Eat & Drink for £1 a day - 28 Day Challenge - Days 19 & 20

Days 19 and 20 were spent mostly fighting with a cold which threatened to become a chest infection. There was a lot of sleep and not a lot else. Normally when poorly I just sleep and drink water, and that's what I did this time as well. There were moments when I felt a little better, and during those times I managed to eat the remaining two bananas and an apple.

Presently, I can breathe again - which is good, so hopefully day 21 will be a better day.

Eat & Drink for £1 a day - 28 Day Challenge - Day 18

Today has been a day of sleep and not much else. I've only been awake now and again to drink some water. But finally I'm up and out of bed, and I've had a lovely salad of spinach, green peas (the last bit), onion, tomatoes, red pepper, courgette, and avocado.

I'm going to have a mug of hot bouillon before going back to bed, and maybe a banana just to get some more energy.

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Eat & Drink for £1 a day - 28 Day Challenge - Day 17

Another day of feeling rubbish and with no appetite. I managed to eat an apple, a banana and three carrots throughout the day, like yesterday, and like yesterday they tasted of absolutely nothing. When I got home from work I fell asleep while changing into comfortable clothes, and had a lovely unscheduled snooze for a few hours. I really didn't want to get up again when I woke up, but knowing that I don't do well if I've had several days with hardly any food I realised I had to.

After clambering down the stairs I made a lovely salad, (spinach, avocado, tomatoes, red pepper & onion) and I can feel it doing me good already - but I'm still straight back to bed with a mug of hot water. Hopefully some more sleep and a few days off from work will do me good.

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Eat & Drink for £1 a day - 28 Day Challenge - Day 16

Still battling with my cold I had absolutely no appetite. Since there was no smell or taste to anything I didn't feel like eating, and all I wanted to do all day was to go back to bed.

So that is what I did as soon as I had completed my chores for the day. Throughout the day I managed to eat an apple, a banana and the remaining carrots from last week, but even that was more than I fancied.

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Eat & Drink for £1 a day - 28 Day Challenge - Day 15

I have to admit that I'm getting a little bored now with having not much of a free choice of food. But I said I'd do it for 4 weeks, and I'm a day past half-way, so I'd better keep going.

I've done my shopping for the next week, and this week I've gone for fresh food only. All in all it cost me £7.12, the 12 pence coming from my leftover funds of 20 pence from the first week. What I got was:

2 red peppers
1 pack of cherry tomatoes (400g)
3 courgettes
6 bananas
6 apples
4 small avocados
1 pack of carrots (400g)
1 pack of dried mixed herbs (18g)

Hopefully this will be enough to last me the week. I've also got some leftover food from the previous two weeks:

4 potatoes
2 carrots
a small piece of swede
some frozen vegetables
some frozen sweetcorn
half a pack of rice
a handful of red split lentils
a small handful of yellow split peas
a quarter of a tin of green peas
1 onion
most of a bulb of garlic
half a box of bouillon
a third of a tube of tomato purée
a third of a bag of spinach leaves

I reckon I should be ok with this.

Today started with a juicy apple, I've been dreaming about apples for the past two weeks, and today I finally had one. Luckily I was at work and had only brought the one, or I could have eaten the whole lot. Lunch was the rest of yesterday's leftover lunch (rice and lentils with spinach and tomatoes), and then I also had an afternoon snack; a banana.

Dinner today was a warm and cold mixed salad. I used two handfuls of spinach, some of a red pepper, half an avocado and three tomatoes. I also boiled two potatoes and some lentils which I mixed with the cold ingredients once they were cooked. It was both filling and tasty, and all I lacked was some olive oil to drizzle over (far too expensive) and a glass of wine to go with it (completely out of the question on my current budget).

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Eat & Drink for £1 a day - 28 Day Challenge - Day 14

Day 14 was one of those days where I was running around trying to get everything done at once. I got up a bit late, so didn't really have time to sit down for breakfast, instead I snacked on carrots throughout the morning until it was lunchtime. Luckily I had thought to prepare lunch the evening before, when I had boiled rice and lentils. There were some leftover cooked swede as well, and along with the remaining tomatoes this made a perfect, and quite large, lunch. I didn't manage to eat it all, so the remainder went in the fridge for the next day.

By the time I got home I was feeling quite rough, the sore throat Id been nursing for the last couple of days was getting so bad it felt like sandpaper, and I could feel a proper cold coming on, so I did what I normally do when I feel like I'm getting ill; I had a warm bath and then went to bed early and got a long night's sleep.

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Eat & Drink for £1 a day - 28 Day Challenge - Day 13

What a lovely relaxing day this has been. I've done absolutely nothing useful at all, just read my book all day long, while grazing on leftovers from yesterday.

Dinner was eaten quite late, there having been quite a bit of leftovers to get through. Also I wasn't really paying attention to the clock. But eventually I made my way into the kitchen where inspiration struck and I made quite a colourful dish.

I used half an onion - sweated in a little water, 1 teaspoon bouillon, 3 tablespoons tomato purée, and a handful of tomatoes. This was simmered in a frying pan until it was all cooked through and soft, and while I cooked a few slices of swede in some water, and reheated a ball of the lentil&pea mixture I still had left from yesterday. It was quite tasty, and may be replicated on another day.

I also had a bit of a treat today; a tin of mandarin segments. It was absolutely delicious, and just what I needed at the end of the week.

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