A shock to the system

Day 1



My day started with a cup of tea in bed. Tea tasted a bit funny with UHT skimmed milk, but it was drinkable.

porridge with jam

Breakfast

25g. porridge cooked in water = 4p.

1 teasp. jam about = 1p.

total = 5p.

I decided to try sweetening the porridge with jam, but it was disgusting. It did have the advantage that I ate it very slowly, so it kept me full till lunchtime

sandwich, banana and cup of tea

Lunch

banana = 11p.

bread and jam = 5p.

total =16p.

Dinner

split pea casserole

rice

total =24p.

Snack

 jam sandwich

total = 5p.

tea bags and milk = 5p.

total =5p.

total expenditure today = 55p.

Since the agenda was to live on a pound a day I don't think I have done very well. Nutrition, and not starvation, is the object of the exercise, but I am also afraid of running out of food before the end of the week (a scary thought). I found I kept forgetting and reaching out for things and remembering just in time, habits die hard. I wonder if this will become a habit? I hope not. Although I can truthfully say I didn't feel hungry I did feel tired and kept falling asleep, though that could also have been due to having the pleasure, and pleasure it is, of my grand children's company.  We took them to the Playbarn and bought them a McDonald's on the way home, Eric too had one, and I had the pleasure of seeing how the other half lives.

Dinner was a split pea casserole I used half a stock cube to make up for the lack of seasoning, and added about a quarter tin of tomatoes and a couple of spoons of curry sauce, and served it with 50g. (dried rice). I am not sure whether hunger or my cooking skills were responsible, but it turned out to be a very tasty concoction: I must remember to put the recipe in my collection before I forget it.  Since a lot of the calculations turn out in fractions I have rounded them up to the nearest penny. After totaling my meals up I realised I looked as though I had an eating disorder, so since I was a bit peckish I decided to have a snack of a jam sandwich, which took it to a slightly more respectable 55p.

Since I do not know much about working out nutrition counts, I am not going to try and attempt it. I don't think I have managed too badly with balancing my meals with covering most of the important food groups, interestingly enough even though I don't have any salt or sugar to add to food, looking at the labeling on the food I think I still managed my RDA. The calorific count was not too bad for a female, but would have been very low for a male, but then again, that was my fault.

  
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