$75 Grocery Challenge Final Link-up
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If you happen to have leftover ham, here’s a hearty and delicious use for it. I loved the looks of a recipe I saw...
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This recipe uses very little meat, but even die-hard carnivores love it. When I make it, I double the amounts given here, and we...
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I was overjoyed when a Panda Express restaurant was built near my home. There were two main reasons for my delight: their names were...
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This recipe is a favorite at our house. It is sooooo easy to make a second one to freeze that I went ahead and...
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2009
Aug-$860 Sept-$350 Oct-$845 Nov-$728 Dec-$747 2010
Jan-$770 Feb-$847 Mar-$835 April-$935 May-$798 June-$858 July-$700 Aug-$702

I came out at 536.02 for the month. This is good for me. Well under the average $625 per month of the last several months and under the current budget of $600. We’re going to try a $550 budget. I could have gone at least $50 less by skipping sale and extra produce from the farmer’s market.
Yay, Becky!!
Mary
Hi Mary,
I follow your blog and have linked it quite often lately on my personal blog. Yesterday I went to my husband’s cousin’s house and she helped me can tomatoes for the first time. We used your video way. She does other ways but thought this looked easy for me. So now I just have to figure out what to do with the tomatoes I canned. I have your new book…are there any recipes in there that would use a quart of the tomatoes….I am so helpless. But I am learning! You are inspiring!
Sarah
Hi Sarah, I would guess there are at least 2 dozen recipes in my book that use a quart of tomatoes– I use tomatoes a lot. Just a couple of quick ideas: a quart of tomatoes is a great start to a pot of stew or chili. Or add a spaghetti seasoning packet, some garlic, and some ground beef, and you have a yummy spaghetti sauce.