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