$3ADDP: Day 5

Have you ever been to the Farmer's Market and bought a ton of stuff that looked so absolutely interesting to you? Squash blossoms (delicious filled with goat cheese then tempura battered and fried), purple potatoes (beautiful in scalloped potato dishes), long beans (stir fried with a black bean sauce), the list goes on. The possibilities run through my head and I'm dizzy with excitement. I buy it all!

Then you know what happens? I make one thing and figure I'll get to the rest later and then instead of cooking the rest we end up at restaurants. Though I'm not the absolute worst at wasting food in the sense that I often try to make up recipes based off what I have in the fridge to get rid of, I'm not always successful at avoiding food going bad until now.

This project has made me conscious of a few things. First, how much I can actually stuff in my 5'2 frame versus how much I actually need to eat. Second, how easy it is to stay full when you're eating whole and healthy products versus highly processed and fat filled foods. But mostly it's made me conscious of using every little bit of what we have.

For instance, we currently have 2 slices of pizza, 2 servings of black beans, 2 servings of chicken and navy bean soup, and half a head of lettuce that needs to be eaten. Guess what we're having for dinner tonight? Yes, leftovers despite the fact that I dislike leftovers.

The other night I made a batch of oatmeal cookies because I had some browning bananas that I couldn't bear to throw away. They turned out awfully because I tried to skimp and leave out the oil but we'll end up eating those cookies too. Because we should. I have some leftover tomatoes that have been sitting around in the fridge that I'm going to turn into a tomato soup so that they don't go to waste also.

Breakfast: 1 slice of pizza ($0.25 - 140 calories) Leah Only, Oatmeal ($0.17 - 160 calories) and Coffee ($0.33 - 10 calories) Josh only.

Lunch: 4 slices of pizza ($1.00 - 560) Josh, 3 slices of pizza ($0.75 - 420 calories) Leah.

Snack: Grapes ($0.25 - 100 calories) - Josh only. Nibbles from family ($0.25 - 75 calories)

Dinner: 1/2 serving of black beans ($0.15 - 85 calories), 2 tortillas ($0.06 - 110 calories), 1/4 head of lettuce ($0.25 - 10 calories) each person, 1/10 serving of chicken with cajun rice ($0.12 - 52 calories) . 1 slice of pizza ($0.25 -140 calories) - Josh. 2 tortillas ($0.06 - 110 calories), Spam Musubi ($1.00 - 265 calories) - Leah

Josh $2.58 - 1227 calories

Leah: $2.89 - 1267 calories