{"id":49,"date":"2009-02-28T12:47:11","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T17:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insidetheperimeter.net\/sevendayproject\/?p=49"},"modified":"2009-03-09T19:38:02","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T00:38:02","slug":"friday-thank-god-its-leftovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insidetheperimeter.net\/sevendayproject\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"Friday: Thank God It’s Leftovers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

Breakfast<\/u>
\nI 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.<\/p>\n

Peanut butter ~ $0.11 per tablespoon, I ate three tablespoon’s worth for $0.33
\nTwo slices of bread for $0.10<\/p>\n

With the food I drank coffee which is provided free of charge at my office.<\/p>\n

Total cost = $0.43<\/i><\/p>\n

Lunch<\/u>
\nLeftover 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.<\/p>\n

To keep costs down I drank water with my meal.<\/p>\n

Total cost = $1.08<\/i><\/p>\n

“Here It Is Again…”
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Dinner<\/u>
\nI 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.<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

Total cost = $5.59<\/i> Ohh, look at me livin’ large<\/i><\/p>\n

Tale Of The Tape<\/u>
\nThe day’s total cost = $7.10
\nThe week’s total cost = $20.18<\/p>\n

Make sure to check out the others who are taking the challenge<\/b><\/u><\/p>\n