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Day 18: Live below the poverty line – £1 a day
Posted on January 23, 2015 Leave a Comment
Breakfast: porridge + office milk Lunch: warburton thins x3 + rocket, watercress, spinach + “Brussels pate” Dinner: Sausages + mash +spinach rocket watercress ‘Treat’: reduced doughnuts We have a ‘cake bake Friday’ every month in our office, where people bake an array of cakes and pastry tidbits to sell to us at a reasonable flourly […]
Day 17: Live below the poverty line – £1 a day
Posted on January 22, 2015 Leave a Comment
Breakfast: porridge + office milk Lunch: warburton thins x3 + rocket, watercress, spinach + “Brussels pate” Dinner: reduced cheese sandwich (poor decision) The porridge oats are the horn of plenty! A decent source of fibre (and magnesium apparently) and I’m still using up last week’s pack. I’m feeling somewhat saturated by four days of skeleton […]
Day 16: Live below the poverty line – £1 a day
Posted on January 21, 2015 Leave a Comment
Breakfast: porridge + office milk Lunch: skeleton soup + no bread Dinner: parsnip (4p reduced) made into roasted chips and chilli (tinned) ‘Treat’: apple, chocolate buttons from Nicki’s tuck box It’s all hands to the mill today and work flies by. Before long it’s evening and I’ve pulled together a motley crew to come along with […]
Day 15: Live below the poverty line – £1 a day
Posted on January 20, 2015 2 Comments
Breakfast: porridge + office milk Lunch: skeleton soup + no bread Dinner: remainder of stir fry ‘Treat’: value yoghurt, value chipsticks Today has been the toughest test of willpower so far with temptation lurking at every corner. 7.30am and I’m off to a breakfast club in Southampton for a spot of networking and training. One […]
Day 14: Live below the poverty line – £1 a day
Posted on January 19, 2015 4 Comments
Breakfast: porridge + office milk Lunch: skeleton soup + tiger bread Dinner: stir fry + noodles + hot dogs ‘Treat’: value yoghurt, value cheese puffs 2 weeks into the challenge a further two pounds lost, taking my challenge total to just shy of seven pounds. In monetary terms by my reckoning I’ve spent £6.55 on […]
Day 13: Live below the poverty line – £1 a day
Posted on January 18, 2015 Leave a Comment
Breakfast: none – up too late and need to get on the road Lunch: Skipchen meal Dinner: skeleton soup 9am and I’m off to visit my friends Sian and Alex in Bristol, we’re going to lunch in a place called Skipchen. Skipchen is part of The Real Junk Food Project, it’s a cafe which purely […]
Day 12: Live below the poverty line – £1 a day
Posted on January 17, 2015 Leave a Comment
Breakfast: porridge + value strawberry yoghurt Lunch: fish finger butty + green salad Dinner: casserole with meatballs + tiger bread In a bid to liven up the porridge I mix in some value yoghurt this morning. Perfecto! Following last night’s interview on BBC South, one of the comments on Facebook which Sally mentioned was from […]
Day 11: Live below the poverty line – £1 a day
Posted on January 16, 2015 1 Comment
Breakfast: porridge + office milk Lunch: fish finger butty green salad and carrots “Treat”: value yoghurt, salt and vinegar value chipsticks Dinner: casserole with meatballs Up at dawn’s crack this morning as I’m off to the BBC Radio Solent studios, I’ve been invited onto the Breakfast Show with Julian Clegg! Too excited to eat my porridge before leaving the […]
Donations
Posted on January 16, 2015 Leave a Comment
As part of the challenge I will be donating the money I usually spend on food for the month to The Trussell Trust (a UK food bank) and Save The Children. If you would like to make a donation I have created a page today for you to do so as well, please follow the […]
Day 10: Live below the poverty line – £1 a day
Posted on January 15, 2015 4 Comments
Breakfast: porridge + water Lunch: curry noodles “Treat”: three canapés honourably half hinched at office party Dinner: chicken curry and tiger bread It is with sadness that I report I have been the victim of a crime…. My doughnuts, so kindly reduced by the charming baker, have today been dishonestly appropriated with the intention to […]
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