Day 4

Not Currying Flavour

I had my usual cup of tea this morning when I woke up

Breakfast

porridge and a cup of tea



Porridge with water

Cup of tea

I am getting quite used to the porridge now, I am hungry by breakfast time so I eat it and don't shun it anymore

porridge oats 8p.

total 8p.

Lunch

celery soup, bread and tea



Celery soup

3 slices of bread

Cup of tea

I managed to buy a stick of celery from the greengrocers down the road, and turned it into a soup. I am not a lover of celery but I was surprised at what a lovely soup it makes. The three slices of bread that went with it filled me up 

Celery = 17p

Onion = 3p. (estimate)

1/2 stock cube = 2

3 slice of bread = 6p.

total= 28

Dinner

curry, rice and cup of tea

Vegetable curry

Rice

Cup of tea

I used about a quarter of the jar of curry sauce to make a curry, or whatever you would call it. I used a courgette, what was left of the pepper, and some of my fast dwindling onion to make a vegetable curry. My vegetable stocks are now down to one one carrot and about a small handful of chopped onion, and I have three days to eke these rations out.

Courgette=31p.

Pepper 14p.

Curry sauce = 7p.

1/2 stock cube = 2p.

Rice = 4p.

Total = 58

Tea and milk = 5p.

Total = 5

Total expenditure = 99p.

I thought I would aim for as healthy a diet as I could afford, and I think I have reached the 5 a day target, though whether there was enough of each vegetable to constitute a portion is doubtful, but I did get 5 different varieties of vegetables into my diet. 1/2 a carrot and a couple of handfuls of diced onion is all that is left of my vegetables. Today I didn't have too many pangs of hunger between meals, and it was quite late before I wanted my dinner, I actually ate it after 8 o'clock , so perhaps my body is getting used to this way of life.

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