Project: Food Budget Weekly total: $78.70 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 gardening. There’s two of us eating 3 (mostly) meals per day. My husband occasionally eats take-out lunch at work, & that $ [...]
Archive for March, 2012
Amazon.com Rocks!
I’ve been a big fan of Amazon.com for a long time. Great products, great prices, and super customer service! They proved how wonderful they really are the other day when I had an issue with one of my orders. I went online to check my “Subcribe & Save” order that will ship soon, and I [...]
Project Food Budget / My Healthy Budget: March Month 5 / Week 3
Project: Food Budget Weekly total: $43.88 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 gardening. There’s two of us eating 3 (mostly) meals per day. My husband occasionally eats take-out lunch at work, & that $ [...]
Project Food Budget / My Healthy Budget: March Month 5 / Week 2
Project: Food Budget Weekly total: $62.04 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. My husband occasionally eats take-out lunch at work, & that $ [...]
Project Food Budget / My Healthy Budget: March Month 5 / Week 1
Project: Food Budget Weekly total: $172.53 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. My husband occasionally eats take-out lunch at work, & that $ [...]
Connecticut Farmer & Feast Book Review
I found the Connecticut Farmer & Feast: Harvesting Local Bounty book at the library, and took a few weeks to read it. The book opens with an introduction and I was saddened & shocked to learn that Connecticut’s farmland is disappearing at an unbelievable and alarming rate of 8000 acres a year! The author, Emily [...]
Hamburger Helper Stuffed Bellies
Just saw a TV commercial for Hamburger Helper. The family is together, sitting at the dinner table and the dad is stuffed so he leans back and pats his belly, full to the brim. He looks at his young daughter, they smile at each other and she imitates him, patting her belly as well. Camera [...]
Pink Fuel For the Cure From Connecticut’s Standard Oil
Okay, it’s bad enough that Yoplait has a pink ribbon campaign, but I was shocked to see a Connecticut oil company started promoting “Fuel For the Cure” with a pink oil truck. Come on! From Standard Oil’s web site: Standard Oil has pledged $3 for every delivery The Pink Truck makes for the next 12 [...]
Project Food Budget / My Healthy Budget: February – End of Month 4
Project: Food Budget Weekly total: $75.82 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. My husband occasionally eats take-out lunch at work, & that $ [...]
