I love peanut butter. I seriously love the stuff. If I hadn't been able to buy some for this challenge, it would have been immensely more difficult for me to stay on tract. I love peanut butter so much, I was willing to buy tampons to get some for free. I have no problem eating…
You know when you go on a trip and you forget your toothpaste or something else and you get angry with yourself because you knew you were going to forget something and despite that, you still forgot it? Then you have to go to a local store and pay an outrageous price for whatever you…
As I have mentioned before, I should have thought through that I really don't enjoy shopping or cooking before I decided to attempt this challenge. Add another thing I should have considered to that list: eating on $1 a day is not fun when you move around a lot. I have a house sitting job…
After getting all excited about the Kraft sample pack I received yesterday (and doing my little happiness jig around the house), reality set in when I went to the grocery store to claim my Deli Fresh sandwich meat (I was looking forward to having one for lunch) and finding that the store doesn't stock the…
Day 17 proved once again that you look at things from a very different perspective when you are eating on an extremely limited budget. I am still trying to digest the meaning behind the fact that it was worth it to me to buy tampons to get a free jar of peanut butter. Today I…
Day 16 marks me having passed the half way point of this challenge. It also marks the first day where I am actually under the $1 a day maximum I have to spend on food (16 days, $15.75 spent) which bodes well for me for the rest of this challenge, especially since I have managed…
I knew when I decided to try and eat well on $1 a day that the challenge would make for some interesting quandaries which I would have to consider along the way. Little did I know how far down the rabbit hole I would eventually step in the search for free food. It is a…
Two weeks down and just over two weeks to go! It certainly has been an interesting two weeks and I have discovered a number of interesting things about myself and buying food while doing this. When I announced to family and friends that I was going to attempt this, their main worry was that I…
Today was an extremely busy day. I spent the vast majority of it going from grocery store to grocery store buying cereal for local food banks in my area to take advantage of the great cereal deal where you can get it for free / nearly free. A day of shopping confirmed what I already…
The grocery store gods looked kindly upon me and made this month a whole lot easier. Safeway started a huge breakfast cereal sale that includes Kellogg's cereals where a catalina coupon (the coupons you get from the cash register that are good for your next purchase) is still active until this Friday 5/14. What does…
Although I hoped to wait and see what the next week's grocery ads looked like, I decided that buying a bit of food was in order. Unfortunately, this didn't work out quite as smoothly as I had planned. The problem when eating on only $1 a day is that when you make a mistake, even…
I am finding that having a busy schedule is not conductive to eating on $1 a day — well, at least not when it comes to making meals with limited amounts of food when in a hurry. I'm currently at a crossroads waiting to see what the grocery store sales are going to bring on…
It was bound to happen and I really should have seen it coming. I didn't sleep well and woke up really tired in the morning. I know from past experience that when I am tired, my eating habits go to crap, but I failed to contain the train wreck, and the result was that I…
While I was planning not to buy anything else until after the weekend, I figured out a deal that made sense to get. One of the things that have been difficult with this challenge is that all I have been drinking this first week is water (this may not be a totally bad thing). I…
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…
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…