Day 18 was a Sunday, so I just had a slice of the cornbread I made the day before and some coffee for breakfast.
total $0.24
total: $0.68
total: $0.22
| coffee | $ 0.13 |
| sugar | $ 0.01 |
| cornbread | $ 0.10 |
For lunch I used the last of the basic white bread I had
to make tuna fish sandwiches.
I mixed up some onions and celery in the salad.
| bread | $ 0.07 |
| tuna | $ 0.37 |
| celery | $ 0.06 |
| onion | $ 0.10 |
| mayo | $ 0.05 |
| tums | $ 0.04 |
Kandie and I went to the grocery store and I finally gave in to my craving for pickles. And I went all out:
These aren't just ordinary dill picks - these are the huge kind of pickles that you see sold in movie theaters down here in the South. These will make your cheeks suck in and your lips pucker. I caved because the cost was about $0.03/oz. Each pickle is about 4 oz, so each costs about $0.14. A little pricey, but I really wanted one. I usually chow down on pickles when I'm dieting because they are virtually empty of calories and solve my craving to munch. With their high sodium content, it's clearly not a particularly healthy solution. So this is one more way that the cash limitation is actually helping me live healthier.
For dinner I decided to make chicken pot pie. Pretty simple -
Fried up some chicken with a bit of oil
added frozen vegetables and a can of cream of chicken, and then filled the can with milk and added that. Cooked it down a bit, then put it in a rectangular baking dish
and put a full recipe of biscuit dough on top. When you cook it, you want to put another pan underneath because some of the liquid bubbles over.
I divided the pan into six sections, for a cost of about $0.64 per serving.
I realized I had plenty of cash left in the day, and I was hungry, so I helped myself to a second serving!
Chicken pot pie cost estimate:
| flour | $ 0.24 |
| shortening | $ 0.30 |
| sugar | $ 0.01 |
| milk | $ 0.39 |
| baking powder | $ 0.02 |
| chicken | $ 1.50 |
| mixed veges | $ 0.73 |
| soup mix | $ 0.64 |
| canola | $ 0.03 |
| total | $ 3.85 |
So dinner was 1/3 of the pan, or $1.28.
Snacks during the day:
| bread | $ 0.03 |
| jelly | $ 0.03 |
| pickle | $ 0.14 |
| tea | $ 0.02 |
Total cost for the day: $2.42
Total calories: 1,568
Rounding out the triad -
Exercise: It was such a nice day I decided to go out on my bike for a long ride. I went for about 50 minutes at a fairly hard pace, so Loseit estimates total calories at 519.
Sleep: about 7 hours.
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