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 a small piece to add [...]
Day # 9 I have spent ZERO today and have spent only 5, 48€ in 9 days! A real victory for me as I gather up the fragments and use all that I have.
Tomorrow I’ll go again to market to buy some items needed for the guests that are arriving tomorrow after midnight but [...]
We arrived back to Madrid to a whirlwind of activities and news. One of the ladies in our church had 2 of her sisters die in one week. Then the news of Evelyn who died from ovarian cancer at the age of 33. Apparently she didn’t know she had it and when she finally [...]
This has been a good and fun week! Well, it’s been 12 weeks, 3 months of spending 10€ a week! This week, I have to give myself a raise… to 15€ a week instead of 10€. I am just out of too many baking items. After having our guests with us, and all the [...]
I started with .11 cents from last week: so may starting balance is 10.11
.69- margarine
1.29- pre-mix bread mix
3.79-1 large can of tuna
1.35- 3 kilos of baking flour
1.65- beverage
1.10- 2 liters of beverages
.26- 1 can of beverage
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-2 cents
* we have had guests which accounts for all the beverages… I still stayed within my 10 euros [...]
I started this week with 11cents so my total to spend is 10.11
2.10- 2dozen eggs
.99-butter
1.09- tomatoes
2.19- Tortellini
1.30- 2 liters of fat free milk
1.29- pre-mix bread mix
1.04- 4 cans of beverage
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+11 cents
Menus for this week:
Thursday, August 7th-On holiday
Friday, August 8th-On holiday
Saturday, August 9th-On holiday
Sunday, August 10th-On holiday
Monday, August 11th- We return today. Ana and Angel will [...]
What an interesting time this is! We continue here in the village and have received some “garden blessings”. One of my greatest challenges in this venture, is not so much the food, but rather the toiletries; toilet paper, toothpaste, etc. On the food front, if I run out of potatoes, I can just prepare rice [...]
I keep going on this personal challenge and I told John that it seemed as though we were living the parable of the fish and loaves being multiplied! It has been a lot of fun and also fun to read some of your comments. I hear that several of you are doing the same [...]
As you have read, I have been asking the Lord for wisdom and provision as I challenge myself to stay within the 10 € limit for groceries and toiletries each week. So I can testify to His goodness. I’m listing the tangible blessings He sent our way last week.
11 lbs of cherries we picked [...]
Well, it’s the 3rd week of my personal challenge to spend only 10 euros a week on groceries and toiletries, all the while using up my food in freezer, and cupboards. This week was and is a special challenge because of all the strikes going on in Spain. There is not much fresh good available [...]
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