The elderly in rural areas basically rarely spend money to buy vegetables. It’s not that the elderly don’t eat vegetables, but there are so many vegetables that can be eaten in rural areas. Vegetables grow anywhere and you can pick them and eat them. , for example, grow some cucumbers, beans, eggplants, and tomatoes. These are vegetables from summer to autumn. In addition, there are also some amaranths, gray vegetables, wild vegetables, etc. growing in front and behind the houses in the countryside. You can pick some and take them home for frying. Eat, the following noodles are very good vegetables. In spring and winter, you eat stored cabbage, radishes, potatoes, pickles and the like, so you really don’t have to spend money to buy vegetables.

In the morning and evening, I eat home-grown cornmeal or rice soup, and mostly eat noodles at noon. The cornmeal is ground from the corn grown in our own fields, and the noodles are rolled from our own wheat flour. Some friends may say that this food is too bad. I can only say that the rural elderly have been eating like this all their lives, and they don’t know how to eat it. Feel bad.

Basically, rural elderly people do not spend money to buy food. Some people may not believe it. In fact, they cannot spend more than 20 yuan a month. Some people might scold me if I say that. However, the real life of rural elderly is like this. They don’t smoke, drink and eat almost all their own food. Where do you say they need to spend their money?

The retirement age of 50-60 years old can be regarded as the full labor force in rural areas in cities, and a person will never fall behind in his year-round rations of food and vegetables. This way, the elderly couple doesn't have to spend extra money on rice, noodles and vegetables all year round. Then I will raise a few chickens at home. Usually eggs from chickens are eaten, which not only increases nutrition but also improves food. If there are more, they can be sold to others and there will be a surplus. When the holidays come around, you can have a big plate of meat if you stew it. Fish! Only three or two times a month. In addition, if you buy meat, you will only buy a small piece of stewed radish and vegetables, which is also meat. This expenditure is only ten or twenty yuan a month! In rural areas, elderly people mostly use local stoves when cooking. One is a habit, the other is to save money. Straw on the fields and branches on the mountain road are both good materials for burning. No additional cost is required.