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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks pp. I do not have eating issues and I am not a cheapskate. I do however like to make meals and trips to the store stretch. So I don't like to go to the grocery multiple times a week. I am doing grocery shopping today and I have spent about $100 at giant, $30 at whole foods and $150 at harris teeter. Tonight I am making the wings they want. I have 40 wings marinating now and I'm also making salad, iced tea, and a manicotti. [/quote]

Then you have not been paying attention.  I average about  $300 weekly (combined Sam's club and supermarket) weekly for a family of 2 adults and 2 preschoolers.  You have 2 adults, 2 teens and 2 grade schoolers and you are spending about the same amount.

Despite what people have been telling you, the meal you are preparing is enough for half of your family.  Unless you are making 3 9x12 dishes of manicotti, you won't have enough food for your family and you can expect that they will want pizza again a couple of hours after dinner--exactly what your original posting 3 weeks ago complained about.

So, if you do not have eating issues and are not a cheapskate, why are you preparing so little food for your family tonight?  If you really want to make trips to the store stretch, why did you buy so little?  To make the trip stretch, you should be buying more, not the same amount.  Otherwise, while you are making the grocery trips stretch, you are also augmenting with additional calls for takeout and delivery pizza to the house.

It is boggling to me why you continue to post here if you have no intention of following any of the advice you were given.  You made some small improvements the first week or two and made much more food than you were comfortable with, and your family still polished off all of the food you made without leftovers and now instead of continuing to increase the amount of food, you regressed and made less food again?  You even saw them eat at the buffet for Mother's Day and they ate for an eternity, so clearly much longer and much more food than you thought and today you made less food?  I guarantee that if they ate for so long at the buffet that they were eating a lot more than 6-7 wings each and a scoop of manicotti.[/quote]

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