This is day 1 of an exercise in which I set myself the task of cooking meals for 5 days on a total budget of £5
As usual, there will be rules and permissions - this time though, no foraging, no scavenging, no freebies.
This video contains the rules shopping, and Day 1 of the menu. Levitation is permitted for this week.

It's important to note: this is NOT an attempt to 'play at being poor' (although it always does make me appreciate things that I normally take for granted), NEITHER is it an attempt to 'prove that people on benefits could get by with less' (in fact if anything, it proves the opposite - because this was a difficult thing to do - that's why it's called a 'challenge').
Primarily, this is an exercise that I set myself specifically to try to provoke a creative response; to nurture or develop transferrable skills of creativity and adaptability.

Some timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:11 Parameters & Rules
2:16 Shopping
5:04 Food haul
7.41 Calorie & Protein (total shop)
9:35 Spices
11:01 Brunch (prep)
17:00 Brunch (service)
19:17 Dinner (prep)
21:44 Here's What You Could Have Foraged
27:09 Dinner (more prep)
30:03 Dinner (Service)
30:45 Day 1 totals