Don't forget the fresh stuff!

All suggestions posted area great.  Don't forget to add in fresh stuff.  A head of iceberg lettuce is pretty inexpensive most days, especially with summer coming.  How about getting seeds and planting a garden?  You can start the seeds indoors right about now and they'll be ready to go outside in a month or so.

This is a great site, too.

http://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/index1.htm

Lots of really good frugal ideas.

I just bought a bunch of stuff to make breakfast burritos with - which is one of my favorite food groups.  24 eggs, a large package of Jimmy Dean sausage, 2 bags of cheese, 1 large tub of red chile, 30 tortillas and 5 pounds of potatoes only cost $22 and change.  I figure I'll get at least 25, possibly 30 burritos out of it.  I'm assembling them and sticking them in the freezer as one of my projects today.

• Food budgets - need ideas - anony
  • I practically live on pasta salads. (sm) - Topaz
    • Topaz, the ingredients you use make my mouth water - That sounds marvelous
  • alternative forms of protein - deenibeeni
    • Anyone who can make bread for 35 cents/loaf is a wizard in my book, deenibeeni! nm - TechSupport
    • legumes & grains should really be minimal in your diet for best health, as should most of the choice - Deb -
      • I agree about minimal dairy, but nothing wrong with grains IMO (unless you're a raw foods faddist - errrr?
  • try this - everything in this book tastes good
  • I feed the 6 of us - tmt
  • going to add to the list - mt55
  • Thanks everyone - every one of these ideas are excellent - anony
    • When you run really low -- spaghetti!!! - fiddlestix
  • Here is a link for you anony - budget meals - free newsletter....
  • A few ideas . . . - Suggestions
  • Start with what's on sale and build from there ... sm - ChuckM
    • Don't forget the fresh stuff! - Happy MT Robin
      • Yeah, I meant fresh stuff when I said on sale, but didn't .... sm - ChuckM
        • $4 a head?!?! - Happy MT Robin
          • Yeah, $4 a head. sm - ChuckM

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I had a hankerin for a coconut a few weeks ago so I bought one.  Hadn't had one since I was a kid.  I drilled the holes in the 'eyes' and drank the coconut juice inside.  Then I pryed out the meat, meticulously peeled the brown junk off it with a knife, and ate a whole bunch.  Okay, my husband and I both at the whole thing in one sitting it was sooooo yummy!  The next day...well, all I'm gonna say is that I am thankful we have 2 bathrooms and were fully stocked on TP.  We weren't sick mind you, just incredibly cleaned out.  The coconut juice, which only I drank, acted like a diuretic and I think I peed every hour on the hour--and incredible amount each time at that. 

I have chronic constipation too because I hate to drink water.  I tend to stay borderline dehydrated myself.  The chemical laxatives just plain wreak havoc and are very painful and inconvenient to put it nicely.  I'd go with better diet, water, and fruits before I'd go with pills if at all possible.  Hope she feels better soon!

He had such loving parents these last months of his life and you did everything you could for him. 

At the cremation place they gave me this card.

The Rainbow Bridge

Just this side of heaven is a place called the Rainbow Bridge.  When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to the Rainbow Bridge.

There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together.  There is plenty of food, water, and sunshine and our friends are warm and comfortable.  All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor.  Those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in or dreams of days and times gone by.  The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing, they each miss someone very special to them who had to be left behind.  They all run and play together but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance.  Their bright eyes are intent.  Their eager body quivers.  Suddenly they begin to run from the group, flying over the green grass, their legs carrying them faster and faster.  You have been spotted and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again.  The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.

Then you cross the Rainbow Bridge together...

parsley.  Sometimes I will add just a touch of mustard.  Any way I make them they seem to turn out good.  I usually just make them with egg white instead of the whole egg, but sometimes will add the egg yolk as well.  I love salmon and make it frequently for myself as well. 

Drizzled over the fruit that browns will keep it from browning...or at least I think anyway.  Never take cooking advice someone who messes up hard boiled eggs.

to go to the bottom and click on Table of Contents....There's tons of nostalgic info that'll throw you into the way-back machine.  Cat 

I am certain that the pic post was not supposed to be just the HTML code.  Sorry for all of the mess I guess it is too early for me to figure out

This was created by a 15-year-old named Lizzy Palmer.  It's really something.

   http://www.youtube.com/v/ervaMPt4Ha0&autoplay=1 
 

My mother wrapped a box, and inside was a telephone.  I was a little confused, as this was WELL before the days of cell phones.  It was my own phone line for my room.  Now in the day and age of kids having cell phones, that isn't probably a wonderful idea, but it's certainly cheaper than a cell phone, you have more control over it, she can't lose it... And if your DD doesn't have a cell phone of her own, it's still a pretty durn cool present. 

But what do I know?  I haven't been cool since about 1989...