As previously mentioned David lost his gi benefits this semester - rude but necessary awakening occurred when I went to examine our grocery/food bill. Shocking and sickening. I even made a scary pie chart. (Not to mention we were doing some pretty substantial emotional eating over the past 6 months on top of our emotional eating problem we both developed 6 or 7 years ago on top of being chubby little eaters as kids. Yeah we are working on this.)
I'm not a good cook. I can make taco meat really well and that is about the extent of my culinary abilities. Possibly because I can't follow a recipe, I'm not a rule follower.
However, I did reduce our grocery bill to $150/mo and have made some "decent" meals.
Crockpot French Onion Soup - easy peasy and I think this was $4
Meatballs and pasta - $5 meal using 1/2lb of ground beef, homemade bread crumbs with end slices of bread
Charro Beans & Cornbread - $3 meal! booya!
Cauliflower Crust Pizza - I know you won't believe me but it was incredible; read and try for yourself if you like. SO YUMMO and inexpensive
Stuffed Zuchinni - $3 meal! (I can't get over dp eating all these veggie meals)
Crockpot Zuppa Tuscano - $5 meal. DELISH! Better than OG, less greasy and it cooked itself while I was at work a +++
There have been some stinkers, some really bad icky things. ie - gruel, white bean soup (so salty i wanted to vomit), mustard chicken, and some others...
After 2 months, I am a cook. Not a very good one, but I know I can plan meals, keep dp interested, keep the budget down and cook everyday.
It is possible.
Isn't that what we all need to know in life? Things are possible?
2 comments:
Congrats! Wow, these costs are really impressive and they sound yummy too.
Way to go!
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