Festive table goes a long way to make an economical plain dinner soecial. Placemats are a rubber those material that clings to the glass top table. The plates are actually platters. Blue blass footed tumblers finish the look, The clear glass mugs with flags printed on them were from my stash if years ago. Centerpiece was an old pot refurbished with older flowers.
The glass top broke in a wind storm. I found a used table for twenty dollars that had a sad looking frame. My husband switched glass tops and took the old metal to the recyclers.
Groceries on the cheap is looking at the Put Dinner On The Table meal train from a different
Persphective . The emphasis is on purchasing good food( shelf- stabll/ freezer staples )at the lowest possible cost and purchasing enough to last you until it goes on sale again -- Keeping a controlled non-perishable stock of the things you use on a regular basis. It means that when you shop, rather than purchasing just what you need for a day or a week, you buy a loss leader protein, produce you will get
need on sale, a stock item if it's a RBP, and dairy instead. This allows you to put well balanced meals
on the table consistently for a four dollar a day budget per person. You spend more time on the
planning and shopping end of the meal train and less on the cooking end by cooking efficiently.
Four dollars a day is the target amount for people on snap. My premise is that of you can do it on four dollars a day, spending more isn't hard. You still get more bang for your buck.
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