tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27440983867578198812012-02-16T01:13:50.405-08:00amypasseyAmyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00027193207287251990noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744098386757819881.post-12131914092217854222011-05-17T13:25:00.000-07:002011-05-17T13:25:05.592-07:00Living below the line!So last week I spent 5 days living on £1 a day for food and drink with my sister Sophy. <br />To be honest, when I signed up to do it, i thought it would be fairly easy! Once we got to the supermarket and started looking at prices, I started to feel nervous!<br /><br />The main items in my basket were porridge, UHT milk, potatoes, kidney beans, pasta, tuna, chopped tomatoes, rice, basic tea bags, apple juice & basic chocolate digestives! <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">By day 2 I decided to swap out the apple juice (and later a tin of tuna too) in exchange for nice (tea direct) tea bags and real milk! </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">A few thoughts on what I learnt:</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"></div><ul><li>Porridge is the sensible breakfast choice, I should go for it more (even eating it cold, it serves it's purpose)</li><li>I really love a decent cup of tea</li><li>Snacking is a hobby I didn't know I had </li><li>Variety is a luxury </li><li>Simplicity in meals is under-rated </li><li>Saying Grace before a meal took on a new dimension, I really was grateful for having something in my stomach. </li><li>Wasting food is even more distressing than before </li><li>I could only bring myself to eat 3 mini eggs on Saturday, more than that seemed excessive...</li></ul><div>A very thought provoking challenge which I will definitely do again, to stay grateful, and keep contributing to the global poverty conversation. Thanks to all my sponsors, I wonder how many micro finance projects we will have started with the £375? The <a href="http://www.globalpovertyproject.com/">global poverty project</a> guys think we can see an end to extreme global poverty in our lifetime, I hope so. </div></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2744098386757819881-1213191409221785422?l=amypassey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00027193207287251990noreply@blogger.com0