the first morning

The New Foodstamp Diet may not seem like something worth sharing, but I bet there are a few people who have have never had this particular life experience. Don’t get me wrong, I am grateful for the assistance, yet already I find meal planning and budgeting to be a challenge. On the initial page I wrote my first evening meal, and now it’s brrrreakfast time on the new food stamp diet.

$2.79 for sausage and 78 cents for eggs, toasted gourmet bread (given to us) with jelly, and coffee we already had makes for a cheap breakfast, and although laden in cholesterol it is filling. Eating sausage reminds me my aunt died from colon cancer, and these kinds of meats are probably not the best to have in a daily diet. That’s fine for now, considering we only have one more package, it is not likely to be daily. I know I should call it more, but I’ll call it $3.75 for breakfast, considering the margarine and jelly, and coffee with creamer.

 

I realize a government worker could figure this all out scientifically, down to the smallest increments of just how much margarine was used, both to cook with and to spread on the bread, how many tenths of a cent, etc., but I am just trying to have an idea of what is spent, and what I get for it. If I am supposed to fit into that $4.81 cents per day per person at some point. $1.88 for breakfast would be a bargain any day, but that still would leave me with only $2.93 (per person) for the next 14 hours of the day that I planned to be awake.

On that note, my partner decided it was much easier to go back to sleep until last night’s dinner was re-served as another meal we’ll call lunch or dinner.

We are blessed to have food in the refridgerator or pantry (it’s what I call the cabinet I keep the food in). On days when I have more I share more. There is a man who lives two doors down, who lives where another neighbor has given him shelter so he won’t be homeless. I share with  him as often as I can.  I always try to make soups or stretch meals the best I can, so the freezer usually has some kind of soup in it for the days when we have little else. We are not famished, and if there was a way to share more, we certainly would. Being a good neighbor is important, in many ways.