Whole-Food, Plant-Based on $5 a Day—Day 9
Today is Day 9 of my 10-day vegan on a budget challenge, where every day, for 10 days, I spend no more than $5 a day on food.
For the past 2 days I had so much food left in my fridge that I’ve lived on leftovers. But today it’s definitely time to get back into the kitchen!
Time to go shopping
Even though I still had plenty of food in the cupboard, I wanted to add some new ingredients.
I already had cabbage and potatoes, and if I could get some beets and onions I’d have everything I needed to make Borscht.
I also wanted to make some pasta. I still had some fusili pasta, tomatoes, broccoli and kale. All I needed was some onion for the tomato sauce.
I went back to my local Mexican market and picked up some green onions, zucchini, an apple and a peach for $1.82. Then I went to Whole Foods and got some organic beets for $0.90.
Total $2.72. Which meant I had $2.28 in my purse! The most I’ve ever had left over on this challenge.
My menu for today
BREAKFAST: Banana
LUNCH & DINNER:
Borscht with leftover taco shells and avocado
I love coming up with new dishes and meal ideas, so I really enjoyed today.
I’m also looking forward to tomorrow, because I have a little bit of extra “cash in the bank” to spend, since I only used half of today’s budget!
See you then 🙂
Darshana
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Here’s the link to tomorrow’s post. And if you’ve missed earlier posts, here’s the link to Day–1!
