"i only have yeast at home." "you could eat it, let it ferment in your stomach and live off that for a week."

usually, going to the local A&O grocery store you can get a good amount of food for not a lot of money. entire bottles of wine average around maayybe 3 euro's - and that's splurging. whole bags of oranges for 1 euro. litres of water (frizzante of course) are only 37 cents.  but when you have a nutrition class talking about food for the last 2 hours, constantly thinking about upcoming lunch (and the lingering toast and cheese breakfast in your stomach absorbing into your fat cells) you run to the A&O during the class's 10 minute break with whatever money you have. when i could only scrounge up 1 euro and 20 cents from my seemingly-endless book-bag, and trying to satisfy the appetites of both jules and myself, the A&O seems very expensive.  my apple cost 50 cents. that left jules with 70 cents. the integrale biscuits looked disgusting. a bag of crisps was 1 euro. debating between an apple and something more carb-y, jules settles on a bag of breadsticks with sesame seeds. ruh roh. 72 cents. but we played stupid dumb foreigners and were still allowed to purchase. a little buyer's remorse, only 7 sesame seeds on a stick, slight satisfaction to last another hour until lunch, but a lot of perspective.