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[quote=Anonymous]I've been working on our food budget, too. The focus it has required has not only helped us save money, we are eating healthier and better as well. I've had to learn to cook a lot more than I did though -- I'm not sure why you are spending more than you feel you should, but for us a lot of the money was spent on expensive prepared stuff.

Some budget meals that have been working really well for us have been omelets for dinner, homemade soup and bread (I made the NYT Baked Potato Soup last night -- it might have cost like $2-$3 per serving), homemade baked beans are amazing -- it's like they aren't even the same food as the canned stuff, I have a Moosewood recipe for "Skinny Tuesday's Red Beans" that is one of my favorite things to eat and it costs so little to make. But really the big thing for us has been eating what we have; one of the reasons our food bills were too high was that I'd buy stuff and then be too tired to cook, and it would go bad. To avoid that, I'm going to the grocery store more often to avoid buying a bunch of aspirational groceries on Sunday that I intend to cook later in the week that I never end up cooking and stuff goes bad. Huge waste of money. And I'm trying to be good about using everything; we had a rotisserie chicken this week and one night we ate chicken with mashed potatoes, and then I pulled the leftover chicken and used it with some leftover veggie chili to stuff enchiladas (easy -- spoon some canned enchilada sauce in a casserole dish, warm up corn tortillas, spoon filling in, roll up, place in casserole, cover with enchilada sauce and cheese, cover with foil and bake until it is all melty). Then I put the chicken carcass into a bag in the freezer, and today I put the part of some green onion tops I didn't use for the topping on the baked potatoes and two little garlic cloves that weren't worth using into the same bag. I'll keep adding veggie scraps until the bag is full and then make a stock. For use in delicious soup. So using everything has been big for us.

Also, I finally caved and got a Costco membership. There are some things that we eat a lot of that have made it worth it (for example my DH eats a Chobani yogurt almost every day and we save a ton buying a big carton at Costco ... but yogurt is good for that, it lasts a long time). [/quote]

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