Well, a year after I started and then gave up trying to document this, our situation is essentially unchanged. While there are potential developments, feeding our growing family healthy meals on a tight budget has become our new normal. How has that worked, over the last year? I’ve gotten much better at […]
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Some people meal plan by making a list of meals and checking them off as they use them, in whatever order they may decide. I find that I need more detail than that. As I’ve said, the meal plan is tied to specific calendar concerns and often includes planned leftovers. It also helps me to […]
Dinner tonight was meant to be relatively quick and easy after the all-afternoon production number of yesterday’s feast. “Michigan Hotdish” is the family name for something I grew up eating: thin coins of smoked sausage fried up with onions, cubed potatoes, and apples. Mom was unable to give it a name other than “you know, […]
Finished the meal plan last night (will post that later). It’s a fine, sunny, Saturday morning. I’ll be leaving shortly for the Farmer’s market, where I will meet a friend, drink some coffee, and buy eggs, one meat item (probably italian sausage, since pasta with red sauce and pizza are both on the […]
So obviously, a blog about shopping and cooking is going to have this sort of thing. I’m still figuring how I’m going to do this; this started as me thinking that if I was putting in the amount of effort I am on this, I should keep a journal. Whats for dinner? The meal plan […]
Why There’s So Much Confusion Over Nutrition and Health Being forced to question every penny you spend on food leaves you wondering where to start. What can you cut without thinking? What should you make sacrifices in other areas to maintain? Where is organic worth the cost? Is it ever worth the cost? How do […]
Years of grad school. Two kids. Husband and I finally had made it: a 1950s ranch in a good school district, a 6-seat vehicle in the driveway, and enough money to not worry too much about our food bills. And then the sky fell. The solid job that lifted us out of genteel academic poverty […]
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