Budgeting on the road
I toasted up three or four (can't remember) pieces of my remaining tomato-laced bread for breakfast, and spread most of them with as much sour cream as seemed reasonable (trying to use it up) and one of them with peanut butter (which I wasn't trying to use up, but was simply trying to, you know, eat).
I downed the last of the milk on the way out the door to the airport.
I'm so fortunate to live about a twelve minute (free) bus ride from LaGuardia's door. It's the most convenient airport access I've ever had. I should fly more often...
LGA is a wonder of an airport anymore, post-reconstruction. It brought me so much pleasure just to be inside it, even though avoiding purchasing expensive airport coffee took a lot of tiresome willpower. I knew I could get it for free on the plane. Which I did. Though I slipped the Biscoff cookie in my bag for later as I had already had breakfast, and snacking is a no-no during Lent. It's still there. I forgot.
Safely on the ground in Ohio, a friend and I stopped at a coffee shop for our midday collation, but it was like five dollars for a slice of cake, so I just got coffee---an appetite suppressant---with a little cream, and later we went to Aldi and I got some... bread! And cream cheese and some peanut butter for my remaining Lenten mini-meals.
It was a little under six dollars. I have sixteen bucks left budgeted for food until Sunday. A couple meals will be free at church, which is a wonderful break. I think I'll be good. Post-Easter the challenge will be to Stop Being Hungry A Lot While Still Not Spending A Lot. But that's a problem for future me.