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Pease Pudding Soup
Multigrain Bread
Glass of Fizzy Water
This week is the Live Below the Line Challenge an initiative of the Global Poverty Project; the challenge is to spend
no more than £1 per person per day on food and drink for 5 days. I apologise for not mentioning this before
but have only just become aware of it - good luck to everyone taking part.
Actually I myself personally eat so very frugally (and deliciously)
I think I would often be hard pushed to eat cheaper and am sure I am often well below £1 a day although to be fair I do have a
small appetite!
The stock is a by product and possibly costs nothing as it is only water and seeped out ham juice. I use 1 small onion.
We recently bought a bag of little 'culinary' red onions for 12p reduced from £1.20 and as it contained um ... quite a few lets say 1p for the onion which is a bit high I think. Incidentally these onions are still perfectly fine although about 3 weeks past their best before date.
I used an abstemious amount of olive oil to
cook the onion and, the stock being salty, nothing was spent on salt although I did have myself a sprinkle of black pepper.
So my bowl of delicious, homemade soup cost 7.5p, let's be generous and say 15p with the slice of toast I ate with it.
This is typical of the way I eat but the funny thing is although we could no way claim to be flush with money I cook this sort of thing because I like it! I am always telling my darling that if he wasn't so fond of meat and was more fond of 'interesting flavours' I could feed him much more cheaply but he loves his manly meals and at least I get to be creative with the leftovers.
So my bowl of delicious, homemade soup cost 7.5p, let's be generous and say 15p with the slice of toast I ate with it.
This is typical of the way I eat but the funny thing is although we could no way claim to be flush with money I cook this sort of thing because I like it! I am always telling my darling that if he wasn't so fond of meat and was more fond of 'interesting flavours' I could feed him much more cheaply but he loves his manly meals and at least I get to be creative with the leftovers.
I drank a glass of fizzy water with this - 17p for 2 ltrs so negligible really. I only have it because I find sparkling more refreshing than still.
Incidentally I saw this good idea for storing onions on Pinterest
...
Speaking of best before - we had some of the best rhubarb ever,
which I made into a crumble (recipe here), the other day.
It was sweet and tender, juice and very pink. It cost 30p instead of the original £3.00 but
I didn't cook it for a few days and it was still as perfect can be.
