The Challenge

A few weeks ago we challenged each other to see how little we could live off for a week, and spent an evening side by side on different computers seeing if we could get a week's food for £15 on mysupermarket.com. This week we're trying to do it.

So can two people can eat for a week for £15 and

1. get enough calories
2. eat nutritious food
3. continue normal routines (e.g. packed lunches for work)
4. only do one shop at one supermarket?

For the purpose of the experiment we are excluding the following:

• tea bags and coffee
• salt, pepper and any spices
• margarine and oil

However we are recording what we use so that we can count it up later.

We are also allowing ourselves to use parts of things and not count the whole cost (e.g. rice), but only where we know we will use the rest of the bag (e.g. would not allow something that might not get used again)