As I mentioned in last night’s post, I am traveling today and Thursday, so I had to cook ahead of time and bring everything with me, thus today’s meals were a little more simple. Luckily I am staying with my parent’s tonight before I head to another city tomorrow, so I was able to throw a few things together. If I was staying in a hotel, remaining on this budget would be close to impossible.
If you haven’t checked it out yet, you need to read Tami’s Day 3 post on Running with Tweezers. She talks about Project Open Hand, a local Atlanta charity which offers a variety of food related services, including meals on wheels. I’ve really enjoyed reading the posts from the other participants in this challenge, but not just for their buying strategies and the dishes they create. Many of the bloggers have touched on the hunger issues that affect us locally and nationally, and I need to give this more attention as it’s the basis of the Eat on 30 challenge. I would like to do some more research on this when I get back home, particularly in regards to how it affects people in Atlanta and the various ways to help. I will be sure to pass along what I find.
For now, I have to get to bed, I have another long day ahead of me, including waking up a bit early to cook my lunch for tomorrow. Below are my photos from today.
I had a banana for breakfast ($0.28) and hit the road. Before I left I printed a coupon for QT from coupons.com which offered a free sandwich or wrap with no other purchase necessary, not a bad deal at all for $4 sandwich.
For lunch I had chicken noodle soup, using the broth from yesterday. Nothing fancy, just some egg noodles, chicken breast, celery, and carrot. The cost came to $1.64. I had half the soup with lunch, along with my average, but welcome QT sandwich.
lunch 3: chicken soup + turkey/roast beef gas station sandwich – cost: $1.65
For dinner I ate the rest of the soup, then made some pot stickers. I had never made the wonton dough from scratch before, but it was technically easy, I can’t say I will be making them myself very often, as it’s fairly time consuming and the $1 packs of wrappers from an Asian market are pretty good.
The filling was a small amount of ground pork + blanched/chopped cabbage and zucchini.
They weren’t bad at all, but it was very sticky and I had a hard time getting the dough thin enough.
dinner 3: pork + zucchini + cabbage pot stickers – total cost: $0.72
