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 4 - My Stomach Hurts....

Today my stomach started to hurt after my oatmeal lunch. I think I had put in too much water. Even though it was gone in about an hour, there were still lingering effects for the rest of the day.




I'm not going to let this diet keep me from doing the things I enjoy (except eating) and here I am today at a rock gym with my buddy:


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Granted I didn't go at it for the duration I usually do, plus I felt exhausted afterwards, I still enjoyed it.

I encountered a problem on the 1.5 hour drive back to my apartment. For every fast food joint I saw, the following thoughts crossed my mind:
  1. Maybe one burger is okay
  2. Why the heck am I doing this stupid experiment anyways?
  3. My God, this is only day 4
  4. I need to just scrap this whole thing and buy a dang burger
  5. Me hungry

I fought the temptation every time and kept on driving. I was very hungry on that drive home...

Sick and tired of the same dinner, I decided to mix things up again. I took some tomato sauce and mixed it in water and heated it up. Then I toasted up a slice of bread and crumbled it into the tomato soup. Presto! Tomato & crumb soup. Tasted great too.

My weight today: 159 lbs. Wasn't planning on weight loss, but oh well...

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