Sarah's Home Cooked Food
Sarah's Food
Friday, March 26, 2010
This morning my stomach was still somewhat tender so I stuck with PB&J on toast. I just had water to drink. Then for lunch I had tomato soup with soda crackers. The tomato soup was $0.99 and the milk I added was $0.31. The crackers cost about $0.50. I used a lot and mixed it all in. Then for dinner I took another one of my mom’s recipes and made it up. Goulash! Here is the recipe:
Ingredients
1 lrg tin diced tomatoes with herbs and spices (or add your own)
1 ½ cup uncooked macaroni
1 lb hamburger
1 pkge marble cheese
Instructions
Cook macaroni for 8 min and drain. Cook hamburger and drain off fat. Shred marble cheese. Leave enough cheese for top of casserole and mix the rest with all other ingredients. Pour into large casserole dish and sprinkle remaining cheese over top. Bake in oven at 400 F for 20-30 min.
My tomatoes had no spices so I added some garlic and basil, which cost about $0.05 together. The tin of tomatoes cost $0.97. The macaroni used was $0.53. The hamburger cost $3.00. And the cheese cost $4.00. So the casserole in total cost $8.55 but it could hold me for four meals. I only ate a quarter of it for dinner so that would be $2.14. I also had a glass of V8 juice with it. I then also had a glass of milk and a glass of V8 before going to bed. So my total spending on what I ate today would be $6.58. I had 7 servings of vegetables, 5 servings of grains, 2 servings of dairy and 1 serving of meat.
So now that the food campaign is over I figured I would add up what I spent and what I could have spent. So the total money I was supposed to have for the Campaign was $142.50. I spent $114.41. I had 9 free meals over the course of the Campaign as well as a couple snacks that people gave me. Also, I had 4 days on the campaign where I was sick, which usually affects my appetite. There was only one day where I got in all the servings that the Canada Food Guide says is healthy and that day I went almost $1.50 over budget. So my conclusion: Do I think it is possible to live a healthy balanced diet on only $7.50 a day? No. I tried my best but unfortunately there was not a single day where I both stayed on budget and got all my servings in. I also think it would be worse for guys as they are supposed to have even more servings than me. Thank you everyone for reading my blogs.
Sarah Baker
