So we are trying to limit ourselves to $600 amonth for grocery (and my occassional coffee). D is trying to limit how often and how much he spends when he goes out for lunch and we are not going out or ordering in for dinner, except for once in a blue moon....makes it a special nite again...
Same goes for junk food. If we don't make it ourselves, then we basically aren't having it. No more treats at Starbuck's. I can make an entire batch of cookies for not much more than they charge for 1! I don't drink their frufru coffees...just drips and iced, but I am trying to do so not more than once a week, and trying for even less than that.
Okay, so staples. We were going to stop buying our raw milk, but as soon as we did for 2 weeks, the inside of G's arms were all itchy and red. So we are going to just get one half gallon every week. A doesn't really drink that much milk anymore. He drinks a lot of water and some of this/that. So he doesn't seem to mind or have effects from whatever milk he drinks (D of course, can't have anything but the junk off the shelves at the store...) Our eggs I am hard pressed to let go of too...
These are the chickens that are laying the eggs we buy from our Milk Hut (where we also buy raw milk, grass fed beef, raw goat's milk, homemade soaps and jams, organic grains...) These chickens are perfect and their diet allows them to produce eggs with the correct ratio of fatty acids...and at $5 a dozen are no more than the organic eggs from the grocer (eggs that are most likely from chickens in cages).
Well, there you have it. We are also turning off the tv and going for netflix, especially now that they've partnered with Xbox Live...downloadable content to pc or xbox 360...plus a dvd in the mail. Sounds pretty good to me. That's all for now. Guitar lessons here we come!
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