Too lazy to cook more lentils and rice takes too long....

So it's oatmeal for supper....blech.....sooooo hungry for some kind of meat! Burger! Pizza!

Naked Lentils: LBL Day 1 Lunch and Supper

So I forgot to cook my rice (it's brown short grain) and I was so hungry I just decided to eat plain lentils for lunch. They were kind of gross so I added a bit of garlic. They were still gross so I cooked the rice and added them together and then put some cajun flavouring on them. That was pretty good!

It is my new lunch and supper for the remaining 4.5 days! God I miss meat and Dr Pepper!!
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Day 2 Breakfast

Oatmeal Take 2: This time I soaked the oats all night, and then boiled them for about 5 minutes. And yes, I cheated today...I added a bit of salt, cinnamon, and stevia. Even so, I can't eat that much...it's pretty good but not something you'd eat past when you're full...and I feel full after only a few bites...

Incidentally, I dreamt last night that everyone was going for McFlurries...and I was so mad because I couldn't have any :(

...it's only the second day and I'm having food nightmares!

10:30am LBL Day 1: I'm Starving!

Well, "starving" is an exaggeration, what with this only being my first day and billions of other people live like this each and every day.

I am working on following some Photoshop tutorials to keep my mind occupied and improve my portfolio.

Lentils and brown rice in 90 minutes!!

Wow, Plain Oatmeal Is Gross ---- part of the Live Below the Line Challenge

This is breakfast for Day 1: old fashioned oatmeal with no salt, sugar, or any kind of flavouring. I suppose I could have bought $ 0.21 of salt from Whole Foods but I didn't know how much extra money I had at the time, and I also didn't think of it :)

I am allowed tap water because it's free. So my entire breakfast consists of oats, tap water. Kind of like  Horse Food! :)

BF says the lentils at lunch will probably taste better...so that's something to hope for!

Ben Afflect's Going to Live on Less Than $1.50 USD a Day ---- Can I Do it Too?

I have signed up for the challenge to raise awareness of poverty in the Third World. Please find more information and if you wish, donate to the cause, here! The challenge runs from April 29 to May 3, 2013.

Book Review Monday: Early Retirement Extreme — A philosophical and practical guide to financial independence by Jacon Lund Fisker

I apologize for the past few days when I didn't post...I was in a mostly internet-free zone while travelling. Greyhound promises free wi-fi but it didn't work :(
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Early Retirement Extreme — A philosophical and practical guide to financial independence by Jacon Lund Fisker

Wow. All I can say is "WOW."... I saved this e-book on my Kindle the other day when I took the Greyhound over to Jersey (21 hours!) and read most of it on the way...fascinating. It has to be read again, though, because it has some complicated parts and a lot of graphs and formulas (Fisker has a Ph.D in physics).

For anyone looking to cut finances -- wow this guy knows how to do it -- his grocery bill is $50-$80 per person per month. He shows how it is illogical to drive a car and then work out at a gym to counteract our sedentary lifestyle...and much, much more. He is probably the most frugal yet thought-provoking and accomplished person I have ever come across! In fact, I will have to read this through at least two more times to completely understand and absorb it all.

On the negative side there will be many who feel they cannot go to his extremes...however his premise is that the reader will learn from him and develop their own conclusions and frugal life strategies. Fisker is big on critical thinking and this is a skill that everybody needs, but very few actually ever learn. Critical thinking is difficult and time-consuming -- but essential for life, unless you just want to go along with the crowd, never asking questions, never taking responsibility for your own life, thoughts, and actions.

(Here is a link to a good basic critical thinking video series I found recently. It's a six-part series of animations on basic logical flaws and more.)

So to reiterate, this book is incredible and very mind-expanding. You may not agree with all of Fisker's points but you will definitely find something worthwhile in this book. 10/10