Squash blossoms and mixed baby greens from the garden
Have I mentioned how much I love my garden? Maybe once? Twice? Yeah. Love it. We spent $123.20 this week for the three of us. I was worried we’d go over budget because we ran out of a lot of staples at one time: dried beans (I went for pinto beans and black-eyed peas this time, a change from our usual black beans and adzukis), dried chickpeas, brown AND white rice, soba noodles, and tahini. What I got will carry us through a few weeks, so over the course of the month it will work out budgetwise, but I was sure I’d blown it for this week when the first shop came out to $55.40 and we were still going to need more fruit, yogurt, and peanut butter, etc as the week went on. Well, we cut it close, but we squeaked in underbudget. It wouldn’t have been possible without the garden.
