Catching Up
My elaborate plan to go for a 20-mile bikeride today has been put on hold by a sudden attack of not-wanting-to. Plus my body isn’t wildly pleased about the 18 miles I sprang on it out of nowhere the last three days. Perhaps I’ll try tomorrow.
Since I don’t think I’ve mentioned it here, on Thursday I picked up a bike after not riding one for the past several years. It feels fantastic to be back in the saddle, but as my body is reminding me today, I’m horribly out of shape.
In terms of food, on Thursday I treated myself to the cheapest dinner in town at a Mexican-inspired restaurant called Agave. They have super nachos and half nachos, and the half nachos are a full meal in themselves.
Unfortunately, they didn’t taste very good to me and I felt immediately guilty because this, the cheapest dish in town, cost SIX WHOLE DOLLARS. Given that I haven’t yet cooked anything for myself that cost even three, that feels like an awful lot of money to throw away. I won’t be doing that again until the end of the month.
After biking eight and a half miles on an empty stomach yesterday, I attended a friend’s lunch party. There was venison and gravy, green beans, applesauce, and corn on the cob, followed by vegan peach cobbler. I defied the purpose of the last by adding serious dollops of whipped cream to it. It was the most I’ve eaten at one sitting since I started this experiment, and it was delicious. I’ll have to see what I can do for my friend in exchange one this month is over.
Part of the eight-and-a-half-mile bike ride yesterday involved picking up this week’s groceries. I had to pick up some necessary items like cooking oil and so forth, putting me a little bit over my budget for the week. Between that and the Agave splurge, I’m currently at $55.29 of my $100 for the month. Mind you, if I’m careful, that should take me to the 20th, and next week I shouldn’t need to purchase many or any kitchen staples like cooking oil.
My prize find this week was either the six ears of sweet corn for $1.29 (guess what I’ll be having for dinner tonight and tomorrow) or the three yellow squashes for $2 that I picked up at the farmers’ market in town. Oh, and the salad dressing I picked up means plantain, dandelions, and portulaca can be eaten as a standalone salad if I’m feeling lazy or somehow manage to run out of all my other food.
Now if you’ll excuse me, all this talk of food has made me hungry—it’s time for breakfast.
