I just read my friends blog
HERE and she mentioned me. My comment was way too long to post as a comment and I started laughing while I wrote it out so I decided to copy her idea of her blog and do it too.
To Lara: (spoken in teenager "like hello" tone of voice) Yaaah.....hello!?
We have little kids but we still go through:
21 bananas min/week
10-15 apples,
42 yogurts,
2 bags of granola,
we've banned the kids from cold cereal because they go through 3 boxes a week and waste a cumulative total of 3/4 to half a box that gets left in the bowl all yuck and soggy (That adds up to 20 bucks a month!!!)
2kgs of oats/month
10kg of flour every 2 months
3 bags of brown sugar and I get the demerera or best brown stuff - $$
4kg frozen chicken breasts/month
3 family packs of ground beef/month
3 pizzas every week or so (Costco frozen ones)
1 lasagna/week
I think I buy granola and oatmeal bars every 5 days
2 best buy cheese from Safeway every week and now I think I need to switch to the behemoth one from Extra Foods,
4L of milk every 2 days,
2L of soy milk every 3 days,
30 dollars in misc fresh fruits and veg/week
now a box of oranges every 3-4 days,
a pack of spaghetti or 2 bags of pasta every week
10lbs of potatoes
HUGE bag of rice every month,
oh salad dressing; 3 bottles every 2 weeks, plus a 16 serving bag of salad every week nowadays
3 loaves of bread and 2 dozen buns (and THANKS be to God for free Cobs bread products from the church across the street and 4 properties down)
oh gosh does it end?
No?! and yep Lara! I see my future quite clearly with the two preteens who eat like teens, and teens, for those who do not know, eat like 1.5-2.5 adult portions and the little kids are still in the "serve a small amount and they might eat it or....not" and if they eat more, it's like a 2/3 portion for an adult plus they eat like ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL morning...all the toddler, preschool, K aged kids moms say WORD!!!
I think of myself and Denise and Lara and Kristen because we all either have kids who eat A LOT or just a large number of children.... can I get my chef hat and responded to like Jamie Oliver or Gordon Ramsey, I promise to stop swearing so much ;)
So let's also think about cleaning up all of that; dishwasher detergent that we go through because we are a team playing family who's older children are responsible for dishes and they use too much......or uh, newest found awe inspired thought is LAUNDRY det..... this is the 3rd one to come into the house that I said as I read it on my list at Costco, "didn't I JUST get this last time I was here?!" and last week I decided that now indeed it is worth it to save the 9 bucks every time and get the Kirkland one.....
PS the last time I bought canned soup I almost wanted to scream at how much it cost and how little there was
Homemade soup equation is great though. Eat roasted chickens costing around 10 bucks (1.5 worth of chicken meat to be fair) boil the bones with salt for 2 or 6 hours. Take out bones. That cost me the cost of the water (it's filered), the salt and not the chicken because I could have thrown it away. Then the 10 dollars of carrots, onion and celery and the left over chicken (or not) and a dozen free buns..... I LOVE making that meal! OH! I made salmon chowder with an 8 dollar fish the other day. I used better than boullion, which is 7 dollars for the jar and makes like 10 of my soups and other than that I added the veggies and meat... Soup can never be bought again becuase of the $$$$ of it but also because I don't like the canned ones anymore....
Who's next....
