IPhone 5 iOS 7 how do I reduce wifi data usage?

When traveling abroad I rent a pocket broadband wifi hotspot rather than renting a SIM because I want to keep my number for texting & calls. I find that I have to tune the heck out of my devices to avoid consuming a ton of data. The diagnostics aren't great to show what is devouring data. I can get my idle IPad mini with iOS 7 and my IPad with iOS 6 to avoid consuming background data. My iPhone 5 with iOS 7 however is devouring about 1MB per second. I've deleted iCloud, shut off push, shut off notifications, shut of location services, deleted every deletable app, shut of background data, reduced the # of days Outlook & gmail fetch (manually), deleted iMessage, and shut off iTunes background updates. I've done everything but wipe the phone. Still when I turn on wifi with nothing running in the background it chows through the data.

It sounds like you've tried some very good remedies. A couple of additional thoughts:
Have you removed Game Center based apps? Game Center can run checks to make sure you are still a high scorer, etc.
Have you considered contacting your cellular carrier and simply finding an international roaming plan supplied by them? That would allow you to keep your number for texting and calls, but not have to deal with the pocket broadband. It sounds like you're just planning to use the texting and/or calls very rarely.
Hopefully you know you can check cellular data use at Settings > Cellular > Cellular Usage (near the bottom). You could dry run only using cellular data at home to see what is consuming your data. Or if you simply keep your home cellular service while abroad, you can monitor your progress while traveling.
Also see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4146

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