I take off for New York in a couple of hours to host my Fifth Annual Casserole Party (if you haven’t already registered, there are still a few spots available). I’ll be there for exactly one week. Since I failed to report my spending on Wednesday, and even though my fiscal week technically begins on Thursday (and I reallyreallyreally want to pretend the 2 a.m. Taco Bell I had last night didn’t actually happen), I’m going to “restart” today. Yes, I’m going to attempt, yet again, to eat well on only $50 while in the Big Apple.
Though I have a wallet full of coupons and a kitchen in my little Brooklyn home away from my big Kansas City home, I have no commissary stash, no freezer full of pig innards and no bottle of Sriracha to make even the inedible edible. So I’ll be starting from scratch—while trying to sneak in a dinner at Calcutta on 6th Street—and attempting to spend only $50. I sort-of, almost, barely did it last time, with a little help from my friends. You think I can do it again?
