Last week went well. I continue trying to stay below 10€ a week. Last week we walked to the market and I bought: 2 bottles of soda water 1 whole chicken breast yogurt Colombian cheese Total spent: 10,36€ I’m using up what we have here on hand. I still have meat in the freezer and [...]
Day12 and I have spent a total of 19,50 euros for the past 12 days. I baked lasted Thursday so I have plenty of bread, cinnamon rolls, coffee cakes and peach turnovers. Our guest left after lunch and I’m still left with: 9 eggs 10 apples 3 potatoes 1/3 of a zucchini (I cut off [...]
Day #8 and I’ve only spent 5,48€. I like it. John called the butcher to see about the price of turkeys per kilo and try to order one, so my efforts to save $ for a turkey are paying off in my frugality (comments below) Today the menu is: Dinner at 2: 1st plate: a [...]
Hear ye, Hear ye!! (no, no, the British aren’t coming). I hereby declare Friday night as pasta night! I’m not talking about the same old… spaghetti & meatballs or macaroni & cheese stuff, no, I’m on a quest to find, cook and eat some yummy pasta recipes. Since John and I don’t go out to [...]
I suppose that asking for meat for a birthday gift may seems weird to some of you, but to my way of thinking, it is prudent in these interesting days. Here’s what I think: I get to buy the meat~love doing that. I get to cut it up and prepare it. I get the fun [...]
For a larger view, just click on the photo. The last photo is part of the 45 lbs of chicken I canned, which I bought on sale. Loving it!
Balance: 20€ Money spent: 11/28/08- zero 11/29/08- zero 11/30/08- zero 12/1/08- toilet paper 1,05€ 12/2/08-zero 12/3/08-zero 12/4/08-chicken bouillon, 3,85€ 12/4/08-lettuce, 1 kilo of tangerines, 1,80€ 12/5/08-zero 12/6/08-zero 12/7/08-zero 12/8/08-zero Well there you have it! I have spent 6,70€ to get us by with 13,30€ left to spend the next 10 days. We continue to eat [...]
Here we go again! You probably wonder why I challenge myself this way. Good question! In order to attain my goals in other areas, I have to work with the resources that I have. This time, my goal is to save most of my December grocery money until Dec.18th when our kids, Anita and Neil [...]
* Do you see the little grey box above this photo with a number on it? If you “click” on this, you can leave a comment for me or about this blog.~thank you! In these interesting and challenging days, I guess we are all looking for ways to save. Here are 10 of my “moves” [...]
The Garden: I wanted to tell you that my garden is growing very well. So far, we are eating radishes (well, I am, John doesn’t care for them) and all of our salads are coming from the lettuce I grow. I snip off just enough each day to make our salad. Did you know that [...]