Food II

Well the first week of my attempt at food frugality is up. Herein lies the report.

After some thought I decided to start off slow, eschew the ascetic $25 budget, and concentrate on eliminating food waste instead. A lift to the Subiaco Station Street Markets, and Woolworths, later I had spent $35.

Included was what I thought was a weeks worth of food. Bran cereal, two litres of milk, a lettuce, a bunch of English spinach, bag of tomatoes, three onions, bag of carrots, choy sum, potatoes, a dozen eggs, two 450 g cans of crushed tomatoes, a large handful of field mushrooms, a couple of apples, a couple of pears, a few bananas, five Kiwi fruit, and a whole chicken.

It started off smashingly, with a roast chicken and vegetables stretching out for three meals, and the remainder chicken thrown in to some leftover soup from some weeks earlier. Large amounts of salad were consumed, two fruit were eaten a day, carrots provided great snacks. Then it started to break down around Wednesday night.

I slept about four hours on each of Tuesday and Wednesday nights because of lab work and trying to get some reports done to apply for a completion scholarship. Thursday was around 10 hours of more report writing, and by that evening I needed a drink. Drinks were had, then pizza paid for and eaten. I slept through breakfast on Friday, and just Could Not Be Bothered with preparing a salad for lunch. Take away Curry Laksa was sourced, and dinner was mostly provided by The University. However, drinks were also provided, and eventually I paid for more pizza!

Saturday I slept through breakfast again, and was decidedly too hung over to be bothered with preparing food. A kebab was eaten around lunch time in between lab work. A service station meat pie was a late dinner. Today I once again slept through breakfast, less hung over, but in a rush to get to the lab. No lunch prepared, kebab it was. Tonight I aim to cook *something*.

A list of food that has as yet been uneaten is: all twelve eggs, two potatoes, three Kiwi fruit, a pear, an apple, an orange, about one salad's lot of lettuce and spinach, most of the bunch of choy sum, both cans of crushed tomatoes, half the bran cereal, one litre of milk, and half the carrots.

No trip to the markets was made this week, which is good as I've still got all that food to get through. All in all, I have missed or replaced meals with take-away nine times. Even withstanding the naughtiness, I still probably bought a little too much food. Next time around I'm going to try and buy a little less and see how that goes. I mean if I run out of food, there is always service station meat pies to tide me over.