Feed yourself on £1 a day

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Hi fellow experts!
I'm a long time lurker, but finally signed up today so be gentle
I've set myself a challenge. To live on £1 a day for the next 365 days, beginning on February 20th. My reasoning is numerous, but in short I was appauled to find I was spending around £250 a month on food alone just for me. My new year resolution is to be debt-free by January 2010, and to do this I need to cut back on unnecessary spending like extravagent food, and use it to better goals.
I figured it'd be a fun journey to document online, blog-style. Recipes, ups, downs, challenges and frustrations for others to learn by and try for themselves. While you need not go as far as I have, if you're trying to feed a family for less, perhaps you can grab some ideas and just scale them up? As an added twist, I'm not looking to do just the cheapest. I want the healthiest I can possibly manage. We often hear in the news how "healthy living is expensive", so I want to try and disprove that as well.
For those of you interested in how I get on, I'll be posting at least once per day for the next year at [ redacted ].
.. in a moment of self-inspection .. I must be mad. But it'll be fun... I hope.
Lee
I'm a long time lurker, but finally signed up today so be gentle

I've set myself a challenge. To live on £1 a day for the next 365 days, beginning on February 20th. My reasoning is numerous, but in short I was appauled to find I was spending around £250 a month on food alone just for me. My new year resolution is to be debt-free by January 2010, and to do this I need to cut back on unnecessary spending like extravagent food, and use it to better goals.
I figured it'd be a fun journey to document online, blog-style. Recipes, ups, downs, challenges and frustrations for others to learn by and try for themselves. While you need not go as far as I have, if you're trying to feed a family for less, perhaps you can grab some ideas and just scale them up? As an added twist, I'm not looking to do just the cheapest. I want the healthiest I can possibly manage. We often hear in the news how "healthy living is expensive", so I want to try and disprove that as well.
For those of you interested in how I get on, I'll be posting at least once per day for the next year at [ redacted ].
.. in a moment of self-inspection .. I must be mad. But it'll be fun... I hope.
Lee
Starting Debt: ~£20,000 01/01/2009. DFD: 20/11/2009 :j
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You could email [EMAIL="abuse@moneysavingexpert.com"][email protected][/EMAIL] and ask for approval and they may sanction it, just a thought
I like the idea. Seem to recall someone last year waging a bet to live on a £1 for a year
Here you go http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1052710/How-cash-strapped-teacher-beat-credit-crunch-living-1-day-YEAR-drunken-bet.html
If anyone wants to know the address of my website, it's in my profile page. There's a space for personal websites to be listed there, and I have done so. Just click in my name to the left.
Do something amazing. GIVE BLOOD.
Do something amazing. GIVE BLOOD.
This forum may give you some tips on making money go further
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This is something the forum team will be able to help with (BG's aren't responsible for these issues), so please do email [EMAIL="abuse@moneysavingexpert.com"][email protected][/EMAIL] (from the same email address you've registered with the forum) to ask.
Sorry I can't help further
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