Friday: Thank God It’s Leftovers

The end of my work-week arrived and while I’m now 5/7ths of the way home the hardest part is yet to come.

Breakfast
I wasn’t particularly hungry this morning, which was just as well since I didn’t have all that much on hand to eat. I cracked open the jar of peanut butter (salmonella-free!) that I purchased on Monday and proceeded to make a peanut butter sandwich.

Peanut butter ~ $0.11 per tablespoon, I ate three tablespoon’s worth for $0.33
Two slices of bread for $0.10

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

Total cost = $0.43

Lunch
Leftover sausage, cabbage, onion, jalapeno pepper meal from the other night ($0.90) and one fourth of the rice that I made for lunch on Monday ($0.18) defined “lunch.” Just add microwave power and a splash of hot sauce from a packet found in my desk drawer and a meal is ready, it hardly gets simpler than that.

To keep costs down I drank water with my meal.

Total cost = $1.08

“Here It Is Again…”

Dinner
I have to admit, dinner was a huge challenge. My plan was to hang around the office and meet with a friend at Variety Playhouse for a concert. Not being very creative, I ate a peanut butter sandwich for dinner — ring up another $0.43. I was not done however.

At the show I drank a beer $4.50(!) and then consumed a couple of pieces of cooked bacon that I had in my refrigerator (because I guess a beer and peanut butter sandwich alone don’t constitute “dinner.”) The bacon purchased last weekend cost on the order of $4.00 for a package which yielded approximately twelve slices, therefore my post-dinner snack cost me $0.66

Total cost = $5.59 Ohh, look at me livin’ large

Tale Of The Tape
The day’s total cost = $7.10
The week’s total cost = $20.18

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