Day 3 was harder for me. I had a series of meetings at work starting with a breakfast meeting. It was sobering to think that the $19 per person plate cost for the breakfast is more than we are spending for the two us all week.
In my head it makes sense to eat the free meal, which smelled delicious (and usually I complain about the heat lamped food at these things) but Live Below The Line doesn’t allow for free meals. I guess it makes sense, most people living on so little would not have the kind of job where you are at meetings and offered tea/coffee and pastries or paid breakfast/lunches. It was tempting to take a Tim Hortons at one though. I am craving a steeped tea.
Live Below The Line Day 3 Meals
Breakfast: Oatmeal (what a surprise) $0.13
Lunch: We shared a can of the beans, I had beans on toast with 1/2 breast of chicken and he had 2 potatoes with beans and the other half of the potato.
Mine: $0.06 (beans) $0.16 (bread) $0.43 (chicken)
His: $0.06 (beans) $0.14 (potato) $0.43 (chicken)
Dinner: We used the rest of the ground to make a huge bowl of pasta to last a few meals. 2/3 ground $1.66, rest of the mushrooms $0.66, rest of pasta sauce $0.58, zucchini $0.12 and I made him pull the kernels off the cob of corn (free) plus a packet of pasta $0.49. So only $3.51 for this huge bowl of pasta (although it is not very saucy for that much pasta, it is mixed with some of the starch water from the pasta). This will do two filling dinners for each of us and a lunch portion for one of us (we find we are eating more without a salad on the side). $0.70 per portion. We also had a slice of bread to mop up the sauce.
Cheese was sprinkled on both $0.15 each for the day
Live Below The Line Day 3 Total Costs
$0.13 (breakfast) + $0.65 (lunch) + $0.78 (dinner) + $0.15 (cheese) = $1.71 (his was $0.02 cheaper)
good for you for sticking to this. you are doing amazing!