Thursday, April 25, 2013

Eating Well on a Budget

My husband and I are working hard to pay off our debts, which means having a super tight budget for groceries.  I have been only been spending $100 a week, and that includes dinners, lunches, breakfasts, personal/household items, and enough food & cat litter for 5 cats! Its been tough but do-able.

Breakfasts: My husband is super easy, and a creature of habit.  He has cereal every morning.  So one staple is milk, obviously, and then cereal.  I either buy cereal by couponing, or if I am able to do it, make a home made granola.  Recipe is here! For me, I tend to get bored easily.  So I either eat the granola, or make pancakes or muffins that I can keep in the fridge or freezer.

Lunches: Again, hubby is a creature of habit.  He eats PB & J EVERYDAY!! So it requires bread (which I am wanting to invest in a bread maker), natural PB (just peanuts and salt), and natural strawberry jam.  Which have you looked at the everyday jellys/jams? They have "high fructose corn syrup" and "corn syrup" listed on there...I think they separate it to avoid showing that there is probably more corn syrup than strawberries.  But anyways, so for me, I work from home.  I eat whatever is leftover from dinners or a PB & J once in a while.

Dinner: In efforts to save money, at least once a week we eat eggs in some sort of way.  Like quiche or scrambled eggs with veggies mixed in.  I try to eat at least 1 veggie based meal a week.  Since it is just the two of us, I cook 3 meals, and usually get 3-4 nights worth of leftovers.

Its been difficult but we are working really hard to keep eating clean, but on a budget.

2 comments:

  1. I use this recipe (with strawberries or raspberries instead of blueberries) for jelly. Even the "natural" jellies usually have dextrose (which is more sugar, in corn [gmo] form) http://www.againstallgrain.com/2012/05/23/homemade-blueberry-preserves-without-pectin/

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  2. I buy Crofter's Jam, and they use Organic Evaporated Cane Sugar as the sweetener. The only ingredients that make me a little weary is Ascorbic Acid & Citric Acid. I do like to make my own when strawberries are in season, similar to the recipe you posted but use apples as the pectin. I am hoping to buy some strawberries this weekend to make jam, but my hubby goes through a jar a week, so I have to make a lot. It usually only lasts for half the year!

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