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31 Euro Challenge meets eating out

sven — Fri, 08 May 2009 07:22:45 +0000

Sometimes things are not meant to be, which rings true with the 31€ Project. Actually I am pretty sure(90%) I would manage to eat for 1€ each day, there is only one problem, I can’t do it if I am moving around as germany tends to be an expensive country. This whole diet resolves around eating and cooking at home, and if I leave for a few days I can’t keep it up. Even though I will not pay for food and liquids the next days, it’s still a break of the rules as someone else paid for them and I have to declare this bet lost. I won’t give up this easy though and will postpone the whole project to a later date. This time it might be lost, but it’s not really my fault. I hate losing due to outer influences and won’t give up this easy. I will give it another run in 2-3 months when I am not traveling for more than a week.

1€ per Day Project – Day 3

sven — Wed, 06 May 2009 10:29:32 +0000

The third day of the 1€ per Day Project is running and it’s the first day I have been trying to cook milk rice. I wonder how that will taste compared to the normal rice I eat.
So far everything feels better than I thought it would. I am not that hungry throughout the day, even though I eat a lot less than the weeks before. No vegatables and only very few fruits feels like a pain, but it’s just not within that tiny budget. The highlight of the day is the fresh breakfast while the toughest challenge in the whole project is the daily fight with the rice. Not that I don’t like rice(even though I overvalued it before this project), it’s more that I hate rice without vegetables or meat. Here is a picture of my daily enemy.

The daily intake

The daily kcal intake must be hovering around 1200 kcal, which is not a lot by any means.

Spending only 1 Euro on food for 31 days

sven — Mon, 04 May 2009 12:41:31 +0000

Starting today, I am going to spend exactly 1€ per day on food for the next 31 days. Today has been shopping day and 24,18€ are already gone… which leaves me with whooping 6,82€ for weekly shopping courses. Breakfast will be cerals, I bought 2kg and will eat it with around 200ml of milk. Perfectly fine breakfast. I already know that I will hate rice after this month though, as I decided to a 5kg bag of rice, evens out around 160g rice per day at lunch without anything else than curry. OK, probably Milk-Rice every once in a while. I got a pack of salt instead of hitting the fast food stores for the single serving friends, as it cost less than 20 cent. Dinner will consist of toast, strawberry marmelade and curd. I bought around 15-16 apples to either add to the cereals or as a snack.

Here’s a snapshot of my basic food stash for the next 31 days.

My weekly food reloading cost comes around 2€ for 2 Liters of Milk, one pack of curd & 1 Pack of Toast.