Tom Torti's Guest Blog: Taking the 3SquaresVT Challenge

If, as T.S. Eliot said, “April is the cruelest month,” then surely supper is the cruelest meal. As someone who eats a light breakfast and can skate by on lunch, supper is where I tend to eat the most. Even though I have tried to live under the $1.72 for breakfast and lunch and bank the savings for supper, the meal was a bit thin. As someone that tries to avoid over-indulging in carbohydrates, trying to fill up on inexpensive protein is akin to living an oxymoron. So, I ate later than usual and drank a lot of water and went to bed. Breakfast was never so anticipated.

One thing that has made the first two days easier has been the free apples scavenged while I was deer hunting. There are some left on trees and a few good ‘drops’ on the ground. They made the mid-morning and afternoon munchies go by. To survive the Challenge, I considered shooting a few squirrels (yes, I saw no legal deer to shoot) to put in a stew but decided that it would make the Challenge a bit too easy. While wild game is quite good, most folks on 3SquaresVT have to live with what they can purchase and not what they can harvest.