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All Contents © Copyright Peter C. Hayward 2008-2009 unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.2009
Hello! My name is Peter C. Hayward, and for the month of February, I am only spending twenty-eight dollars on food. I hope I do not die!
The same as yesterday...again.
68.8kg (31.207 pounds) is the exact same weight as yesterday.
There’s really only so much I can say about that.
It's borifying the graph.
It’s looking more and more like the random weight-loss on Day 18 will be the lowest point of the month. Perhaps I’ve stabilised, and will stay at68.8kg for the next 6 days.
By the way…6 days! That’s less than a week! You have no idea how much I’m looking forward to this wretched experiment being over.
I’m out of bread, so I’ve got to remember to pick some up in the next day or so. I used the last of it today – two slices were eaten with a tiny smidgen of butter on each (I’m rationing it) and the other two were toasted. I didn’t get a chance to eat those before going to improv class, so I had to just keep them in my bag until the break. They were slightly stale, but mostly delicious!
I also remembered to make the right amount of rice today.
Last night, I finally got around to giving “congee” a go. Suggested way back on Day 14, congee is a different way of cooking the rice – instead of just throwing it in the rice-cooker until it’s cooked, I put a cup of rice and six cups of water into a big pot, and put it on a low temperature for six hours.
The results were…less than ideal:
The spoon was for tasting!
The rice cooked, and then the water slowly began turning into what I assume congee looks like, but before it could really start doing that, it all began to burn. The result was partially burned rice in a strange viscous liquid.
Hell, maybe that’s what congee is. I’m not really sure.
It tasted like slightly burned rice, but without the ricey texture that I’m familiar with. It was strange and unsettling, and I’ve decided that perhaps congee isn’t for me. I’ll just make do with regular rice for the next few days.
No problems with functioning today – I’m still slightly hazy, but that’s become standard. I just hope that I don’t have any brain cells permanently dying off. I don’t drink or smoke or sniff paint or take steroids, or participate on any of the other activities on this list (except maybe avoiding exercise), so my brain cells seem to be pretty safe. Hopefully I will not lose too many in the next 6 days!
February 28th is when the experiment ends, and I’m celebrating with a trip to the Pancake Manor. I’ll be getting there around 11:30 – please feel free to join us! For ease of organising, I’ve made an event on Facebook. Go and tick the little “attending” box – it should be a fun night!
From the comments:
Dan Beeston:
Wade thinks that when you have your first real meal on Saturday night that you’re going to toss it all back up again. Either that, or it’ll go straight through you. Either way, I can’t wait to find out. Make sure someone is at hand to take photos.
This is quite a popular opinion, actually. I’ve had a number of people tell me that there’s no way I’ll be able to stomach the steak. Dad suggested starting with stewed tomatoes, and building up from there, but I prefer to do things by extremes – I’ll start with the Bavarian Apple Crepes, my favourite dish at the Manor, and then I’ll have a steak, medium-rare. I’ll have a few of the potato chips, just to warm me up, then I’ll dig in. The crepes will probably cause a sugar rush.
I have been planning that meal in a lot of detail for quite a while now.
There will definitely be digital cameras there, and I’ll probably bring a video camera as well. If I do end up throwing everything straight up, you’ll be able to see footage of it on YouTube the next day, I promise you that. (if it “goes straight through me”, no, there won’t be YouTube footage.)
28th of February, 11:30pm. Mark it in your diaries.
I can guarantee that none of you are looking forward to it as much as I am.
Tomorrow: Daily Post!
(total money spent so far – $24.46. Remainder – $3.54 - enough for three loaves of bread, with 27 cents left over!)
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I can’t quite believe I’m actually going to write a comment here about this project of yours.
But anyway:
Did you ever consider purchasing cereal with your $28, for use throughout the month?
Woolworths (your preferred supermarket I see) sell several jumbo packs of the Uncle Toby’s Plus varieties. I know because I buy them regularly. One is a 1.2kg version, full of wholegrains, museli, and a bit of dried fruit. The boxes are really good value too – about $8.
My point is, a 1.2kg box of cereal would provide you with 24 breakfasts, providing you stick to a 50g serve (which is what’s normally recommended anyway). That’s virtually your whole month covered.
I know you’re some sort of weird sleeping person, but you don’t have to have cereal for breakfast only.
I know there’s milk as well, but you could have bought a packet of dried milk for about $2, and you could have made up your own with water. So for around $10, you could have one guaranteed cereal meal per day (almost).
My reasoning is that cereal generally has lower GI levels (wholegrain ones particularly). That means it gives you energy for longer, and in a more even way, so you don’t get the spikes. White rice is all very good, but it does have a higher GI. You could have had cereal for breakfast and rice for dinner and lived (I believe) a slightly more satisfied existence for the past few weeks.
And before you say anything, no, I do not wish to conduct my own experiment where I eat nothing but cereal and rice for a month.
Cheers, Natalie.