I’m done! I survived the Live Below The Line challenge, and am now going to subject this blog to culinary whiplash as we go from $2 a day recipes to the decadence and glitter that is my Eurovision cooking! I…
Living Below The Line: Final Thoughts
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Living Below the Line: Water
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: 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: Ribollita (sort of)
Another day, another recipe, and a quick note. I know that there are cookbooks out there telling people how to live on very little. Some of them are more useful than others – I think my favourite is written by…
Living Below the Line: Schmalz
Nope, not the bad movie kind. The kind where you embrace your Eastern European heritage and render chicken fat into liquid so that you have something other than water in which to caramelise your onions and garlic. Yes, that does…
Living Below the Line: Fruit Jaffles
On the principle that you may want to know what breakfast looks like this week, I present: the two ingredient breakfast! Your Shopping List 4 slices of bread 1/2 cup tinned peaches, or 1 apple, sliced and cooked until soft…
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…