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Belle's Homestead challenge -entry #1: grocery budget cutting
10:11 AM, Monday, January 8, 2007
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Okay, I admit it, I am a LEECH!! I have been gleefully reading everyone's homesteading posts and taking them for my own, but I have not been very good on the reciprical. so today I will (hopefully) be posting a few homesteading tips from my household.tip #1 on grocery savings and weight loss: PORTION CONTROL need I say more? but, alas, I feel I need to in this day of super-sizing and "valuepacks." When we first got married, dh, his two bachelor bros (who came to dinner once a week), FIL (who lived with us) and I could eat a full 9x13 pan of lasagne, with enough left over for 2 lunches. I have never had a weight problem (unless you count underweight, which I was until I had children, except for a small stint living with an old Italian woman in Florence), and I was known for being able to eat A LOT. dh and bros and dad were all overweight. BIL that decided he weighed too much and dh went on a diet. what did they do? cut out all sweets for a year - but that didn't help much. what did, was PORTION CONTROL. Suddenly, they would only eat ONE piece of lasagne. I sent cut fruits and veggies to work for them (BIL works w/ dh) and that it what they would eat when they got hungry. now, this was in the heyday of Atkins, which echews carrots and fruits... but I sent strawberries and watermelon and carrot sticks and cucumber sticks and cantelope. suddenly I started to only eat ONE piece of lasagne, and I was full. now with those same 5 adults and 2 children we only eat a bread pan (9x3) of lasagne at dinner, are satiated, and still have a piece leftover for dh lunch. BIL lost A LOT of weight (I don't know the exact figure, but he looks GOOD) and dh lost 65 pounds in 9 months. so, by teaching our bodies to recognise hunger and satiated levels, we cut grocery in thirds. we remind each other not to overeat, just cuz it tastes good, and I plan meals so we do not have tons of leftovers, which means often cutting recipies in half. along with that, in casserole, soup, pasta sauces, chili, etc. I cut the meat in 1/2 or 1/3 of what the recipe calls for. we do not need that much meat. the meal tastes better, we think, and it is healthier. and cheaper. Leave a Comment { Last Page } { Page 138 of 210 } { Next Page } |
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