Live below the line 2013!

Could you live on just $2.25 a day?

1.4 billion people are forced to, $2.25 a day for everything. That's food, shelter, water etc..
That is what extreme poverty is, it's a concept that people like me, who are happily middle class, have a hard time to comprehend.

That's why, the awesome people of the Global Poverty Project started a campaign called Live Below the Line. It is to raise awareness about extreme poverty and to raise funds for those fighting against it.

So, as I'm sure you can guess, I took part this year.
The challenge was to live on just $2.25 per day on food for five days. It was just a brief glimpse of what it must be like to have so little food which equals little energy so on so forth.

I was lucky this year to have my epic mother who also took part (kind of), which means all the meals I had were, to put it bluntly, tasty as!

Now for how we priced it, we were a bit clever this year.

We calculated the costs by finding out on the Countdown website the price per kilo and then figuring out how much we used. Therefore two cups of flour (300g) worked out to be ......
$1.33 per kilo divided by 100g is $0.13.....times three .....= $0.39

This was an interesting exercise as we were surprised to find that yeast costs approximately $35 per kilo!!

This explains why quite so many cultures have unleavened breads (or flat breads).

I will be putting up the recipes of the meals I had up on this blog, so that everyone can enjoy a healthy cheap meal. We have also added extra ingredients if you want to pump it up a bit!

I hope you enjoy!