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The 411 - The 90 Day Experiment

After reading Hungry for a Month, I decided that I would embark on a 90-day social experiment. In which I only spend $30/month on food. The only exception will be things that are freely available to the average person (salt taken from restaurants, ketchup packets from McDonald's, potluck dinners, etc). Buying in advance is fine, but at the end of the month, it all has to add up to $30 or less. I may continue this extreme budget, after the experiment is over. However, I will see how well I did and how much healthier I am come April 6, 2007, when this experiment officially ends.

NOTE: This blog is organized according to date, which means you’ll see the last day of this thing before the first. It might make more sense if you start from the beginning: January 6, 2007. - Which can be done by gooing to the archive section in the sidebar.

Thursday, March 8, 2007

Where Are The Vegetables

On a recent post, I had a visitor question me about where the vegetables were. The person said that except for beans, they have not seen me eat any vegetables.
How do I respond to that? I wonder if the person has read all my posts. In fact I wonder if they have read the post completely that they posted the comment to. It is true, that I haven't prepared nearly the variety of vegetables that I did before this experiment. If they had they would have seen I have eaten lots of potatoes (a vegetable) and I have also eaten corn (also a vegetable).
Fact is in about 30 days when this experiment is over, I am going to live off what is in my pantry in an effort to get rid of all the canned goods that I had bought previous to this experiment. Some of which are a couple of years old. Vegetables included in that list is corn, peas, beans (4 different kinds - green beans, baked beans, great northern and pork and beans). Unfortunately, I do not have my favorite vegetable in the pantry, a vegetable that is probably the most expensive in my taste buds. That being green Lima beans. I will have to look, but I might have one can of carrots as well. I do know that I have a can cranberry sauce and a can of pineapple as well. I should have enough canned fruit and vegetables for at least 30 meals.

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