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Girls' Lunches Savings

January 4th, 2005 at 09:47 pm

I am in the process of using up all our food stock in cupboards and freezer. I am also determined not to buy processed foods.

So, for the girls lunch next week, I made homemade burritos using hillbillyhousewife.com recipe. Only thing, I didn't have any ground beef, at least that I could find. I was given a 2 lb package of elk meat, but we don't knowingly eat game (at church most people cook with game, so they just don't tell us, and we don't ask). So I decided to use the elk for their burritos and just not tell them. Don't moms do the meanest things.

I also found that I don't have any more canned refried beans, but I do have pinto beans. I used a pressure cooker to boild the beans. They are sitting for one hour to get rid of gas. Then I will rinse them and cook in the pressure cooker, I think for 20 minutes instead of 3 hours. When they're done, I'll make refried beans. This is kinda free food as it is part of my y2k stock. It was dried canned, so it should be good forever, which is about how long it will take to use it all.

After the elk meat cooked, I put it on the wood stove to cook off the excess water. I am simmering it on the wood stove to thicken the spices and cornstarch I used.

So I got 2 weeks worth of burritos for lunches for the cost of spices, which are probably ancient too. I could have bought 10 frozen burritos at walmart for $3.

I still haven't spent any money. I did order those books for $50, but I won't pay til next month, so it doesn't yet count.

The only money I spent was $9 for food and $15 for gas, but the gas doesn't come in til next month too.

I'm trying not to go to the store this week. As long as the dog food last, it should work. I do need some broccoli for Sunday Supper, but I'll see if my neighbor is going to the store, which she does about 4 times a week.

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