Time for a shopping and cooking challenge, but this time based on just trying to buy cheap things; not necessarily the cheapEST item, but a cheapISH item, in each of 8 categories.

Part 2 of this two-part mini series is here:    • Cooking Challenge: Just Get the Cheap...  

What this is:
The reason I do this is as an exercise to try to provoke myself to respond creatively; to nurture or develop transferrable skills of creativity and adaptability; to think more about what it means to 'try'; to embed a habit of thinking about and focusing upon solutions, not problems and also to experience personal failure in a safe setting. This type of exercise - in this, and in other contexts - has served me very well in life. Those skills, such as they are, have always been the driving force of what I do, on this channel, and everywhere else.

What this is NOT:
This is NOT a tutorial for cooking or budgeting. No guarantee is made that anyone else will be able to replicate any part of this video (supposing you even wanted to).
This is NOT an attempt to 'play at being poor', although it always does make me appreciate things that I normally take for granted.
This is NOT an attempt to 'prove that people on benefits or low income could get by with less' - if anything, it proves the complete opposite - because this was a difficult thing to do - that's why it's called a 'challenge'.
This is NOT a diet - it would not be a good idea to cook or eat exactly this food every day - or budget like this every day.

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:18 Parameters
02:31 Shopping
08:55 The haul
11:43 Breakfast
15:01 Toast Tax
15:17 Some preparation
24:31 Pre-Lunch dessert
25:25 More preparation
32:02 Lunch
32:58 More preparation
36:29 Dinner
38:14 Conclusions & scoring