I’m back in Atlanta, but as Tami mentioned in her Eat on 30 announcement post, I am in a wedding for one of my good friends this weekend and there are all sorts of related parties surrounding the event, beginning with last night. Last night I had to head directly from SC to the taqueria themed party, hence my lack of a post.
I feel guilty that I am going to these free food/wine parties, which is why I’m trying to keep my budget under $24, or even lower if possible. In addition to last night’s party, I will be fed for free tonight, tomorrow lunch, and tomorrow dinner. That gives me a total of four free meals.
Through this morning, which is my fifth day as I’m one day behind the rest of the Eat on $30 crew, I’ve used $12 worth of food. I only spent $20 on groceries, but I already had certain things in stock, like canned diced tomatoes, and I’m waiting to see if I end up using them before I count them as $ spent. It does look like I’m going to be left with quite a bit of food on Sunday though, I’ve hardly made a dent in my chicken and eggs.
There are no pictures from Thursday’s food, but here’s the quick run-down:
- Breakfast – two scrambled eggs with 1oz cheese on a corn tortilla – cost: $0.39
- Lunch – I made this along with breakfast, then nuked it in the microwave at work – pasta with sautéed zucchini and tuna – cost: $1.52
- Dinner – felt super guilty as I ate a catered meal provided by Taqueria del Sol :-(
For breakfast today I made chilaquiles with fried potatoes, using an easy enchilada sauce I made before I left town. The meal came out awesome.
breakfast 5: chilaquiles with fried potato, jack cheese, fried egg, scallion, green pepper, and cilantro – cost: $1.26
