Budget Food Shopping
Posted by Danielle Bean in Food on Monday, July 21, 2008 1:14 PM
In an effort to stick to my family food budget, I have been going for longer stretches of time between grocery shopping trips. Shopping a couple of times a week wastes gas, time, and money, I have found. Shopping just once a week, though, requires a bit of planning. And some getting used to.
In the final days of the week before I go shopping, food choices get a little ... creative around here. And apparently some of the kids have noticed.
Last week, at lunchtime on the day before my weekly shopping trip, I found a typed notice attached to the nearly empty refrigerator. It read suspiciously like my oldest daughter’s recent mealtime complaints. Here’s what it said:
Mama’s Ole’ Diner
Today’s Lunch Special: Turkey Sausage Pasta Surprise!
Leftover, cold, super whole grain pasta with a turkey sausage and tomato sauce topping. It was made last night, of course. Or was it the night before?
Other Good for You Lunchtime Choices:
Peanut Butter Sandwiches
Peanut Butter spread on a burger roll or between two slices of bird seed bread (sorry, all bread must be toasted—it is currently frozen).
Garbanzo Beans
Wonderfully good for you, these are canned, mushy, white, strange looking beans. But you definitely should eat them, though, because they are very nutritious and you are lucky to have them.
Tuna Melts
Make them yourself! With low fat mayonnaise! But don’t you dare make a tuna juice mess on the counter, or you will be in for it!
Mac & Cheese
We have just one box left of the good stuff, so you better hurry up and grab it before somebody else does. You have to share with at least one other person.
Desserts
As a special today, we have ... no desserts of any kind! Unless you can find a long forgotten package of cookies buried somewhere in the pantry.
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