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Name: Erin Deviney
Nationality: Canadian
Current Job: Campaign Manager for
Live Below the Line
How many times have you lived below
the line? once
In 5 words or less what do you think
you’ll find the most difficult about
LBL? No convenience or Coffee
In 5 words or less what do you think
you’ll find most enlightening about
LBL? Talking about it.
What are your top 5 tips for Canadians about to Live
Below the Line for the first time:
1. Plan, Plan and then Plan again. Don’t forget protein in
your shopping list – it will make you feel full.
2. Buy all of your food at once. Shop where your dollar
can stretch the furthest – bulk stores & markets. Make
your meals in bulk
3. Talk about the challenge when you turn down offers
for coffee, free meals and cheats! This is a great way to
engage people.
4. Keep busy! You will think about your hunger (whether
it is real or psychological) if you isolate yourself. Or
better yet get friends to do the challenge with you.
5. Sit down at the end of your 5 days and write down
what you learned from the challenge.
What does your LBL Shopping bag look
like:
Rice
Red Lentils
5 bananas
Spices (curry, chile flakes, garlic
salt)
Cauliflower
Eggplants
What do you plan on making?
Breakfast: Banana smoothie with Soy milk
powder (blended with ice and water) (5
breakfasts)
Curry #1 with rice: Spicy red lentil curry with
cauliflower over rice (3 lunches, 2 dinners)
Curry #2 with rice: Spicy Red lentil curry with
cauliflower and eggplant over rice (2 lunches, 3
dinners)
Name: Wei Soo
Nationality: Australian
Current Job: Canada Country Director
for the Global Poverty Project (interim)
How many times have you lived below
the line? This will be my fourth year
undertaking the challenge (but first
year doing it in Canada).
In 5 words or less what do you think
you’ll find the most difficult about
LBL? Lack of variety in meals.
In 5 words or less what do you think
you’ll find most enlightening about
LBL? “Physiological” versus
“psychological” hunger – difference?
What are your top 5 tips for Canadians about to Live
Below the Line for the first time:
1. Stay hydrated – drink plenty of tap water.
2. Living below the line doesn't mean you have to eat
unhealthy – quite the contrary! As you can see from my
proposed shopping list and meal plan, you can have very
healthy meals.
3. During the week, consider the difference between
“physiological” hunger and “psychological” hunger.
4. Engage in conversation with your family, friends and
colleagues as you undertake the challenge. It's a great
conversation starter!
5. Consider the courage, strength and resilience of the
1.4 billion people, who live below the line every day, for
everything in life.
What does your LBL Shopping bag look
like:
loaf of raisin toast
dozen eggs
pasta
tinned tomatoes
broccoli
bananas
What do you plan on making?
Pasta stir-fry with broccoli, tinned tomatoes,
eggs.
Toasted raisin toast topped with banana slices
Toasted raisin toast topped with slices of hard
boiled egg
Baked eggs
Name: Simon Moss
Nationality: British
Current Job: COO at the Global
Poverty Project
How many times have you lived below
the line? 4 times
In 5 words or less what do you think
you’ll find the most difficult about
LBL? Sugar withdrawals
In 5 words or less what do you think
you’ll find most enlightening about
LBL? Reflecting on lack of choice.
What are your top 5 tips for Canadians about to Live
Below the Line for the first time:
1. Go veg. Cheap meat isn’t worth it.
2. Go fresh. It might seem like an extravagance, but it’s
worth buying a few items of bulk fresh food like carrots
3. Hot water. It keeps you full and hydrated, and is
actually quite tasty.
4. Socialise and go out as normal – your different habits
for a week are a great way to start a conversation with
friends and family.
5. Blog, Tweet & Facebook. Broadcast how you find the
challenge to your networks. Not only will many of them
donate, it’s a wonderful way of holding yourself to
account, and keeping a record of how you found it.
What does your LBL Shopping bag look
like:
Stock cubes
Spinach
Carrots
Pasta
Pita pockets
Bananas
What do you plan on making?
Porridge (in hot water) with half a banana
Pasta or rice with stock cubes and veggies
Pita pockets/bread with spinach
Carrots as my go to snack food
Name: Chris Miele
Nationality: Canadian
Current Career: Student
How many times have you lived
below the line? 1
In 5 words or less what do you think
is the most difficult about LBL?
Limited coffee intake
In 5 words or less what do you think
is the most enlightening about LBL?
Testing your own willpower
What are your top 5 tips for Canadians about to Live
Below the Line for the first time:
1. Do the challenge with a partner or on a team.
2. Buy some green tea to distract you from the gnawing
hunger.
3. Potatoes! So cheap.
4. Instagram your meals (note: this is the only time this
will ever be acceptable).
5. When it’s all over, don’t let your first meal be too big.
You won’t finish it.
What did your LBL Shopping bag
look like:
Potatoes!
Rice
Bread
Soy sauce
Onions
2-minute noodles
Ice cream
(No regrets!)
What meals did you make?
Mashed potatoes, baked potatoes, baked potatoes with
onions, mashed potatoes with onions, rice with onions,
rice with potatoes, baked potatoes with soy sauce, rice
with soy sauce… you get the picture.
What does your LBL Shopping bag look
like:
Its very seasonal - I’ve done this in 4
different countries and seasons but the
best basics are always:
Oats (lots)
Potatoes
Lentils
1 orange and more veg/fruit
What do you plan on making?
Oats with 1/5 orange flesh and dried orange peel
Cold boiled potatoes - great slow release of carbs
Vege soups with lentils
Roasted veges
Hot water - great hunger suppressive
Late breakfast, late lunch and early dinner times
help and walking!
Name: d’Arcy Lunn
Nationality: Australian (sometimes)
Current Job: educator, advocate and
campaigner for polio eradication
How many times have you lived below
the line? Five - as I double up doing
the New Zealand LBL in Septembers
In 5 words or less what do you think
you’ll find the most difficult about
LBL? Running - no energy to waste
In 5 words or less what do you think
you’ll find most enlightening about
LBL? Conversations, perspectives,
inspiration and resolve!
What are your top 5 tips for Canadians about to Live
Below the Line for the first time:
1. Share - talk to people, have conversations, tell stories,
express your feelings and most of all your epiphanies!
2. Walk - it is such a great way to great way to let the
experience and perspectives settle in - you’ll appreciate
the simplicity
3. Make it fun - this is not a sad / sorry / feel bad
experience its enriching, enlightening and enjoyable
4. Don’t stop doing the things you usually do eg. take
your tub of lentils out to dinner with friends and
appreciate the things you can’t do that week
5. Resolves - note your thoughts, perspectives, insights
and convictions and resolve to take action on them - like
doing LBL again the following year or live more with less!
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