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Let's talk about budgets!

My husband and I decided to live as frugally as possible in order to save more for our future and our children's future. We’ve done this for most of our marriage - but I think this is the first month where i’ve been 100% on top of the budget and not spent anything outside of what we agreed - WOW! Talk about HARD!!

What’s the smallest budget you’ve ever had for food for a week? And how many people were you feeding? I have to take a moment to brag - and also to show my thanks to my family. The last two weeks combined we had about $10.00 to spend on groceries. Last week we were able to have fajitas, chicken and rice and even some apple pie - plus food for all the other days - all under $5.00. I’M SO PROUD OF MYSELF!! But, I couldn’t have done it without peppers and tomatoes from my sister in law's garden, thanks sis! Or fresh apples from my grandma's apple trees - FRESH APPLES! Doesn't get any better than that!

We ran out of tortillas, our bread flour, and white flour last week. So I made homemade tortillas from wheat flour and grinding up some barley for barley flour. For the pie crust I found some almond meal in my cupboards, then I ground some flax seed for a binder (did you know that flaxseed can be used as an egg substitute! SO COOL!) and some more of our wheat flour. The pie crust actually turned out to be something I liked more than other pie crusts I’ve had before.

I TOTALLY STAYED IN MY BUDGET, tried new things, and still made really tasty foods for my family. Go me

P.s. so all of you don’t think we don’t have money - we actually have enough to buy food for a month - I just made a costco trip AND a winco trip the first part of the month.. Leaving me with $10 for the last half of the month. Yeah.. that probably wasn’t the smartest move.

I worked on some art today - I feel pretty good about that too. My art teacher sent me home with homework - to do my own color wheel - but to do one with both warm and cool color of all the primary colors. It was fun to see that a cool yellow with a warm blue is what gives us the green we think of as “green” but is so hard to find in nature. A warm yellow with a cool blue gives a different kind of green.

Then she had me mix the complimentary colors together to see what that did to the colors. Well.. you can see for yourself what happened. Who knew you could get so many colors with 6 original colors? And I’m sure you could get even more than what I put down. It was a fun two hours.

..ok .. just kindding. you can't see the picture. at least not on this post. I can't seem to post pictures on this part of my blog. so i'll just post it in my gallary. It's not overly exciting - but still a fun afternoon.