popcorn

popcorn

our family eats a lot of organic popcorn. we buy it bulk, because that's the most cost effective way, but recently my mouth has been yearning for some good old microwaves style..well low and behold, my good friend and fellow moderator or this blog, found a fantastic deal yesterday!
at the HEB on runberg and lamar they have central market organic microwave popcorn on sale for 1$ a box!! the are usually $3 something a box...
just thought i would let you know!

april- dinner meal plan

1- chicken noodle soup,
2- quesadillas (spinich, , tomato and Monterrey jack baked)
3- vegi stir fry, snow peas and soba noodles
4- frozen pizza (when i make pizza, i make 6 pizzas-we eat three and freeze three)
5- baked orange roughy, brown rice with butter, brewers yeast and Braggs served with raw broccoli and cauliflower and mother's cafe's cashew tamari dressing
6-leftover night
7- hot dogs, oven fries (both reds and sweet potato)
8- minestrone soup
9- refried bean tacos
10- surprise or out to eat?
11- felafel's with lettuce tomato and pretzels
12- home made pizza
13- leftovers
14-kale, black eyed peas and potatoes
15-red cabbage, rice noodle, and cashew Asian salad
16- refried bean tacos
17- chicken fajitas
18- frozen pizza
19- beef, peppers and zucchini over quinoa
20- leftovers (crock potting whole turkey)
21- turkey apricot salad on croissants with ?
22- turkey and barley soup
23.baked potatoes and salad
24. turkey enchiladas
25. fried rice with shrimp and vegis
26. pizza
27. leftovers
28. rice, chicken, black beans and corn
29 ?
30. spaghetti and meatballs


so there it is- as you can see i dont always have every dinner planned. some dinners i make times two (i did not mark those on here) and i freeze half. so i can always pull something out of the freezer on a hard day. and meals get shifted around too.

great site

this site has a link to most stores-just enter your zip for the store you want and you can see thier weekly ad!
http://www.sundaysaver.com/

saves paper :)

great site for cheap eats!

hilly billy housewife

they have great sample menus for super lean weeks, and really good simple recipies-
you must must must try the magic milkshakes.
They REALLY do taste like frostys if you follow the directions :)

ok- slacking!

sorry! i ment when i created this blog to post a whole buncha stuff- and i will- but things are getting off to a slow start!

grocery bills

do you keep an acurate account of the money you spend on groceries?
i have been keeping and adding up grocery reciepts for 5 years!, but as of nov two years ago i started breaking down the reciepts to account seperatly for food verses household items.. now i have an accurate picture of money spent on food alone.
we eat all meals at home, including packing lunches(save maybe 3 meals a month, if that!)
check out this site to see what americans spent on food in january- you can add up the members of you family to see where you are! there are 4 levels of eating, thrifty-low cost-moderate-and liberal
the goal is to be UNDER , yes under the thrifty plan!
here's me-
thrifty plan- 728.30$ (me, DH, 2 6-8 year olds, 1 1 year old , and 1 2-3 year old)
what I spent in jan- 585 $
:)
what is even better is in feb i only spent 475$ !

and just so you know we eat well. lots of organic, little processed. we eat meat, but not at every meal. i meal plan and make a menu one time a month. i then shop at heb one time per month, costco 1 time per month, whole foods 1-2 times per month and sunharvest 1-3 times (depending on sales.
shopping at multiple stores is one of the tightwad gazette's biggest tips!!!
my biggest tip is shopping monthly!

best book ever (for thriftyness)

the tightwad gazette

this has taught me most everything I know!!