Chris had drinkable yogurt and I had my yogurt for breakfast. These are the items that we had purchased on Saturday, so we are not counting them as part of our budget.
For lunch, Chris had leftover from Saturday and I had soba from the pantry. Therefore, we still didn't spend any money for lunch.
For dinner, Chris went to Chinatown for shopping, which is probably still the cheapest place to buy vegetable. Chris bought a 10 lb bag of rice, which made us go over budget - today we spent $14 total, which means we only have $6 to spend tomorrow. But remember, rice goes a long way. 10 lb rice will probably last 2-3 weeks depending on how much I eat, considering I consume most of the rice in this household.
Besides rice, he purchased, bokchoi, green beans, carrot, broccoli, and some Chinese Spam like item.
As I am writing this Chris is making Hayashi rice - from the pantry.
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The biggest problem today was hunger pain we both had.
Chris normally has snack at work, which he didn't. And I didn't have snack until close to 7PM.
As we are doing this experiment, we are realizing how much money we normally spend on food. Just doing basic calculation (without any receipts) we came up with the amount that we think we spend on food a week - that's breakfast, lunch, dinner and all the restaurant expenses - that comes out to be about $400 a week for two of us. We don't go to expensive restaurants all the time, but we don't normally worry about how much we spend and we don't stop from ordering delivery.
After this experiment, we decided that we should come up with the budget a week and stay within budget. It will be more than $10 a day but we would like to spend less on food in the future.
This was our dinner on Day 2 - Hayashi rice.
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