One Week Challenge - The Final Days

Friday-

Rather uneventful other than being hungry. Breakfast for me was the last of the biscuits and freebie butter packets and for James a banana and oatmeal. 

For lunch and dinner James took the rice and pasta meals, and my work day was chaos so I ended up not eating besides some mini chocoate eggs that someone had put out in the work candy jar. James tried to fill up on free coffees, but we both came home starving. 

We had some bread and a package of popcorn before bed to try and help fill us up.. not the most nutritious of meals unfortunately. We would not have been able to do this challenge without the pantry staples for sure - proves that you do need to spend like 10% of your normal food budget each week on these pantry staples, plus soup cans, veggie cans and more. 

Saturday -

This day can be summarized by “Hangry”. We had a sad breakfast of oatmeal and bread with jam, and decided to head out for a great idea... free samples at Farmboy! We were going for a drive anyway and it was enroute, so we parked and went in. I guess at 10am though they don’t think anyone wants free samples of cheese or sausage so we hugely disappointed. Poor James has never been legit angry from being hungry before! The drive for the rest of the day was wondering if restaurant gift cards counted in the challenge..

For lunch I had the ramen packet and a big cup of juice and James blended up the remaining carrots and spices with some vegetable broth for a spicy carrot soup. We decided to use vegetable broth because this is an easy freebie to make from any veggie table scraps you normally have. A bit of bread to dip in the soup and he was finally almost full. 

 

We were so hungry we decided we need to do something to take our mind off our bellies. I dragged a sick James to the grocery store to do next week’s trip and we were thrilled to find some free kielbasa, cracker and chip samples at our local butchers. We tried to shop smart and were pretty proud of all we bought to get through next week. 

For dinner we made up 2 more servings of pasta and the remaining pasta sauce. James sprinkled some crumbled bread on top. I miss cheese.coiple cups of the last juice and the remaining half of the baking chocolate and we completed the challenge!