Garden and Home Life by Lori Seaborg

A New Perspective on Frugal Eating

Because of circumstances beyond our control, we are really tight this month financially. 

Like any circumstance, I can choose to look at this time as an inconvenience or a blessing. 

Of course, my natural self wants to view this time as an inconvenience, but with just a touch of curiousity and ingenuity, it becomes a blessing of a time as I lose focus on myself and start seeing what a great opportunity I've been given to make some needed changes:

Over the years, I've been wanting to start baking bread regularly, but it was just too convenient to grab a loaf at the grocery store....

....but now that I don't have a choice, I'm finding that bread baking really can fit into a busy day, and it can be easily done with the right attitude and a bit of organization.

I've been wishing that we ate healthy all the time, not just some of the time, but it was too easy to just grab fast food or convenience items because they were, well, convenient...

....but now that I can't afford fast food and convenience items, I'm able to start our entire family on a crash-diet of healthy eating.  And every is surprising me by loving it!

I've been wanting to try new recipes, but I kept falling into the same old rut of cooking the same things every day...

....but now that I have to watch our money, I am cooking more from scratch, and I am trying out new recipes to keep our menu interesting.

I've wished that I would meal plan, but since money wasn't a concern, I would just buy whatever groceries I wanted and we'd eat them whenever we wanted....

....but now that I need to watch that our food stretches for the week, I have had to make menu plans.  It is nice knowing what I am cooking ahead of time, as this helps me with time management.

It is when you have little that you realize you have quite a lot of something.

Thank you...

10:27, Saturday, January 21, 2006 .. Posted by SimplifiedLife

dear friend, your post has truly blessed me today for I find myself in a similar situation.

In God's awesomeness, He has again chosen the simple things to confound the would be wise. I am humbled and blessed by the simplicity of it all.

Maybe we can swap recipes to keep things interesting for both of us. Now I'm off to figure out how to fix the oven, so we can have homemade bake goodies again. Stop by anytime.

Have a great weekend.

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10:05, Tuesday, January 24, 2006 .. Posted by JoyceFamily

Yup, there's nothing quite like a well-timed kick in the pants to get us on track! Looking forward to more of your posts here, Lori!
Eleanor

I love these thoughts!

07:49, Thursday, February 2, 2006 .. Posted by Anonymous

I too have found bread baking will fit into the day. Even the weekdays when I am off at school teaching most of the day. babysteps