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Final day: Live below the poverty line – £1 a day
Posted on February 2, 2015 3 Comments
Breakfast: porridge + blueberries Lunch: prawn cocktail (10p) Dinner: meatballs (45p) + broccoli (10p) + rice + curry sauce (20p) Treat: porridge pancakes + remaining blueberries Last day and I’ve bagged a prawn cocktail for lunch reduced to 10p, sadly it’s something of a misnomer. Finding a shrimp in this pot is like searching […]
Day 27: Live below the poverty line – £1 a day
Posted on February 1, 2015 1 Comment
Breakfast: porridge + water Lunch: french stick and last of cheese (10p) Dinner: spaghetti hoops (20p – rubbish) + toast from freezer + foraged large bitter cress Treat: blueberries (10p) + cornflake cake (30p for chocolate) It’s the penultimate day of the challenge and I’ve still got stacks of cereal left over. I decide to use […]
Day 26: Live below the poverty line – £1 a day
Posted on January 31, 2015 1 Comment
Breakfast: porridge + water Lunch: foraged mushrooms + plants + tiger bread (10p) Dinner: remainder of vegetable curry + foraged large bitter cress Treat: value milk chocolate (30p) I’m off to Manchester to visit my brother Rob and try our hand at foraging. My friend Jane has come along too to redeem herself from last […]
Day 25: Live below the poverty line – £1 a day
Posted on January 30, 2015 1 Comment
Breakfast: porridge + office milk Lunch: remaining crumpets + value cheese paste Dinner: Starter – stuffed Romano peppers (20p) Main – vegetable curry (20p for veg and 31p for chopped tomatoes) and rice (40p for a bag) Busy day at the coal face today and the porridge fuels me through the morning. However the ‘less cheesy’ […]
Day 24: Live below the poverty line – £1 a day
Posted on January 29, 2015 5 Comments
Breakfast: porridge + office milk Lunch: crumpets (40p) value cheese paste (60p) Dinner: bartered leftovers I read this morning about 10 year old Karis McIntyre in Salisbury who has also been finding out what it’s like to live below the breadline. Karis and her family have also been living on £1 a day for the […]
Day 23: Live below the poverty line – £1 a day
Posted on January 28, 2015 2 Comments
Breakfast: porridge + office milk Lunch: warburton thins + Florida salad (15p) Dinner: pasta chicken and bacon (33p) + some more of the cucumber (7p) ‘Treat’: free pear + melon + four grapes (fruit Wednesday) I’ve reverted back to the porridge, I haven’t found a better item of breakfast filler for my bunce and I […]
Days 22: Live below the poverty line – £1 a day
Posted on January 27, 2015 4 Comments
Breakfast: cornflakes + office milk Lunch: warburton thins + pate Dinner: lasagne (40p) + cucumber (7p) ‘Treat’: few slabs of value choc (35p for bar) + live oyster (8p) Cornflakes this morning, ‘no fancy packaging’ and fancy they ain’t but a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down… However they’re still no sub for […]
Day 21: Live below the poverty line – £1 a day
Posted on January 26, 2015 2 Comments
Breakfast: cornflakes + office milk Lunch: warburton thins + pate Dinner: leftover burns night supper ‘Treat’: value yoghurt It’s day 21 and the end of my third week – I’m now firmly on the home stretch… Lunchtime and I’ve lucked out with warburton thins at x 9 for 10p – trouncing my previous record of […]
Day 20: Live below the poverty line – £1 a day
Posted on January 25, 2015 1 Comment
Breakfast: cornflakes (30p) + value yoghurt Lunch: burns night – haggis (£1) potatoes (15p) parsnips (4p) swede, leeks carrots (15p) Dinner: leftover sweet n sour noodles ‘Treat’: reduced doughnuts x 1 It’s Burns night tonight and being half Scottish it’s always been something of a tradition to have haggis, neeps and tatties. I want to […]
Day 19: Live below the poverty line – £1 a day
Posted on January 24, 2015 1 Comment
Breakfast: porridge + water Lunch: frozen toast from week 1 with “Brussels pate” + 3 remaining fish fingers Dinner: fresh egg noodles (10p) + value sweet and sour (30p) + broccoli (10p) ‘Treat’: reduced doughnuts x 2 Freeganism is a lifestyle philosophy focused on adopting alternative methods to limit dependence on consumerism. Freegans typically scavenge […]
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