by Millie Copper | Dec 26, 2010 | Eating Real Food and Working, Meal Plans
I’m coming up on a busy season here. I have a couple of temporary jobs lined up, one of them being a long term temp job plus it is tax season for my bookkeeping job. In addition, I received a surprise phone call earlier in the week that will end up being a very...
by Millie Copper | Nov 29, 2009 | food thoughts, frugal options, Meal Plans, Starting Out
I have been using meal plans/menus for a couple of years now. When I worked a full time job outside the home it helped so much to be able to know in advance what we were having instead of standing at the fridge at 4:30 hoping to have something thrown together before...
by Millie Copper | Dec 4, 2009 | Shopping Trip
I’ve been thinking that if I’m going to call this blog Real Food for Less Money that I really should share with you not only what we eat but what we spend and where we buy it. Fair warning, these posts might be extremely boring. But I think that I would...
by Millie Copper | Dec 14, 2009 | Shopping Trip
> I’ve added to our food spending for the month of December. The picture below shows some of the items from one store stop. I actually forgot to get a picture until everything was already put away so I grabbed out what I could remember. Total spent that day...
by Millie Copper | Oct 26, 2009 | Meal Plans
I have been tracking what we spend on food during the month of October. As of last Sunday we had spent $439 on food for October. This week we added $173, for a new total of $612. This week was pretty high for one main reason. It was my birthday over the weekend and...
by Millie Copper | Nov 4, 2009 | Shopping Trip
Month two of my Once A Month Shopping. I went to two different stores this month. Baby Christopher was with me but so was my married daughter Angel. I’m so glad that she went along. At the first store (Smith’s), I ended up having to get a second cart and...