Tuesday: Budget? I Don’t Need No Stinking Budget!

I met with the group of $30/week participants last night at Decatur’s Cakes & Ale. Needless to say, we didn’t consider eating and drinking cheaply.

Breakfast
Breakfast was a simple fare of coffee and a couple of Fruit & Nut Granola bars purchased from one of my coworker’s stash of products he keeps in his desk. It was far from the most glorious breakfast I’ve ever eaten, but it did its job of keeping me filled until lunch.

Lunch
Luckily for me I work in a building that has a small mom-and-pop cafeteria inside of it. I went down for lunch and got them to make me a veggie burger. It was not a traditional veggie burger in that it was served on a hoagie roll, but it was quite edible… and all vegetarian.

Dinner
I should have known immediately that this one meal would easily shatter the budget for the entirety of last week when I found out that the pint of Anchor Steam that I ordered at the bar was going to cost me $7.

Keeping with my vegetarian plan for this week I ordered the menu’s only vegetarian option, the gnocchi. The only problem was that they had just sold their last gnocchi. The night was saved however when the person at my table who ordered that gnocchi offered to get something else so that I could have the gnocchi. Since I was going whole-hog (so to speak) I also ordered a dessert, a Meyer Lemon Baked Alaska which was divine.

One of the best things about dessert? They rarely contain meat.

The bill was obscene and when you add in the $7 beer and $10 glass of wine that I had at the bar I came close to spending three week’s $30/week budget. Sometimes you’ve got to splurge…

Two down.
Five to go.