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Page 1: Name: What are your top 5 tips for Canadians about to Live ... · What are your top 5 tips for Canadians about to Live ... healthy meals. 3. ... everything in life

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)

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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

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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

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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.

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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!