Eat on $3 a day

Step 4 10/11/08 - Day 3

Up like a shot, at 10 AM! Only five hours of sleep needed, for me. I'm trying to sleep as much as I need to - go to bed when I feel tired (though I'm usually working on my MASLAB robot until late - instructable coming soon), and wake up when I feel like it. So it's especially neat that I seem to need little rest.

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I munch on some veggies - carrots and kale (I surprise myself because I'm actually hungry for leaves).

Carrots are only 99 cents per pound, which, in my bag, is 5 carrots. One carrot, 20 cents.

• $0.20

I feel like I could eat as many eggs as I wanted to. Why are eggs so cheap? Isn't protein supposed to be expensive? If I spent $3 a day on eggs, I would be eating 24 eggs, every day.
Are eggs far more expensive in other countries, or are they just hard to get? I can make meals out of these things just by dipping them in hot water, or microwaving them. That's easier for a college student to make than Ramen!

I hardboil and eat two eggs, $0.30.

• $0.50



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The key to this is clearly to eat stuff when I actually feel hunger, or even just its beginnings. It's becoming rare, most of the time I feel satisfied, happy, energetic, and not in need of food. The main difference between this and my past eating habits is, I don't feel 'full' or 'stuffed' ever, just 'not hungry'.

I'm flying soon - does anyone know if eggs are counted as a liquid, by the TSA?

Can I fly with hard boiled eggs that are 3oz. or less?

Does putting my perishables through the x-ray machine at the airport make them last longer?

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Delicious whole-fat cream on top vanilla yogurt with trail mix and flax seeds, $1.30.

• $1.80

I'm leaving the university for a bit, so starting tomorrow I'll see how $3/day holds up against travel and the "real world"

Comments

[chinasmom2000]

Adding flax seed to your yogurt gives no nutritional value. From what I have read, they are not digested; they just pass on through. I think you need to grind them for nutrition.

[surroundsound5000]

Eggs are fairly cheap here in Australia too. Our dollar is a little weaker, but I think eggs work out at around 40-50c. Also, I only buy free range eggs. There was local eggs available at the fruit shop near where I used to live, trays of something like 30 eggs were about $5. That made me want to eat alot of eggs : ) -M'