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It HAS been as low as that but not all the time. But it had not been over $3 at aldis before EVER.
I work part time as a s School Crossing guard. Its a great LITTLE job. We really feel it in the summer when I don't get that $$$.
My check pays the small water bill, groceries and my horses hay etc.
SO In summer I go out ONCE a week for errands THATS it!
We stock up throughout the year with good deals from DHs store and then in the summer we slide by with 100.00 every 2 weeks. It makes it challenging and kids are none too happy that they don't get all the stuff they would like. I say wait till we go back to school ALL the time.
I had JUST decided I was not going to get 2 boxes of cereal this time because between the cereal and the milk, its an expensive "snack" that doesn;t fill you up for long.
But the cheese... We have eggs a lot for either breakfast or lunch and I really like colby jack in my eggs. DD LOVES to make herself tortillas with "a LOT" of cheese so I am forever the cheese police!
Butter is used mostly as a condiment and coo with pam. BUT I do bake and while I work to find recipes with oil instead of butter, butter is in more recipes than oil.
So I/we DO cook from scratch BUT the staples are going up, almost enough to make prepackaged cheaper.
Will say that in summer when I am off, we grill most every day as I don;t want to heat up kitchen (unless it rains and cools us down). so it usually meat on the grill one side or starch and salad. AND THAT keeps me/us from gaining weight over summer. Dh gets very good deals on meat and stocksup my freezer. So meant is never a problem.
Oh yea bacon was high enough that I passed it up and we usually have breakfast for dinner once every 2 weeks.
~I~ am really looking forward to school going back so I can get a paycheck again! I do believe I have scrounged all the scrap metal and found all the extras to sell on
ebay.
