Hello friends. Yesterday, and partly inspired by a previous post on this sub about a "$1 a day" eating challenge, which struck me and apparently others too as over-complicated, I decided to challenge myself to eat for £1.00 for at least week, and hopefully a month, and maybe even beyond. These are the rules:
- The £1.00 a day is cumulative. So if I spend nothing today, that gives me a budget of £2 for tomorrow. If I spend 50p on day 3, that gives me a budget of £2.50 for day 4, and so on.
- No advances allowed. I can spend £1.00 today, and £2.00 tomorrow if I spend nothing today, but spending £3 tomorrow using day three's budget in advance is not permitted. I can only spend what I have already accumulated by under-spending on previous days.
- Eating food I already have is allowed. This might be "cheating" in a certain sense, but I can't exactly waste food I've already got just for the sake of this challenge. That wouldn't make much sense. Anyway, I've no fridge or freezer so it's not like I've hoarded a lot of fresh food, which I will of course need if this is to be a healthy challenge, as well as a frugal one. Man shall not live on baked beans alone.
Has anyone ever tried anything like this? Seems like a positive learning experience, at the very least. Anyway, if you'd like to follow my progress, my blog is here. The focus is on simplicity (today, day two, is shaping up to be a potatoes, bread and soup kind of a day) which is kind of how I eat anyway, rather than on the fact that it's vegan, and cost of course. I'm not really a "three square meals" a day kind of a person anyway, I just eat when I'm hungry. Already enjoying the challenge, and looking forward to learning about what bad habits I might have to break.
Peace and love!
Submitted November 18, 2018 at 06:59AM by jonnyopinion https://ift.tt/2ziKLuv
