Wednesday

Another nutritionless, and now nearly tasteless, day of culinary wonders.

Breakfast: Orange juice and cereal

Lunch: PB&J and a fruit crisp

Dinner: Ramen noodles

Second Dinner: Grilled cheese

In between Dinner and Second Dinner, I spent a lot of time procrastinating on homework, trying to make my noodles last for as long as possible, being depressed, then eventually going to Trader Joe's to invest in four bananas. So subtracting that $.76 investment from my expenditures, I have $2.85 left for the week. My head really started hurting in the grocery store, and I felt an insane craving to buy something wonderful and filled with sugar, but I resisted and instead went home to a plate of gross grilled cheese. De-lish.

My friend Andrea also just informed me that TJ's has pizza dough for $.99. This may turn out better than grilled cheese, so it will most likely be my next investment. Yay, pizza!

I would really like a steak and/or chicken sandwich. I don't know how single people invest in meat/poultry on food stamps.

My other friend Mona also informed me today that some farmer's markets will match food stamp allotments with farmer's market tokens. For instance, $20 in food stamps = $20 in farmer's market tokens, increasing their budget to $40 at the farmer's market. The state of Tennessee does participate in this, although I can't find anything stating that the Nashville Farmer's Market is a participant yet.


http://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/ebt/fm-scrip-Bonus_Incentives.htm

An additional news article about this:

http://www.newschannel5.com/global/story.asp?s=13155974

If I had known about this earlier, I would probably be rolling in strawberries and cauliflower and carrots right about now. Maybe some fresh bread and hand rolled pasta. Local grass-fed beef. Maybe even a cupcake. Gah.