Feeding Your Family For Less

Ways to Spend Far Less Money

and still enjoy LIFE.

Wanna share.

Hello from The PRAIRIE.  

I'm wearing my ruby red slippers 
somewhere in the Kansas Flint Hills 
and thinking about ways to SAVE money.  

Glad you've stopped by.

Please say HELLO,

d

A meal ALWAYS taste better after having blessed it in prayer. 
While preparing items...I've lost count how many times 
I have uttered under my breath, Lord, please let this turn out.  

SERIES CONTINUES…

We still experience the atmosphere of our favorite restaurant 

when we drop in for coffee and dessert.  The expense for the meal is side stepped by eating at a less expensive location.

That's one way to cut the expense big time, 

but having a meal at my favorite restaurant is like THERAPY which from time to time I like to indulge in.  Still can share a appetizer or dessert with my DATE which cuts the cost.

By doing this, we eat less and spend less.

Mission accomplished. 

Now when back at HOME, one can save on energy and expense by using small appliances like a toaster oven or microwave.  Models with lower wattage will further your savings.

When we won the Paxico Meatloaf Festival in 2011 and 2012 

we used a ON THE COUNTER DeLonghi Convection Oven.

A full-size oven can be manipulated into cooking several dishes 

by utilizing the entire oven instead of baking just one item, but
my thoughts on OVEN and STOVE TOP cooking have changed when forced to use a small on the counter oven due to remodeling our kitchen and not having a regular size oven to use.

If you have an oven with a self-cleaning cycle, start the cleaning cycle immediately after you finish baking something while the oven is still warm.  This will use less energy to heat up to cleaning temperature.

Preheating an oven is necessary when baking dishes with short baking times.  Not so with dishes that take longer to bake.  Just place dish in oven then turn oven on.  Turkey is one exception if you want crispy skin. 

Fill a small spray bottle with olive oil or vegetable oil to make your own oil spray.  More economical than buying baking oil in a spray can.  Pinching pennies can take being creative to help the HOUSEHOLD BUDGET which in turn cuts expenses to feed your family.

CHOW.

Happy Savings,

d