Another day of working night shift so this morning I baked boxed chicken in the oven after baking 2 dozen cookies, Sugar Cookie and Choc. Chip. Also will be heating leftover Mac/Cheese in a few minutes. Add a canned veggie and dinner is ready for dh when he gets home from work today. And dinner for me when I get in.
We are experiencing icy rain right now supposed to warm up and turn to rain later today. Last night after I got off work, stopped and filled my truck up with gas so I don't have to do it in the bad weather today. I was on a little over 1/4 of a tank. Doing laundry this morning so if we would loose power we have clean clothes and extra blankets. I went in to work a few minutes early yesterday and bought Pepsi while it was on sale 3 for $9, left it in work till I clocked out so it wouldn't freeze. Today I will buy a 5 lb. can of Northern Beans and make a big pot of beans this weekend with cornbread.
Next week one of our meals will be leftover chicken and noodles from Monday's dinner this week. Trying to stay focused on the meal planning.
Today for lunch I will make a sub, eat half for lunch today, half for tomorrow's lunch.
Last week I bought 3 premade frozen pizza crust which dh will make a pizza tomorrow night, I will make a sub for myself when I get off work or during the day tomorrow and heat when I come home. We are saving about a $100 a month by not buying pizza at a restaurant. Pizza sauce I buy at work 5 lb. can for about $5 I think maybe a little less. It will last over a month.
Oh and I have been going back to some of my frugal and Preparedness sites and catching up on post to continue staying focused on the goal of living frugally.
Anna
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Wednesday
Not a lot particularly frugal going on lately. Our new SUV Honda CRV is continuing to save us money by using less gas than our other vehicles. With Kroger fuel points, we filled it up for $14 this week and with dh driving it to and from work only will last us at least 2 weeks. Wish we could afford a second one.
Frugal is staying focused on meal planning. I am working evening/night shift this week and the next 2 which means making meals in the morning so dh has dinner when he comes home and when I get off work and home around 8:30pm and sure don't feel like trying to cook something for myself that late in the evening. Yesterday we had spicy sausage sort of like Brats, sliced up and fried with assorted color bell peppers and served over rice.
This morning I have just cooked Rigatoni noodles which I will drain and put in a Corningware casserole pan and top with Spaghetti Sauce and Cheese. Dh can heat and serve when he gets home, I will put a second serving for myself in another container for when I get home.
So staying focused instead of ordering or picking up fast food will save us money, stress and time during this cold winter month.
My darling new puppy is chewing up one of my chairs, sigh! So I bought fabric last week at Walmarts $6 something a yard and am patching up her tears till hopefully she gets past this stage.. GRRR!! We have not had a pup do this in 20 years. Our first dog did this, it was separation anxiety but the puppy we have now does it when we're home so not sure what her problem is.. Bad Doggy!
Anna
Frugal is staying focused on meal planning. I am working evening/night shift this week and the next 2 which means making meals in the morning so dh has dinner when he comes home and when I get off work and home around 8:30pm and sure don't feel like trying to cook something for myself that late in the evening. Yesterday we had spicy sausage sort of like Brats, sliced up and fried with assorted color bell peppers and served over rice.
This morning I have just cooked Rigatoni noodles which I will drain and put in a Corningware casserole pan and top with Spaghetti Sauce and Cheese. Dh can heat and serve when he gets home, I will put a second serving for myself in another container for when I get home.
So staying focused instead of ordering or picking up fast food will save us money, stress and time during this cold winter month.
My darling new puppy is chewing up one of my chairs, sigh! So I bought fabric last week at Walmarts $6 something a yard and am patching up her tears till hopefully she gets past this stage.. GRRR!! We have not had a pup do this in 20 years. Our first dog did this, it was separation anxiety but the puppy we have now does it when we're home so not sure what her problem is.. Bad Doggy!
Anna
Monday, January 12, 2015
Monday
Frugal this week?
I bought a extra ham butt from my store, they were marked down to $6. I will be cutting it into slices today for my lunches at work this week, the rest will be chunked and put in the deep freezers for ham and bean soups. Today I am making blackberry preserves and jelly from frozen berries I bought from work. Blackberries fresh here are crazy high on sale $1 for a 6 oz. container so it is more frugal to buy them in bulk frozen from my store more so with my employee discount. We gave these away as Christmas gifts to our friends and family and it was a huge hit. I found a recipe on Facebook yesterday for dog biscuits that are made without wheat or corn meal, my rottweiler is allergic to corn so will be looking at the ingredients needed to start making these myself. I know it uses pumpkin which I don't have on hand. Long run cheaper, safer for my dogs than buying commercial products especially with the recent scare over dog treats made in China. I use to make them before my rotty that had corn meal. Just make up the dough, took a pizza cutter and criss crossed.. the dogs don't mind that they aren't shaped like dog bones LOL! One thing I had a problem with before was them going bad quickly so lesson learned.. keep the majority in the deep freezer, pull out small batches or use the oxygen absorber packets. Frugal was going to Odd Lots and finding Christmas stuff reduced 75% on Saturday. I bought a lifetime supply of gift tags, while I could make my own the question becomes will I really do it or bend and buy at full price because I didn't have them. I also found beautiful Christmas cards for $1.25. And square cookie tins marked down to 87 cents. I use these alot for food storage. I use some to store sleeves of snack crackers and saltines, boxes of gelatin mix, hot cocoa packets.. anything that I feel a bug or mouse might get into. Cereal I put in glass containers, same with oatmeal. The mouse we had in our basement a cpl. years ago.. only thing he could find to eat in the basement was candle sticks, straw from a broom I kept down there and a slab of soap I had made and let air dry down there and forgot about. Other frugals all meals made at home and lunches taken to work for both myself and dh. I stocked up this week on a pkg. of ramen noodles, gotta repackage those this week into safer containers. I also bought for emergency stock up some cans of Campbells soup that were a little out of the ordinary.. Cream of Shrimp, Cream of Onion, Black bean with cumin and cilantro. These can be used to make a creative and different meal especially if we lose power. I found a recipe yesterday in one of my cookbooks for Mock Cabbage Rolls. You use shredded cabbage and onion soup mix along with a lb. of burger. In the summer months I can plant cabbage, use canned meat instead of fresh and cook in a iron skillet over my butane burner if we lost power or even just for a economical meal, again variety keeps us from getting bored with the same meals and the temptation to buy fast food or if one of us were to lose our jobs. After 911 I never take for granted that we will have our jobs. My husband and I both worked for the same company, while my hours weren't cut my husbands were and some people were laid off there. Scary times and something I keep in mind always now. Stay warm and safe my friends.. we are having ice storms here today in central Ohio.
I bought a extra ham butt from my store, they were marked down to $6. I will be cutting it into slices today for my lunches at work this week, the rest will be chunked and put in the deep freezers for ham and bean soups. Today I am making blackberry preserves and jelly from frozen berries I bought from work. Blackberries fresh here are crazy high on sale $1 for a 6 oz. container so it is more frugal to buy them in bulk frozen from my store more so with my employee discount. We gave these away as Christmas gifts to our friends and family and it was a huge hit. I found a recipe on Facebook yesterday for dog biscuits that are made without wheat or corn meal, my rottweiler is allergic to corn so will be looking at the ingredients needed to start making these myself. I know it uses pumpkin which I don't have on hand. Long run cheaper, safer for my dogs than buying commercial products especially with the recent scare over dog treats made in China. I use to make them before my rotty that had corn meal. Just make up the dough, took a pizza cutter and criss crossed.. the dogs don't mind that they aren't shaped like dog bones LOL! One thing I had a problem with before was them going bad quickly so lesson learned.. keep the majority in the deep freezer, pull out small batches or use the oxygen absorber packets. Frugal was going to Odd Lots and finding Christmas stuff reduced 75% on Saturday. I bought a lifetime supply of gift tags, while I could make my own the question becomes will I really do it or bend and buy at full price because I didn't have them. I also found beautiful Christmas cards for $1.25. And square cookie tins marked down to 87 cents. I use these alot for food storage. I use some to store sleeves of snack crackers and saltines, boxes of gelatin mix, hot cocoa packets.. anything that I feel a bug or mouse might get into. Cereal I put in glass containers, same with oatmeal. The mouse we had in our basement a cpl. years ago.. only thing he could find to eat in the basement was candle sticks, straw from a broom I kept down there and a slab of soap I had made and let air dry down there and forgot about. Other frugals all meals made at home and lunches taken to work for both myself and dh. I stocked up this week on a pkg. of ramen noodles, gotta repackage those this week into safer containers. I also bought for emergency stock up some cans of Campbells soup that were a little out of the ordinary.. Cream of Shrimp, Cream of Onion, Black bean with cumin and cilantro. These can be used to make a creative and different meal especially if we lose power. I found a recipe yesterday in one of my cookbooks for Mock Cabbage Rolls. You use shredded cabbage and onion soup mix along with a lb. of burger. In the summer months I can plant cabbage, use canned meat instead of fresh and cook in a iron skillet over my butane burner if we lost power or even just for a economical meal, again variety keeps us from getting bored with the same meals and the temptation to buy fast food or if one of us were to lose our jobs. After 911 I never take for granted that we will have our jobs. My husband and I both worked for the same company, while my hours weren't cut my husbands were and some people were laid off there. Scary times and something I keep in mind always now. Stay warm and safe my friends.. we are having ice storms here today in central Ohio.
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