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To: kalee

No I hadn’t see the website. Thank you for posting it. I will spend some time checking out their recipes and perhaps I will find some new ones to add to my family’s favorites.

I have been keeping the average cost of our dinners at $5.00 or less now since the beginning of the year and it really hasn’tbeen as hard as I thought it would be. We have good dinners every night and even have been able to splurge about once a month on some kind of take out like french bread subs from Safeway, Papa Murphy’s pizza night, or Panda express, and still keep the average cost for our dinners under $5.00 for each month. Take out night gives me one night a month off from cooking dinner even though the cost of the dinner for the entire family on that night is between $16 -$25. That means that some of our dinners cost almost nothing because of free stuff I have found using coupons, or utilizing leftovers from one meal to make something else another night for our dinners.

This month we are going to be way under budget because a friend sent over lots of fresh vegetables from their garden since they had a very abundant crop this year and couldn’t come close to eating it all or finding room in their freezer for it all. They sent over four huge zucchini, three large yellow squash, a huge bunch of green onions that were the biggest green onions I have ever seen, and lots of tomatoes. We have been using it all up in stir fry’s, pasta dishes, casseroles, salads and even baked goods! YUM!


57 posted on 09/17/2011 5:08:49 PM PDT by Flamenco Lady
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To: Flamenco Lady

Sorry for the double post! My computer started acting up!


59 posted on 09/17/2011 5:10:49 PM PDT by Flamenco Lady
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