Breakfast: orange juice and toast with grape jelly
Lunch: pb&j
Dinner: ramen
This experiment has now concluded. Ten page paper to follow with my analysis.
Tomorrow is my 25th birthday (actually, it begins in 21 minutes) and I will be indulging in many delights!
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Saturday
Fortunately I managed to keep busy today, so with the end of the challenge nearing this is becoming less difficult. Also, pizza has made my entire week.
Breakfast: orange juice and a banana
Lunch: pizza
Dinner: ramen
Wow, that list is so short and sad looking.
I rode my bike to Centennial Park tonight and caught Vince Gill's impromptu kind of show at the Celebration of Cultures. So much food. I saw churros! So tempting. As I was riding home I swear I caught the smell of gingerbread baking coming out of someone's house. It's sort of weird how my sense of smell seems to have increased tenfold over this week. I never usually smell anything, but maybe the lack of tasting is making me use it more? Interesting.
Breakfast: orange juice and a banana
Lunch: pizza
Dinner: ramen
Wow, that list is so short and sad looking.
I rode my bike to Centennial Park tonight and caught Vince Gill's impromptu kind of show at the Celebration of Cultures. So much food. I saw churros! So tempting. As I was riding home I swear I caught the smell of gingerbread baking coming out of someone's house. It's sort of weird how my sense of smell seems to have increased tenfold over this week. I never usually smell anything, but maybe the lack of tasting is making me use it more? Interesting.
Friday, October 1, 2010
Friday!
It's finally the weekend. This is going to be difficult.
Breakfast: Orange juice and a banana
Lunch: pb&j and the last remaining fruit crisp
Dinner: I went to Trader Joe's and picked up vegan pizza dough for $.99. Speaking from a non-vegan's perspective, it is FANTASTIC. I also got pizza sauce at Kroger for $.99. Subtracting that from my $2.85, I have $.87 cents remaining. I made pizza for dinner, and it was so delicious and wonderful and I was so glad I didn't have to eat ramen five nights in a row.
But, wait. In the interest of full disclosure, my friend Kelsey mailed me freshly baked cookies for my birthday today. And I couldn't help it, I had to try one. And then another. So, I ate two cookies today that were gifted to me. I'll estimate the price of the cookies based on size at about $.50, as she told me it wasn't really cheating because they were so cheap to make for her. So I really have $.27 remaining of my $21.00. Which will essentially buy me...nothing. I also felt that a food stamp participant in this position would not turn down free food, and I think that many people are gifted food on their birthdays. Why would you throw away perfectly good food if you were starving? I know, excuses. But I have accounted for them.
I will say, after eating said cookies, I did become particularly giddy. I don't know if it was the sugar or my joy at finally eating something sweet. I am kind of surprised by how large of an effect food has on my mood from this experiment. Today was a great day based on two cookies and homemade pizza. Weird.
Breakfast: Orange juice and a banana
Lunch: pb&j and the last remaining fruit crisp
Dinner: I went to Trader Joe's and picked up vegan pizza dough for $.99. Speaking from a non-vegan's perspective, it is FANTASTIC. I also got pizza sauce at Kroger for $.99. Subtracting that from my $2.85, I have $.87 cents remaining. I made pizza for dinner, and it was so delicious and wonderful and I was so glad I didn't have to eat ramen five nights in a row.
But, wait. In the interest of full disclosure, my friend Kelsey mailed me freshly baked cookies for my birthday today. And I couldn't help it, I had to try one. And then another. So, I ate two cookies today that were gifted to me. I'll estimate the price of the cookies based on size at about $.50, as she told me it wasn't really cheating because they were so cheap to make for her. So I really have $.27 remaining of my $21.00. Which will essentially buy me...nothing. I also felt that a food stamp participant in this position would not turn down free food, and I think that many people are gifted food on their birthdays. Why would you throw away perfectly good food if you were starving? I know, excuses. But I have accounted for them.
I will say, after eating said cookies, I did become particularly giddy. I don't know if it was the sugar or my joy at finally eating something sweet. I am kind of surprised by how large of an effect food has on my mood from this experiment. Today was a great day based on two cookies and homemade pizza. Weird.
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