Day 4 LBL Challenge

Today I CAVED. I am not proud but I am honest. My excuse is I was at work my stomach was growling and the growls grew louder. I did try to drink hot water to fool my stomach into thinking it was hot soup but obviously that doesn´t work or else everyone would be doing it, right?

Breakfast - 1 slice of bread, banana, tea with 1 sugar cost = 48 cents

So what did I do? Stuck in West Melbourne, not surrounded by shops, off to the office vending machine I went. And out dropped a packet of sour cream & chives Grainwaves. Boy were they good. And the cost? Ouch! Practically my whole budget $1.70.

So I am pretty much over budget but I decided to persist to see how much more I would go over budget by.

As it so happens I had a shocker of a day. Being attacked with words from one person´s ugly jealousy, I felt ill and I couldn´t eat. So maybe I should be thankful for their schizo-ness?? But what I do know is I am thankful for my friends. Lunch? A dose of thankfulness cost = nil

Feeling deflated, I needed a pick me up. So taking in fizzleout´s comment that it´s ok to do portion pricing, I decided I needed my cheese. So off to the supermarket I went to buy Australian home brand pasta, cheap broccoli and a block of parmesan. Add to this what I already have, garlic and olive oil, and ta-da. Broccoli pesto linguine. Cost, yes over budget but not too bad considering everything is local. Cost = $3.44 /2 serves =$1.72

Day 4 Total = $3.90

Not good but also not bad. Whole day under $5 bucks. I do feel a guilty though, which makes me more determined to achieve this challenge in August. Much planning is necessary. And who can I recruit?!

¨Women are more likely than men to be at risk of hunger¨ - UN

If you haven´t noticed, I don´t eat meat. My reason: In an UN report it was found that ¨we grow enough edible grain to provide 50% more than is required for every person in the world¨. Yet world hunger exist. It is from this fact that I choose to live a meat-free life.