Day One
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
At $1.19 per pound, millet has been the cheapest grain in the bulk aisle since I started comparing bulk grain prices. (It was $.89 per pound when I looked the first time, then three days later when I looked again it was $1.19. I decided to stop looking.)
My plan was to get millet, cornmeal, chickpeas, sunflower seeds, and salt, and have one meal of porridge (a.k.a. cornmeal mush) and one meal of millet and chickpeas, and either toast the sunflower seeds and mix them with the millet dish or eat them as snacks.
So today I get to the store and find the millet bin empty.
Doh!
So instead of millet I get wheat berries, which are also $1.19 per pound, but take longer to cook. But they are very filling, and might have actually been a better option for Day One. Also I substituted split peas for chickpeas, since for some reason chickpeas and wheat berries didn’t seem like a good combination, and split peas are half the price of chickpeas.
What I Bought on Day One
Day One Receipt
I don’t think anything I ate today is likely to make it onto my next party menu, but it wasn’t bad. And I came in well under my Day One limit of $2.
Less Is Enough 
Thursday, February 12, 2009 at 12:04 pm
especially with that *cough* *cough* 10¢ “Bag Refund” factored in.
so, to clarify, what is pictured (above) was food for all of Day 1 and Day 2?
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Thursday, February 12, 2009 at 3:37 pm
Correct, that picture is of food for at least Day One and Day Two.
I just finished the rest of the cornmeal that I had cooked up on Tuesday (day one), and there is still between a quarter and a half cup not cooked. I also didn’t finish all the sunflower seeds yet, and there is plenty of salt left for the beans and rice. The wheat berries and split peas are gone.
I’m going to have at least one more day of cornmeal for breakfast but am going to probably get some oats or some other grain (maybe the millet will be back?) for the next round.
Wednesday, July 16, 2014 at 9:28 pm
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