Food Stamp Diet: Post #4

Day 3
Breakfast: Oatmeal with raisins, cinnamon, nutmeg
Lunch: Three hardboiled eggs, leftover coleslaw
Dinner: One half chicken breast, sautéed beet greens, brown rice
Snacks: Buttered popcorn, apple and peanut butter
Prep: Make soup stock from chicken bones and vegetable scraps; store

Breakfast: Yummy! I enjoyed the oatmeal more than the cornmeal mush. I probably used about two pennies worth of spices and 1 teaspoonful of honey from my cupboard. I added not even 1T. of butter (which I bought for the project).

Lunch: Again, I got hungry pretty quickly. I ate my eggs and coleslaw at 11:15. Ate my apple too, without the peanut butter. I felt great after lunch.

Dinner: O.k. I deviated from the plan. We were invited to a barbecue where all the food was provided -- we didn't need to bring anything. At first I thought "damn, that would be cheating, we should just stay home." Then I thought, "free food...who's going to turn that down? Especially not someone living on a limited budget." I'm committed to not spending any extra money on food this week. I would not go to a restaurant or purchase a snack.  But I think this project is about making a limited budget work. Accepting generous offers is one way to do that.

I've also been invited to help a friend raise a yurt in Westford on Sunday. She's offered lunch to those who help her out (the work will take around 4 hours). So, I'm accepting the free meals and adding an extra day to the project. I've already ended up with more leftovers than expected, so I think it will work out.

What did I eat at the barbecue? A cheeseburger on a whole-wheat hot dog bun, a sausage on a regular hot-dog bun, some cookies and the crumbs of some salt and pepper chips. And one beer -- some kind of local microbrew...forgot to read the label.

   

Comments

[Molly]

I grew up in Westford! That must be Christy Siegrist's (and partner's) yurt on the Birnholz land. I read about that project somewhere... Sevendays?

[Suzanne]

Yep -- Chris Siegriest and Laura Williams are farming on the Birnholz land in Westord. I wrote an article about them a while back, so that may be where you read about it!