In case you missed the background, check out the 5 Day Challenge post here.

I’ve got $2 to spend on food each day… which means $10 for the week. So I did some grocery shopping… definitely the most budget-friendly grocery trip I’ve ever taken!

Almond milk for the week! Good thing it was on sale 🙂

Bananas were only $.51 cents/lb! I got about 6 of them for a little over $1.

Dried beans are so much cheaper than beans in a can!

I also got a bag of brown rice that I forgot to take a picture of. Oops.

All of this totaled up to…

I also bought a jar of peanut butter from a different store for ~$2.00. Gotta get in some healthy fats 🙂

Total: $9.14

Honestly, I’ve never thought so much about $10 in my life! I’ll post a  breakdown of my eats tomorrow, (on What I Ate Wednesday, of course)  but since pretty much every day will look the same… I think one day is all you’ll need!

Overall, it was an interesting day, because instead of constantly dreaming about what I was going to eat next, I actually thought about the kids, parents, and families that don’t have the pleasure of enjoying food when they need it. Much less just when they’re feeling “snacky.”

What would you miss most if you could only spend $2 per day on food?

<3 Liz

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