Truth be told i'm not really rich but i have more money left out of my monthly salary than i normally would have on the 20th of the month. I have had R100 in cash in my wallet since Monday and there it remains unspent and it is all down to stopping my daily spend on junk food.
In the past, before my lifestyle change i would visit our local bakery twice a day, the fact the bakery is 2 minutes away doesn't help but then neither did my food addiction, actually i used to class walking to and from the bakery as my daily exercise.
My daily spend would normally kick off with with me pulling the car up outside the bakery on the way to work, make idle chit chat with the owner, normally about football and order 2 large sausage rolls, it wouldn't matter to me if i had just eaten an apple and banana in the car i would still order and eat them, then off to work with my greasy treats, by 9am my desk and surrounding floor would be a mess of pastry flakes, i would be sleepy and my wallet would be lighter to the tune of R25.
Then 1100 hours arrive and i start to feel peckish, i know full well now i was not hungry but i got so used to being stuffed all the time anything less than this to me was hunger, now i am not a fool (cough cough) i also know full well 11am is too early to eat lunch, 1 o'clock is lunch so i would pace myself, challenge myself to hold on for a bit, finally give in by midday and be proud that i made it to my silly time goal.
12pm back to the bakery i go, knowing full well they know I ate two sausage rolls only 4 hours ago i would feel a mild sense of embarrassment returning so soon but the jovial nature which i am greeted with puts me at ease (i am after all one of their best customers), i would peruse the menu and decide to either have the breadcrumbed deep fried chicken in a pita pocket with crispy chips (chips have to be crispy for me), the same chicken but in sweet and sour sauce with extra sauce and rice, beef curry with crispy chips, a medium chips on it's own (which is in a box the size of roughly 6 dvd cases stacked on top of each other it could even be more it's a huge portion!) and always a 750ml bottle of coke. Sometimes as a treat i would add a bag of biscuits but i would always have another sausage roll or 3 samosas while waiting for the take out lunch to arrive, then back to the office i would go and within 15 minutes i would be re-stuffed , sleepy and my wallet would now be lighter by another R80...
It gets worse...
After an afternoon nap at my desk i would awake with an hour to go, muddle through the hour and jump in the car for the 45 minute journey home for dinner, as i pass a petrol station at the beginning of my journey it seemed like a good idea to pop in and get a drink to keep me company in the traffic, so another bottle of coke and hey why not a bag of crisps ooo and a chocolate bar for variety, so i would pay for my 750ml coke, 400g bag of crisps, 80g slab of chocolate, part with another R50 of my hard earned but not in the middle of the afternoon cash and be on my merry way.
So, all that junk adds up to a whopping total of: R155 per day, simple equation to follow:
R155p/d x 5 days p/w x 4 weeks in the month = R3100 per month, R3100! THREE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED RAND A MONTH!
I have had people ask me how much my pre-prepared meals are costing me and how they would love to follow my lead as all they do is pop in and out of fast food joints all day because it is convenient, and when i tell them their reaction is 'wow that's too expensive for me dude' but on the figures above it appears it is not at all too expensive, all i have done is swapped guilt filled, gluttonous, sleeping tabletesque food for a better variety of fresh healthy balanced nutrient rich food...
End result my wallet is happy and so is my stomach oh and my boss who doesn't have to give me a missed call to my office desk phone to wake me from my afternoon slumber...
So on that note yesterdays meals were as follows:
Breakfast: Cheddar, pickled pepper and basil omelette.
Mid morning snack: Mixed berry smoothie plus a pear.
Lunch: Spicy chicken mayonnaise, gherkin and chive pita pocket plus a handful of salted peanuts.
Afternoon snack: Apple and a banana (apple at 3pm, banana at 5pm).
Dinner: Sweet and sour pork stirfry.
Desert: Chocolate cheesecake.
Evening snack: Bran flakes with semi skimmed milk.
Drinks: 3.4 litres of water, 2 coffees and 2 green teas.
Total calories: 2088 calories.
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