$3ADDP: Day 10 and 11

Sorry for lagging a bit behind by these updates. Life has gotten in the way of writing but not of the project.

I do have to say that I ate out quite a bit the past few days so I'm unclear on calories BUT I can provide you with prices and where to go:

Day 10: Skipped breakfast and had a bean and cheese with lettuce burrito from a local Mexican food place. $2.00. Alternatively, I could have gone to Taco Nazo, now known as Senor Baja, and had 2 - $1.00 fish tacos filled to the brim with cabbage and fish. What's my point? Mexican food places can be your friends! For dinner I had about $0.50 worth of Brie Mashed potatoes leftover from thanksgiving. I'll post the recipe for that soon because it was a huge hit. Total for the day ($2.50) but a very unhealthy day. I vowed to do better tomorrow by getting in more veggies and prepping for the rest of the week.

Day 11: A local authentic Chinese restaurant, Ten Ten, has single dishes you can buy to eat with rice for less than $2.00 a togo container. I picked up a napa cabbage and mushroom dish that was enough to split and share with my mom. I had a bowl of rice to go along with it bringing my lunch to $1.25. When I came home I had the last of the mashed potatoes, which I'll estimate to be about $0.50 and a homemade croissant sandwich which came out to $0.93 making my day total $2.38.

All of this doesn't matter though because for the days I was off the diet my digestive system really made me pay for it. I'm actually feeling the effects of the overload of bad food immediately after I eat it.

In Japan, they recommend eating only until you're 80% full because your body is late to register when it's actually full, so when you stop eating at 80% your body is really 100% full. So when you eat until you're stuffed, you could be well into 150% full which is just a waste of food.

Speaking of Japan, I need to find some way to work some raw seafood into this project. I hear a local supermarket has 12 raw oysters for $6.00! I could swing a $1.00 for 2 oysters for my protien for the day. Woo hoo!

Keepin in Cheap in California,

Leah