I enjoy your posts and pictures, for certain!
Our Dinner tonight: 4 adult eater (ok, one is a teenage boy and one is a teenage girl, they balance out):
1 whole roast chicken, with 6 servings, (2 leftover servings for tomorrow, could mix with lentils)
1 lb of roasted carrots (with olive oil and salt)
Brown rice with a can of mushrooms and turkey stock (homemade)
Custard / creme caramel with 3 cups whole milk, vanilla, 5 eggs and sugar (6 large servings. 2 egg whites leftover for breakfast tomorrow)
Dinner cost: $12 for 4 persons (with a bit of leftover chicken eggwhites for tomorrow)
This does not include the fact that pre-dinner/ after school snacks cost about $6.. (mostly the teenage boy feeding)
I will need to bake bread tomorrow...
This puts me at $540/month, just for dinners... with the kids eating cereal for breakfast most days, plus lunch, plus coffee, we are easily at $700/month...before any luxury snack foods (lunches are pretty small, apple plus peanut butter sandwich or ramen noodles and yogurt, applesauce/ bread and butter, etc).
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I am getting tired of the winter veggie routine in my fridge / pantry. Looking for your suggestions for dinner with what I have:
1) Green cabbage
2) Onions
3) Carrots
4) Rutabaga (half of a big one left)
5) Potatoes
6) Celery (DD begged so i splurged on getting one.. $1.97 for a head. ouch)
7) Rice (brown and white)
8) Spaghetti noodles, canned tomatoes, tomatoe sauce, etc.
I also have 1 navel orange and a bag of gala apples, and bananas are always cheap. (and the home canned peaches, pears, jam, etc). I occasionally buy a head of lettuce, and an avocado when I can get one for $1 each or less, but none right now.
I have beans/ lentils, and whole frozen chickens, and frozen fish. Some frozen veggies (spinach and peas, corn), too. Milk and eggs. Fancy snack quality cheddar that needs to last through February. Baking supplies including lard, shortening, margarine, oil and butter (which is $4/lb so used for bread). I will bake bread tomorrow, maybe start some more yogurt.
Out of Ground beef until it comes on sale. ( I am craving beef). I think I have used up all the pork roasts (which I bulk bought at $2/lb).. we will be eating beans and pancakes to stretch out the grocery dollar over the next few weeks.. neither of which DH appreciates, you know?.
So suggestions very welcome!