Day 31: Oceans

Money Spent: $22

Total in food eaten: $6

Breakfast: English muffin with peanut butter and jam ($0)

Lunch: Pizza burrito ($0)

Dinner: Tilapia w/ couscous and asparagus ($6)

I've definitely reached a point now where I'm starting to need to buy some groceries.  I've been eating a lot of these cheese burritos in varying form for lunch and I'm getting a little sick of them.  I went almost 2 full weeks on one $36 grocery trip, but a lot of that was because we've had free lunch at work.

What is a pizza burrito, you ask?  Burrito wrap on stove. Sprinkle with garlic powder.  Cover middle with pizza sauce (or tomato sauce), cover sauce with grated cheese.  Put hot sauce on cheese.  Cook for 4 or so minutes.  Wrap.  Eat.  

Anyway, after a day of running around at work, my friend Rachael and I met up and went to see Oceans.  It was pretty amazing and much less Disney than I expected (though the credit song is full-on Disnastic: teenagers - presumably with too-nice hair - creating loose metaphors between nature and inspirational motivation: "make a waaaaave".  Ahem.  Back to food...)

When Rachael and I lived together in Queens in 2007, we were both living a little cheaply green.  This was around the first time I started hearing about freeganism and the whole "low impact" movement, so we used to eat this amazing little meal like... 4 times a week.  It was just a filet of tilapia (which is usually around $3-4), couscous (back then it was from a box - $1.29) (, and asparagus ($2.50/bunch).  We used a lot of lemon and garlic and salt and pepper .

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as per usual, my photos suck... I'm working on it.

Rachael and I went to Whole Foods and spent a collective $14 on dinner (plus a bottle of olive oil, which I didn't count).  We got 2 cups bulk Middle Eastern couscous, 4 fillets of tilapia, a lemon, a clove of garlic, and a bunch of asparagus. This made dinner for both of us (could've fed 1-2 more) and left a cup of couscous.  

Rachael took the couscous prior to boiling it and sort of fried it up a little in some olive oil.  It gave it this really nice browned look and it tasted almost buttery.  Really good plan.

I'll post the recipe soon.  Working on some confusing html stuff...