As I've had no work over the last few weeks, college not authorising my grant because of attendence (re-evaluated at end of may), i've basically been living on around £5 a week for 3 weeks. So I've been portioning out food for myself, only its about to run out with the next couple days. So now what do I do? lol. I've gotta try and make the following last around 10 days. I get paid next friday because I work wednesday, thursday and saturday this week, and all next week. The problem is i'm doing a full time college course, so no benefits allowed. Work is usually reliable but there has been no surveys to do recently.
Wholemeal bread (around 20 slices each at 93k/cal each)
Olive oil (around 40g left in bottle)
14g almonds
250g of quaker oats
tomato sauce (half a bottle)
Two tubs of essential mix
800g of broccoli (frozen)
400g of cauli (frozen)
100g of green beans (frozen)
80g of baby carrots (frozen)
200g of peas (frozen)
30~ 25g servings of Whey protein powder
2/3 of a bottle of Cod Liver Oil / Fish Oil
1 130g canned tuna
Skim milk
3 green tea bags
I was just using beans everyday but have ran all out of that. Its useful in these situations because it has lots of protein and is a good low gi food and energy dense.
However, there is plenty of junk food here of course. Do I really want to touch that? no... but somehow I've gotta either become a little more CR'd to around 1500k/cal a day for around until the 25th or eat all junk food. I can easily meet almost every nutrient by taking higher dose of my essential mix. Of course there is other less than adequate cereals available that I can eat like wheatabix, they're Ok ish I suppose. I've also increased whey protein to 3 servings a day.
ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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4 comments:
My immediate reaction is to say, oh for heaven's sake I'll just post you a tenner. :-) You can't starve yourself. However, I suspect you are likely to be very stubborn and proud on that issue. If not, comment back; offer stands. I hope you find a way around the problem - can't you manage to get a bag of lentils cheaply somewhere, an asian grocery store or something? Usually they are treasure troves of cheap wholesome goodies if you look hard. Otherwise make your veggies into a soup; they will go further.
Its sort of embarrassing, but I believe many students have probably been in this situation before me! I do have about 60-70 - 700mg EGCG (green tea) capsules from A.O.R (Original amount 90 caps) which you can have... if you want...
So I would like to accept the offer, and I *WILL* pay you back on the 25th may next week.
Sweet potatoes tend to be real cheap and the best food in this situation :D Energy dense, fair amount of nutrients. Good idea on the soup thing too. Might do that. Would help if I had more than 0.3p in the bank though haha. I would of actually hand my 2nd and 3rd term grant by now but after looking at my attendence in college over the last 3 weeks, some teachers have not been marking me on the register =/ (thats being sorted now).
Matt
If I had a little more body fat it would probably be simple to just fast every other day or something. Being at a BMI of 16.4, I definitely do not want to lose weight =/
Email me on juniper underscore springs at yahoo dot com with your address and it will be in the post tomorrow and with you by Thursday am. Students live cheaply, I know, I was one for many years! But when there's no money there's no food and it's as simple as that.
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