I have found this much easier to follow the diet this time. I think there are two reasons:
1. It is easier to by food for 2 people on $6 a day than for 1 person on $3 a day.
2. My wife can find much better deals than I can!
Even though it is easier, this experience still challenges me.
- I miss the taste of my favorite foods
- I miss being able to eat whenever I want, whatever I want.
- I quickly forget how much of my life revolves around eating
- I am really thankful I do not have to live this way all the time! I am grateful to God for the abundance that I have.
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I do believe it is easier with 2 people, we were able to purchase items and split them. This was easier than I thought it would be, but it takes a lot of planning. My big "Aha" moment came at Walmart Tuesday night. We had purchased our food for the week, but we needed Liquid Plumber for a drain. I realized immediately as I walked in to Walmart that normally I would be very tempted to look around at the sales and items at the end of the aisles would tempt me. I also noticed the other shoppers, and I wondered how many of them were also struggling to feed their families on a limited budget. I got in and out with only the Liquid Plumber, but normally I wouldn't have. This has been a great challenge. I won't soon walk into a grocery store without remembering it. What I have missed the most is carbonated beverages, like Sprite Zero or Caffeine-Free diet coke. I got gas today and I wanted to go in and get a caffeine-free diet coke, but I couldn't "afford" it. That would have been over 1/3 of todays budget. I realized how others must struggle with the same issue.
ReplyDeleteAnother realization this week, is that usually I am concerned with my daily calorie intake. This week I've been so focused on the real "cost" of food that I didn't really worry about how many calories I was eating. I realized I traded the way I viewed the "cost" of food.
ReplyDeleteKen, you asked how the Weekend Food weekend went. It went much better after I talked with my mother and she convinced me that the Baptists must be providing the kids with Weekend Coffee!
ReplyDeleteSeriously, Rob and I agreed that it wasn't really about the food. Many times over the weekend we were reminded of being without power and going to hit that light switch anyway - we would find ourselves wandering around the kitchen, although there was nothing to do there. Unlike the food stamp diet, which could consume a great deal of planning and calculating and decision-making, our choices were clear and few. What we had to concentrate on was filling that free thinking time with prayer.