Day 3

Island In The Sun

Breakfast

porridge and tea

2 ozs. porridge made with water

cup of tea
Porridge oats = 8p

Today I discovered a new strategy for eating my porridge. I found that taking a sip of tea between every few mouthfuls helped it to go down better. Whether it was hunger or strategy I don't know, but I shall continue with this method of eating my breakfast.

Lunch

jam sandwich banana and a cup of tea

Jam sandwich

banana

cup of tea

Bread = 4p

Jam = 1p

Banana = 11p.

Total = 16

Since I was on my last banana, today marked the last day of jam butties and bananas. The banana was over-ripe and half of it was mushy, however I like my bananas very ripe, though perhaps not as ripe as that. 

Dinner

Peas n' Rice

curry sauce

cup of tea

Since I still had half a tin of kidney beans to use up I decided to have them for dinner. I also had an opened jar of curry sauce that I had used to flavour my first nights meal I thought I might try a curry. After I had tasted it I would have to say that if it hadn't to have said curry on the jar I wouldn't have associated it with a curry. However, the sauce itself was quite tasty, with a fruity flavour that reminded me of Carribean cuisine, so (apologies to Levi Roots and the people of Jamaica) I decided to make a poor man's peas n' rice to go with the curry sauce, and added chlli powder to the curry sauce to give it hotness. I can reccomend this combination to anyone looking for a tasty cheap meal with a difference.

Nutritionally, I think it is similar to yesterday, but my vegetables are fast dwindling, so I saved them for another day and only had 2 of my 5 a day.

Since the tins of beans cost 21p. and I costed them at 11p. yesterday, I shall be costing them at 10p. today

Beans = 10p
Rice = 6p.
curry sauce = 7p.
onion and chilli = 3p. - estimate
1/2 stockcube = 2p
herbs = 3p - estimate

Total = 31p.

Tea and milk =5
Total = 5p.
total expenditure today = 60p.

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