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Living Below the Line (LBL)

4/25/2015

Here's another update for you all!
A few weeks ago my mom approached me with a poster for "Live Below the Line" a challenge to individuals and communities to eat and drink using $1.75 a day, for 5 days, to raise awareness of the lack of choice and opportunity faced by the 1.2 billion people currently living in extremely impoverished countries and to raise vital funds to fight it. She suggested I try and come up with a gluten-free menu plan for this challenge.

Well, I think most of you know that eating GF can be very costly (between 2x-1000x more expensive). So the challenge sky-rockets for those eating GF! Regardless, I am taking on the L.B.L. challenge. Sink or swim. Fly or fall with style.

I encourage you too in taking on this challenge (how many times have I said that word so far in this post?). "Live Below the Line" week runs from April 28th - May 2nd. However, if you can't do it that week the website will remain open until June 30th, 2015.

Caution: If you have blood sugar issues or suffer from fatigue I don't encourage you to take this challenge, at least not so strictly maybe go for $2.50 CAD a day instead.

What am I doing for the challenge?
All during "Live Below the Line" week (April 28th - May 2nd) I will be posting my daily menu plan. The following week (May 6th - 10th) my family and I will be putting my completely GF menu plan into practice!

What are the rules for this challenge?
For your food and drink one individual can spend no more than $1.75 CAD ($1.25 USD, £1, $2 AUD, 11.24 NOK) per day for 5 days, meaning you have a total of $8.75 CAD with which to buy all ingredients for your meals.

The full cost of all the items you consume must be included in your budget. This means budgeting for whole packets of food items such as rice pasta, noodles, and eggs, etc.
For items such as salt, pepper, herbs and spices simply work out the cost of each item per gram and budget your shopping proportionally.
You can share the cost of ingredients amongst a team, as long as no participant spends more than $1.75 a day or their total $8.75 budget. Working as a team (such as with your family) will allow you to pool together funds and have greater variety in your cooking.
You can't grab a snack from the cupboard unless you include the cost of buying the item new (package and all) in your budget.
You can use food sourced from your garden as long as you can account for the price of production!
No combination of meals on any given day can exceed the $1.75 spending limit.
You cannot accept 'donated' food from family or friends, but monetary donations towards your fundraising goals are acceptable and encouraged!
You are allowed to drink tap water - remember you should try and drink at least 6-8 glasses of water each day.

READ MORE ABOUT THE CHALLENGE AND HOW YOU CAN DO IT

Across the world, thousands of people will join the movement to tackle extreme poverty - will you join us?

- Tamara Green

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Glutino Pizza Crust Mix

4/11/2015

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    As is common in my house, Wednesday night we had pizza. It came to mind today how pizza is a favourite for so many people, so I thought I'd share with you what we've been using for our pizza crust since going GF (gluten free). As the title suggests we use Glutino's Pizza Crust Mix and we really do like it! I hope you can enjoy it too.

    If your wondering where you can purchase a box check out one of these outlets: The Independent (grocery store), The Bulk Barn, or straight from Glutino.

    NOTE: Do let the crust rise the full length suggested, it makes a big difference.

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Gingersnap Drop Cookies

4/4/2015

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These cookies are as simple as... cookies! They only require one type of flour which means: no extra time spent mixing and a lot less time scanning the grocery store for all those extra varieties of flours.

I hope you enjoy this recipe as much as I did making it.

They'll be a new recipe every two weeks so be on the look out April 18th (2015) for the next edition.

Place cookie sheets in oven and turn on to 350f. Whisk dry ingredients in a small bowl:

2 cups Oat Flour
1/2 tsp. Baking Soda
1 pinch of Salt
1 tbsp. Ginger Powder (the fresher the better)
1 tsp. Cinnamon, ground
1/2 tsp. Cloves, ground

In another bowl cream together:

6 tbsp. Butter
3/4 cup Sugar, white

Add:

1 Egg
1/4 cup Molasses, fancy
1 tsp. Orange or Lemon extract (optional)

Fold in the flour mixture. Stir in until smooth:
Drop tablespoons of dough on a cookie sheet and space 3 inches apart. These are drop cookies, which means they will flatten themselves in the oven, so do not flatten them on the pan (unless you want extremely flat cookies, which will make them even "snappier"). Bake for 15 minutes.

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Living Below the Line (LBL)

Glutino Pizza Crust Mix

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