Day 4

At lunch time today, we will officially be half way through our challenge week and so far, it feels as though nothing unanticipated has happened. We certainly have enough food to get us into the weekend if not all the way through. Stacie and I decided that we would sit down tonight and evaluate exactly where we are in terms of our food supply and then figure out exactly what we think we need for the weekend so we can allocate our remaining budget of $23.93 accordingly.

Personally, I think the weekend is going to be the most difficult part of the whole experience. During the week, we normally eat fairly healthy and since we're both at work, the days go by pretty quickly. Weekends are when we tend to spend most of our food money eating out. Our big favorite is brunch at any one of the local Canton of Fell's Point restaurants. There are a bunch of them that have really good weekend brunches and it's something we enjoy. Needless to say, we will be foregoing that this weekend.

Also, tomorrow evening we are taking Hailey to see the Christmas lights in Hampden (those of you from Baltimore will know what I'm talking about). In a normal week, we would probably go see the lights and then grab something to eat before heading home. This week, of course, we will have to head straight home for dinner which will probably be mac and cheese with tuna.

On the lighter side, I was able to snap this photo of Hailey yesterday and one of my work colleagues made the comment that she was probably trying to order pizza since she's clearly hungry!

She has actually been a trooper through the entire thing so far and seems totally unaffected. That's probably because, as Stacie correctly points out, her diet is essentially identical to what it normally is. As I think I may have mentioned before, the only real changes for Hailey are that she is drinking regular whole milk instead of organic and that instead of getting Puffs for her morning snack when she gets to daycare, we've been giving her carrots. And since she seems to love the carrots, that may end up being a permanent replacement since it's much healthier.

Please keep the questions (and the donations) coming and I will continue to answer them all on the blog. I know I keep repeating it, but we are unbelievably appreciative of the support we have been receiving and the interest level is far higher than we ever could have imagined. Thank you all.

Neil, Stacie and Hailey