Eating Well on $50 a Week

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Homemade tastes better: The Granola Bar Experiment

Jun 11

Posted by cari in recipe

granola-bars

I went ahead and baked up some granola bars the other day, as I’d been threatening to do. Grabbed some stuff from the cupboard and improvised, which, of course, often goes so well when baking. Improvisation is to baking as… Uh… Anyone got a good analogy for a bad idea? Making it up as you go along, not so advisable usually with the baked goods. Baking = chemistry, you know.

However, the baking gremlins were smiling upon me on Tuesday, my friends, because that improvised tossing of this and that into a bowl and applying heat to said mixture resulted in some damn tasty granola bars. Way better, and healthier, than store bought. And they’re toddler-approved!

Recipe after the jump, because you know you want some.

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Cari’s spending, week one: Under budget, thankyouverymuch

Jun 5

Posted by cari in budget analysis

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But not by much, and we still have to get through the weekend. We’ve spent $108.82 this week. I think the planning has paid off so we should have plenty of food still in the house to get us through, except for peanut butter. We need more of that. But peanut butter won’t break the budget, so I’m pretty confident we’ll end the week under budget.

This was an easy week, though. In the interest of not having to do too much math (Lit major, then MFA. Not so much with the math), everything that was already in the house before the project began is free, though I did not go out and stock up on staples before things got underway. This week I made split pea soup entirely from things already in the house. I made black beans that were already in the house. Flour, oils, vinegars, rice, quinoa all already in the house. And still we’re coming in less than $20 under budget. Read the rest of this entry »

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