The Wrap Up

Well it has been and gone.

On Sunday I made some refried beans (recipe here) just that I didn't use an onion cos I was out of them and I used a tin of tomatoes I found in the pantry instead of a fresh one. This gave me three bowls which was, three meals :-)

I splurged on some Turkish bread ($3.50) so I also has toasted cheese sandwiches as an option (4 meals). These were speckled with cherry tomatoes from my two bushes as well as avocado (from a friend's tree).

Tuesday breakfast was a mango ($1.75).

Oh, and I bought a bottle of coke ($1.86) cos I had so much money left from the Challenge :-)

So that was my final meal combinations and it left me with $7.73.

In conclusion - I certainly didn't eat as many fruit and vege ... although with money left over I certainly could have eaten more. A pot of vege soup - maybe with some lentils or something would have been easy to make for less than $7 and could have gone with my toasted tomato, avocado and cheese sandwiches. I had to think more about what I was going to eat - and took the easy way of eating the same thing for two or three meals - but that wasn't too much of a trial.

All in all, with some planning, I found this quite easy to do. I enjoyed all of the food I ate. I didn't get bored with any of the food, and I obviously still had options for alternatives. I didn't feel deprived at all. Yes I would certainly recommend it for those weeks when money is short :-)