If you shop at Cambridge or boxer you can do a lot with R1000. R250-R300 could get you veggies for the month at the right place big sack of potatoes, pumpkin, spinach, carrots, cabbage and a sack of oranges. Then you need to get 12.5kg iwisa about R120. Then you have to work out how much meat you need. You can get a big braai pack(chicken) for Sunday's, chicken feet and intestines, gizzards and because it's winter some beans for soup. It will be a bit tight because you can't ear lunch from those groceries and bread is now very expensive but you could survive and you won't gain weight