Check out this blog! One of Jason's friends, Marissa, started it pretty recently and we have been loving her recipes!!
The point of the blog is to show how it's easy to eat healthy and organic without spending a ridiculous amount of money. I love it because we are total food snobs. I love love love New Seasons and even when I was on food stamps, I refused to eat cheap gross food. But I am trying to spend a little less on groceries every month, and I love her blog because it gives us awesome dinner ideas that are relatively inexpensive, but still healthy and made from good stuff.
So far we've tried the squash and mole tacos (AMAZING! and don't skip the cotija!), the pork loin with cherry wine sauce, the albondigas soup, and tonight Ben and I made the crepes with blueberries (except we substituted raspberries because I had some in the freezer). So yummy!
Her blog has inspired me to try to plan our meals a little more in advance, too. We usually decide what we want for dinner a few hours ahead of time, head to the store and get what we want to make, and cook it. This requires going to the store basically every day. And it gets expensive.
It worked fine for us until recently, but lately I've decided it takes way too much time to make 6 or 7 grocery trips with a newborn and Ben and oh yeah the whole law school thing. So this week I went shopping on Sunday, and other than picking up some milk yesterday when we ran out I haven't been back to the store (for food, anyway). Amazing!! Last night I made tuna casserole from THINGS tHAT WERE ALREADY AT MY HOUSE! And I hadn't even planned it. I'm so proud. ha. Oh and last weekend we ate leftovers. Twice. Usually we are horrible about eating leftovers, we always mean to but once you've eaten something, its hard to be in the mood for it again for a while. Or at least it is for me. Also, I've been trying to force myself to get things at Fred Meyer when I can, except usually not meat. I have bought their organic chicken, but other than that I go to New Seasons for the meat.
Tomorrow is chicken and green chile enchiladas, and I'm going to try this again next week. I'm already thinking I need to try the butternut squash mac n cheese. and the chilaquiles.
2 comments:
Would you stop with all the cool blogs? I'm going to have to marry blogger. With the amount of blogs I read Chris and Penny are for sure going to walk out! But actually, Chris is the chef in our house and he'll love this. We have a local co-op that opened 3 blocks from our house...almost all the food is from local farms. Love it and willing to pay the extra price.
ooh, I'm excited to check out your friend's blog! I love this stuff - getting food organized! :) I'm so proud of you! It is SO satisfying to enjoy economical and delicious and healthy meals. Yaay! Any tips for good food stamp buys? I'm applying!!
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