MEALS TODAY Breakfast: Eggs, toast (with this bread-yum!), bacon, juice, pears Lunch: Pasta Carbonera (Family Feasts p. 164 ), watermelon Snack: Leftover pancakes (we froze some extras from a different day) Dinner: Lasagna, cucumbers, tomatoes, ice cream ———— I am quite glad to be done with the spending challenge.  This evening during the older kids’ soccer game, John and...
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Friday afternoon John and I took off on a plane to spend a couple days in Seattle, to celebrate our 23rd wedding anniversary. Though it was definitely more of a splurge than the rest of our month, I was still reasonably successful pinching our pennies. Our plane tickets came from frequent flyer...
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This weekend was an incredibly bad weekend for tallying food costs. For several weeks John and I have been planning a mini-getaway to Seattle. We planned to eat out, of course, but I didn’t include eating out in my $300 budget for the month, so I figured it would still work to keep track...
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A very busy weekend of travel, along with some computer trouble kept me from posting as I had planned. I’ll share more details soon, but for the moment I wanted to catch up a teensy bit by telling you about Friday’s food! MEALS TODAY Breakfast: Migas and toast Lunch: Tomato soup, peanut butter sandwiches, apples Dinner: Hominy...
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Are you tired of reading about our meals? Because I am getting a little tired of posting about them. But we’ve almost made it to the end of the month–hooray! Today my hubby stopped at the store after work for the teeniest list ever: OJ, chocolate chips, and marshmallows. Essential...
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I’m too darned busy this week, but am having a hard time figuring out what I can skip.  Am sick of canning, but the tomatoes keep coming– 14 quarts canned today. Soon it will be cold enough that we’ll have to pick the green ones and wrap them in newspaper to ripen in...
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——– Today we only did a couple hours of school: Bible, history reading, journaling, and grammar. Then we got down to the real order of business for the day: clothes-sorting for fall! For quite a few hours today, 6 kids had ALL their clothes spread all over the floors of three...
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It’s midnight and I’m fading fast, so I’m just going to share today’s meals and encourage you to head over to last week’s linky, if you haven’t already, to see how other folks are doing with the $75/week challenge. And check back soon — I’ve got some book reviews that I am...
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Saturday morning John and I went to the store and spent $56, which means we have $31 left for the next 10 days. Slim, maybe, but we still have a lot of food, especially considering canned goods and garden. I’m really optimistic we’ll make it without going over our $300 budget. In...
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