Pink of Perfection's Sarah McColl

Eating well on fifty bucks a week. It sounds simple enough, right? Wrong. Or maybe it is right. To find out, we’ve decided to challenge a few of our foodie friends to see if they can do what we’ve been doing (or at least trying to do) since June 1.

Our first “contestant” in the Fifty Bucks a Week Challenge is the Brooklyn-based Sarah McColl from the lovely little blog Pink of Perfection.

I “met” Sarah after my sister emailed me a link to her website and wrote, “You need to be best friends with this girl.” That was a couple years ago, and though we haven’t actually met in person, we’ve exchanged more than a few gushy emails and (if we’re being honest here) I’ve developed somewhat of a girl crush on her.

Maybe that’s because while Sarah certainly has her fair share of ups and downs (and blogs about them openly and honestly) she has managed to create a seemingly charmed life for herself—a life filled with double chocolate cookies, homemade yogurt made to look easy, dinner parties, strawberry jam she jarred herself, a pink bathroom (jealous!) and what seems like an endless supply fresh flowers, all for surprisingly little money.

Sarah was a recessionista before the word (or the recession) ever existed. And because she’s used to living on a budget, I don’t imagine she’ll have a hard time sticking to the fifty dollar limit, but she admits she does have a few concerns.

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