My recommendation is to never buy a keyboard from amazon. This is the second one, they replaced it once before, Ugh.
Last night the chicken I had planned to cook hadn’t thawed, So, I improvised, It’s always good to have a few easy entrees in your back up plan,
We had salmon cakes, a few french fries to use bits up, green beans with red peppers, tomato and cucumber salad, and some strawberries.
Previously, we were dealing with a freezer meltdown, so I cooked several pounds of hamburger, The menu plan went out the window,
We had:
Taco salad
Shrimp and salad,
Tacos
I think tonight we can go back to normal. Just an example of sometimes you have to punt, and having food in the house makes it easy,
We went to grocery outlet this week because we needed coffee and we were already almost there so we could make best use of our trip. We get e mails telling us what is on sale. This time they had chocolate yoplait yum....a good way to have a little desert, including protein and low carbs.
QFC has a special where if you sign up for their e mail, they will give you a basket coupon for five dollars off of twenty five, I’ll use it next week, they have a two week ad this week, Barilla pasta is a dollar, it is also right now at dollar tree, including spaghetti and elbows,
Basket coupons work well if you stick to the amount on the coupon ( in this case 25 dollars) and only buy things that are at RBP. It’s getting the most bang for your buck, Twenty percent off your food bill is a good thing, but every item you purchase over the dollar amount of the coupon is a loss in percentage. If I were to buy a box of pasta for a dollar and stay at 25.00 worth of food, I am actually paying .80 for the pasta. At the prices here, that’s a good deal, Barilla is up to 2.00 some places.
It isn’t one thing that makes you be able to eat on four dollars a day, it’s a lot of little things that all add up.
- Make good use of any coupons that come your way.
- Efficiently scratch cook whenever possible . Convenience foods start with $$$
- Buy in bulk when the price is lowest for any foods that you will use a lot of. Its a lesson in evaluating how much of a particular product you will use before it can go bad,
- Buy basic sources of protein in bulk at the RBP and buy enough to carry you with that meal for four to six weeks, In other words, if you eat pork once a week, you will need enough for 4-6 meals. Buy things hat average two dollars a pound, Here that would be hamburger, pork loin, chicken breast, eggs, cheese, and beans. These are all versatile enough that you will not get bored with meals. Buying the meat when it’s on sale and buying one thing a week and portion controlling enough for a meal avoids waste.
- Planning meals saves time and money. It doesn’t have to be fancy or time consuming,
- Basically, you are going to the store to replentish your stock and buying a rotation meat and your perishables. By keeping a 4 to 6 week stock of the things you use on a regular basis that are shelf stable or freezer ready means you never have to pay that nasty f word...full price . You actually spend less and always have food in the house,
- We spend less than 4.00per person a day considering that we supplement our granddaughter and add to a stock. We eat well balanced and don’t eat rice and beans as a steady diet, we have pork roast, pork chops, pork stew, hamburger meals, boneless , skinless chicken breast locally grown, salmon and supplement cheese, eggs, and beans,
- Portion control is good for your budget and your health . Your doctor will tell you that three squares of portion controlled balanced food is better for you than binge eating.
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