Fast geschafft – noch ein Tag

Ja – so schwer ist das wirklich nicht. Vielleicht auch eher leicht. Nur langweilig. Am Montag gab es Kartoffeln mit Gemüse. Am Dienstag gab es Kartoffeln mit Gemüse. Am Mittwoch Einladung! Hah! Abwechslung. Donnerstags Erbsensuppe, Freitags eine Geburtstagsfeier meines Bruders. Ich denke, ich muss die Regeln verschärfen und Einladungen rausstreichen.

Hier eine Zusammenfassung der Kosten:

7,36 Euro gemäß Bon*
0,54 Euro 2 Brötchen am Freitag morgen
0,89 Euro 1 Brotbackmischung für 2 Körnerbrote von 750g
0,39 Euro 500g Spaghetti

9,18 Euro gesamt.

Und übrigens ist noch einiges da – z.B. etwa 1kg Kartoffeln, 200g Möhren, 250g Spaghetti. Und natürlich fast die ganze Margarine. Salz und Pfeffer habe ich in der Mensa mitgenommen.

* = Alnutra 3kg ist Hundefutter, das wollte ich nicht unbedingt essen, auch wenn es billig günstig ist.

Übrigens bin ich dazu übergegangen, auf Deutsch zu schreiben. Vielleicht begründe ich das irgendwann einmal.

I don’t care anymore…

… well, I tried to empty my fridge and cupboard to start over next week on a ten euro base. Now, three invitations occured, and all are personal invitations to a family-member birthday. Ok – I forgot that while shifting to the next week… but anyway, I don’t care anymore. I will start on Monday, and we’ll see.

proposal for week 2: in favour of the written word

While talking to a good friend, he came up with the idea of giving my literal education a new kick. Why not stick to books, and read a book each day, each with a minimum of 300 pages. So here’s a first design of the rules:

• Read (at least) one book per day.
• Each book must have a minimum of 300 pages.
• Books may be poetry or specialist literature.
• To validate, I will post a summary of each book at the end of the day.

I would be happy to hear good suggestions, preferably in German. Otherwise, I will pick some books myself. This week will start on March 23rd.

Delay

Unfortunately, or luckily, or whatever, today’s start had to be rescheduled to next monday, due to tons of good food still remaining uneaten in my fridge. I don’t have the heart to throw things away just to stick to the idea. So I will use this week to do next week’s shopping, and share my experiences in search for the cheapest products available around Bochum.

As life happens

Ok – that’s life. As I wrote before, invitations may occur, and so they did. Unfortunately, even two appeared to sweeten my week, that is: one on Wednesday, to visit an old friend from University, and one on Saturday, to attend the birthday party of a good friend.

Anyway, I will stick to the week, although it will be a bit easier now. And further, this project isn’t intended to be dogmatic in a way that my participation in the civilized world is stopped. Even the opposite – every rule shall only have an influence on my life.

First testrun

Yesterday, I visited a local discount supermarket to check current prices and pre-calculate my idea. Looks like it will be a week with few variety, but well – better than being hungry.

Some facts: A 1kg-couscous package contains 5-6 meals at a lowest rate of 2 euros, plus some vegetables. Organic carrots are at 0,89 euros per kilo. The cheapest way to eat bread is to bake it yourself. Two 3/4 kilo breads come out of a prepared mixture at 0,79 euros.

A problem will be some additional things you normally have and use… I’m thinking of things like butter, oil, spices. I think salt is available at quite low rates, or at least I can “get” some at the cafeteria at University. Oil might be a bigger problem – but maybe I don’t even need it for the week. A low-fat option is a nice side-effect though…

Week one: The ten euro week

So, I finally chose the style for week one. It’s a thing related to my eating behavior, and these are the details:

• There’s a limit of ten euros for food for the week
• No food, spice or drink already in stock is allowed
• I won’t search for invitations, but they occur from time to time. I don’t have one yet, but if one might happen, I’ll take the chance.*
• As usual, week starts on Monday and ends on Saturday

The reason for this

Poverty is a problem not only of the poor countries. Even among us many people have financial problems and sometimes – either due to wrong behavior, personal misfortune or whatever – not enough money to get a healthy meal. I will try to figure out, how it is to keep an eye to the money and work with a minimum limit for my personal food. Further, I will try to use the money as senseful as possible. We’ll see…

The beginning…

Some projects have a long planned start. This one was developed on a footwalk to a local supermarket today. But also this short-term realisation will have a planned beginning. So I decided to start on Monday, March 16th 2009.

Hopefully, during the year I will find enough ideas to keep this project running. Any idea is appreciated! Just leave a post.

Ok – what is it all about? Read out the detailed description or this short summary:

One year, for each week, I will submit my life on a certain rule which will be discussed here. Rules will vary and relate to food, body, other people’s daily routine, and more. At least twice a week I will post a summary on my experiences. All projects start on Monday, and the seventh day of the week will be a holiday, maybe useful for reflection and recreation. This won’t be a self-destruction thing, so I will monitor my general health and take care of it – but that doesn’t prevent me from at least trying to live a week on fastfood.