We're starting a cooking group at the church. Once a month, freeze the meal cooking. We're starting with 5 meals, all chicken. No real side dishes or veggies just the main dish. We'll see how it goes. It got me thinking, all these sites tote $100/week for a family of 4. Well I have a family of 5, with big appitites. Can it really be done?? Well all of January was only $350.93, and that included going out to eat. Now most Sunday dinners are at my in-laws so that's 1 less dinner. Lunches for me are leftovers, for the kids its PBJ or lunchmeat. Jer will buy lunchmeat or soup and keep it at the office for the week. So having seen this, I'd say that yes we can do 6 dinners, breakfast and lunch all for under an average of $400 per month.
Now to see if we can stick to it. I haven't done any shopping for this weeks meals so I'll start with tonight's shopping and see what happens.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Girl Scout movie day
Today we (the girls and I) went to see The Princess and the Frog with other scouts in our service unit. At $5 per person, including popcorn and drink, its a price you can't beat. The movie was great and we all agree that we would definately go and see it again, in fact I want to find the soundtrack!! I love New Orleans music. It was great to see so many of our girls at the movie too, I just wish I had gotten more of the older troop there, they really would have liked it. Oh well, what can you do with 7-9 graders.
Christmas is gone... now to relax for a few days
Ya right, who am I kidding, I don't relax!
Christmas this year was really fun. The kids got the stuff the asked for, I get a new coffee pot (single cup style) and Jman got to play poker twice.
The biggest thing though was the fact that we got a used PS3 and the kids used their giftcards to get a guitar and GH world tour game. I think we've only had about 6 hours of silent since they went shopping yesterday they love the game so much!
Me, I love the new coffee pot. It may be 50 cents a cup but the coffee is better then at a shop and I don't have to drive anywhere.
Christmas this year was really fun. The kids got the stuff the asked for, I get a new coffee pot (single cup style) and Jman got to play poker twice.
The biggest thing though was the fact that we got a used PS3 and the kids used their giftcards to get a guitar and GH world tour game. I think we've only had about 6 hours of silent since they went shopping yesterday they love the game so much!
Me, I love the new coffee pot. It may be 50 cents a cup but the coffee is better then at a shop and I don't have to drive anywhere.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Another great weekend at camp
We just finished another great weekend at Camp Timberlane. We had our service unit campout last weekend and it was perfect weather!! No real rain during the day. The clouds waited until about midnight both nights so we could use the observatory. We had a nearly full moon for the night hikes. Oh and did I mention that the food was great?!
So I was in charge of the observatory and I helped out at archery. The latter I won't comment on, but the observatory???? WOW!! We looked at Jupiter and 4 of its moons, Andromeda (M31), a planetary nebula (M15), Lagoon Nebula (M8), and others that I tried and couldn’t get to look good. Totally forgot M57, M44 but that's what I get for not remembering my star chart and going by memory!
So I was in charge of the observatory and I helped out at archery. The latter I won't comment on, but the observatory???? WOW!! We looked at Jupiter and 4 of its moons, Andromeda (M31), a planetary nebula (M15), Lagoon Nebula (M8), and others that I tried and couldn’t get to look good. Totally forgot M57, M44 but that's what I get for not remembering my star chart and going by memory!
Thursday, September 17, 2009
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