When I start a challenge, for whatever reason, it actually helps me blog about it, share my thoughts and get your feedback. I’ll be honest here, I’ve lost track about what my contemporaries in the United States think or do. Do other people my age cook every meal, everyday I like do? I don’t know. [...]
Last week I had to buy: dishwasher tablets margarine for baking butter garlic yogurt 1 bag of mandarins Little by little I’m working through my fridge, freezer and pantry ingredients,trying to use them all up and at the same time, dedicate that grocery money for other needed/wanted goals. Today I used the last bit of [...]
I started with 10 euros last Tuesday, vowing to not go over. I actually had plenty in the house, but we had house-guests and that always requires a few extra items. I’m reducing my spending in order to use what I have & save for specific goals that I have. Here’s what I bought & [...]
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,
Yesterday I bought at LIDL: 2 kilos of red apples-2,19 1 loaf of bread-0,69 1 loaf of bread-30% off-0,48 Total spent: 3,36 Here’s what I have left: 20,30 euros- you can click on the photos for a larger view
Day 17 I spent today: 11,50€ 1 dozen eggs- 1,50€ (village food cost more and I forgot to bring my eggs!) 2.5 kilos of pork- 10,00€ Total spent for the past 17days: 70,35€ Average per day: 4,13€ NOT great if we are eating all of that food but these are meats that I have canned. [...]
Today I spent $0 on food! Five days in a row!! Hallelujah! I was gone working at the church until 4pm and John ate leftovers. For supper I took out some pizza from the freezer & made a salad. We are gathering up the fragments here and trying not to waste anything. Total spent since [...]
Wow, we had such a great time with our kids, Jerusha & Nathanial. Now it’s time to save any extra money I can for the Thanksgiving dinner I want to have in November with 17 of our closest friends (Spaniards & 2 Brazilians). So… here’s the deal… I see how little I can spend each [...]
Suppose harder times hit us. Would we be prepared? Could we eat nutritionally if we only had $10 a week (or 10€)? Just to make this easy, lets pretend that the USD and the EURO are at parity. I’ll be using $ in this exercise. I’d love to hear how YOU would do it & [...]
* 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” [...]