July Results Are In and a Tip

Well, we did ok, but didn't improve any from last month. We spent $287 on groceries and $131 on dining out for a total of $418. The time that we were out of town for a family reunion I catorgized the dining out under vacation. I got in the vacation mode I guess, so even when we were home we ate out more than we normally do.

I mentioned about a baking day in my last post. One day the kids took a long nap thank goodness, so I could finish everything I had going. I made granola, 4 loaves of zuchinni bread, a dozen freezer burritos, dozen and half of biscuits, and processed some grated cheese, and zuchinni for future use. Doing this saved us a couple of times from Scott buying lunch and also provided some breakfast items that I didn't have to get out of bed to make sure there was something to eat. It took me about three hours to do it all, but I think it was well worth the effort. Have a baking day occassionally can save you time, money, and effort.

If you need to do similiar task to make different items you can save yourself some time by doing the task all at once for several dishes. For instances, browning hamburger, you could brown up a few pounds of hamburger and freeze it in small packages. This would save you the step of browning hamburger everytime you make something with browned hamburger. Anyway we can make cooking easier, right?