Day 1 LBL Challenge

It´s only Monday and boy has it been a pretty busy start to the week. So let´s get to it.

I generally try to buy organic and/or local where possible but in completing the Live Below the Line challenge I had to forgo the organic but I still did try to buy Australian. Not all ended up being a product of Australia as they just don´t exist such as miso soup and dry shiitake mushroom.

The Grocery List

• Multi grain bread
  
• Free range eggs
  
• Australian olive oil
• Dried shiitake mushrooms
• Marukome instant wakame miso soup
• Leek
• Garlic
• Sun rice Doongara clever rice (product of Australia)
  
• Soya sauce
• Australian Sugar
• Silken Tofu
• Tea
• Banana
• Pear
• Mandarin
  

Breakfast - 2 slices of bread, 1 egg, cost = 57 cents

Lunch - 2 slices of bread, 1 serve of miso soup, cost = 37 cents

Dinner - Fried rice
(1 cup uncooked rice, tbl olive oil, 1 clove garlic, 1/4 leek, 1/4pkt shiitake mushrooms, 1 egg & tbl soy), cost = $1.90/2 serves = 95 cents

DAY 1 Total = $1.84

What I can conclude from Day 1 is that this is going to be one carb loaded week. Luckily for me, I like carbs, so all is good.

Oh by the way, I never had that starving feeling but when it was time for a feed my stomach did let me know. Fortunately for me, they were timed perfectly a grumble at 6am, 1pm and 7pm.