by Karen on October 5, 2009
We’re slowly trying to adapt our food budget to incorporate healthier, organic foods without spending too much more (more on that later). Unfortunately, that means we had another week over budget — $65. I’m confident we’ll learn to balance organics and price so we can get healthy, local foods without blowing the budget. We’re just [...]
by Karen on September 28, 2009
Is this really the first menu plan of October? Holy cow, where is the year going? I’m not complaining, though. The faster time goes, the faster we get to beautiful fall weather. I can’t wait! This week was not a good week for our grocery budget. Tony’s birthday was Sunday, and I found myself going [...]
by Karen on September 21, 2009
Despite the fact that it’s still too warm to turn off the air conditioning, we can’t wait until it’s gets cooler to bring soup back into our menu plans. If you’re enjoying fall weather, please don’t tell me about it. I have another month of 80-degree weather before we can finally turn off the A/C. [...]
by Karen on September 14, 2009
I’m counting down the days to soups and heartier meals for the colder months, but we’ve still got some weeks to go before fall weather arrives in North Carolina. I’m finding some great compromises in the meantime. We’re trying something new with our routine, and this week we finished our grocery shopping Friday night. I [...]
by Karen on August 31, 2009
Tony has always been a more adventurous cook than I am. It’s not that I don’t like to try new things; it’s just that I think I know what I like, and I’m content to stick with it. But one of the many reasons that Tony and I are a good match is that he [...]
by Karen on August 24, 2009
I had an absolutely fantastic weekend doing nothing at all. We went to the grocery store and the gym, but other than that we didn’t leave the house and barely left the couch. After last week’s marathon road trip to 3 different cities across 2,000 miles, a weekend of nothing was exactly what we needed. [...]
by Karen on August 17, 2009
After 14 hours in the car, we returned home last night at 11 p.m. We cleared our refrigerator and pantry before leaving, so there is absolutely no food in the house, not even the most basic staples like milk and bread. Luckily, our 14-hour car ride came in handy. We had plenty of time for [...]
by Karen on July 27, 2009
Between my redesign and various errands, we kept pretty busy this weekend. We had a lot to do, and since we’ll be out of town for the next three weekends, we wanted to get as much done as possible. We decided to try to hang on to some cash for the concert next weekend. We’ll [...]
by Karen on July 20, 2009
Still no sales on chicken, but pork tenderloin was buy one, get one, so we’re eating pork this week! We came in right on budget at the grocery story: $60 almost on the dot. If there’s one thing I’ve gotten out of this summer of cash budgeting, it’s estimating grocery costs based on a shopping [...]
