The food budget does goe up in the summer, but I’m surprised her 10 pounds of hamburger only makes four meals. That’s 2 1/2 pounds per meal! For only five people? Ten pounds would be 10 meals around here ;-)
It’s too bad home economics classes are no longer taught in school. I think the mom in the story needs some advice, and I think the writer probably grew up in a home where pinching pennies on the grocery budget would have been exotic.
“It’s too bad home economics classes are no longer taught in school.”
Shop, too. But that would be sexist. Better to have all those sex ed classes.
The food budget does goe up in the summer, but I’m surprised her 10 pounds of hamburger only makes four meals. That’s 2 1/2 pounds per meal! For only five people? Ten pounds would be 10 meals around here ;-)
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