Food off the Table

In an effort to plan healthful eating rather than report on going off the rails after the fact, I will not be putting my food diary here anymore.

TCOY

1. Made important call to help Punch.
2. Healthy foods included oatmeal w fresh raspberries, steamed asparagus with lemon, sliced tomato.
3. About to take relaxing cool bath.

$ MONEY SPENT OUT OF POCKET--Sunday and Monday

• Saunders Hardware, curbside pickup, 10 lawn & leaf bags and a bottle of rose pest spray, $15.
• DSW.com, Nike sneakers on sale, free shipping, $59.99.
• Instacart, Kings, 2 pints raspberries, bananas, chilled dill pickles, half-gallon organic whole milk, organic half and half, frozen chocolate-covered Banana Babies for Dan, arugula, 2 Newman's Own dog food and I forget what else, about $50 with tip.

TOTAL SPEND, adding Saturday here too: $263.76.

Ongoing monthly spend as of May 18: $1,869.54.

Avg daily spend: $103.86.

Still definitely high, shopping for comfort, to support small businesses and to avoid going to grocery stores.

Keep an eye on/compare to previous months:

April: Total monthly spend: $2,143.19.
Avg daily spend: $71.44.

March--the effect of coronavirus quarantine and not working in NYC for now

Total monthly spend as of March 31: $1,916.15.

Avg daily spend: $61.81.

February

Total monthly spend as of Feb. 29: $2,480.34.
Avg daily spend: $85.53.