Twigs and Tofu

So I had a go at not spending more than €16 on food for a week. Turned out to be fairly easy and I don’t think I even spent all I could even though I subtracted some for using spices I already had. I’m not sure, but I probably could’ve gotten away with subtracting the [...]

Final day! I ate the last of the rice, fried it with a bell pepper, some carrots, and a few tomatoes. I also ate an apple and a few bowls of oatmeal, which was quite tasty. While I ate those together the first few days, later on I stopped bothering and instead ate the apple [...]

So yesterday? Also pretty sucky, wood-wise. Again with the no cooking, I just ate the usual sammiches for lunch and occasionally made me some microwave oatmeal. Meh. Today should be better. Filed under: food, lunch, meals Tagged: $21 challenge, frugal, project

Today was a bit meh. Lazy and no interest in doing anything much. Never mind doing dishes so I could do something approaching proper cooking. Tomorrow. This made the whole day a bit of a loss, food-wise. Breakfast was skipped again, so instead I had my usual four sammiches to start off my day, and [

Breakfast: Oatmeal with chopped apple. Better with a little bit of salt added before microwaving. Lunch: 4 sandwiches with peanut butter, cucumber, and sambal. Dinner: Rice and yellow split pea mash, microwaved. Snacks: 1 peach. 3 carrots. Stuff used: Fridge and microwave: gifts. Plate and cutlery:

So far, this $21 challenge is not actually too difficult. Perhaps €16 buys a decent week’s food around here. Perhaps I’ve not planned properly and and the whole thing will start to become really annoying once the weekend arrives and I’ve a few more days to go without enough money to get me proper me