Stretching Your Food Budget
Now, I don't claim to be an expert by any stretch of the imagination. However, I have seen more then my fair share of lean months. Back when dh worked at a private school his paycheck would only cover the mortgage, the car insurance and the life insurance. I had to make everything else and if I had been sick or one of the children sick then my paycheck would be short. In recent memory, I have had to feed four adults (my children are 19 and 21 now) on $50 a week. Like everyone else, who has been to the supermarket recently, I have been concerned up the steady climb of prices and the smaller packaging attached to those price tags. Most women, through choice or necessity, work outside the home now and don't have time for "cooking from scratch". At church on Sunday I heard, "well of course you can do that (I don't remember what now) you stay home all day." Now I am a SAHM due to my disability and in that I do have more time than some folks but there ...