Comments on: Week #7 of My Grocery Challenge

By: pearsonsprogress

pearsonsprogress — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:47:07 +0000

HI Mom,
Your week looks great. It is inspiring every week!
I love reading your grocery challenge. keep up the good work.
Love BL

By: pearsonsprogress

pearsonsprogress — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:46:12 +0000

too have been using what’s in my pantry now for the past 6 months or so. We have the privilege of a 99 cent store where everything is exactly 99 cents or less. I can get fresh produce and dairy, canned goods, some toiletries and personal care items. I have been using them along with my pantry items to make meals that cost me $1-2 and will feed us and invited friends. I’ve made soup, spaghetti, chcken rice salad, etc. I’ll also enjoy taking a recipe from my recipe book collection and revamping it to use items that I already have on hand. Have made up many new, tasty and inexpensive meals substituting what I have on hand, instead of buying what is mentioned in the recipe book. You are right! It is challenging and fun, too!
Love you guys,
Linda B

By: Anita

Anita — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:38:50 +0000

Yes, that is the custom here as well. One night we had a get together with students from neils class and had about 9 bottled lined up on the table! We even had a couple leftover.
We went to a couples house the other day and we took them a box of chocolates instead. I never go empty handed, flowers are appropriate as well. I don’t really know how to pick a wine though, and I wouldn’t want to take one to a French persons house, I might choose the wrong thing… I will learn I guess. Great job on the challenge. I am convinced I can change my budget to 35 euros a week and not ‘suffer’. There are some things that husband and kiddos really like, so I am providing those, or we could go lower, but I am definitely being frugal and keeping the budget strict. We don’t have a freezer full of food so we need to spend a bit more.