Well, it has certainly been an interesting first week with this challenge. It definitely didn’t get off to a good start with me heading to the emergency room (luckily the final verdict was that it wasn’t caused by my food preparations) and me getting antibiotics which have put some restrictions on when I can eat…
May 8 is Stamp Out Hunger day where US Postal Service mail carriers across the country will be collecting non-perishable food at your mailbox. These donations will be taken to local food banks where they will be distributed to families in your local area. Even though I am spending the month of May eating on…
The sugar withdrawal hit big time and it’s not fun. It is very similar to the withdrawal I went through when I quit my soda habit a few years back. I spent the day dreaming that this next week brings a wonderful deal on Ben & Jerry’s ice cream because I happened to find a…
Now that I have to take antibiotics for the next 10 days and there are restrictions on the foods I can ingest when taking them, I decided that I would start my mornings off with one package of the instant oatmeal that I have. I’m not a big fan of plain oatmeal, so I added…
On my trip to Safeway today to get some more food for my Eating Well On $1 A Day Challenge, I came across a booklet of coupons on the end of one of the aisles called “Shrek-Tacular Savings” with $10 in coupons inside. I grabbed a few and will continue to look out for them…
The day started off wonderful. I woke up and decided that I would have cereal for breakfast. The question was would I eat it without milk or not. I decided that I really needed to have milk with it for it to be breakfast (and not a snack), so I went to the store. There…
Day three had to be better than day two because if it wasn’t, there was no way that I was going to be able to complete this challenge (or stay alive). Luckily, it was much better and I learned a few more things about my eating along the way. I started off the day deciding…
Yesterday I made two significant discoveries during dinner: 1) Not only do I really not enjoy cooking, I don’t know how to cook. It would have been good for me to consider this fact before I decided to do this. 2) I am not very partial to Pork and Beans. It would have been good…
Breakfast I had a late breakfast because I needed to buy food before I could eat, and since I knew it was going to be a busy day (I needed to get more food plus take a trip to the food bank to deliver food I had gathered), it needed to be a fairly quick…
I woke up this morning and knew I needed to go out and do some shopping if I was going to eat anything today. I had $31 in my pocket and some coupons I had gathered, and I was on my way. My first purchase was Scrubbing Bubbles Extend-A-Clean bathroom cleaner and refill. While this…