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.