Comments on: This Is All New To Me, Too – Day 44: Eating Well On $1 A Day

By: Erin

Erin — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:07:23 +0000

You could probably grind up the honey nut cheerios into very fine powder and mix it in with your flour/pancake mix instead of throwing them in whole.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 05:30:27 +0000

Maybe you should find a deal on protein powder (vegetable is best, whey if you know it won’t upset your stomache, but not soy because it causes hormonal womanly changes to men) and add it to your smoothies in the mornings. Aside from your peanut butter sandwhiches, you are mainly consuming carbohydrates, which is fine, but if you want to have a ‘well balanced’ diet, you need more protein. And powder is an easy way to supplement it. Speaking of supplements, maybe try to find a deal on multi-vitamins to take every day.

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:49:00 +0000

Clara is adorable. Reminds me of my little grandma. She used to cut everything right into the pot just like that.

I’m really glad to have just found your blog. You’re an interesting and compassionate guy. (Although I am mad at you for influencing me to make a peanut butter and banana smoothie at 10 p.m.!)

If you’d like to try it: banana (I squish them into ziplock bags at the first sign of a brown speck, then store them flat in the freezer), big spoon of PB, a couple of spoons of plain greek yogurt (optional, it’s just something I like – adds creaminess and tang), some ice, and enough of whatever kind of milk you have to get it moving in the blender. Yummy and healthy.
Take care!

By: jeffrey

jeffrey — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:29:09 +0000

@brad

No, it was good. I just assumed that since I do have a challenged palate nobody really cared what I thought about the meals – I have since (at the request of other readers) been trying to give my opinion on the meals I have been eating.

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:15:06 +0000

did you not like the poorman’s meal? you didn’t mention it, so i’m assuming it sorta sucked?

By: Fern

Fern — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:31:16 +0000

http://www.afullcup.com is a great forum to join for finding all types of deals and it has a great coupon database for finding printable coupons for just about everything!

By: Mel

Mel — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:51:32 +0000

One way I handle busy weeks is to make a big pot of pasta, drain & put in frig. Then when I need a quick meal, I portion out what I want, throw on an olive oil & vinegar dressing and set it back in frig to marinate. I chop up red onions, & fresh basil & tomato if I have it, add granulated garlic, toss it, and for me that’s a quick & yummy meal.

Hope that may help.

By: Shara

Shara — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:29:09 +0000

But if the day were 8 hours longer you’d have to eat that much more…

By: Geoff

Geoff — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:43:07 +0000

Found your blog through lifehacker a few days ago and am finally up to date on your posts.

I really appreciate your posts and your advice. I’ve been interested in couponing and thanks to you I’m learning alot! I also wanted to say you are an absolute inspiration for your work w/the food banks. It’s refreshing to come across someone with your character. Keep up the good work! You’re inspiring a ton of people to follow in your footsteps!

By: ShorterMama

ShorterMama — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:46:42 +0000

Hi Jeffrey –
If you were able to get some soy sauce packets from somewhere you could make some yummy chicken or turkey fried rice.

You’ll need: onions, some of your meat (which ever you decide), cooked rice, soy sauce, an egg or two, and if your frozen veggies have peas – some peas.

Start by frying up some chopped onion in some canola oil.
Add in the meat (chopped up) – get it a little brown, but don’t burn it. put in rice (cooked ahead of time remember) and “fry” that with the onions and meat. Mix it up well so you get some yum in every bite. At this point you can push the rice mixture to the side of the pan and scramble up an egg or two on the side – or if that’s too complicated just scramble them in another pan and add them into the rice mixture (once cooked – no eating raw egg). Add the peas (if you have them) – since they’re frozen they won’t take long you’ll just want to stir it around until the peas are heated with the rest of the mixture and no longer frozen or even cold. Lastly, season with soy sauce – this will be dependent on how many packets you can get and how much you like it.

Hope this works out for you. It’s pretty easy – easier if you have to cook up rice for a meal the night before and just use left overs to make it.

PS – you can make it with or without your meat. The meat will add flavor, but it’s doable without if you need the meat for other things – you’ll probably really need the peas though.