Food Budget Help!

[dewey]

Maybe there's more to it than meets the eye.

eta: I didn't cry but I can assure you we went out to eat when one time the mr. made a delicious upscale salad for our dinner (I usually did most of the cooking) after I'd worked a double shift and had eaten nothing since the day before. Are ya kiddin' me? Salad for me after he'd eaten lobster & all kinds of rich french foods all day at work?? I think not.

 

[Elite Silkies]

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My hubby was a Chef Instructor with a world renowned culinary school...there's no shame in using recipes...they are our friend.

Oooooooooooohhhh.............. quit rubbing it in our faces

Lucky you! Does he make all that pretty looking food? I love the Iron Chef!

 

[BusyBlonde]

Get her to say what she wants/likes. Try some recipes. I know I'll be glad to give you some, as would others here. If she isn't willing to try them, and still wants to cry/not eat, it might be time to re-evaluate what's going on. Could be some passive/aggressive behavior, and if you can't afford to take her out to whatever restaurant she wants, that could be a problem. Also could be your idea of good food that you make isn't her idea of good, and if you follow a different recipe she might like it. My husband didn't understand everyone wasn't as fond of highly-spiced (hot) food as he was, and after wasting a few batches of HOT, HOT wings he figured out what everyone else could eat!

 

[cajun Rabbit]

I am new here, and so is the OP so I don't want to step on toes when I say "you can pick your own butt, and wipe your spouses, but you should never do either to another person or their spouse" (if he wants all that drama, that is up to him/them)

that being said

I agree with debiraymond, but that is just me. I taught my wife how to cook, among other things. Not because she was stupid or didn't know what she was doing, but rather because I had the skill to share, and she is my choice partner in life. maybe you can share the joy of cooking and you too can teach your partner a skill that is so valuable that we will literally DIE with out it....

 

[dewey]

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My hubby was a Chef Instructor with a world renowned culinary school...there's no shame in using recipes...they are our friend.

Oooooooooooohhhh.............. quit rubbing it in our faces

Lucky you! Does he make all that pretty looking food? I love the Iron Chef!

I should have said my "was" hubby.

But, yes, all kinds of beautiful, yummy stuff including omg pastries. Though southern cooking totally intimidated him.

 

[kimisfishing]

I do alot of coupons and some days I can make dinner for 3 at the cost of less than 5.00
If it is not on sale and or I have a coupon we do not eat it.
My son and I are picky eaters so I understand.
Good luck and if you need help with coupons let me know I will glady help.
Buy the way canned veggies are on sle a lot this time of year,

They know me at the store as the coupon lady

 

[Elite Silkies]

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Oooooooooooohhhh.............. quit rubbing it in our faces

Lucky you! Does he make all that pretty looking food? I love the Iron Chef!

I should have said my "was" hubby.

But, yes, all kinds of beautiful, yummy stuff including omg pastries. Though southern cooking totally intimidated him.

My hubby says if I ever divorce him, I still have to cook for him. I can fry some chicken!

 

[dewey]

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I should have said my "was" hubby.

But, yes, all kinds of beautiful, yummy stuff including omg pastries. Though southern cooking totally intimidated him.

My hubby says if I ever divorce him, I still have to cook for him. I can fry some chicken!

Yep!

And YUM...good fried chicken is da bomb.

 

[karlamaria]

First off never shop at the stores befoe you scope out sales, and I mean sales! I never shop with out looking in every store ad, we buy a quarter beef every 5 months, it's only 2.49 a pound! So we get 2 giant boxes of meat that would cost us over , a thousand dollars and we eat steak roasts and burger. So if you can put away 100 a month for 4 months, you can buy a quarter of beef . Then you got it made, the shopping can center on potatoes, veggies, and so fourth .I but only sale items like veggies, 2 for a dollar, go to costco's to get bulk, this way it lasts way longer. Looks like you both need to do odd jobs, earn extra to get extra foods in and buy bulk beans make great soups, rice makes excellent soups, cereals and deserts. Make your own breads, search crags list or advertise free apples for the picking, then you can make apple sauces, fruits dried and freezer jams. There are lots of ways to acquire more then enough food if you shop wisely and bulk.

 

[dewey]

My son does most of his family's cooking, and he's a decent cook.

My DIL never learned to cook growing up or as a young adult. Her parents didn't cook for them at all. She's a good person & a sweetie pie.

She was busy trying to protect & raise her little siblings from the streets from the time she was a small girl and take care of her folks

in a very bad situation. Stuff happens like that sometimes.

She's learned some things over the years from hanging out at my house while I'm cooking and by calling me for "how-to's" and by having me come over to show her stuff. She did cry a few times

when my son had harsh words for her about food she'd attempted to make or that he'd made that she was not used to eating. I had a talk with him when I found out her crying and he never did that again

, and she began to learn how to cook with a more patient instructor, lol.

Funny how food can either divide or bring folks together. I like it to bring folks together.