviously, you can't.

I eat meat every day. If I cut my budget, I would buy less meat and
stretch what I buy. The challenge is doable. Would I want to? No.

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