SarahBrice

As the challenge draws to a close, I am wondering if by living on £2 a day for one week I have really made a difference?

Despite not wearing a badge, I found myself constantly telling people about my challenge. I am truely surprised how much it comes up in everyday conversation, because it's great to have a moan to your friends/collegues/strangers about how hungrey you are! I have emailed an extract of my blog to Louise Ellman. She may not have commented on it but hopefully she has read my email. I am going to encourage my housemates Catie and Zoe who have taken challenges but did not blog about them to write to our MP. Catie has given up hot water and Zoe, taxis and cigarettes.

For dinner I had the leftover lasagne (thanks Kerry!) and I am looking forward to going back to normal and feel very lucky to have the means to eat what I want and when! I hope you have enjoyed reading this and I have triggered some more ideas about the Robin Hood tax. Anyone at LIverpool University who wants to get involved in promoting the tax can get in touch with the Oxfam society where we are campaigning all the time! Alternatively find me on facebook and i'll tell you other ways in which you can get involved! Thanks Oxfam for setting up the blog I have really enjoyed the week despite the temptation to snack all the time!!!

There will be a bar of fairtrade chocolate up for grabs at Tuesday's meeting for the best blog! The criteria for the winner will be the most interesting blog, pure and simple, so get writing!!!

Oh my gosh, i'm alone in the house where all the snacks live, so close to the kitchen I could just clear it out! However, I am close to budget because I bought half a coke in the Cambridge for 95p. I couldn't just sit there and not buy a drink it's rude!!

So blooming hungry I could eat a horse, or perhaps just a thigh of a horse. I wonder how Flick is getting on with her £1 a day, even less than me and i'm struggling to be honest!

I've got work tonight and won't be able to buy my usual subway at 2am :-(

But I have some potato salad so it should be fine. I'm definitely saving money as well. Perhaps i'll use the money i'm saving to buy an extra chocolate bar on Tuesday for the best challenge! 

Wish me luck resisting subway and the snack room!

xx 

Hello all, sorry for not blogging last night, I bet you were wondering what the hell i'd been eating! Not much is the answer, I was under my £2 a day budget, didn't have time to cook really but had some sandwiches for dinner, went to the cinema and fought the temptation to buy a large popcorn/bag of doritos. Succeeded. This morning I have eaten a sausage sandwich- I was advised the sausages were past their best and going to be thrown out so I was doing everyone a favour by eating them really. I also had a coffee, total expenditure: 25p for the bread and coffee.

I have got potato salad for lunch which my housemate made so I don't know the exact cost but from looking at it I reckon 40p is a good guess.

No word from Louise Ellman yet, has anyone else had a response from her??

(Love to hear your opinions on the Robin Hood tax Louise if your reading this.)

Especially since the spending cuts are putting poor people in a worse position, even though international aid has been ring fenced, UK citizens are suffering from the cuts. The banks are the reason we are in this mess and I would like to see them get us out!

http://www.robinhoodtax.org.uk

Evening all,

I have severely limited myself to half of my budget, we all got chips last night for £1 woopsee! It was after midnight so I counted it as todays allowance. I cracked under the peer pressure! Apart from that it wasn't a wild one, just a few drinks round a friends then home (the others went out). I am well in budget still though, again noticing a lack of appetite, I have only eaten a piece of toast for breakfast and some garlic bread for lunch amounting to a total of 40p. I didn't eat the sandwiches my lovely housemate made me yet so i'm pretty happy for those to be dinner! I am about to go and have a meeting with LUST (student theatre) to discuss Robin Hood week- very exciting. Hopefully Maggie is coming too, perhaps her walking to meet me will help her with her daily water quota?

Good luck to Chris and Harriet tomorrow who are speaking about their challenges of BBC radio Merseyside!!!!!

xx

Today I worked at home mostly, where all the snacks are, and didn't go over my limit. In fact, I had a serious lack of appetite all day! But then I had a feast of a dinner, 2 jacket potatoes and salad (30p) and some gone off cheese (free because no one else would eat it) and some garlic bread (which was a donation but amounted to about 20p). I'm also having a mid-week binge on a can of fosters (75p roughly). I say mid-week, its actually only the 3rd day. Frankly I cannot wait to eat a bag of pickled onion monster munch, but I shouldn't really say that.

Tomorrow I am having a meeting with the president of the student theatre society wh are performing Robin Hood in early December- how fitting!

We are planning lots of campaigning actions which I am hoping they will want to get involved with such as:

-Robin Hood Olympics (in the university square)
-a Robin Hood role play (perhaps outside RBS by the guild)
-Bankers in stocks, set up a Robin Hood scene
-Flashmob/street stunt
-A film screening of Robin Hood in the guild
-A copper collection: with the coppers collected we could make a globe to represent its wide spread affect
-Some sort of stunt involving the archery club (I have emailed a friend who is a member)

In case anyone reading this hasn't heard of the Robin Hood tax (the reason for all these robin hood related actions) here is a link to the home page where there is a brilliant video which helps you to understand what the tax is and why we need it:

http://www.robinhoodtax.org.uk/

No word from Louise Ellman yet- well done Nicola for getting a comment!