November 27th, 2011~Sunday I hope you’ll take the time to watch this 6:21 video I added below. The end of it is the best. It’s a great motivator to reduce spending in one area in order to have money for the things that are important to you. My 30 day challenge is to save all [...]
November 18th, 2011~Friday Gee, I’m encouraged! ¼ of the way done with this most recent challenge and I still haven’t had to go to the market for anything! I’ll share a bit more tomorrow about my plans for the savings from my food budget. We have a co-worker coming this morning at 10:00 for a [...]
November 17th, 2011~Thursday Yesterday in the kitchen freezer, I did a little inventory and found several packages of pepperoni. I generally buy this in bulk and divide in packages enough for 2 pizzas. This will work in nicely with my menu for today. Man! it feels so good to use up what I have! Breakfast: [...]
November 15th, 2011~Tuesday Today will be different than usual. John is on a trip and won’t be home until later tonight. I’m going to just eat some protein since this is fundamental to the diet I’ve been on. For lunch I’ll open a jar of canned meat and scramble an egg for supper. No need [...]
November 14th, 2011~Monday Another day of excitement to see how creative I can be with my food budget. I guess we all get our ‘kicks’ in differently and one of mine is to see how far I can stretch the grocery budget. I love the challenge of that. I also like to eat and cook. [...]
Here’s what I canned this week to take to Anita’s house when the baby is born: 7 jars of meatballs in beef onion broth 3 jars of meatballs in tomato sauce 16 jars of ground beef with taco flavor 5 jars of pork chipote 4 jars of cubed pork 14 jars of cubed beef 4 [...]
Today is an extra challenge for clearing our those bits & pieces I have around the kitchen. It’s not a challenge because it’s so little, but rather because I want to use as much as possible so I won’t have to take a lot back with me to Madrid, plus I don’t want to spend [...]
Well, this month marks the 1 year countdown to the conference we have to attend in Germany. The reality of travel & funds has set in, so being the planner I am,
For me, it really doesn’t matter what kind of bean it is. Every bean has it’s theme! When I make things with garbanzo beans (chickpeas) I think SPAIN. When I cook with black beans I think
I love making soup. I really do. I fix soup for our mid-day meal every day for our 1st plate. First and foremost, it’s a very nutritional habit and I’ve been making these for many years. Of course the Spanish culture always begins the mid-day meal with a 1st course and is often times a [...]