Living Costs in the Dominican Republic

[yapask1]

Typical day menu for child:

Porridge made with milk, sugar, banana. 15 pesos

2 eggs, bread, butter 25 pesos.

orange juice or squeezed fresh oranges in season 10 pesos

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liver, bacon, veg casserole, rice based on 4 oz liver 30 pesos

semolina made with milk and fruit 10 pesos

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Tilapia farmed fish with sweet potatoes or yam , broccoli 60 pesos

chocolate moose or portion of cake 20 pesos

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Snack if required - home made oat and nut bar or biscuit 8 pesos.

Cocoa drink at night - milk based 7 pesos

ad-lib banana 4 pesos

190 pesos

If beans were substituted for some protein content - eggs, liver, fish much less.

yapask1

He states that "Maybe Less than 200 pesos per day" to feed a child in the DR!
"Children" cost MORE than adults for food on a daily basis.
One quart of milk costs about a dollar here. I only give my kids "Skim Milk" which costs more!
They take food to school as well.
If you feed your kids "Dominican Style"(Sugar, Fat, & Salt) you can feed them for very little.
90 % of Dominican kids have anemia!
Childrens food is NOT the place to think about saving money.
Now, ya wanna talk "CLOTHES"????
Education?
Health care?
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[DRsantos]

I Already know that DR can be cheaper than Europe or US but is this a JOKE. Why you didn''t include all other cost that other posters like cc included. You're post is useless....

Typical day menu for child:

Porridge made with milk, sugar, banana. 15 pesos

2 eggs, bread, butter 25 pesos.

orange juice or squeezed fresh oranges in season 10 pesos

------

liver, bacon, veg casserole, rice based on 4 oz liver 30 pesos

semolina made with milk and fruit 10 pesos

------

Tilapia farmed fish with sweet potatoes or yam , broccoli 60 pesos

chocolate moose or portion of cake 20 pesos

-------

Snack if required - home made oat and nut bar or biscuit 8 pesos.

Cocoa drink at night - milk based 7 pesos

ad-lib banana 4 pesos

190 pesos

If beans were substituted for some protein content - eggs, liver, fish much less.

yapask1

 

[yapask1]

I Already know that DR can be cheaper than Europe or US but is this a JOKE. Why you didn''t include all other cost that other posters like cc included. You're post is useless....

I was responding specifically to CC s comment:

He states that "Maybe Less than 200 pesos per day" to feed a child in the DR!

Feed a child - other expenses on top.

I illustrated a days costs for feeding a child good meals.

Clothes can vary right from second-hand quality clothes at 20 pesos an item to latest boutique wear.

Education can vary from home schooling right up to sending the child to a top school or a European boarding school.

Health can vary from a simple local policy or self-insured to World-wide cover with top international insurance company.

My opinion is that local food is very reasonably prices good and nutritious when prepared in traditional American, European or Asian manner.

yapask1

 

[DRob]

I Already know that DR can be cheaper than Europe or US but is this a JOKE. Why you didn''t include all other cost that other posters like cc included. You're post is useless....

Most of his posts are.

A while back, folks concluded his ultra-survivalist viewpoint was possible, but well outside what mainstream folk would even consider. Pi2/Yannadu/Yapaski/whatever (he gets banned every few months, and has to create a new identity) may or may not be a nutcase, but he certainly has never cared for children, or anyone else. That in itself should tell you volumes.

Liver and semolina for lunch? Even Oliver Twist's gruel sounds like an upgrade from that. Yuck....

 

[Criss Colon]

My kids are Dominican enough, that they like when I season,bread, and deep fry chicken livers.
BUT,................ they love American cereal.
At $5 a box!
Diet,education and healthcare are VERY important,I have one at university, one in "High School, and two in "Grade School".
Books alone are over $1,000 US a year.
"Home Schooling" is NOT an option for me.
Can you IMAGINE what I would teach them?????!!!!
Besides, they are already smarter than I am, otherwise how could they be manipulating me like a puppy?
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You don't "count pennies" when you have kids!
They are only "Kids" once in their lives, make it GOOD!

 

[PICHARDO]

He states that "Maybe Less than 200 pesos per day" to feed a child in the DR!
"Children" cost MORE than adults for food on a daily basis.
One quart of milk costs about a dollar here. I only give my kids "Skim Milk" which costs more!
They take food to school as well.
If you feed your kids "Dominican Style"(Sugar, Fat, & Salt) you can feed them for very little.
90 % of Dominican kids have anemia!
Childrens food is NOT the place to think about saving money.
Now, ya wanna talk "CLOTHES"????
Education?
Health care?
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I challenge you to prove that statement even comes close to the real number!

First of all, to post REAL data, out of all the kids living in poor households only less than 32% of this group suffers from anemia from lack of proper nutrition.

That's a data for kids between 6 months and 5 years old!

 

[bri777]

I want to know where you get the 32% from
most poor kids that age havent seen any person that can make that evaluation
Manu

 

[PICHARDO]

I want to know where you get the 32% from
most poor kids that age havent seen any person that can make that evaluation
Manu

ftp://ftp.fao.org/ag/agn/nutrition/ncp/dom.pdf

El 31.7% ni?os pobres de RD sufre anemia; 50% en la provincia de Monte Plata | Mundo Visi?n

 

[donP]

Numbers Like Rabbits

I want to know where you get the 32% from

PICHARDO draws numbers from a hat like wizards draw rabbits out of them. :bunny:


donP

 

[yapask1]

Jamie Olliver; a world leading chef thinks a liver casserole can be heavenly. Certainly it featured in my school lunches.

Jamie Oliver - Forums / Liver and bacon - beta

Oh, yes I remember many of today's children in places like the US, UK are obese through poor diet.

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Eating beef liver can reduce your risk for several health issues related to nutrient deficiency. Boosting your intake of vitamin A through consumption of beef liver can help decrease your likelihood of experiencing night blindness and other vision problems. Increasing the amount of iron you eat helps prevent anemia, and getting enough folic acid may help reduce your risk for nerve and memory problems as well as reducing the risk of neural tube defects for pregnant women.
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Nearly everyone loves semolina pudding. It was a great favourite during and after WW2 and was often to be found in school dinners, sometimes chocolate flavoured!
It is especially good sprinkled with nutmeg and baked in the oven, so there is a lovely slightly crispy skin on top. But even if it is made as a quick pudding, just cooked on top of the stove and served with jam, or cooked with sultanas, it is still tasty!!
Semolina is a type of coarse ground wheat. The pudding was found in recipe books, under the 'genre' of milk puddings (along with rice, tapioca, sago and macaroni).

Semolina Pudding recipe - Cookit!

I fully accept if you take kids out for happy meals all the time budget will be many times higher. As they eat the supersize portions you can think : will they still enjoy a run on the beach in 10 years time?

But the typical days meals at under 200 pesos could have many variations : also some people are vegetarians etc. or enjoy more oriental recipes etc.

yapask1

 

[yapask1]

Yes, in my posts I,m no way telling people what to do - just another viewpoint.
If as a child I would not have eaten the nourishing food offered in my family and demanded something else expensive my father would have said tough - earn money yourself to pay for it. Actually through a friend of his he did arrange a small plot of land for me to grow food when I was age 14. I grew beans, potatoes etc.
Books - most are available free on the internet. Even language courses etc. Some people invest in a 50$ scanner, borrow books from the libraries and copy the books that are not on the internet.

yapask1

My kids are Dominican enough, that they like when I season,bread, and deep fry chicken livers.
BUT,................ they love American cereal.
At $5 a box!
Diet,education and healthcare are VERY important,I have one at university, one in "High School, and two in "Grade School".
Books alone are over $1,000 US a year.
"Home Schooling" is NOT an option for me.
Can you IMAGINE what I would teach them?????!!!!
Besides, they are already smarter than I am, otherwise how could they be manipulating me like a puppy?
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You don't "count pennies" when you have kids!
They are only "Kids" once in their lives, make it GOOD!

 

[yapask1]

100 pesos ( approx 2.5 dollars ) from the new Mercado Central in Las Terrenas.......

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yapask1

 

[MikeFisher]

ftp://ftp.fao.org/ag/agn/nutrition/ncp/dom.pdf

El 31.7% ni?os pobres de RD sufre anemia; 50% en la provincia de Monte Plata | Mundo Visi?n

I don't know how they gather such numbers, as many/most? Poor Children will never be reported to a Doctor for simple anemia to enter the Statistics.
and ""32% of the poor children"" is a number which I see much to low, MUCH to low.
I spent my Times and once in a while still spend time in the circles of the real poor, the ones who have to search their food meal by meal and day by day with many meals skipped as nothing been found, it is almost impossible for children to grow up under such conditions without getting anemia, they all catch it once in a while, hence every woman on the streets of the "poor" will know what to do once it hit again. and it is not just the children.
just 32% may be a correct estimate within the lower midclass tho.

Mike

 

[MikeFisher]

I challenge you to prove that statement even comes close to the real number!

First of all, to post REAL data, out of all the kids living in poor households only less than 32% of this group suffers from anemia from lack of proper nutrition.

That's a data for kids between 6 months and 5 years old!

you know very well that the poor families do not bring their kiddies to a Doctor for statistic's sake for a simple anemia.
the Secretary in charge for publishing such stats/ridiculous lies should get taken away his/her post in thye government cause it's just a waste of public money which could be used to feed a lot of poor children properly.

Mike

 

[CaptnGlenn]

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Jet Fuel RD$196.20

Always helpful to know the price of Jet Fuel. Now I know what it will cost to fill up my Leer Jet parked outside next to my rented KIA Rio. LOL

 

[yapask1]

Don't people know what function the liver carries out in the body? It filters poisons, and where are the poisons after the filtering process? In the damn liver. Why not just drink urine?

Liver is very nutritous ..... yes you may not like it but many people do.

yapask1

 

[nas]

Liver is very nutritous ..... yes you may not like it but many people do.

yapask1

A nice tender, juicy liver on some yucca... "simplemente delicioso!"

 

[CaptnGlenn]

Increasing the amount of iron you eat helps prevent anemia, and getting enough folic acid may help reduce your risk for nerve and memory problems as well as reducing the risk of neural tube defects for pregnant women.
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wow... now I know what causes my memory problems, and I can stop blaming old age... wait... what was this thread about???? I forget.

The Captain... wait... is that my name??? I forget that too. LOL

 

[yapask1]

Bought some fish and meat there also .... good. Not quite as cheap as buying off the truck with bargaining or looking round street stalls but convenient and social as you meet people every time.
Much cheaper than supermarkets.

yapask1

 

[william webster]

Don't people know what function the liver carries out in the body? It filters poisons, and where are the poisons after the filtering process? In the damn liver. Why not just drink urine?

Remember FishMan, if your cut yourself while in the wilderness and need to clean it ---- pee on it to flush it clean.

Urine is totally sterile....

Miners trapped in cave-ins, drink it to stay alive - recycled water, if you will.


Reminds me of the old prison joke.
Men,good news, today you get a change of under wear.






Smith, you change with jones, Jones you change with......:nervous: