More Chicken Soup for the Pocketbook

Chocolate Pecan Pie *

We have a low-cal cheap quiche that it going into it's second night.  I've also made some of my chicken soup with found everything and a big pot of homemade broth with chicken leftover from a Dr. Atkins low-carb menu.  We'll finish the quiche for breakfast and the chicken soup for lunch. 


Leverage your cooking.  One of the ways to do that is to read the grocery ads and cook for the week by buying the specials.  For example, this week our supermarket had steak, chicken breasts and kielbasa on sale.  Roast beef in the deli.  Baby carrots and slice mushrooms.  Hey, those would be good with steak.  Some spaghetti sauce over the chicken and you have the makings of chicken parm.  The Kielbasa lends itself to grilling or cooking in a big heap of saurkraut and veggies.  Cheap veggies, like carrots, potatoes and onion.  Yukon Golds were on special.  Good with steak and with kielbasa.  Fruit salad with strawberries, bananas, apple and oranges.  All on sale.  Make a dinner salad with oranges, too.  Maybe a rice pudding using on sale milk.  Go for it!  


Every week I save between $10 and $25 by using coupons and buying specials.  And we eat well, thank you, with very few processed foods.   You can, too.  It takes a bit of menu planning, and this you can do during commercials or whenever.  Doesn't take a lot of time.  $25 a week is $1300 a year.     That's a new computer, a nice little vacation or money socked away in the savings account.  Or just eking along to get by.  Healthy eating, too.  You can do this.   Give it a whirl. 

* Pecans were a gift, chocolate left over from holiday baking, homemade crust.  Every now and then we all deserve a treat.  Remember that nuts, while not low-cal, are nutritious.  


The Cheeseparer