I took this picture with guys who work in the produce department RIGHT beside me, sometimes I really think I am invisible. Nobody notices me! I really would make a great spy.
I thought last summer prices were bad! Yesterday I wanted to make an inexpensive meal that included an inexpensive salad and saw that iceberg lettuce was $2.49! Now that is insane. I ended up picking up red leaf lettuce on sale for 89 cents instead which is more like it but sometimes nothing is on sale. Nowadays the weekly sales flyer decides what I eat. Prices you can trust? Yeah right.
A cheap and easy meal I like to make when I am tired and low on funds is my mother-in-law’s Easy Chicken Divan. It is one of those retro ’70s-style a can of this, a can of that, some mayo…top with croutons and cheese and you’re done meals. Buying a $10 chicken for it was hard enough but I could not believe it when I saw that a can of cream of mushroom soup is now$1.49!
Although I really abhor the title Cheap & Easy: A Cookbook for Girls on the Go
Being a foodie is perhaps one of the most expensive hobbies these days. Great timing Suzie. I have ordered many books on this subject and will let you know if I find any gems. Times are tough for so many of us, I hope we find a way to eat healthy foods without breaking the bank.
I have been missing in action for so long and trying to catch up with everyone – just updated my blog if you want to check it out – love your blog – I am catching up slowly but surely – that lettuce is crazy in price – geesh!!!
hope all is well with you and yours~!~
Yeppers, you really have to check the flyers these days. I have planted two long planters with swiss chard and a large round one with mixed lettuce greens which I hope to harvest as the summer progresses. I also managed to find some cherry tomatoes which I put into tubs. I am looking forward to harvesting some good cheap food:)
Sigh, you really have to stock up on the tinned soups when on sale, everything is going up and up.
We always buy whatever is on sale these days. My mom was just saying to me the other day, you just weren’t into baking when flour, butter, eggs and milk were cheap, but now when everything is so expensive!
Everything is so expensive! $2.49 for a head of lettuce? Yikes! Glad you’re finding books to help you out.
I study the sale ads. I know gas here is cheaper then up in Canada. We are paying $2.80 a gallon.
I know Chicken is on sale at 99 cents a pound. Seen it cheaper.
Ground beef is at $2.59 a pound.
I guess we could go on and on compare prices.
My mom used to make this real great simple recipes.
Some how she took Lipton onion soup mix.
With some pork chops and rice.
Baked in oven.
I don’t know how much liquid she used or anymore about this recipe.
Coffee is on.
Hey there! I just happened to find you again through Anna at Hoboj a Basa. I’m so glad to as it’s been a really long time and I miss blogging with you! I’m very glad to connect again.
I could definitely use advice on how to save money on food. I’ve been wondering how people are feeding whole families when I can’t even feed myself without spending a ton each week. It’s really bad in my particular neighborhood – price are wayyyy too high here! I keep trying to go back to eating healthier, but everything good for you seems to cost so much more. ESPECIALLY if it’s organic. I certainly can’t afford it right now.
Oh my goodness, it’s so funny to hear you talk about sometimes feeling invisible. I swear to God, I was just talking to some friends of mine about this very phenomenon. I was saying that sometimes I think people would try to walk right through me if I didn’t move out of their way. It happens so often that I’m really beginning to wonder what’s the deal with that. Maybe it’s just that people around here are ultra self-absorbed most of the time, I don’t know. In any case, I recently heard this line on some TV show and thought it was PERFECT. The character was talking and being ignored, so he says, outloud and to himself, “Should I use my powers of invisibility for good, or to do evil?” I thought that was a great line and have now adopted it as my own.
Really? $2.50 for iceburg lettuce? And from the US? Did you die in the store? Did they have to bring the crash team, and give you CPR? Holy crap! I thought prices were getting outta control in Ontario, where we grow a bunch of this stuff… Just again supports the fact that we have to get back down to the basics, grow our own food, can and jar it…
Last week I was in the grocery store and actually GASPED to see ordinary vegetable oil nearing $6 for a quart sz. bottle! Now figure, at that price even if I round down to $5 – a gallon is 20 bucks! Hello??????? GOOD THING we don’t use vegetable oil for fuel. I don’t even want to discuss what a small bottle of olive oil is going for…talk about forcing us to cut back on fats in nutrition.
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