I've decided to start blogging my eating adventures. Mostly because cooking has become increasingly boring lately and this will add some excitement to my life. I'm not that girl who shares what she eats because I have an eating disorder. I don't believe in dieting. I think diets, like budgets, are lame and evil. On that financial note, some may consider me cheap and wonder why I can't afford regular food, this has nothing to do with that. Really I am just trying to be more resourceful so my money can be used for more important things. I decided to put cost next to my meals. If it is something I have in the pantry it's free which I realize isn't super accurate but going forward, if I grocery shop, I'll consider those costs.
On my sister's recommendation I stole the title from Carrie Sun's blog on hospital eating .

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Passover

Breakfast: Granola with strawberries.  This required me to buy milk.  ($1.35)
Study Group: hot chocolate ($2.76)
Snack: Yogurt ($.99)
Lunch: Pre-Easter lunch with my roommate April and family. ($0)
Dinner: It is Passover so we had a Seder dinner at church, symbolism is great and so was the food. I didn't want to stop eating. ($0)

Friday, April 6, 2012

Gourmand is right

Breakfast: Turkey bacon, eggs and oranges ($0). I love that oranges in the fridge last a really long time.
Lunch: Egg drop soup, cabbage salad, bean and cheese quesadilla. ($0)
Dinner: Ice cream. ($1)

Thursday, April 5, 2012

friends with benefits

Breakfast: Every once in a while my roommate changes her diet and I reap the benefits. This week she gave me a pack of turkey bacon.  I had that with eggs and zucchini bread. ($0)
Lunch: I have a new bff/life coach named Joaquin. He's Spanish, and arrogant, and uses the F-word way too much but he has free parking on campus and feeds me paella. ($0)
Dinner: Bean quesadilla and cabbage salad. ($0)

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Wednesday!

Breakfast #1: Rice cake and peanut butter. ($0)
Breakfast #2: Breakfast quesadilla Joy's ghetto style: spinach tortilla, beans, cheese and egg whites.  You may wonder why just egg whites, it has nothing to do cholesterol but with the fact that the cookie in a mug recipe just calls for yolks.   ($0)
Lunch: Zucchini bread batter (thanks Aimme for the Zucchini!)   
Dinner: Tuna melt deluxe: hotdog bun, can of tuna, some blue cheese dressing and broiler. ($0)
Snack: Cooked zucchini bread batter. ($0)

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Sodium

Breakfast: Scrambled egg whites and quesadilla. ($0)
Lunch: Egg drop soup, Hot Pocket, cabbage salad and cookie in a mug. ($0)
Dinner: Really with that lunch who needs dinner. ($0)

Monday, April 2, 2012

getting back on track with spending

Breakfast: French toast using hotdog buns for bread.  ($0)
Lunch: Cabbage salad and Thin Mints. ($0)
Dinner: Chick-fil-a nuggets from Deborah. ($0)

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Stir Crazy

Breakfast: Frosted Flakes ($0)
Lunch: Potluck Sunday! I had cabbage left over from the fish taco night so made a cabbage salad.  ($4.24)
Dinner: Tonight was the kick-off for the C.A.S.H. (college and senior high) group at church. We played this game, "Stir Crazy," with an Asian theme.  We broke up into 2 teams and got assigned ingredients and had to create an appetizer, entree and dessert all Asian-ish.  They were surprisingly good but I feel unsurprisingly not great right now. ($0)

Weekly Total: $42.89 (ouch)