day 3

7.55am: Get on tube going in wrong direction.

8.23am: Miss 8.22am train.

9.00am: Get to work too late to make porridge.

9.10am: Volunteer to go make a round of tea, and speedily scoff down a mug full of raw oats and cold milk.

1.01pm: Run to kitchen clutching tub of three-day-old room-temperature (forgot to put it in fridge) value pasta concoction.

1.03pm: Methodically chomp way through bland lunch while Barclay (colleague, not bank) heats up large slices of pizza.

1.10pm Hate Barclay.

6.45pm: Vow that this is absolutely and completely the last rushed trip to Tesco before properly planning healthy, filling, exciting budget meals.

Buy:

value beans: 29p
large potato: 44p (wish had known that a single potato would take up nearly half day's budget before heading to checkout.)

Total = 73p

Money left = 25.67

7.30pm: Feel rather smug about wholesome Friday night of baked potato, beans and TV.

8.15pm: Take tentative swig from the remnants of a bottle of wine I left beside the kitchen recycling bin over a week ago.

8.19pm: Go back to watching Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire thoroughly disgusted with self.

8.25pm: Brush teeth.