Project: Food Budget Weekly total: $124.84 My healthy budget goal is to eat seasonal, home-cooked meals while sticking to a $400 $350 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 April, 2012
Credit Card Rewards
I’ve been a “smart” credit card user for many years, paying off the whole balance every month. Yeah, there have been some careless errors which might have resulted in a late charge or small amount of interest, but for the most part, I’ve been conscious about never allowing the credit card debt to get carried [...]
Friendly’s Restaurant Fresh, Never Frozen Burgers – Marketing Hype
I’ve been constantly seeing the new Friendly’s Restaurant’s TV commercial touting their “fresh, never frozen” burgers. Fresh vs frozen tells me nothing about the quality of the burger! Personally, I’d rather a promotion stating that they grind their beef fresh on premises, and that they use only anti-biotic/hormone-free beef. And even further, how about grass-fed [...]
Tricia Yearwood’s New Cooking TV Show on Food Network
Tricia Yearwood has a new Food Network show called “Trisha’s Southern Kitchen” and I watched the “Girlfriends” episode today. Okay, yeah, there’s typical Paula Deen-ish, way-too-much butter and sugar recipes, but I was pleasantly surprised to find Tricia’s personality really shined. I enjoyed watching the episode! There were many helpful cooking tips, plus little bits [...]
Project Food Budget / My Healthy Budget: April Month 6 / Week 3
Project: Food Budget Weekly total: $68.52 My healthy budget goal is to eat seasonal, home-cooked meals while sticking to a $400 $350 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: April Month 6 / Week 2
Project: Food Budget Weekly total: $99.30 My healthy budget goal is to eat seasonal, home-cooked meals while sticking to a $400 $350 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: End of March & Month 6, Week 1
Project: Food Budget Month End Total: $398.06 Week Total: $40.66 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 [...]
