Food Desert - Week One Report

With the help of oasis, I made it through the first week of the food desert. The total I spent on groceries were just over $33. Breaking down and estimating each meal and totalling it reveals I spent $16.39 on 19 meals for an average of .86 per meal.

While it may be considered a "cheat", I met family for dinner Saturday night and had the leftovers for lunch Sunday. While someone else paid, I'm subtracting $10 from this week's grocery budget. And while my salad was delicious, it was not a decadent meal.

Affordability report for week one - pretty darn affordable. Nutritionally - I neither fell under or exceeded my limits for protein, calories, fat and carbs except for Friday when I met with friends.

I'm very surprised at what I had leftover at the end of the week.

There's also a whole bag of carrots (plus a couple more in the first week), a whole container of orange juice, milk for 2-3 more days, lettuce for today's salad, yogurt for 2-3 smoothies, 3 bananas (which I sliced and froze for smoothies), 3 cans of tomato soup, 1 can of diced tomatoes, half bag of raisins, and about 7/8 box of oatmeal.

This is probably sufficient to keep me going, that wouldn't be very interesting for this experiment. Friday I received this week's food circular (I've never been so excited to get it!) and am trying to decide between ground beef, which is on sale, or the pork sirloin roast, which is a better deal.

I know, the suspense is killing me too.