Living Below The Line!
Soo, starting tomorrow I will be living on $2 a day for all my food! 5 days of exciting stuff!
I did my shop tonight and found out a few interesting things already,
Interesting thing number one, two dollars is not much at all, this does not buy you a lot of food, even when you shop at Aldi.
Number two, no time to be fussy, or for flavor, plain oats with water all the way!
I can see this will definitely be an interesting week, especially for someone (me) who would easily spend up to $15 on lunch a lot of days at work, I will now be bringing my very own home-made veggie soup :)
It was a weird experience shopping tonight. Not only have I never shopped with such an extreme budget before, but I've even really conisdered prices in terms of cents. I found myself turning away from a certain can of pasta sauce because it cost 20 more cents than the can of tomatoes. A different experience indeed. So my shopping is now done, and my budget has come just under, on a total of $9.59, with a bit of room to spare! Who knows? Maybe I'll by myself a 30c lollipop midway just as a little treat!
So, with a grand total of $9.59, I managed to buy myself the following:
Loaf of Bread, Carrots, Celery, Onion, Can of Tomatoes, Chickpeas, Lentils and a vegetable you call a 'sweed'? (Apparently will add flavor to my veg soup, because I can't afford salt!)
Not a bad effort!
Excited for the week to come, stoked to be a part of something that can help bring an end to global poverty!
To donate to the cause or find out more, head to my Live Below the Line Fundraiser Page at:
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