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My girlfirend works for UNICEF, and next week is global poverty week, so they are doing theirs a week early to give them time to blog, etc... and I guess to just assist with the overall "buzz".
You're meant to get sponsorship and raise money. I'm mainly doing it to defend my intial response of "oh, well that'll be easy"... and also in part because I think it's an interesting challenge.
I'm going to work out my average weekly food spend and donate that, rather than hit people up for money. But that said, if anyone wants to chuck a couple of quid UNICEF's way, that would be nice. And although I'm somewhat bias, after finding out more about the projects they run and how they work with countries, I think it's probably one of the better charities out there.
As for the ginger biscuits, none of the supermarkets I went to had a value range pack of oats! My plan was to have porridge....
...which highlights an element of the challenge I hadn't considered - **what if what you need and have budgeted for isn't there? **
That has been the biggest eye opener. I fully expected to be surprised at the high/low cost of certain products, but the feeling when you can't find what you want and the only other option is 30p higher completely throwing off your meal plans and fucking you budget is quite daunting.
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admire your planning hugo, but that looks like a ration-card long-life shopping list;
christ on that diet you'd get scurvy in a fortnight!you should be able to factor in reduction specials on fresh seasonal veg, and a kilo of oats is about 75p.
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Try it!
It's really hard to get fresh veg this time of year. Even spring greens aren't "cheap-cheap". £5 doesn't go that far.
I should have sacked off the pigs liver and fish fingers as that would be a pound. Also I've had to fork out for lard this evening, which was 49p, and will last for aaaaaaaaaaggggeeeessss.
If I was doing this over a month, there would be some gains by buying in bulk - things like salt (22p for a tinny pot as opposed to .c35p for a big bag).
But dinner was pretty tasty.
I really wish I'd gone to the Angel Sainsburys, I think at the very bottom end, it's probably cheaper than the Stanford Hill Morrisons. I've found some porridge oats for 62p... but unless I drop something I end up being 9p over. Those fucking ginger biscuits that I've ended up caining because I was so hungry this am.
Anyway I'll sleep on it.
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@hugo in regards to cheap veg
At the Angel Sainsburys they do a 1kg basics bag of stir fry veg for £1, but I saw (and purchased) some reduced ones for 50p a few times and ate them within 24 hours and they were fine. 1kg will last you 2-3 meals if you're careful with the portions and even longer if you cook up some 10p instant noodles with it.
The expensive part would be whatever sauce you wanted on it, even soy sauce is over a quid normally, but maybe you could find an alternative.
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He knew how to do it right...
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Nam Prik
go to the farm and pick some chillies.
separate the green from the red ones.
cook the green chillies with garlic in some water
until water is evaporated, roast a bit more.
get some fish from the market or from grans pond.
pick meat from the bones.
mash chillies and fish into a uniform paste.
enjoy with rice.
ant salad
find a nest of tree ants.
kill them all.
mix with chilli, garlic and lemon grass.
enjoy with a lot of whisky
I find that £1/day challenge quite idiotic in the UK
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when i was a student in canada I regularly shopped with a 5 dollar weekly budget. It was peanutbutter and white bread, rice and onions, tin tomatoes and a dozen eggs a week and a bag of apples. I didn't think much about it then.
Peanut butter toast = breakfast
Boiled Egg & apple = lunch
Tomatoes & Onions with rice = dinner.
Plenty of protien, carbs and 3 veg a day.
Last night I saw stuffed lamb hearts at the grocery. I've never had them, but bought them, I am still obsessed with cheap cuts and things I've not tried before. I butter basted them whilst they roasted. I'd have them again.
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a guardian article about eating well on a tight budget / skint foodie
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/jul/13/skint-foodie-recipes-pea-ham
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@dancing james
Here's my food list:
x6 potatoes: 50p
spaghetti: 39p
ginger biscuit: 29p
x2 tinned marrow fat peas: 30p
stuffing mix: 15p
tinned tomatoes: 31p
tinned kidney beans: 18p
Fish fingers: 60p
pigs liver: 45p
carrots: 24p
onions: 16p
salt: 22p
mixed herbs: 14p
stock cubes: 10p
26 tea bags: 9p
Leaving me with almost a pound to play with... well not quite because I still need some sort of fat, or oil. My plan is to go to the butchers and ask him for something fatty for c.50p.
I'm not sure what to have tomorrow for lunch, but roughly this is how my meals are worked out:
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Mon:**
am = ginger biscuits and black tea
noon = ?
pm = pigs liver, onion and baked potatoes
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Tue**
am = ginger biscuits and black tea
noon = pigs liver, onion and baked potatoes
pm = pasta, kidney beans and tomato
**
Wed**
am = ginger biscuits and black tea
noon = pasta, kidney beans and tomato
pm = dumpling soup (using stuffing)
Thurs:
am = ginger biscuits and black tea
noon = pasta, kidney beans and tomato
pm = fish fingers, potato, mushy peas
**
Fri:**
am = ginger biscuits and black tea
noon = fish fingers, potato, mushy peas
pm = veg soup (potatoes, marrowfat peas, leftovers, etc.)
I've fallen woefully short of my 5-a-day, veg target. On a generous calculation I've got maybe 3. However, if I wasn't being so stubborn about the fish and meat, then that would give me an extra pound...