This week on the Recessionist, one woman bravely goes where ... well, where all too many of us have gone before. But she does it better. Call it an experiment in freeloading, or maybe an investigation into the art of mooching. Call it what you will - we just call it necessary. For the next seven days, this blog will accompany one very broke friend of mine (E.B) as she discovers just how little a truly motivated Recessionist can get away with spending on food in a week. With no further ado, EB and her week of cheap.
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Hello readers! I'm honored to be doing this guest spot on Brooklyn Recessionist. This week I will regale you with tales of taking cheapness to the next level and rising to the challenge of finding out just how much free food one person can get in a week.
I'll say right now that I plan to not purchase a meal or any food for consumption from Monday through Thursday. I buy groceries collectively with the other women in my house, so I pitch in $15/wk, but I hope to not use any of those items for the meals I describe as "free" this coming week. Because, well, it's more fun that way. So here's how it went down on Day 1!
Recessiotarian Monday
This morning I went to a training for work on Public Assistance budgeting at LSNY
served us coffee and a delicious breakfast of fruit and pastry. I chowed down on the food After work I met up with a friend who has access to the VIP Lounge at the
free drinks to anyone cool enough to hang there :) They were 
showcasing some fancy vodka so I had passion vodka, soda, and grapefruit juice (ok, I had 3) and then we headed off to 
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