We had people over for dinner twice this past weekend. I was sure that with that we’d blown our chances of meeting the budget this week, and I was plotting all kinds of percentage systems of food eaten by our family vs food eaten by guests to try to coax the numbers into shape. It was going to be tricky to calculate, though, based on all the leftovers from both dinners. Turns out we’re under budget, so I don’t have to figure those percentages out. Huge relief. I hate math.
On Saturday evening (Halloween), we had friends over for trick or treating and pizza. Okay. We bought two pizzas, which was too much, and we ended up eating cold pizza for breakfast Sunday morning and reheated pizza for lunch on Monday, so that worked out fine, budget wise, because of the number of meals we got out of it. (The health impact of eating pizza three days in a row? That’s a different blog.) So we were fine, budget-wise, with the pizza, but I was sure the entertaining had broken the budget, because on Sunday night we had another family over and they eat meat, and Billy wanted to serve meat, and, well…
We here at Eating Well on Fifty Bucks a Week like to think we’re giving you a little something while helping our own wallets, whether it be recipes, helpful links or somewhat humorous one liners about our various vices (peanut butter, alcohol, expensive coffee in my case). Now, readers, I turn to you for advice.
