I survive without eating for 24 hours all of the time. I often forget to eat (ask Lank). Really often. I don't really feel hunger the way that you feel hunger. So the only way I could do this task and feel good about the completion was to up the ante on this bad boy. I changed the one day part to one month. So starting on March 1st I started my free food month. I chose that day because that was the day that my supply of groceries ran out at home.

I am also going to do this entire write-up with text. I don't know why other than I always take lots of pictures for my task completions and I wanted to mix things up, and maybe this'll light a fire under SSI to get LEWL up and running. Another reason for having no photos in this proof is that I started off eating free food and not documenting it, mostly because when I started I didn't know I had started. And by that point I was already not documenting so then I just decided to not document at all. And I'm curious now to see how doing something as extreme as this with no proof other than my words will do on SFØ. So I'm doing an experiment. So you get no pictures. You just have to let my words be your guide.

March 1
It was closing night for a show at my theater, which meant there was a party, and closing night parties have plenty of free food. I remember there was a veggie platter and plenty of chips and dips. After the strike, and the party and when everything was done, I took the veggie platter home.
March 2
The Sunday after the strike, was a build day. I spent all day at the theater and there was food brought in by many people, most notably, the show's producer. And a lot of it was snack type food, but it was good snack type food. So I was in the food really deep this day.
March 3
Today I ate the veggie platter from two days previous. There was broccoli in the platter and I ate it all. This is also the day I decided that I was doing this task. So I ate only that veggie platter.
March 4
I went up to the main house on my property where my friend Tim lives, and I stole a banana. That was my breakfast. Then later that day I went to the theater for a light hang and there was left over food from the party that weekend. Mainly chips.
March 5
So today is the one day I feel like I might have cheated. My mother had a gift card for a pharmacy that she never goes to and couldn't use, so she gave it to me. That was about two weeks ago. Today I was feeling rather malnourished, so I spent the card. There really isn't much good food to get at a CVS pharmacy, but there are plenty of snacks. I wound up just getting some Mrs. Fields cookies, some amazing rich gourmet dark chocolate (two bars), and a couple bags of tortilla chips. And some blank CDs to fill out the full amount of the gift card. I justify this spending of money on food, number one because it wasn't actually money, it was a plastic card, and most importantly, because it was given to me.
March 6
Today I barely ate at all. I ate the score I got from CVS yesterday. But I couldn't really eat too much because that chocolate was really really rich. And the rest wasn't really food food. It was much more like snack foods. But all in all really not much food at all today.
March 7
Very little to eat again today. I managed to go up to the main house on the property and eat a bowl or two of cereal. And some more of that chocolate. Then I went down to the pier and turned that place into High Five City!
March 8
I worked all day on a movie set today, and we got catered breakfast and lunch and all of the craft service snacks I could handle. I ate more on this day than on any other day of the month by far. I also stuffed all of my pockets with energy bars. They had plenty of those meal replacement bars at craft services, and I took them all. With belly full, and pockets bulging, I felt good about the day.
March 9
I worked a couple hours this morning but not on set, so no craft services. But in the shop where we were unloading trucks today there is a giant tub of pretzels. So I ate a bunch of pretzels. As well as some of the food stolen from craft services yesterday. On my way home from work, I went out and searched and searched and found the last few photos I needed to tie this whole thing together, and after months of work was ready to submit.
March 10
I ate all of the craft service booty from a few days ago. And it's not enough. But I go to the theater and manage to "steal" some food that we have stored to sell to patrons. So after "stealing" food from the concessions closet, I have all of the food I need for the day. The item(s) I took are these chewy granola bars that have fruit in them and are real heavy and filling. Today I managed to put together the photos I want in the order I want to make me satisfied enough to submit this.
March 11
I once again go to my brother's house to do some work. I get my morning banana and my brother's wife cooks lunch for me. So I eat a pretty good home-made burrito.
March 12
I ate the last of the CVS pharmacy food today. Since tomorrow I'd be going to Seattle for awhile, I decided to eat it all as I didn't want to take it with me and I didn't want it to sit around while I was gone. So that was all I ate. Plus some crap I found laying around the theater. Popcorn and a couple more of those granola bars.
March 13
I go to Seattle and eat only airplane food. When the stewardess asks if I'd like anything else, I ask for more snacks which is awesome because she gave me a lot more and there were Wheat Thins as well as peanuts. So I was set. And then after arriving in Seattle and going to IKEA and getting lots of furniture and something like 1,000 glasses, and then taking all of the goods back to the bar that I was in Seattle to help fix up, we all went to the place next door where it was "Taco Thursday" and my friend Scooter informed us all that he was buying. That's all he had to say. I ate something like eight tacos. And they were big tacos. It felt good to have some real food in me.
March 14
Today, at the bar they were auditioning cooks and bartenders. Auditioning? What's the word when real people in the real world that aren't actors try to get a job? Whatever that word is, they were doing that. And every cook that came in, they had to make three dishes. Breakfast, Lunch and dinner. And lots of cooks came in. So I had two breakfasts and a few lunches/dinners. I was getting well fed.
March 15
I was on the SFØ podcast today. I didn't eat at all before the podcast which was funny because Adam and Ben and Tom were discussing what they had eaten so far in the day and Adam had to delay the start of the cast as he had to go and get some pasta he had made for himself that turned out to not have chicken in it after he claimed it did (I also realize that I lied on the podcast when Adam asked what I had for lunch the day before, I said tacos, which was actually the day before). But when the podcast was over, I went back and they were auditioning more cooks, and had more food to eat. But this time it wasn't quite as fresh. But still belly-filling.
March 16
More cooks audition. I have two breakfasts. All breakfasts cooked have two eggs, bacon and hash browns. I also eat some of the lunches and dinners. But everybody in the bar gets to eat whatever is brought out, so I don't actually get any full meals all to myself. But more than enough to keep me fed.
March 17
I'm staying at my friend Scooter's house and today his mom (who's up in Seattle to help with the opening of the bar as well and staying at the house too) goes shopping, so there are now groceries in the house. She thinks it's not fair that we've all only eaten by accident when cooks come in to audition. So I'm in bananas for good now. And this morning she cooks a good big breakfast for everybody in the house. Which is good because there are no more auditions at the bar.
March 18
Bananas for breakfast. At the bar, Scooter's brother cooks lunch for everybody. Corned beef hash. And it's really good. I have two servings.
March 19
Banana for breakfast. And for lunch I ate food cooked for me by one of the new cooks that was hired on already. It was a bacon avacado burger with egg on it and it may have been the best burger I have ever had in my life. And then that night one of the relatives of somebody who owns the bar (I think) brought bags full of snacks. Crackers, gummy bees, granola bars and those meal replacement bars. I ate a bunch of those.
March 20
I ate solely from the bags of snacks that were left for us the night before. I even went so far as to take every single one of those meal replacement bars and keep those in my bag for future use. I also took a few more POP pictures to make me feel OK about submitting this task today.
March 21
Today I had a banana from Scooter's house for breakfast, and I ate some more stuff from the bags of snacks. Then I got on a plane to fly back home. I ate peanuts on both flights on the way home.
March 22
Back home and feeling wonderful about that. It is nice to be somewhere where I don't have to wear three to four layers of clothes. When I left Seattle it was 33°. That's unacceptable. But I ate all of the snacks from the bag from Seattle today. I also ate more popcorn at the theater. Popcorn is good. Late this night, Lank came by and I helped him work out some stuff technically for a show he's directing. We stayed up all night and we both went to our favorite restaurant, El Gran Burrito. And that really is my favorite food, and I did not get myself a burrito. Lank can tell you all how painful it was for me not to get a burrito. But I held out, and didn't even tell him I was doing this task when he looked at me strange when I told him I wouldn't be getting a delicious burrito.
March 23
I slept most of this day. I stayed up way too late with Lank, and got home as the sun was rising, and didn't get to bed until it was well up in the sky. So I slept through the day. I actually woke up at 11:30, and woke up and did some stuff and wrote some, but then fell back asleep. So no food today. The time I spend awake I was emailing people for this task. I was so involved in the task that food didn't even occur to me.
March 24
Today I went to the theater and "stole" more food from the concessions cabinet, but also made more popcorn in our awesome popcorn machine. I walked my friend over to the local vegan restaurant, where I didn't order anything, but ate a bit of her food. That was all I ate that day. Not much at all.
March 25
I was on full tasking mode today. I finished up these two tasks and continued working on this bad boy. So I didn't eat at all. It never occurred to me.
March 26
Today I went to my brother's house and ate some good snacks like dried fruits and such. Craisins and dried chili mango slices. Then later on that night, my father dropped by after a meeting where a giant pizza was ordered. I giant pizza. I mean giant. It was probably four feet across. So we ate the leftovers of that pizza. And I took all of the crusts home with me in ziplock bags.
March 27
It was the day before opening night for Beaverquest! and I had a lot of little touch up things to do as well as meet with a director for a future show I'll be designing. I ate the crusts of the pizza from last night for breakfast. I made popcorn at the theater and that sustained me for the rest of the night as well as the rest of the pizza crusts that I brought with me in ziplock bags.
March 28
I didn't eat at all today until after the show Beaverquest! that night. Somebody had brought opening night presents in the form of food, like cookies and candy, which sustained me through the show. Then after the show at the party there was plenty of food to be had by all, including many pies. I ate many pieces of pie. And more veggies (including broccoli) and plenty of stuff that's not so good like Ding Dongs. But I was more than full when I left the theater. So win.
March 29
I took the leftovers from the party home with me and ate those today. Also there was more food backstage during the show tonight as well. Cookies and peanut butter cups and tiny Halloween sized chocolates (of which I only ate the dark). But by the time the second show was over and we were all hanging out in the dressing room, and all of the food was gone, we all began to get hungry again. Luckily I foraged and found two cans of nuts (honey roasted peanuts and salted cashew pieces) and some chips. We ate a lot of the nuts but I hid the chips and brought them home for later. I also brought home the leftover nuts.
March 30
I went to my brother's house to do more construction projects. I was kept fed there. Bananas for breakfast. And my sister made these amazing burritos for dinner. Just amazing. And filling.
March 31
I stayed the night at my brother's and had breakfast and dinner with them, which was fruit and then pasta. I had a couple dried pears and kiwi as well during the day.
April 1
I stayed over at my brother's again, and made eggs for myself and my nephew. I had two egg sandwiches. Then I went home and ate the rest of the nuts I obtained from the theater awhile back.
April 2
Today I didn't eat at all until late at night (I killed all of the nuts the night before). It might have been after midnight so maybe this should go in the next day, but I choose to do it here. I went to a friend's house to discuss a puppet show we're going to be doing. I went to inspect the puppets and discuss plot and sets and that kind of stuff, and we managed to talk about everything from puppets to masks, to theater in general to story to myth, to the Hero with a thousand faces, to how the Star Wars prequels could have been good if George Lucas had just used the same formula of the Luke, Leia, Han love triangle for the Anakin, Padame, Obi-Won relationship. Padame had to be just as awesome and snide as Leia was, and just throwing those three into a classic Lancelot, Guinevere, Arthur love triangle, it would explain Anakin becoming evil much better than him just deciding to because, why not? But I digress. In the middle of our conversation, the doorbell rings and a friend of his comes in and she is hammered, and she insists that we all go get something to eat. So we all go to Cafe 101 in the middle of the night and my friend buys me a giant breakfast burrito.
April 3
Today I found two individual wrapped cookies in my jacket pocket that I put in there on opening night of Beaverquest! a week ago. Awesome. Then today Tim who lives in the main house went on a little vacation and while I'm home watching the animals, I also have access to the fridge. I ate a bowl of cereal with soy milk. Yum.
April 4
Tim is still gone, and I had a banana and then for lunch some egg sandwiches. I'm eating good now. And I ate some snack stick things during the Angel game I watched upstairs on his TV.
April 5
Last day of Tim being gone, and last day of me raiding his food supply. I ate a bowl of cereal a few hours after posting this completion, and then later in the day I made myself two egg sandwiches. I went to the theater late and ate half a donut real late when a few of my drunken friends walked to a donut shop at three in the morning. We also discovered that calling 1-800-TACO-NOW did not end with a taco delivery service bringing tacos to you.
April 6
I watched an Angels game up in the main house today and ate some snack stick things. I took the box down to my house and snacked on it late that night.
April 7
I got my penny from Great Yarmouth today. So I went to the post office to send it on it's way to Mexico City, and while I was out I bought groceries. But when I got home, I had to go out and fix some christmas lights at a car dealership, and after work, my friend and co-worker stopped at a taco truck and he bought me a burrito. My first burrito in over a month! So so good. It was also my first real food in a long time. And it was so so good.
April 8
Today I ate a banana and an apple I bought for myself yesterday, thus ending my Free Food Diet. But over a month has passed, and more than one month has passed since I technically bought food, even though it wasn't my money, so I think it qualifies as free, but for those of you who don't share that opinion, I stretched it out to over a month from that date. It has been an interesting month to say the least.

Now we just wait for LEWL to manifest.