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Day 9: Live below the poverty line – £1 a day
Posted on January 14, 2015 1 Comment
Breakfast: porridge + work milk Lunch: French stick hummus-thing and lettuce “Treat”: Doughnut + half pack grapes + 1 scotch egg + ‘fruit Wednesday’ work freebies – 1 banana and 2 squares of melon Dinner: leftover pasta (as pretty full from most excellent treats) It’s my second morning on the porridge and I’m still experimenting […]
Day 8: Live below the poverty line – £1 a day
Posted on January 13, 2015 6 Comments
Breakfast: porridge Lunch: French stick hummus thing and lettuce Dinner: Penne tomato and hotdogs “Treat”: Doughnut + half pack grapes + 1 scotch egg 1 girl…. 2 hours…. 6 supermarkets…. £1 a day! Last night I attempted to take bargain hunting to a whole new level, undertaking a supermarket crawl of epic proportions. 7pm – […]
Day 7: Live below the poverty line – £1 a day
Posted on January 12, 2015 1 Comment
Breakfast: 30g of coco snaps + milk Lunch: Vegetable soup and out of date pitta Dinner: Spag bol (tinned) “Treat”: Value onion rings Final morning of my value coco snaps or as I prefer to term them ‘snap, crackle and pov’. They have been a faithful kick start but as of tomorrow I am leaving […]
Day 6: Live below the poverty line – £1 a day
Posted on January 11, 2015 6 Comments
Breakfast: 30g of coco snaps + water Lunch: Left over penne and chilli Dinner: Hoops on toast “Treat”: To be revealed Desperate times call for desperate measures. I’ve woken up craving something sugary and today I am employing my inner pinchpenny to get just that. A Google search for “free food samples” reveals a number of […]
Day 5: Live below the poverty line – £1 a day
Posted on January 10, 2015 1 Comment
Breakfast: 30g of coco snaps + water (not at work) Lunch: Tin of the staple tomato soup + token pitta Dinner: chilli con carne from a tin served over penne “Treat”: value bag of salt and vinegar chipsticks Saturday morning. I get up and fix myself a bowl of the trusty coco snaps, with tap […]
Day 4: Live below the poverty line – £1 a day
Posted on January 9, 2015 4 Comments
Breakfast: 30g of coco snaps + office milk Lunch: Tin of the faithful tomato soup + token pitta Dinner: chilli con carne from a tin served over toast “Treat”: value bag of onion rings Wow what a day! The challenge is amassing quite a following I’ve had over 2,300 views since launching on Tuesday (790 […]
Day 3: Live below the poverty line – £1 a day
Posted on January 8, 2015 2 Comments
Breakfast: 30g of coco snaps + office milk Lunch: Tin of questionable chicken soup + 1 pitta Dinner: spaghetti hoops on toast Got some stick this morning from two colleagues for not ‘going the whole hog’ and having porridge oats but I argue the coco snaps are proof you can afford some (relative) luxury on […]
Day 2: Live below the poverty line – £1 a day
Posted on January 7, 2015 2 Comments
Breakfast: 30g of coco snaps + office milk Lunch: Tin of tomato soup + 1 pitta Dinner: Tupperware full of last night’s penne Day starts well with the trusty coco snaps. The challenge is attracting a lot of interest at work and I’ve now had over 1,000 hits on the blog which is great news. […]
Day 1: Live below the poverty line – £1 a day
Posted on January 6, 2015 2 Comments
Breakfast: 30g of coco snaps + office milk Lunch: Tin of tomato soup + 1 pitta Dinner: 250g penne + half carton passata + two onions + four hotdogs + black pepper borrowed from housemate’s cupboard Tea and coffee is free at the office so I make the tactical decision to prepare breakfast at work. […]
Day 0: Live below the poverty line – £1 a day
Posted on January 5, 2015 Leave a Comment
5 January and still wallowing in a post Christmas sugar and carb coma this morning , I spotted JCI’s £1 a day challenge and decided to see if I could live for a week below the poverty line. Hunger is the world’s number one health risk – killing more people than Aids, Malaria and Tuberculosis […]
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