For the month of June i will be spending only 5 dollars(a fiver) a day on food and beverages. Food and beverages can be purchased in advance but the amount of food consumed can not exceed the cost of $5 per day.
E.g. If a chocolate bar is bought for $2, the amount consumed will be counted to the daily total. 1/2 eaten = $1, completely consumed = $2
A day can consist of the meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner and any other miscellaneous snacks consumed throughout the day. Skipping a meal is allowed.
Free food will only be taken where it can be publicly accepted i.e. promotions / samplings / fast food / office giveaways etc.
Rules can be added during the course of events.
Eating on a Fiver
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3 comments:
what if someone invites you for dinner?
Hey Warren, I like your social experiment...but it doesn't seem like that much of a challenge! :-) Ok sure it is no lattes, no banana bread etc...just kidding, but I think many students live like that everyday...
Reflecting on my student days, the way I'd do it is just go for some cheap vegies like a massive bag of carrots or zucchini from the central market or a bag of whatever they have going really cheap and eat it with rice or cous cous and some vege soup stock....this combo will last you for a few days and its very filling and yummy and healthy.
or get some dry beans and soak them and then get a soup mix vege box and make some bean and vege soup
another very cheap meal is rice and dhal....and you would be amazed at how cheap and easy it is to make rice paper rolls, put any filling you like like lettuce and fried tofu strips, you just add it with the rice noodles and rice paper...
Also try potatoes with coleslaw, coleslaw is so cheap to make. Just cabbage, carrot and onion and some dressing...make a big bowl of it and eat it with some tin of red beans and potatoes...cheap, yum and healthy too.
but seriously, eating nothing but cup noodles and skipping dinner is not sustainable, you wont be able to play footsal next week if you keep this up you will just have no energy left.
you might want to google 'dumpster diving' and you will see another way to get by on less than $5 a day. And I have heard that if you go to coles at midnight or something heaps of things that have the used by date expiring on that day are reduced....
lastly, why don't you try going vegan for a week!!!....look into it! http://veganfreakforaweek.blogspot.com/
JD
Ms Jane
Thank you very much for your suggestions and tips on food. I will be looking into these options in the near future.
Ill address some of your comments in a post today.
Oh and dumpster diving, don't you worry, thats on the list of things to experience.
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