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Explorer Scout Badge link to Global Issues Challenge: Part A - Spend three days living on food that costs no more than £3 a day. Share with others about how it went including a top tip for cooking meals with so little money. This could be a discussion, blog, video diary.

Explorers will be planning the menu for spending 3 days living off £3 a day (original badge says £2, increased price due to cost of living and to reflect 2023)

Resources

Access to the internet for more efficient research, they will need to be able to go onto shopping website such as Aldi, ASDA, Tesco etc.
Pens, Paper to create a menu.
More creative leaders could give them fake money and create fake items (rein act a shop experience, this would be ideal for younger sections)

Instructions

Get the Explorers to create a menu for 3 days telling them they will be only aloud to spend £3 a day. This could be collated together so £9 across the 3 days. DO NOT GIVE THEM THE PRICE OF THINGS
After the have created their menu and shopping list, give them access to the internet or price list of items and the should work out how much they have spent.
They should then adapt their menu to fit within the budget.

They are just feeding themselves on £3 per day, they could do this activity in a group and plan out a meal in groups of 2 and have £18 to spend etc.
The menu should be as balanced as possible, thinking of the Healthy plate.

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Badge Links

• Global Issues - Cheap living