Have you ever put water in cereal as a desperate attempt to eat cereal when you’ve run out of milk? Then did you realize that you probably should’ve just made that run to the supermarket? That’s sort of the situation I dealt with this morning. Usually I look forward to my morning bowl of milk and oatmeal. But today I had my oatmeal with water and it wasn’t appetizing in the least. I had thought that this would be a cakewalk, but its turning out to be a little bit more difficult.
My 9:00 am snack was a peanut butter sandwich. That was right on time, because I was started to feel a bit hungry. Lunch wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought it would be. The tomato sauce really brought out the flavor in my rice paste.
Anytime I tell people about my experiment, they seem to think that either I’m crazy or strapped for cash. Well I have plenty of cash, sanity on the other hand…
My weight this morning was 162.6 lbs. I feel that I’ve planned out my meals very well and that I wont lose too much weight by the end of this month.
Watch me spend only 50 cents per day for food in the month of February.
One upping random people on the internet.
I'll get right to it. I was greatly inspired by Evan's Hungry For a Month blog. Just to recap his journey, Evan restricted his food budget to $30 for the month of November, averaging out to a dollar a day for food. He did not consume any free food that may have been available to him at his job which made it more of a challenge. He did not include items such as coffee, sugar, salt, pepper (the type of stuff easily jackable from your local fast food joint). I feel it was a great undertaking and it taught him a lesson or two. I'm going to one-up Evan.
My food budget for the month of February will be $15, averaging to out 50 cents a day. Being a caffeine-aholic I'm going to keep coffee in the mix just like Evan did. I'll also keep the salt, pepper and ketchup as items available for free (not that I eat much of those things anyways). Any free food available to me at my job is also off-limits. This may be a problem.
Working at a refinery, there is an exorbitant amount of free food. We have lunch meetings, product vendors bring free food, and there is almost always food left over from other people's lunch meetings. But I also feel that I have an edge in this whole issue. Being a Muslim, I am required to undergo fasting in the month of Ramadaan. lasting for about 30 days, these fasts require that I do not eat or drink anything from dawn to dusk. Ramadaan was in October 2006, and I feel I did pretty good. It was a challenge, but I managed.
I am going to show that a 50 cent a day diet is very much possible, and even comfortable. Evan wrote in his blog that he did not really plan out his meals nor do any prior research. That's where I will also do things differently. I've already started to evaluate what foods are most cost effective.
One-upping Evan is not my only motivation. This experiment will also be conducted to show that using a proper budget and planning, even low income people can live comfortably. I will try my best to provide as much information as I can. Lets see how this goes.
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