Tomorrow begins the 5 Day Challenge! It's never too late to join in! Anything you do that saves on your grocery budget will be the funds you can donate on Friday to Feed My Starving Children. I just love how ingenious you all are about making this challenge work for you. Here's a few more ideas:
1. Preggo variation: Amy writes:
"I do want to participate next week. What I am going to do is cook the beans and rice at night and the oatmeal in the morning for us to eat and then take out eating out and Starbucks as well. I am going to try to stick with it as close to it as I can being pregnant. I usually have to eat every two hours with my blood sugar but I am going to modify it to a simple cracker or something like that to make it more like what is happening in the rest of the world. I guess I figure that those women are pregnant too and they do not have anything to eat so I can do it too."
2. I-Hate-Beans Variation:
choose tuna, edamame, peanut butter, or substitute another protein
3. The clean-the-pantry option:
Jeanne writes:
"thanks for the encouragement to participate in this with you. What I've decided to do is not go to the grocery store this week...meaning create meals from what we have...realizing already the abundance in our pantry! The money I spend on our usual weekly or every other day trip will be donated and hopefully some habits/mindsets will be adjusted as well."
Sara writes:
"A few of my friends and I are going to do it here, too! As grad students we don't have high food budgets to begin, but it's a good experience to reminder that while we may consider ourselves "broke" in grad school, we are still very wealthy compared to most in the world! I've spent $2.97 on groceries- and it's my goal to only spend that all week!"
4. And, for the very hard-core, dumpster diving.
Sara goes on:
One of my friends is also changing the challenge a bit- in light that many in the world cannot even buy food everyday and often have to scavenge for food- her plan is to live completely off what she can find dumpster-diving! (There is so much good food is thrown away by grocery stores (damaged packaging, overstock, soon to expire), so she'll actually eat well, but its the experiencing of having to search for food and not be able to depend on money to feed her).
OK, seriously, you bean-haters? Maybe you should consider dumpster-diving. You might find you like beans, after all!
I am sipping my last cup of coffee tonight, at least for the next few days. I'll be posting your day-by-day thoughts so keep them coming. Here's some verses of encouragement to take you through our challenge:
MONDAY
There will always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your brothers and toward the poor and needy in your land. Deut. 15:11
TUESDAY
Whoever gives to the poor will lack nothing, but those who close their eyes to poverty will be cursed. Proverbs 28:27, NLT
WEDNESDAY
Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter-- when you see the naked, to clothe him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? Isaiah 58:6-7
THURSDAY
Feed the hungry, and help those in trouble. Then your light will shine out from the darkness, and the darkness around you will be as bright as noon. Isaiah 58:10, NLT
FRIDAY
I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do everything through him who gives me strength. Philippians 4:7-8
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