The CONCEPT

After reading about j. who is eating for a $1 a day.  I was inspired to pursue a similar challenge:

MY HUSBAND I WILL EAT FOR $5/DAY for 90 DAYS

My husband and I are FOODIES...


WE love to try out good food, and tasty recipes... but more than that we enjoy going out to eat.  In the days when we both had "plush" engineering jobs it was not unheard of for us to go out to eat every night of the week.  Easily spending upwards of $800 for a month of food (maybe more).  So now that I am supported by a wonderful but more conservative salary wise job in education, and my husband is living off a moderate stipend.  Change has been necessary - and we've made changes, but I wanted to make if fun by adding a challenge. 

While two people eating for $5 dollars / day is certainly a watered down version of $1/day there are some differences.  1) Unlike j. we are Omnivores.  2) WE are two people. 

Also, we plan to make it interesting.  We want to maintain healthy eating - in other words - I am not going to go out and buy a 10lb bag of el cheapo hot dogs and ramen in bulk and I don't think we plan to eat this either.  Also, vegetables will continue to be a part of our diet, and we won't do anything we were ethically against before this experiment.  While we will rely somewhat on our stuffed  cupboards at the beginning of this experiment, we will be doing this for 90 days so towards the end - we will no longer have this option.

The possible side benefits of this will be - hopefully kicking our fast food habit, learning to try new foods, and most likely being open to more meatless meals. 

The questions will be: Can it be done?  Is it beneficial (beyond the cash savings)?  What will we learn?