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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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