Last day of the challenge today! I’m pretty excited And to celebrate, I’m going to take a break from complaining about being hungry in order to focus on the fact that I’m not thirsty. Or rather, to talk about water.…
Living Below the Line: Water
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Living Below the Line: Hungry
Time for another thank you to my sponsors! To my astonishment, I’m currently coming in at 24th out of 10,398 people on the fundraising leaderboard. Which is rather astonishing. (I wasn’t actually trying to be competitive about this, but I…
Living Below The Line: Hidden Costs
So, actually we are living comparatively well on our $2 daily budget. But there’s a really good reason for that, and that is that we’re really not living on $2 a day in any realistic sense. We are living in…
Living Below the Line: Pasta Bake Recipe!
I’m sure you are just itching to know how these recipes work, so allow me to share with you the first of my ‘famine’ recipes. Actually, this one isn’t so famine-ish, because it contains actual fish, and came in at…
Living Below the Line: Menu!
Thank you to everyone who has sponsored me so far. Together, we have raised over $1,000 to help alleviate poverty in East Timor! I’m thrilled with this result – and I’m hoping to do even better by the end of…
Living Below the Line: Shopping
Well. Two hours of shopping, one discount store, two supermarkets, a greengrocer, a dry-goods shop and a butcher later, and I have my groceries for the next five days! Did I mention that this whole budgeting for $2 per day…
Living Below the Line: Legwork
No, I haven’t started the challenge yet, but I’m already getting an inkling of how exhausting it’s going to be. I sat down at lunchtime today, and tried to create a list of the sorts of things I might be…
Anyone Can Cook Fabulous Vegetarian Food: Magical Mushrooms
No, not that kind. We are not doing hallucinogenic food on the blog this month. We shall save that for another month. OK, no we won’t do that, either. So, it’s Autumn in Melbourne, which means that there are mushrooms…
Living Below the Line
From May 5th – 9th, thousands of Australians will eat on $2 a day for five days – the equivalent of the extreme poverty line. It’s a way to better understand extreme poverty, while making a difference overseas. Live Below…
Recipe: Vegan Choc-Cross Buns with Tahini and Apricots
I take Easter, and particularly Good Friday, very seriously. It’s not just because of the sheer number of professional commitments I have around Easter (and Good Friday is pretty much the peak of these, as I tend to have a…