Heres day two, and well, I'm still alive. I stuck to my regular schedule of meals. Here's my schedule spelled out:
Morning - 1/2 cup of oatmeal with water
Mid-morning Snack - Peanut butter sandwich
Lunch - Rice with tomato sauce
Dinner - Two eggs and two slices of bread
Up to this point I've faced only a few difficulties. The number one issue is having food flaunted in my face constantly. It wasn't too bad at work, but when I went to my parents' house over the weekend, I met with a kitchen loaded with food. Then theres the fact that I still can't cook rice. Yesterday I think I had put too much water in my rice, today, not enough water. So today instead of pasty rice, I had the opportunity to enjoy crunchy rice... delicious!
Turns out oatmeal is actually pretty for your health. Oatmeal contains insoluble fiber which fights cancer. It also contails soluble fiber which reduces your bad cholesterol (LDL) without reducing good cholesterol (HDL). This should hopefully help balance out the cholesterol I consume by eating eggs. A correlation has been between lower risk of heart disease and eating oatmeal.
So far so good.
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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