I can't believe that I, a non-cook, have actually prepared a tasty dinner!

Sticky slow cooker chicken drumsticks (that were 30% off ), rice that was actually cooked properly (!) and a salad of iceberg lettuce and grape tomatoes with Italian dressing. Dessert was strawberries with vanilla yogurt topping .. now enjoying my evening cup of hot water and looking forward to my bedtime snack, a banana.

I am missing my evening glass of Pinot Grigio, but am pretty sure it wouldn't fit if I tried to include it in my $63 spending allowance.

Tomorrow I will have to spend some time calculating utilities - heat, cable, landline, cellphone, water. I'll need to do a little investigating to get an average daily cost for those items.  (My rent is all-inclusive, except for phone.)

Day One: an eye-opener in many ways!