Day 2

Just Another Day

I woke up to my usual cup of tea this morning, and was quite surprised to find that it tasted good, so I have either got used to the taste of UHT milk, or my taste buds have deteriorated overnight.

Breakfast

porridge and tea

50g. porridge, made with water

A cup of tea

I doubled the amount of oats in my porridge this morning and decided to dispense with the jam and just eat the porridge plain, and since I was hungry, it went down pretty quick and it wasn't too bad.

Porridge = 8p

total =8p.

                                            Lunch



jam sandwich, banana and tea



Jam sandwich

Banana

Cup of tea

Bread = 4p.

jam = 1p.

banana = 11p.

total = 16p.

It is not the most exciting meal I have eaten, but the banana's seem to be going brown, so they will have to be eaten soon. The bread is pretty dry, Eric suggested putting the bread in the freezer, but I don't think it would have made any difference. Anyway I am trying to keep away from the freezer. I did think of putting the banana into the sandwich and have a 'strawberry jam and banana butty', but Eric said that was disgusting, and he should know, he eats a lot of disgusting things.

Dinner

chilli beans and rice and a cup of tea

 Chilli beans

Rice

Cup of Tea

Kidney beans = 11p.

Onion = 4p.

Tomato puree = 9p.

Green pepper = 14p.

Tomato = 8p.

Chilli and cumin = about 5p.

1/2 stock cube = 2p.

50 g. rice = 4p

total=57

Tea and milk = 5p.

total = 5

total expenditure 86p.

I seem to be getting the hang of this now, and am on a more sensible course of eating. Yesterday again I felt very tired by afternoon, but since I had been to the gym (here's where I get a snigger from Joshua) I am still not sure whether it was exercise or diet that made me feel tired. I was ready for my dinner a full two hours earlier than normal. Since the only thing missing from the chilli was mince, and while I'm not a vegetarian I'm not a card carrying carnivore either, it tasted fine. Although the meal was two hours earlier than normal, I was perfectly full for the rest of the evening and didn't suffer any hunger pangs at all. I also had an extra cup of tea because I accidently threw the cup of tea from my dinner away, since it didn't seem to make any difference to the daily costing of the tea, from now on I shall be having a fifth cup of tea.

Nutritionally, I do not think my calorific count is particularly low for a female, and roughly speaking for my age I don't think I have done too badly on the protien front either. I have managed at least three of my 5 a day, and apart from the jam sandwich most of the food seems healthy and low fat.

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