This is day 1 of an exercise in which I set myself the task of cooking meals for 5 days on a total budget of £5
As usual, there will be rules and permissions this time though, no foraging, no scavenging, no freebies.
This video contains the rules shopping, and Day 1 of the menu. Levitation is permitted for this week.

It's important to note: this is NOT an attempt to 'play at being poor' (although it always does make me appreciate things that I normally take for granted), NEITHER is it an attempt to 'prove that people on benefits could get by with less' (in fact if anything, it proves the opposite because this was a difficult thing to do that's why it's called a 'challenge').
Primarily, this is an exercise that I set myself specifically to try to provoke a creative response; to nurture or develop transferrable skills of creativity and adaptability.

Some timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:11 Parameters & Rules
2:16 Shopping
5:04 Food haul
7.41 Calorie & Protein (total shop)
9:35 Spices
11:01 Brunch (prep)
17:00 Brunch (service)
19:17 Dinner (prep)
21:44 Here's What You Could Have Foraged
27:09 Dinner (more prep)
30:03 Dinner (Service)
30:45 Day 1 totals