As I reach the end of day two, I sit feeling comfortably full. I still have a banana up my sleeve for supper but without further ado here is today's menu...
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OK first stop breakfast -
I over cooked it today - still very nice. Worth getting out of bed for, even if the sailing wasnt.
Lunch - two rounds of sandwiches compared to one yesterday. An attempt to redress the balance of bread usage from yesterday - and yes they are fine but I can honestly say that once this week is over I will never ever each luncheon meat ever again. Tuvok seems ok with it though, so every cloud and all that. I also had lemon with hot water to fight back the cold... I missed the honey!
And then to dinner...
Looks very similar to yesterday n'est-ce pas? Well if you think so then you are missing the two slices of bread!
OK give me my 30 seconds of joy and happiness why dont you? That isn't toast. It's fried bread. Good old fashioned English fried bread. The kind mum used to make to go with a full English breakfast. Cooked in the flavoursome fat from all those sausages and bacon and black pudding. Or, in the case of the Below The Line Challenge, not cooked in the flavoursome fat from all those sausages and bacon and black pudding.
I've been thinking about bread a lot in the last 24 hours - dry bread and dry toast - well it just doesn't rock my world. With no butter or margerine in my budget, I kept failing to come up with alternatives. I thought about french bread but although I have milk I have no eggs. Then it dawned on me - butter/marg=fat. Oil=fat. Oil on bread - very cosmopolitan if its olive oil but not so much when its canola oil. The only option left - fried! Genius!
Frankly the best 10c I've spent on the challenge so far, in my humble opinion.
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OK and now for my thoughts of the day
Tuvok -
It appears that she really doesnt appreciate her pasta being served with a tomato sauce and really would prefer I reverted to the normal dairy focused coverings in the future.
Illness - getting there, should be 90% again tomorrow.
Coffee - I have this weird symptom from the cold (or perhaps its the caffeine withdrawal) is extreme bouts of cramp in my legs. Hurts like crazy, wish it would stop. I am hoping it is the illness and not the lack of caffeine because don't know if I could cope with another 3 days of it.
Progress - so far so good. Variety is lacking, but that is to be expected seeing as I am flying solo on this. Just having one more person doing it with me (thus having $22.50 budget for two) would have meant so much more variety in the menu. But c'est la vie. Two days down, three to go - and with rice on the menu for tomorrow at least you lot will all get a different pic to look at.
https://www.livebelowtheline.com/me/breevok - $738 raised so far :)
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