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. Note: Read the Days from the bottom of the page to the top.

Sunday, February 4, 2007

Day 3 - The Monotony is Killing Me...

At this point its getting harder and harder to resist food that surrounds me. But I'm trucking on along. I just hope I can keep this up.

I feel that this diet provides me with enough nutrition, however, until now I didn't realize how I used to eat a lot of food very casually.

I also mixed things up a little bit today. Since I woke up late I didn't eat my oatmeal until 1pm. Then instead of lunch I just had a peanut butter sandwich. For dinner, I cooked some rice and tossed in an egg. The result was not too bad:


My egg rice bowl actually did taste pretty good. The tomato sauce again helped spruce things up a little bit. Up to this point my strategy has been to eat small portions throughout the day. Ive got to continue with that trend because it seems to be working. The only problem is that I've already gotten severely bored with my meals. But I guess if 15 bucks is all I had for food I'd just have to suck it up. However, the monotony is killing me.
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