**UPDATE: The Salsa Cafe closed in 2015**

Meat, fish, and a disaster on a plate.

Let’s face it, it has now been 48 years of hurt, and England isn’t going to win the world cup this time around either.

Update: after along while dormant, Burger Stop closed around 2016.

Burgers on Osborne Road ➡️

The OG burger mafia of Newcastle has a new venue 🍔

It is done.

Wednesday night is usually punctuated with the “top-up shop”, but not this week. Unsurprisingly, I’ve learned is that I eat way too much normally (who would have guessed…), and a “recommended” serving portion will fill me until the next meal – but the lack of exciting ingredients certainly makes the food bland. 

Part of my goal in doing this was to show that actually, you can eat somewhat OK food, if you try and come up with creative recipes. Well, three days in and I’ve realised you certainly can’t have any creativity at this budget.

Not feeling as hungry as I thought I would now, but I’ll take that as a sign it is going to get much worse as the week goes on. I now appreciate that you can eat on £1/day if needs really be, which makes me wonder how some people struggle putting food on the table. On the other hand, it’s easy to see how fast food is an incredibly easy option to get something that resembles food, for very little cost – a McDonalds 89p hamburger comes to mind, but I think we all know how unfulfilled that leaves you feeling…

It is Sunday night. I’ve spent the past few hours trying to work out how I can get “the best bang for my buck”. I am attempting to complete a week of living on £1/day food cost, i.e “Live Below the Line”, in partnership with Oxfam GB.

I am going to stick my neck out and call this the best satisfying brunch ever.

(For best effect, read while listening to this and drinking a mug of EV olive oil).

Oh Jamie.

Updated: Southbank Grill closed in 2014, and now houses River Beat.

Yay for indie Nandos 🐔