Live Below The Line Challenge: Day 1
I’m very happy to say that Day 1 of my Live Below The Line challenge is now complete. It’s not been much fun – and I’m sure the remaining four days will be worse. Breakfast wasn’t actually too bad....
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I had a press release through this afternoon, telling me that “UK household expenditure on the bread and bakery products increased by 7.6% to £4.74bn in 2011” – primarily as a result of the increase...
View ArticleLive Below The Line Challenge: Day 3
Wednesday – day three of the challenge – was not a good day. I was actually physically sick on Tuesday night, caused, I’m sure, by the quite drastic change in diet between this week and last. Still...
View ArticleLive Below The Line Challenge: Day 4
This week has probably been the longest week of my life. I’m so bored of rice. And eggs. And passata with the same old selection of vegetables day in, day out. Thursday was day 4 of my Live Below The...
View ArticleLive Below The Line Challenge: Day 5 (the end!!)
So, after what seems like far longer than five days, I’ve finally reached the end of my time spent living on £1 per day. I must admit, I was a little surprised that I was able to spend so little on...
View ArticleLive Below The Line 2013 – the challenge begins…
Those of you who were Bristol Bites readers last year will know that I took part in the Live Below The Line challenge, which was certainly an experience. This year I’ll be doing the same again to...
View ArticleLive Below The Line 2013: The Shopping List
Our 2013 Live Below The Line Challenge was supposed to start today: Monday, April 29th. I’d spent the weekend in London, though, and only travelled back on Monday, so we’ve decided that Tuesday to...
View ArticleLive Below The Line 2013: Day One
So…day 1 of our Live Below The Line challenge is complete, and it wasn’t too bad. I remember thinking that after day 1 last year, though, and things went rapidly downhill… The previous evening was...
View ArticleLive Below The Line 2013: Day Two
This is tough. There’s no denying it. And day 2’s breakfast was a bit of a fail. After making the gnocchi the previous evening, I had the brainwave of making a third of it into potato pancakes, which...
View ArticleLive Below The Line 2013: Day 3
Day 3 was painful. My stomach’s not enjoying living on such a drastically changed diet, and both of us are feeling so lethargic at the moment!! So…we treated ourselves to a bigger breakfast with...
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