Just an update now that we are more than half way through the week. So far so good. I am baking more bread today so that dear daughter can have her toast topped by a fried egg when she gets home from school. The manager’s special whole chicken that cost $5 is thawing…
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Enquiring Minds Want to Know….
What did I buy?! Remember I am not allowed to use anything in my pantry; this is based on the assumption that there would be nothing left in my pantry!! Every single item must be purchased from my $42 budget if I am to be allowed to consume it this week. I visited two stores; First…
What I ate
Day 1 Breakfast: Instant Oatmeal Lunch: Yakisoba microwave noodles, Banana Dinner: Grilled ham and cheese sandwich, Pound cake, strawberries and “cream” Day 2 Breakfast: Bagel with butter Lunch: Canned soup, Banana Dinner: Marie Callender Frozen chicken potpie Day 3 Breakfast: toast Lunch: Grilled ham and cheese sandwich Dinner:
Here we go again!!!
Or should I say “Here I go again” because my family has declined my generous offer to participate in the food stamp challenge again this year… I thought that at Least Liam would be standing cheek to jowl with me over the prospect of eating some nasty fast food, but even he has decided not…
Sammamish Rotary Food Stamp Challenge Day 1 Thoughts May 2013
We have three people in our family who are giving this a try. We figured out what that will give us to work with dollar wise for the seven days. Then we planned all the meals for all three people. Some of these meals are coming out of “stock” on hand. We priced all the…
Light at the end of the tunnel…
I see it and frankly I am thrilled!! Today is officially the last day of my family’s month long food stamp challenge. You would think I was dying to go shopping and spend up a storm, but I am not really, except we are almost out of milk and I want desperately to buy organic…
50 Shades of Grey…
..Not the book! That’s the color of our diet now!! Something is wrong with the system that the foods that are the least expensive are all white… bread, rice, pasta, potaotes, flour, baked goods, cereal etc… Foods with antioxidents, fiber, vitamins and taste are all significantly more expensive than their white counterparts. I already detest…
Things that are not possible on a food stamp budget…
There are things that so many of us take for granted in our food budget. Like so many of us, I do not have to worry about how much my groceries will ring up at when I am checking out. Of course that is not to say that I don’t like to take advantage of…
What $25 can buy you…
For $25 I was able to buy: 40 mini corn dogs 40 mini bagel pizzas 30 mozzarella cheese sticks 27 oz buffalo chicken wings 10 fluffy white bread peanut butter sandwiches That is a lot of crappy quality kid food… in our house we call such foods ”food-like-substances” becuase they look like food but are of such low…
Is that even legal??!
I am discovering that there is a fine line between following the rules and being rude… One of the rules is that we are not supposed to accept free food. I assume the premise is that most of the people you know would be in a similar financial situation and unable to pick up the…
