After a good little stretch where I spent only $5 and $0, I came home after a very long day, starving and suggested we go out to dinner as a family. Now mind you I don't believe we had dined out at any other time this month and we did go buffet, which was reasonable, but still – we went out. Bam, $25 right there and then it literally was all downhill.
For some crazy reason, I can only attribute to a delayed reaction to my perceived restraint, I started obsessing about certain food items, not unlike when one goes on a diet and then all you can think about is food. I began indulging cravings. First, it was $16 on ingredients to recreate a nostalgic and exotic dish, then a compulsion to stock up on sale items but at the organic grocer!! and then a general replenishing of a number of comfort foods we had simply gotten low on.
I will say, I did stop buying organic milk after discovering Canada does ban growth hormones in dairy. Not quite ready to completely abandon my social agenda, I did purchase it from a local small dairy but at a $1 difference as opposed to $5.
So basically, what I'm trying to say is, I ate my words – literally. Instead of triumphantly finishing the month proving to myself I could live on $12 a day, I lost my resolve and started shopping with not quite abandon but new found gusto.
What I will say is $12 means forgoing, compromising and strategizing in order to keep costs down. This last week's hurrah means I leave February almost $100 over and with a $15 daily average.
Friday Spent: $27.60 ($25 dinner out with family, $2.60 transit)
Saturday Spent: $10.90 ($7.70 groceries, $3.20 transit)
Sunday Spent: $26 (more food indulgences)
Monday Spent: $26 (yup, groceries)
Tuesday Spent: $34 (still more groceries)
Wednesday Spent: $6 (sensing a pattern: food)
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