Wow, the last week has been absolutely crazy! On to days 4 and 5 of the Live Below The Line. My week turned crazy busy so I did not have time to go looking for free fruit/vegetables with the new snapsaves rebates sadly but we still managed. Over the two days we ate the […]
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Live Below The Line Day 3
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 […]
Live Below The Line Day 2
I know oatmeal is healthy, filling and nutritious for a low cost but bleh. Oatmeal without added fruit is gross. I may never eat oatmeal again after this week. I did find it a bit easier today without tea, but my partner will not last the week without a coffee. Live Below The Line Day […]
Live Below The Line Day 1
This actually looks quite delicious for a meal while living on less than $1.75 a day doesn’t it! Here is our food diary for Live Below The Line Day 1 Breakfast – this will be the same every day, a packet of oatmeal made with water. $1.29 for 10 packets = $0.13 each Lunch – […]
Live Below The Line Grocery List
Live Below The Line starts this week and this is our list of groceries available for the week ($17.50 for 2 people for 5 days). We took advantage of offers that were easily available to anyone such as Snapsaves, Checkout 51 and printable/easily ordered/found coupons. Primo Pasta x 2 @ $0.49 at Fortinos = $0.98 […]
Living On $1.75 A Day? I Am Trying Live Below The Line
$1.75 a day? I can hear you saying that I must be crazy but we did the Live Below The Line Challenge last year through work and managed (barely). Okay we cheated a little, we used money over the week but some days were higher and others were lower and we had an event at […]