Challenging the Bitches: Maria's Challange - Day 3

Happy St. Patrick's Day! I hope you're doing something fun, and maybe cooking our St. Patrick's Day menu!

This whole not spending money on food thing is getting tricky! Yesterday morning I had a very early class, and once again I tried to make the coffee machine turn on at the preset time. Yet again, there were not any coffee aromas floating up to awaken me. I trudged down and turned it on and was soon on my way. For breakfast I had a granola bar again, and for lunch I brought leftovers from the gumbo the night before.

My sister was picking me up in the afternoon and I had to wait a little bit. It was gorgeous out and sitting in the sunshine I would have done just about anything to be able to buy an iced coffee. I refrained…. although I still think this would have been a reasonable purchase.

We went to visit some family outside of Boston and got stuck in quite a bit of traffic on the way home. If it hadn’t been for my challenge, we probably would have stopped and picked up take-out on the way home. Instead we went to Trader Joe’s and got some food. We made the Mustard-Crusted Chicken recipe that is on our website. (have you tried this, readers? it's the best!) It was delicious, but I was really hungry when we were making it and when I am really hungry I am really grouchy, so that wasn’t fun. It would have been a lot easier just to get takeout. But…. It was delicious and inexpensive and now I have lunch for today.

If I wasn’t doing this challenge, today could have been more convenient. I guess you have to think about what convenience is worth to you, and how much you are willing to spend on it. When I think about it today, it was fine making dinner and not getting take-out last night, but at the time I would have preferred just to pick something up.

I am starting to think that the hardest part of this challenge is not getting iced coffee. And no, I can't make my own. It's just. not. the. same.

I am going out with friends on Friday night and with this challenge I can’t buy any drinks! I guess I will either have to look phenomenal or talk about how my birthday is next week and hopefully I will get my drinks bought for me. J