Week prior

As the official start of my econ project, I tested myself to see how much I would normally consume.
Like any other school day, I skipped breakfast. Instantly I saved myself some money. As 12:30 on an A day rolled around, I got hungry. I went to the snack bar and picked up a sandwich that costs me around $2.00. I found this reasonably priced, but was still hungry. I ignored my stomach and waited until I got home. There I found a bunch of Ritz crackers and some cheese. I ate some of that and ended up finishing off a stack of crackers. I have no clue how much either the crackers or cheese cost, so I'm going to ignore that and say it costs X dollars, an questionable amount that is substantial. A few hours later, dinner rolled around and I was again hungry. I had some Costco rotisserie chicken, rice and a salad. The Costco chicken is around $5.00 and I ate maybe 1/3 of it. So $1.67 is what I will say was my cost for that. Judging by school prices of rice, of which ate 2ish scoops of, another 70 cents is appropriate. A small salad is probably another $1.00 because tomatoes are expensive and I had quite a few of them in mine. Thus dinner cost me around $3.37. This kept me filled until my midnight snack, which normally consists of picking on leftovers or microwaveable foods, e.g. hot pockets, pot pies. Tonight happened to be a Hot Pocket, another $1.50. So though my food costs at school were kept to a minimum, I had a good $6.87+X worth of food. This my goals of eating on 4 dollars a day seemed out of reach.