I'm loving my new found creativity in the kitchen. Remember my meatloaf from the other day...well, we had a lot leftover & the boy asked me to make sloppy joes. I had no meat thawed out and surely didn't want to pay full price for some. Then a lightbulb went off...we have leftover meatloaf! I figured I'd give it a go and let me tell you...awesome!
I scraped as much sauce off the top as I could, threw it in a skillet, ground it up and topped it with sloppy Joe sauce. The kids actually finished up all of their food for once!
I set our monthly food budget at $250 & with my couponing and newfound creativeness, we're rockin it! The great thing is that we're actually eating better. I go to the store in the mornings whenever I'm in town and that's when the fresh veggies are marked down so I'm able to get so much more for my money. I'm grinding up my own meat so I know it's not filled with "pink slime" or who knows what else. We're cooking in the rotisserie more which cuts down on fat and we've limited going out to eat ALL the time like we used to. I'm loving it!
Ok, cost breakdown:
Chicken for sloppy joes (free, leftover meatloaf)
Sloppy Joe sauce: $0.99
Onion Rings:$2
Buns: $1
Grand total: $3.99 & the kids loved it! That makes it worth so much more
It's so awesome to be able to challenge myself and be doing so great with it. I hate wastefulness in anything but especially food and money. There are people out there going hungry so food should never go to waste. You work for your money so why not save as much of it as you can. Saving in some areas allows me to splurge in others (you should see the kids closets; whoa!) All it takes is a very minimal amount of planning and some creativity.
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