Project: Food Budget End of Month Total: $491.51 My healthy budget goal is to eat seasonal, home-cooked meals while sticking to a $400 monthly budget for all food including groceries, dining out, entertaining, vitamins/supplements, and spices/herbs. There’s two of us eating 3 (mostly) meals per day. Breakfasts are usually light, and we try to eat [...]
Archive for December, 2011
Is the New Year the Best Time to Start a “Healthy Diet”?
Why is it that the majority of “healthy diets” started on January 1st fail? Well, first off, winter seasonal food choices are limited. Yes, carrots, sweet potatoes, beets and other root veggies are yummy, but are they exciting enough to keep someone motivated to continue eating healthier foods? Then there’s the fact that winter weather [...]
New Jennifer Hudson – Seeing & Hearing Double – Weight Watchers Commercial
Ugh, I know she has a lot of fans, but I find ALL of the Jennifer Hudson Weight Watcher commercials extremely annoying. Her voice sounds like screeching nails on a chalkboard, and this new commercial is no exception. The commercial opens with the “old” Jennifer in a tight-fitting bright pink dress singing on American Idol, [...]
Project Food Budget / My Healthy Budget: December
Project: Food Budget Weekly total: $158.72 – includes monthly meat CSA total My healthy budget goal is to eat seasonal, home-cooked meals while sticking to a $400 monthly budget for all food including groceries, dining out, entertaining, vitamins/supplements, and spices/herbs. There’s two of us eating 3 (mostly) meals per day. Breakfasts are usually light, and [...]
Spending Less For Food, But Not Too Low
I found an inspiring article on Small Notebook concerning food spending and how spending less is not necessarily the answer – blog comments are equally inspiring! Find Your Family’s Own Unique Budget Needs Comparing what your family spends for groceries to another family can lead you down the path to frustration & self-doubt. Every family’s [...]
Project Food Budget / My Healthy Budget: December
Project: Food Budget Weekly total: $35.84 My healthy budget goal is to eat unprocessed, seasonal, home-cooked meals while sticking to a $400 monthly budget for all food including groceries, dining out, entertaining, vitamins/supplements, and spices/herbs. There’s two of us eating 3 (mostly) meals per day. Breakfasts are usually light, and we try to eat left-overs [...]
Emeril on Dr Oz Show
Celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse was on the Dr Oz show the other day, and I’m not a regular Dr Oz fan, but I just happened to catch the show. At first I thought that Emeril would be the one getting advice from the doctor concerning his obesity problem, but I was shocked to realize it [...]
Project Food Budget / My Healthy Budget: December
Project: Food Budget Weekly total: $141.57 My healthy budget goal is to eat seasonal, home-cooked meals while sticking to a $400 monthly budget for all food including groceries, dining out, entertaining, vitamins/supplements, and spices/herbs. There’s two of us eating 3 (mostly) meals per day. Breakfasts are usually light, and we try to eat left-overs for [...]
1st Post Project Food Budget – 1st Month Healthy Budget
Today marks my first official post for the “Project Food Budget” – a group of bloggers like me, that are trying to stick to a specific food budget every week/month – they’re already at week 9! It also marks the end of the first month for My Own Healthy Budget challenge. My Budget Details: My [...]
