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Breakfast: 30g of coco snaps + milk Lunch: Vegetable soup and out of date pitta Dinner: Spag bol (tinned) “Treat”: Value onion rings Final morning of my value coco snaps or as I prefer to term them ‘snap, crackle and pov’.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