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Really Cheap Dinners: The Saga Continues
Here are my hundred menus! Next step: testing!
Putting these behind a cut because it's a long list.
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Return of the Revenge of the Really Cheap Dinners
Doing another budget cooking project. My mom got interested in the Live Below The Line challenge and was costing it out, which made me think of my old projects of that nature. $2/day is a bit austere for me, so I tried to design some $2 dinners. It was great fun. If you live in an area with good grocery infrastructure so you can comparison shop ( Read more... ) -
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I always find the tail-end of summer a little depressing, but the "steady supply of home-grown tomatoes" part is pretty great. -
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Hope everyone affected by the heat wave is staying cool and hydrated!
It's the time of year when I feel really lucky to have an herb garden because I've been swilling down iced mint tea by the quart around here.
I've been working on a new pro writing project (game writing, not fiction), so that's been exciting. -
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I think the heavy emphasis on beautiful prose in isolation that I've seen in some modern lit-fic criticism may perhaps be misplaced, at least if you're talking about novels. I'm not saying that it's not worth mentioning, because it certainly is - prose quality has a strong effect on the reading experience - but it's not the measure of whether a ( Read more... ) -
What's up at Chez Floria (NOT election related)
The family is still doing cheap menu planning. This time: an experiment. Can a family of three people, with good transportation, a fully equipped kitchen, and access to a supermarket, be decently nourished on $4/person/day? It seems to be working out so far. We're eating a lot of oatmeal ( Read more... ) -
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The budget menu project has been upgraded to $3.50/day, and I decided "to heck with it" with regard to iron and calcium intake and just budgeted for vitamins. But it's done!
- I used the regular price for things - store club card discounts applied, but I didn’t allow for coupons or sales.
- I went to three stores: Safeway, Big Lots, and Trader Joe’s ( Read more... )
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My latest project is a "Can I have a balanced diet on $3.25/day?" grocery shopping and menu plan. It was a spinoff of the $2/day challenge, but I decided to up the budget a little and try for a fuller balance of nutrients instead of just adequate protein and calories ( Read more... ) -
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I finally saw The Room. It was kind of underwhelming, to be honest. It would have been a more enjoyable movie if it were a little bit worse, or at least bad in a juicier way, but as it was, I found it a little too dry and dull throughout most of it to be properly so-bad-it's-good. Maybe a drinking game would have spiced things up. Or maybe Ed ( Read more... ) -
Belated 4th of July ficlet
Post-Captain America: Civil War. Steve Rogers's birthday. And a bit of food porn, because it's me.
( Literally born on the 4th of July )