TODAY I vamped up my resources mentally -- been reading the Yankee book about living well on a Shoestring. Lots of great ideas. TODAY I also salvaged a salad dressing bottle for a nice bud vase -- cant wait to surprise my SO with a lovely bud on his bday since I found a florist selling individual blooms in the square here where I live.
My SO is in culinary, so while we like to be frugal we also like to eat well. That is one of our quality of life things, eating healthy foods.
Frugal things this week: Used a master shopping list and went through what recipes we wanted to make for a master menu, highlighted what we needed on the list, got nearly all of it at Aldis at discount. Braekfasts here are nearly always smoothies for him and eggs of some kind for me. We planned dinners that stretch well: lasagne, chili, stew, eggplant casserole,.. lunches mainly of spinach salads, grilled cheese, soups, tuna egg salad, etc.
We then made beef stew from farmers market ingredients, which stretches amazingly well with any starch.
We also made homemade applesauce from a $2 bag of seconds apples from a farmers market grower-- about 6 lbs of apples of various types! We still have a ton, and the applesauce is delicious, without any wierd high fructose corn syrup added, just some cinnamon!
Ok, that was way too much. Im just so excited to finally find a community where people understand these things as worthy enterprise, where $2 for a 4 month supply of applesauce makes someone smile besides just me!
Its a Victory in the war on Excess!
Or uhm... something. Nevermind.