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Do any of you have particular meals or foods that you eat often that are cheap? I am the worst when it comes to planning meals. I am hoping to get more organized for the new year. I know I spend why too much money on prepakaged foods and fast food.
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theatre and I are there already. I'm having a very berry tea with crackers, cheese and cherry tomatoes and she's having a joint with some beer and we're both on really comfy recliners on thick pile carpet. we need some help with the decor if anyone is around??
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I'm trying to exercise daily. I was doing fairly well until I sprained my ankle 2 weeks ago but now I'm getting back on the horse. Today I walked over a mile with my arm weights that are about 22lbs total. I was out of shape and it was hard on my arms. I also did my 30 situps. I'm also going to drink a lot of water and try to eat healthy. I do tend to have a sweet tooth but I'm cutting...
Do a search on Angel Food Ministries. www.angelfoodministries.com They have boxes of food you can buy really cheap, and make a lot of meals out of it. The entire box of stuff is like $25. a month, and there are packages you can add to it.
Other than that, I have a lot of soup recipes, and other ideas if interested. (I used to have a family of 8 - 2 kids were mine, 3 kids were his, and we had one together, then the two of us, so I learned to fix cheap meals!)
God bless!
If you tend to go for takeaways then having some cheap substitutes saves you money in the long run, eg, a pizza ready to cook is about 1/5 of the price of one cooked to pick up, and you save on gas on the way to get it :) hehe
But otherwise it depends how desperate you are feeling, I really want to save up for a house, so I do crazy things like cutting the crusts of my sons sandwiches (he never eats em) so then he eats the whole sandwich and when I have collected all the crusts I put them in a dish, add some grated cheese and maybe a bit of mustard etc if i have it, then tip over 2 eggs mixed with a cup of milk, puffs up like crazy and sets and is really yum. Can use stale bread for it too. :)
It takes the same amount of time to leave a marinated chicken breast you'ev had on the counter for a while, then pop in the oven for thirty minutes and cut up a salad, boil some water for rice/or noodles. Buying packaged foods, your paying for the containers they come in, the processing of the food, and usually have tons of additives including sodium, etc. making it worse for your you health wise. I average a budget of $40 per week for meats, vegetables, milk, etc. for a family of three.