Friday night, Sandwich
- One Egg
- Lettuce
- One Cheese
- One Beef Bologna
- Two toast
Saturday morning, before work, Sandwich
- Two toast
- One cheese
- One beef bologna
- One egg
SaturdayNoon. didn’t eat
Saturday Night, fail
- Rice (2bowl)
- 4 Chicken wings
- Lettuce with pork
- Egg flower and tomato soup
- So Good
Sunday fail!!
This is an impossible mission of only using $11 for a weekend meal. As begin, I knew I won’t persevere until Sunday night. Since I saw the number of the $11, I know that won’t possible to cover up for 2 days meal also including Friday night. Even I try not to eat breakfast or lunch. The most difficult thing is how could that possible to including eating healthy. As a Chinese, there has a multeity side dish to serve with rice. The final conclusion of my thought is that I will be starved for three days.
However, Chinese food won’t possible for 2 days meal. I changed to make a sandwich as my health plan for my meal. I can uses toast to make more variety meal, it can serve for lunch and dinner. If I have free time for the morning, I can make a french toast. For the sandwich, I need cheeses and ham, also eggs for protein. By that time, I know what I need to buy for 2 days meal, I thought I can get save more money for snack or other for Sunday dinner as a celebration. When I started to shop, I found out everything I thought was just a sweet dream.
First, I got the toast for $1.99, then I got ham and cheeses, the total is $6.86. That means I only have $4.14 left of the whole budget. I went to get some eggs, then I notice that I don’t have enough money for eggs. If I get the eggs, I won’t have money left for the vegetable. Ever produce are selling as a package. Everything produce is selling as big size with higher price. That how the seller can hypnosis all the consumer, “spending less money with big size produce.” There will have two option for people to choose from. Such a small size sell for $5, but only need to spend $7.50 to get a big size to produce. That is how marketing attracts people to get more. Most of the people will get the bigger size for less price, but are we the only who get that benefit? Special there has some chip is selling as family size. Sound like we are getting some benefit from it, but that just one of their marketing way to sell. From the article, “Pounding Away At America’s Obesity Epidemic”, it said, “More than 50% percent of the food dollar is spent outside the home now.” Because my sister said, “ homemade will be more expensive, spiral for healthy food.” I wonder maybe people not just because they don’t have time for cooking. There are so many option and different restaurants out there to cater for what you want. Moreover, people don’t need to cook and clean up at the end. Most of the people like to go out and be more convenient.
When I try to get vegetable, there have some organic. There are more expensive than the regular one. I found out that most of the product which come with organic is more expensive. For people who are low-income, they don’t have any choice, because they don’t access to healthy foods. That brig out what AMA research, they are saying there have some people disagree of obesity as a disease. That was the lifestyle of how people choose. Some of them choose their lifestyle as overeating and inactivity. In this situation, for people who are low-income, they don’t have enough money to purchase healthy food. As this challenge, I only have $11 for the weekend. I got toast, cheeses, and ham. I saved some money to trade some eggs and vegetable with my family. That also means I only can eats sandwich for the whole weekend. I was successful to get until Saturday morning. The second day I started feels tired of it, that’s why I didn’t eat the sandwich for lunch on Saturday. I started to get some stress and I felt my brain just stop thinking. I became more irascibility really easily. At that night, I was eating rice with my joyful smile. I realize that I ate more than I usually eats. That was from the last reading, some people will eat more when they get stress, they turn that stress to the impetus to get more food. That how eating connects to our emotion. After I didn’t eat for once, I start to miss other food. special my family were eating rice in front of me, that was an impossible mission.
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