Saturday, July 26, 2008

The $100 food budget

Well for the past 2 weeks we have been trying to scale down our food budget to $100 per week. This has been working out really good, and I have been able to stock pile some things for future use. I am still trying to perfect the menu idea, I really want to do breakfast, lunch and dinner for the week, but have so far only been able to do dinner. We have been using a lot out of things out of our pantry and freezers. We just bought half of a pig, so that filled up half of our freezer. I need to learn how to really watch the ads for good deals on meat, and stockpile the meats that we use a lot of, like ground beef and chicken. We ended up with about 18 pounds of ground sausage, and found out that this is great for making tacos and cheeseburger pie with, it's not as good for you as lean ground beef, but we need to figure ways to use all that up. I am going to start posting my weekly menu, and what we spent for the week, and I'm always up for any advice any of you can give me, so keep those e-mails coming!

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