ready.... set..... GO!!!

Day 1: Today is the first day of the 21 Dollar Challenge!

 I baked a loaf of bread last night, thanks to my wonderful friends Michelle and Chris Oorschot, who gave me some fresh yeast :-) Don't you just looovvveee the smell of bread baking?? Its just a delicious smell! Anyway that loaf of bread got devoured at connect group this morning, so I'm about to bake another loaf, Not sure how long it will last us... that's another thing about fresh bread, it just tastes soooooo yummy!

Today has been easy as I have had no temptations to spend money, but tomorrow is going to be a hard one... I work every Tuesday and normally treat myself to a Latte and a pastry, but if I do that, that's using 30% of my weeks food budget! so I am going to take one of those coffee sachets and a piece of home made chocolate cake with me instead! MMMM home made chocolate cake YUMMMMM.... I really do enjoy baking, I think this will be my favorite part of the challenge, having an excuse to make yummy home baked goods! Obviously I cant go making fancy cakes with 100 different ingredients, but if I use what I have available I still can make some pretty delicious snacks!

27 days to go!

Preparations

I decided that I was going to bake a loaf of bread today in preparation for the start of the 21 Dollar Challenge, but when I went to get my yeast out of the cupboard, I realised that it is nearly a year past its used by date! I think that is a good indication of how often I really look in my cupboard..... Hopefully this challenge will make me use what is already available in the house!
I cleaned the food cupboard out yesterday, also in preparation for the challenge, and was really surprised what we have in there, for those of you that have been to my house you know that I have a pretty big cupboard! and its chock a block!!  I tend to have a quick glance, say we have no food and then go down the shop and buy more stuff.

This is my food cupboard:



Just a bit of food in there! hahaha

Bec