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The 3 Month Challenge
Mar. 6th, 2006 02:21 pmMy husband and I want to spend less than we currently are. I think we could save a lot of money if we stop eating out and buying groceries we don’t really need. We could probably live off the food in our house for 3 months.
I love to cook, but one of my problems is that I have a hard time deciding what I want to eat. I have a habit of buying too much food just so that I have options. I love being able to cook whatever I feel like, whenever I want. Trouble is, we can never decide what we want, nor do we feel like cooking after we settled on something.
Truth be told, we didn’t always know what was available to us in the basement. We knew we had a lot of food in the house, but didn’t exactly know how much and of what we had. So last night I took an inventory of our stock.
My mission is going to be to buy as little food as I can until the cupboards in the house are bare. I will create a weekly meal plan (making sure I always have at least 3 days planned) in advance. We don’t usually eat breakfast, so I will plan for at least 3 lunches and 3 dinners. This will prove difficult when I’m working, so it will be very important for me to stick to a weekly meal plan. Hubby is going to have to help me out on some nights. I will also try to use my slow cooker more often because it will make cooking dinner easier.
Below the cut is the inventory of most of the food in the house. The list does not include fresh items stored in the fridge (milk, cheese, juice, vegetables, luncheon meat), staples (bread, potatoes, onions), snack foods (crackers, popcorn, pudding, jell-o), anything from my baking cupboard (cake mixes, muffin mixes, pie fillings), drinks (coffee, tea, iced tea, Kool-Aid), or pickles and condiments (homemade pickles, homemade jams, peanut butter, mayonnaise, ketchup, relish). The items that are on the list are frozen, dry, and canned goods that can be used to make breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
( We are ready for a natural disaster! )
This has really been an eye opener. I knew we had a lot of food, but I really had no idea! Who has 12 lbs of ground beef in their freezer? lol I know we’ll have to buy some other meats eventually just for variety, but we’ll see how long we can go with all the ground beef and the other meats we already have.
This entry will be tagged "food_inventory" so that I can easily find it. I will update it as I use up the food, or when I buy more food. Sine this is going to be quite challenging, I might also update on my progress using the tag "food_inventory" to make new posts.
I love to cook, but one of my problems is that I have a hard time deciding what I want to eat. I have a habit of buying too much food just so that I have options. I love being able to cook whatever I feel like, whenever I want. Trouble is, we can never decide what we want, nor do we feel like cooking after we settled on something.
Truth be told, we didn’t always know what was available to us in the basement. We knew we had a lot of food in the house, but didn’t exactly know how much and of what we had. So last night I took an inventory of our stock.
My mission is going to be to buy as little food as I can until the cupboards in the house are bare. I will create a weekly meal plan (making sure I always have at least 3 days planned) in advance. We don’t usually eat breakfast, so I will plan for at least 3 lunches and 3 dinners. This will prove difficult when I’m working, so it will be very important for me to stick to a weekly meal plan. Hubby is going to have to help me out on some nights. I will also try to use my slow cooker more often because it will make cooking dinner easier.
Below the cut is the inventory of most of the food in the house. The list does not include fresh items stored in the fridge (milk, cheese, juice, vegetables, luncheon meat), staples (bread, potatoes, onions), snack foods (crackers, popcorn, pudding, jell-o), anything from my baking cupboard (cake mixes, muffin mixes, pie fillings), drinks (coffee, tea, iced tea, Kool-Aid), or pickles and condiments (homemade pickles, homemade jams, peanut butter, mayonnaise, ketchup, relish). The items that are on the list are frozen, dry, and canned goods that can be used to make breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
( We are ready for a natural disaster! )
This has really been an eye opener. I knew we had a lot of food, but I really had no idea! Who has 12 lbs of ground beef in their freezer? lol I know we’ll have to buy some other meats eventually just for variety, but we’ll see how long we can go with all the ground beef and the other meats we already have.
This entry will be tagged "food_inventory" so that I can easily find it. I will update it as I use up the food, or when I buy more food. Sine this is going to be quite challenging, I might also update on my progress using the tag "food_inventory" to make new posts.
