The experiment

Not long ago my father-in-law sent Daniel and I an email that was asking if he  knew anyone  who wanted to participate in an experiment for a KSL story. What they were looking for was a family of 4 who would be willing to survive off of only $100 in groceries for a week. Daniel emailed the woman and said we were interested and they chose us as one of the families! They wanted families of 4, some with just a mom and 3 kids, us with a baby, a mom and  dad and 2 kids, etc. 

We thought it would be fun to try it out. We had to empty our pantry (thanks Mekell for unknowingly donating your room for our pantry items while you are away!) and make a shopping list of what we would need for the week.

Yesterday a man from ksl came over and asked us some questions and recorded us for the radio story. he took pictures of our now bare pantry and then gave us $100 cash to get our groceries. He followed us through the store just asking questions and getting to know us. 

At first I was like a hundred bucks?  that's easy! but once we started making a meal plan for the week (which we had never done) we quickly saw how fast it goes. Every meal for everyday had to be bought and ALL the ingredients for everything. Things add up fast. Especially when you have "nothing" to start with

Daniel added everything up that we put in our cart and kept track of what everything cost. After we got everything we still had extra to get treats and juice and still had like 12 bucks left over! yay! it can be done. 

Anyway it was a good experiment and it really opened our eyes. And we like the whole planning our meals for a week thing. 

Its hard though because we have all this food in our fridge and can only eat what we bought with the $100. The other stuff isn't tempting because its in another room. 

The story should air sometime next week and it's supposed to be on the internet too. 

well that was our experiment and adventure for the week. It was easier than we thought and some people say it can't be done. NO WAY! it was a piece of cake. mmmmm cake. too bad we didn't buy some of that!