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Breakfast: 30g of coco snaps + milk Lunch: Vegetable soup and out of date pitta Dinner: Spag bol (tinned) “Treat”: Value onion rings Final morning of my value coco snaps or as I prefer to term them ‘snap, crackle and pov’.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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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