£7 for 7 days?

Yes you read the title right. £7 for 7 days is all I have to live on for food and drink at the moment as I'm taking part in a charity fundraiser with JCI for Save The Children. The aim is to highlight child poverty so we have a £7 budget for food and have to donate the rest of our weekly shopping money to Save The Children.

As a nutritionist I am loving the challenge (although I am looking forward to eating normally!) and decided I wanted to be as healthy as possible. I started mine on Friday as I'm away next weekend. Most of the members started today until Sunday. Friday was easy as I felt rotten so ate a bowl of porridge. Saturday was harder though but I've managed and now made all my meals for the rest of the week: porridge, soup for lunch and chilli/bolognaise for dinner with loads of veg in.

Actually living on such a small amount of money and being healthy is possible but what I have found is snacks are much harder to afford. Fruit, nuts, seeds and dried fruit are expensive when you can buy cheap cereal bard for less than a £1 for 6. Of course, there's no coffee as I'm a coffee snob and would rather go without than drink cheap stuff and no alcohol

It's certainly made me think about how much we all eat and how lucky we are to have the money to buy the food we do. So next time you're throwing food away, spare a thought for those that don't have enough to feed them never mind throw away.

To find out more visit www.justgiving.com/JCIUKpoundaday