I read a LOT of blogs.  Between my two Google Reader accounts I have close to 100 blogs that I read on a regular basis, and am frequently subscribing to newly discovered ones.  Some I just skim through, but others reel me in and provoke me to find out more about their causes and inspirations.  

Here’s a recent blog, One Dollar Diet Project, I discovered about a San Diego couple who decided to go for one month of eating on $1/day each.  Check it out, it’s an interesting read about how they succeeded and raised awareness for the billions of people around the world who live on $1/day and don’t have the option to resort back to spoiled eating habits.

It made me realize that we unconsciously eat and eat until we’re full, and we throw food away when it’s only a couple days old, and don’t even think twice about paying $3 for a latte.  I’m just as guilty as anyone. Part of the reason why I run and exercise is so that I can eat whatever I want and enjoy eating out at restaurants or fixing the more expensive/less healthy pre-packaged foods at the grocery store without the worry of gaining weight. 

And to think that there are people around this world, this country, this city who have never had the ‘worry’ of eating too MUCH food or not having organic food available or concern over gaining weight. They’re more concerned about getting any food to eat and not dying from starvation.

Makes you think twice about the food we eat.  I’m not sure yet where I’m going with this whole dilemma, but I think I’ll start by being better at making more foods from scratch instead of buying them.  Being in charge of our budget now (and the one who does the grocery shopping), I’m challenging myself to reduce our food spending and reducing waste.  

I’m pretty certain that Todd would resist doing any $1/day food diet (and I honestly wouldn’t want to either, with not being able to enjoy fruits the way I like to), so I’m not thinking of doing anything that drastic.  Just starting with small steps and moving forward from there.  We’ve already made changes to our coffee and dining out habits since I’m not employed right now, but I know there’s so much more we can do.  We’ll see where I can go with this.

Hopefully this will prompt you to think about your own eating/spending habits and make changes of your own.