I am drinking my third cup of coffee...got up early. Watching a video of a couple and four kids that bought a real fixer upper for 24 thousand dollars and are gutting it. Brought back memories. We added another house on to our existing house about thirty years ago, Took up 3.5 years while we lived on the basement and I cooked on a one burner hotplate and a microwave. We did the work pretty much ourselves, only hiring the sheik and basic plumbing and the electrical box. We still maintained a frugal grocery bill. We didn't cook much real scratch food, obviously without an oven some of that wasn't possible. Just maintaining some degree of normal while we spent every bit of extra time we had putting in sinks, dry walling, stringing electrical wire Etc. now , we are due for some remodeling. Not up to it. We doc replace the floor in the bathroom a week or two ago.
I digress.
I am baking eggs this morning, We are still working on the .79 eggs I got a few weeks ago, Last night we had eggs and sausage patties that were two dollars a pound with sale and coupon.
Baking eggs. By far , the easiest way to make a hard cooked egg. I love recipes that take very little non passive cooking. It goes me more productivity and less work. Spend more time planning and shopping, amd less time cooking and you will save more money . With efficient cooking, you can still eat scratch and healthy.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Place eggs , one each in muffin pan cups.
Place pan in preheated oven and bake 30 minutes
Immediately place eggs in a ice bath. Let sit for 10 minutes.
Refrigerate . Eggs peel really easy.
I tried to do a quick haul at Safeways to use the five dollars off of twenty five coupon. I calculated 25.05 and added zip lock bags and a coupon. It didn't come to 25.00. They didn't post the correct sale amount on the meat and I didn't carch it.
I don't know if I'll try again or not. I've already spent forty dollars this week. Probably not. We don't need a lot and the pantry and freezers are full.
Back later with the Fred Meyer ad for tomorrow.
Groceries on the cheap is looking at the "put the meal on the table train" from a different perspectives.
The emphasis is on purchasing good shelf stable or frozen food for a RBP in quantity - enough to last you until it goes on sale again or to keep a controlled non-perishable stock of the things you use on a weekly basis.
This means that instead of shopping daily or weekly for just the things you need to cook your meals for the week. You go to two stores and buy :
1) a protein that is a RBP - enough to make that meal for x number of days. (I.e.: if you eat it once a week, buy enough for 4 meals.)
2) produce and dairy you will need to fill in the meals for the week.
3) a stock item, if you need to and it is on a RBP - enough to fill in to your self imposed stock level.
You often are paying 1/2 price for your food. This allows you to put well-balanced meals on the table consistently on a four dollar a day per person budget. You spend more time on the locomotive ( planning and shopping ) end of the train, and less time in the caboose ( kitchen j) by
cooking more efficiently.
Four dollars a day is the target amount for people on snap. My premise is that of you can do it on 4 dollars a day, spending more is not difficult and you still get more nutrition for your buck.
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