Day 28 - The Last Waltz

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Well we got there. The last day of our £1 a day challenge and breakfast wouldn't be breakfast without a bowl of porridge.

Porridge + cuppa -11p

I had work to finish off before we headed through to see Mary's gran so I headed off to the studio for a few hours after breakfast.

We had our favourite (substitute *standard*) lunch of Tomato, lentil and spaghetti soup before we headed off.

Tomato, lentil and spaghetti soup - 11p

We were pretty hungry when we got back from Mary's gran's and I had a few more hours to do at the studio so we had a couple of slices of toast. Mary had the last of the butter and I had some groundnut oil, salt & pepper then I dried it with a splash of vinegar. Bizarrely it tasted ok!!!

Toast + cuppa - 6p

A few more hours of work then on to our final £1 a day dinner. Chilli and rice!! We kept one of the better meals from the freezer for our last night.

Chilli + rice - 45p

After dinner we made our donation using the money we didn't spend on food this month. We also pulled everything together that we hadn't used to see what was left. This is a photo of what we didn't use this month.

The frozen fish is still there, some frozen veg, a portion of porridge, 4 stock cubes, 2 portions of lentil soup made from the chicken stock cubes, a roll, a few slices of bread, some herbs, some teabags and about 2 teaspoons of sugar. Think we done quite well to use almost everything up apart from the fish. The final amount we spent was £55.90 which is 10p under the £56 we had set ourself for the month.

As our treat tonight we had left ourselves a small tin of mandarins to share with our cuppa.

1/2 tin mandarins + cuppa + peanuts - 21p

Total for the day 94p each.

Please use this link if you'd like to donate to Fairshare Just Giving Page.

Total raised so far £1406. 

This has surpassed all our expectations. We thought the £1000 target was a bit ambitious but everyone's generosity has blown us away.  Everyone has been so supportive during the month which has helped to keep us motivated.

A few people want to know what we'll be eating tomorrow so we'll do a final post tomorrow to capture that and give an update on the total raised.

Thanks again for taking the time to read the blog and for supporting us. We're very aware that we are lucky and can return to eating a more normal diet while there are still people less fortunate that won't have that luxury. Our thoughts are with those less fortunate than us.

Paul & Mary