DAY ONE
So day one of eating on $33 a day was less than fun. For starters Kari is not going to try it this week (her sister is in town) so I cut the amount if half rounding down to $16. I skipped breakfast which was easy. I had oatmeal for lunch which was less then fun seeing as I am not an oatmeal fan at all so dumped brown sugar on it to make it tolerable. That resulted in a sugar rush and later crash. The worst part was after eating oatmeal until I couldn’t stand it, I was still hungry. For dinner I watch everyone eat pasta with cheese, sausage and mushrooms, brownies, fresh green beans and fruit while I had two pieces of white toast without butter and two eggs. I even ate the heal of the loaf which I would normally discard. I guess eating on so little money makes you never throw food away. I was very pleased with the eggs though. Even though I did not grease the pan I was able to have them over easy with out the yokes breaking. Seems small I know, but trust me today was a challenge. I would be lying if I said at no point did I think about quitting.
DAY TWO
I made some poor choices today regarding my food finances. I started out pretty good, more oatmeal and sugar for breakfast and a banana. The banana is about 15 cents while the oatmeal, bread, sugar, and eggs I bought at the beginning of the week only cost $5 and I have plenty of those left. So I WAS feeling pretty on top of this, then lunch happened. Margo served mashed I’m-not-not sure-what-it-is that looks a lot like sweet potatoes and salami (very dominican) and I couldn’t sit there and not eat it. I had to, the salt goodness was calling to me and so I did what normally do, i ate. It’s a pretty simple dish that cost 100 pesos or about $2.50 in the market. Not a great choice but it wasn’t going to break me. After that I had a chinola to wash it down, another 15 cents. Later that evening I went to the bakery and picked up bread. In the display case there they had a hot dog wrapped in an empanada shell, a sort of Dominican corn dog, and it only cost 50 cents. I had to try one… plus one. Another dollar, bringing my daily total to $3.80. Crap. I know that doesn’t sound like a lot but that is just shy of 25% of my $16 allowance in just one day. Not to worry though, I can still do this. I will just have to not eat much tomorrow. That sounds horrible though because even though I “binged” today at not point was I really full and now at 7 o’clock I am hungry again. Thinking about being hungry right now and knowing that tomorrow I will have little to no relief from that really bites.
DAY THREE
Day 3 did not go as expected. I thought I was going to be miserable and hungry most of the day, instead I was miserable and sick. Started the day off with 3 pieces of french toast and 3 fried eggs, without butter or syrup. I did have to buy milk for $2.00 but it was worth it, kid of…. I never thought I would miss condiments as much as I do. Don’t get me wrong, this breakfast was better then oatmeal but french toast without butter or syrup is not right. At least for lunch the chinola I had was sweet (another 15 cents) and that is when my cold sucked away my appetite. I went the rest of the day without any thoughts of food. I did have 2 fria frias which are kind of like snow cones only $1 total just to put something into my body. I never thought I would see the silver lining to being sick, (other then missing school) I can’t help but wonder though if my lack of nutrition may have helped cause this. Well in any event I have spent only 11.50 and still have plenty of bread, eggs milk and oatmeal.
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