The next post in the continuing frugal gastronomy series features a pair of schoolteacher-writers who gave themselves the toughest of all restrictions: All their food had to cost no more than $1 per day per person. Amazingly, if they invited guests over to eat, the guests' food had to be covered by the $1 allotment. You'd have to really like the guest, I suppose.

Once again, I'll repeat: Eating on a budget is not a contest; it's a conversation. I've asked several other bloggers who write about their low-cost food adventures to answer questions similar to those posed to the 50 Bucks a Week trio, which started the entire conversation. The responses will be posted here to keep the conversation going.

How to Eat on Just $1 per Day

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1. St Giles farmers' market, Shipbourne, Kent

St. Giles Church, Stumble Hill every Thursday, between 9.00-11.00 Tel:01732-355325

Voted one of Britain's best farmers' markets in the 2007 BBC Food and Farming awards, this market is held both inside and outside an 11th-century church at the heart of the village. More than 20 stalls offer local fare, including breads, meat, vegetables, mushrooms, smoked fish, pickles, cheeses and fruit, sold direct from the producers. It's a truly local community affair, providing a forum for both shopping and socialising.

2. Winchester farmers’ market, Hampshire

Middle Brook Street, second and last Sunday of the month Tel: 01962 845135

This mega FM has been running twice a month since May 1999 and has almost 100 stalls. The produce must be grown, reared, baked or caught in Hampshire or within 10 miles of the border. Hampshire Fare is the county's excellent food and drink organisation and specialities inlude Alresford watercress (the festival is on May 11), water buffalo, Dexter beef, and Manx Loughton sheep.

Top 12 UK farmers' markets - Times Online

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Easily one of the most magnificent things I've read since Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums:

# 4 slices bacon
# 1 (1 pound) fillet salmon, cut into 2 portions
# 1 tablespoon olive oil
# 1/3 cup mayonnaise
# 1 teaspoon dried dill weed
# 1 teaspoon freshly grated lemon zest
# 4 slices country-style bread, toasted
# 4 slices tomato
# 2 green leaf lettuce leaves

Grilled Salmon Sandwich with Dill Sauce - All Recipes

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They always get me when I'm starving. Nom nom nom nom....

"Bow tie pasta is blended with Italian sausage, roasted red peppers and marinated artichoke hearts for a quick and tasty non-tomato based pasta dish."

Sausage Bowties with Artichokes - All Recipes

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John will so hate this, but daaamn, i coul go for one of these.

Grilled Hawaiian Chicken and Pineapple Sandwiches - All Recipes

Grilled Hawaiian Chicken and Pineapple Sandwiches

"Marinated, grilled chicken is topped with grilled pineapple and cheese. It may sound a little strange, but it is very tasty!"

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Even though after last season I swore I wouldn't watch Gordon Ramsay's, Hells Kitchen ever again, it seems as though they've found a way to draw my interest back in. While out for lunch today with my dad at a locally owned Richmond (Vancouver suburb) deli, I saw the headline in today's Vancouver Province. Yep, that's right. That a** h*le Gordon Ramsay is getting caught up in our Olympic fever, offering this seasons winner a Job at his Whister Araxi Restaurant during the 2 week event that's costing our city billions of dollars. Yes, I have mixed emotions on the Olympics as well as Hells Kitchen, but like a good little sheep I will likely pay attention to both.

There's nothing like a double dose of reality TV to put Vancouver and the 2010 Winter Olympics front and centre on the American radar screen.

With tourism down due to the worldwide recession, Vancouver and the fact it's hosting the Games next year are raising the city's profile with plugs galore on two enormously popular U.S. reality TV shows.

Last night, international super chef Gordon Ramsay returned for his sixth season of Hell's Kitchen, which will offer this year's top cook from the 16 contestants $250,000 and a job as head chef at Araxi Restaurant in Whistler during the 2010 Olympics.

Ramsay and crew shot some of the scenes at Araxi last January.

"We're really thrilled because it really helps to elevate British Columbia as a culinary destination," said Amber Sessions, travel media relations specialist with Tourism Vancouver. "And we're happy they're spreading the word about the 2010 Winter Olympics."

Whistler eats up Ramsay exposure

In what was probably both the best and worst assignment of a journalist's career, the Times UK looked at in-flight meal service this weekend, and aside from tasting a slew of flash-frozen meals, they actually came out of it stomachache-free and with a winner.

First, however, they discuss approaches to the cuisine for major airlines like Singapore, who still believe flying to a special occasion and thus the "economy dining experience is specifically constructed to suggest dinner in a posh restaurant," and Virgin Atlantic, who go the opposite route with comfort food, or "the sort of wholesome naughtiness you might eat curled up on the sofa with a good film."

Since we've only ever been happily sated on a Cathay Pacific long-haul, we board every flight expecting the worst so that hopefully, we can be surprised at an offering as small as a sad fruit plate. It won't be near that bad if you fly the following airlines, Times UK's tops for in-flight food:

7. Emirates: "Served in strange, curvy dishes that could be used to build a replica of the Sydney Opera House, the Emirates economy meal — fillet steak with whipped parmesan and cream polenta, and roasted vegetables — comes on like a restaurant entrée."
6. Singapore Airlines: "The delicious slow-cooked beef blade in rosemary sauce — the work of LSG’s Thomas Harker — goes under the knife as willingly as a double-chinned Texan widow."
5.Cathay Pacific: "Cathay’s sticky Chinese rice — made by the German technicians who build BA’s lasagne — is superb."
4. Charter carrier Thomsonfly: "The chicken pomodoro is a slapdash tricolore, but it’s much better than it looks."
3. Gordon Ramsey's to-go meal sets: " It’s £11.95, but for as long as it lasts, it’s like being in business class."
2. Virgin Atlantic: "It’s [chicken is] suitably summery, and the Gü, an egg-cup-sized chocolate overdose, is awesomely moresome."
1. British Airways: "Layers of velvety pasta in a creamy, tangy sauce is very good, in a ready-meal way. The sod-the-diet portion of chocolate mousse cake with mandarin sauce is even better."

Times UK Names The Top Airline Meals In The Sky || Jaunted

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