Thursday: Kiss My Grits

Breakfast
When in doubt Read The F*cking Manual, or when it comes to Quick Grits Read The F*cking Canister. Today I actually followed the directions for microwaving Quick Grits as printed on the canister. Lo and behold, the grits came out and tasted much better.

The canister of grits I purchased from Kroger the other night cost $1.19. I’m guessing that the one-half cup of uncooked grits I used constituted approximately one-sixteenth of that canister, therefore costing me about $0.08. To “spice” up the grits I tossed in about a tablespoon of butter. Making the assumption that a pound of butter costs about $3.00/pound and that there are thirty-two tablespoons of butter in a pound, my butter penalty is $0.09.

With the food I drank coffee which is provided free of charge at my office.

Total cost = $0.17

Lunch
They say that the third time is a charm. I don’t believe this, at least not when it comes to boring cheap-meat sandwiches. Mind you I didn’t hate eating two bologna and salami sandwiches for the third day in a row, I just didn’t love it either.

The loaf of bread I purchased from Kroger was $1.00 and with it containing approximately twenty slices, this meant a slice of bread cost $0.05. Given that I planned to eat two sandwiches my bread cost was $0.20.

Today each sandwich was a bologna/salami combination. At Kroger I purchased the “Value” brand for $0.88 a package; each package consists of six slices of meat, and since I planned to use two slices of meat per sandwich my meat cost for both sandwiches was $0.60.

I found a community bottle of mustard in the office refrigerator. In the spirit of the competition I penalized myself $0.10 to compensate for the amount of mustard I applied to my sandwiches.

To keep costs down I drank water with my meal.

Total cost = $0.90

I’ve had sandwich love this week.

Dinner
Eggs for dinner? Sure why not. I decided to bake a few eggs with some frozen biscuits. The total cost for the two biscuits ($0.54) and eggs was ($0.24) was $0.78.

Later in the evening I joined some friends at Raging Burrito for Team Trivia. While there I ate some chips and salsa while drinking a Yeungling ($2.75). Because our team had won Bar Cash the previous week, the night at trivia wound up only costing me $2.00.

Total cost = $2.78

Tale Of The Tape
The day’s total cost = $3.85
The week’s total cost = $13.08

Make sure to check out the others who are taking the challenge

• Tami at Running With Tweezers [or Twitter @tamih]
• Molly at Disposable Income [or Twitter @GrabMoL]
• Mike at Eat On $30 [or Twitter @boutte]
• Tessa at Drive A Faster Car [or Twitter @tessa]
• Dave at Dave’s Extraface Blog [or Twitter @extraface]
• Alain, who I have no idea how to contact