so if you didn’t know, i’m doing this 1 month challenge where I don’t spend any money (besides paying bills, of course). this means that, until may 16, the food i have is the food i have and the food i’m going to eat.
normally during finals, i live off of top ramen and delivery pizza, sometimes sushi. alway carrot sticks. not an option this time around. i was a fool to eat the last of my ramen on day 3. and the last of the carrots had to go in the curry i made 2 weeks ago.
i’m officially out of: bread, milk, cheese, SALSA, chips, lemonade mix, red meat, brownie mix, and i’m down to like the last 2 eggs, but surprisingly i still have tons of food in my apartment. i might have to extend the challenge haha.
strange things i have eaten:
- oatmeal cookies sweetened with boysenberry syrup (no milk to make pancakes- what else was i going to use it for?)
- popcorn baked with boysenberry syrup. was actually pretty good, i want to try to get it to be a rice-crispy-like treat. after finals.
- oatmeal cookies with chopped up dried apricots…not so much a winner. not awful, but not great.
- banana bread that didn’t require milk, but to which i added chopped dried dates, among other things.
- i fell asleep and burned the banana bread, so then i had to cut off the burned parts and made bread pudding (with the random can of condensed milk i had) with the rest. that was gooooood.
i like the challenge of having to get creative and make recipes work with what i have.
but today. so a few days ago i made 15 bean soup, and i’ve been eating the leftovers since then. i’ve gotten a little sick of it, so tonight i made some rice, with the intention of mixing the beans with the rice and some salsa and calling it pseudo-mexican. only…i opened the salsa and it was moldy. ew. at least it was the end of the jar anyway. but by now, i’m craving spicy, so i decided to add some chipotle chili powder instead. and a big clump of it falls in my bowl. so now i am eating very very spicy rice and beans hahahaha.
yup, i’m awake now. its actually quite yummy. but thirst-inducing. which i guess is good, the need to pee will hopefully keep me awake while i write tonight.
yeah, forgetting to add tumblr to my blocked sites on stayfocusd (because i hardly ever tumblr anymore) was a mistake. at least my fingers and my writing brain are warmed up! (wait, maybe there’s some genius behind this!)
