Menu-8.30-9.6 and grocery spending

30Aug08

Saturday

We’re going to my in-laws for a multi-birthday shindig.  My sole contribution is four dozen homemade dinner rolls.

Sunday

French Toast(eggs were on sale for $.99 a dozen!)
Orange Juice

Monday

Grilled Pizza(it got bumped from last week!)
Fried Squash(also bumped from last week)

Tuesday

Aussie Chicken(bumped from last week.  I really did cook dinner every night but one last week!)
Rolls
Peach slices

Wednesday

Shrimp and [...]

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Food Waste Photo-8.30

29Aug08

Here’s the food that was wasted at Chez Frugal Girl this week:

Oh yes. It has finally happened. By God’s grace, I’ve managed to not waste any food at all this week. Woohoo!!!! Who’d have thought that I, queen of food wasters, could ever do this? Change is apparently possible, even for [...]

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I’m very sorry to be happy dancing again…

28Aug08

(well, actually I’m not sorry or sad. Then I wouldn’t exactly be doing a happy dance.) but two more happy things have happened!
Happy Thing #1 is that our BGE bill is actually $48 below our budget. That NEVER happens in August. But we’ve had an unusually mild August and so we’ve hardly [...]

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Pardon me while I do a happy dance!

26Aug08

Today I was working on The Money Email, which is a missive I prepare at the beginning of each month(I’m working on September’s a bit early). Its sole recipient is my husband, and its purpose is to keep him up-to-date and informed about the state of our finances. I used to [...]

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An unusual recommendation from Cooks

25Aug08

If you’ve been reading here for any length of time, you know I heart Cook’s Illustrated very much. Their recipes rock, and I love their taste tests and equipment tests, which are sort of like a kitchen version of Consumer Reports. One of the reasons I adore their reviews is that [...]

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Menu and grocery spending

24Aug08

The cow we get our milk from is going to have a calf soon, so there will be no more milk from the farm for a few months now. And I didn’t make it to the farmer’s market either, so the only spending I did was at Weis. I was hoping for a [...]

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Food waste and green smoothies

22Aug08

Here’s what I wasted in addition to the beans I posted about earlier. It’s about 1/4 cup of green onions and 4 apple slices. The green onions are just the tail end of a bunch I bought a couple of weeks ago. While I wish I’d managed to use them all, I [...]

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Our poor, pitiful backyard

21Aug08

When we moved into this house, it had obviously been quite some time since anyone had taken care of the lawn(if you can call it that!). Probably 99% of the vegetation was weeds.
Exhibit A:

I suppose the cheapest thing to do with a yard like this is to leave it, but a nice lawn makes [...]

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Freezing chicken, and reducing waste

20Aug08

Chicken leg quarters were on sale this week at my grocery store for $.69 a pound. That’s pretty hard to pass up, although I remember that about 7-8 years ago, they used to go on sale for $.33 a pound. Those were the days…
Anyways, when chicken is on sale, it usually comes in [...]

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Rescuing a vent cover(with paint, of course!)

19Aug08

It’s spray paint this time, though. Spray paint and I go way back….I was spray painting stuff long before I got on my latest furniture refinishing kick. A number of years ago when we lived in our townhouse, I changed all the doorknobs to a brushed nickel finish. It looked great, but [...]

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