Getting ready to start the Hunger Challenge from 3/21/11 through 3/25/11. Must subsist on $7/day for breakfast, lunch and dinner. No eating of already purchased food or handouts from friends and family. Here's the link below if you are interested in more details or joining the Hunger Challenge.
Day 1: Made it spending $5.70. $3.70 for brreakfast at Starbucks (scone and coffee). Lunch was a Lean Cuisine dinner ($2 on sale at QFC.) Participated in Expanding Your Horizons stuffing party getting ready for the event on Saturday at Bellevue College, offering jr high and high school girls career options in STEM (science, technology, engieering and mathematics. As a result I had free snacks. What I did notice about the day was that I was very conscious about how much everything I ate was costing. Something I realize I haven't done since I was a college student.
Day 2: Ate at Starbucks again for breakfast but only bought a turkey bacon sandwich since my shuttle driver brought me a coffee from Starbucks that bought before picking me up. (She was not aware of my hunger challenge.) So was able to get a free refill when I stopped at a Starbucks on the way to work. Had another Lean Cuisine for lunch and left-over fish and chips from Saturd that I calculated at $4. So went over by $2 but since had a $1.30 from day 1, figure I was in the ballpark. It's amazing how calculating one has to be to survive if eating out alot.
Day 3: It's been a tough day... Not so much with the food stuff but other life stuff. So believe it, or not, HMC was have an employee appreciation event today, so breakfast was free. Later had coffee via our coffee fund (~ .30), another Lean Cuisine for lunch ($2)and my half of a $6 bottle of wine for dinner. I invited my neighbor over for a glass of wine and he ended-up buying us pizza for dinner (He also doesn't know about my hunger challenge.) I guess I am channeling free food.
Day 4: Well it started off rather extravagently since I bought drip coffee for myself and the shuttle driver, costing a total of $3.30. (We have TGITh instead of Friday and one of us usually buys for the other.) Then at work it was World TB Day as well as the weekly scone day at Harborview Medical Center. So of course had to buy a scone, sausage and coffee for $5.15. For lunch I donated blood at the Puget Sound Blood Bank and had pretzels and a couple of cookies, juice and coffee at no charge. In the evening, I went to a educational dinner which was free. So between Day 3 and 4 I am breaking even. But it seems like everytime I eat something I am thinking about whether I can afford it within my $7/day budget. Hmm....
Day 5: Well I had this detail accounting of my day and then couldn't remember my $#%@@@ password since it's some fricking convoluted gmail account. Anyway, survived for 5 days on leftovers, freebees and latent craftiness from my younger years. I had this brilliant closing, waxing philosophical about how much easier it is to feed one vs. a family. Bottom line, though food has a dollar value, it also is entwined with lots of social stuff. With rising costs of food worldwide, leveraging a limited budget will require much skill. Many of my clients have been doing this for years and could probably teach me much about stretching the dollar. Now if we could just get organic stuff to be cheaper and fast food to be more nutritious... Life is good any way we choose to have it.
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ReplyDeleteHow am I going to have a glass of wine on $7/day for breakfast, lunch and dinner?
ReplyDeleteGetting ready to start the Hunger Challenge from 3/21/11 through 3/25/11. Must subsist on $7/day for breakfast, lunch and dinner. No eating of already purchased food or handouts from friends and family. Here's the link below if you are interested in more details or joining the Hunger Challenge.
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Day 1: Made it spending $5.70. $3.70 for brreakfast at Starbucks (scone and coffee). Lunch was a Lean Cuisine dinner ($2 on sale at QFC.) Participated in Expanding Your Horizons stuffing party getting ready for the event on Saturday at Bellevue College, offering jr high and high school girls career options in STEM (science, technology, engieering and mathematics. As a result I had free snacks. What I did notice about the day was that I was very conscious about how much everything I ate was costing. Something I realize I haven't done since I was a college student.
ReplyDeleteDay 2: Ate at Starbucks again for breakfast but only bought a turkey bacon sandwich since my shuttle driver brought me a coffee from Starbucks that bought before picking me up. (She was not aware of my hunger challenge.) So was able to get a free refill when I stopped at a Starbucks on the way to work. Had another Lean Cuisine for lunch and left-over fish and chips from Saturd that I calculated at $4. So went over by $2 but since had a $1.30 from day 1, figure I was in the ballpark. It's amazing how calculating one has to be to survive if eating out alot.
ReplyDeleteDay 3: It's been a tough day... Not so much with the food stuff but other life stuff. So believe it, or not, HMC was have an employee appreciation event today, so breakfast was free. Later had coffee via our coffee fund (~ .30), another Lean Cuisine for lunch ($2)and my half of a $6 bottle of wine for dinner. I invited my neighbor over for a glass of wine and he ended-up buying us pizza for dinner (He also doesn't know about my hunger challenge.) I guess I am channeling free food.
ReplyDeleteDay 4: Well it started off rather extravagently since I bought drip coffee for myself and the shuttle driver, costing a total of $3.30. (We have TGITh instead of Friday and one of us usually buys for the other.) Then at work it was World TB Day as well as the weekly scone day at Harborview Medical Center. So of course had to buy a scone, sausage and coffee for $5.15. For lunch I donated blood at the Puget Sound Blood Bank and had pretzels and a couple of cookies, juice and coffee at no charge. In the evening, I went to a educational dinner which was free. So between Day 3 and 4 I am breaking even. But it seems like everytime I eat something I am thinking about whether I can afford it within my $7/day budget. Hmm....
ReplyDeleteDay 5: Well I had this detail accounting of my day and then couldn't remember my $#%@@@ password since it's some fricking convoluted gmail account. Anyway, survived for 5 days on leftovers, freebees and latent craftiness from my younger years. I had this brilliant closing, waxing philosophical about how much easier it is to feed one vs. a family. Bottom line, though food has a dollar value, it also is entwined with lots of social stuff. With rising costs of food worldwide, leveraging a limited budget will require much skill. Many of my clients have been doing this for years and could probably teach me much about stretching the dollar. Now if we could just get organic stuff to be cheaper and fast food to be more nutritious... Life is good any way we choose to have it.
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