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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We do have fruit. Tonight it’s cherries (the last of last week’s sale at our local Giant - $1.99 a pound).  [b]If someone wants a handful of nuts, slice of cheese, more fruit or steamed veggies they have it with dinner or about an hour after dinner[/b]. Is the above poster saying (who did the recipe analysis that my dinner is or isn’t adequate)?  Seems fine for us.

I forgot I also added 2 onions. It made a huge portion. I needed two casserole sized dishes to put it away. [/quote]

Any chance you could post a picture?

I don't think people believe that 2 chicken drumstick/thighs + 3 sweet potatoes + 3 Yukon Gold potatoes + 2 onions + 3 carrots  could adequately feed 2 adults and 2 preteens (with enough left over for someone's lunch)[/quote]
Not PP, but why is this hard to believe? With broth in the mix, cutting up that amount of veggies would produce a huge volume of food. Throw in the extras like baguette, and I can totally buy this. Meat goes much, much further when you cook it in a stew. And potatoes take up a lot of volume and don't shrink much at all. These are pre-teen boys, not teen boys. And my guess is the parents don't eat a ton. I don't relate to PP's need to be so frugal with food, but I can totally believe she is able to be so frugal successfully.

We buy mostly organic and don't worry about sales, etc, but because we don't eat red meat, we eat a lot of veggies, and we eat vegetarian one day a week we don't spend a ton of money either (maybe $100-130/wk for a family of four). If I bought only sale food items and regular (not organic) dairy, we would spend much, much less.[/quote]

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