Day 5 Final counts

So...
Breakfast was yogurt w/ nut granola topping & apple & coffee w/ sugar milk.
Biscuit

Fixed lunch for work...
Frozen stir fry veggies. Some chicken w/ drippings & one apple filled biscuit w/ chai tea seasoning. Ground coffee for French press & sugar. Tea bag just in case.

To make it 3 meals even though it's after the challenge I'll have pasta & red sauce when I get home.

So my little pile of food left.
0.15$ I have left. I could stop @ Dicks drive in & get some onions!

Day 4

Get to get out w/ friends. Water bottles filled. Will make snack. Probly apples. Coffee to go container & a chai tea bag.

Breakfast
Left over French press coffee mixed w/ chai tea & milk =dirty chai tea latte. 1/2 raw apple w/ peanutbutter & rest of apple in a biscuit pie.

-I opened a chai tea tea bag and ground the stuff down to a fine powder. Mixed olive oil mix w/ sugar apples & tea powder for filling. Took 1 biscuit to make mini pie crust. Sprinkled unground tea on top. Baked 20 min. Indian chai tea has cinnamon, clove , allspice, cardamon, anise & peppercorn. It's savory sweet & provides micro nutrients/minerals that limited over processed diets may lack.
Over all 10 min to make & 20 min to bake can get ready while cooking.
5min clean-up 2 bowls, 1 mortar/pestle ,1 spoon, knife & cutting board.

Day 3

So I made brown rice last night. Reheated it w/ sugar & milk. Breakfast of my childhood was tasty!

Lunch
Chicken w/rice. Added from my window garden some arugula & basil.

Dinner
Chicken pot pie w/ Cajun seasoning. Used drippings to make gravy. No thickener so I ground up brown rice for flour. Not to shabby...
-biscuits for crust... Bag of stir fry veggies found 3 for 1.00 some chicken from prior night. Baked 35 min.

Day 3 Coffee Day

Oh...spent last 2 days doing Event w/ work. It was held in an area that did not allow water or coffee in the meeting room. Plus it started @ 8am.

So today is Coffee Day!

I tried this challenge w/out REAL coffee one year...not a good week.

So coffee is from bulk & it's Tony's almost espresso ground to get all the caffeine!

I'm going to start donating better coffee to the food drives.

Day 2

Breakfast
So apple, peanut butter & coffee

Lunch
yogurt w/ nuts mixed in(apart of the yogurt package), apple, peanut butter & chai tea.

Dinner
Bow Tie pasta w/ red sauce & Cajun mix. Olive oil/balsamic mix, organic chicken & brown rice. My husband still ate some but I like cooking so less food for me later. Plus I made apple biscuit pie balls( kinda like humbow Chinese buns)
-take a doughy biscuit pull it like a pizza to make it thinner. In the center of the biscuit dough, place a tablespoon of sugared apples. Pull dough to cover entire apple lump so apples are in center of dough ball. Bake 350 for 30 min or till golden. My husband had one too but w/ coco syrup & butter added. I just had plain & it was good.

1.72 got me a few organic drumstick on sale...Dinner mmmmm
1.28 got milk w/extra acidophilus.

5.84$ - 3.00$ =

2.84$ left

Midnight snack

So dinner was rest of spinach salad mixed w/ cheese,mushroom, peas, turkey & bacon bits sauté w/ bow tie pasta w/ organic red sauce & dried onion bits.Plus my husband had half...he doesn't do the challenge but eats any leftovers!

So midnight snack was apple w/ peanut butter...
4$ for sack of organic apples but worth it!

Day 1: Found Affordability

Finally got to get some food!