Thinking again

Well I am sitting here and thinking once again around here.  I know I shoulden't do the thinking but, I can't help it at all.  Well at least it will be put to good use around here.  There are alot of things to figure out and get done around here that it is not even funny.  Some way I manage to get it all done around here to say the least.  I will also be cutting the food bill once again around here.  The wierd thing is that I can do it without a problem around here.  There are places that I can get fairly cheap food and it will work better for the household here.  Part of the trick is alot of chicken around here.  Along with pasta of course.  Cooking on the cheap can be very demanding at times.  Then to cook from scratch combined with the cooking on the cheap can be totally stressfull.  There comes a point where you ask your self can I really do this and get by with working also.  I did it when I was working 80 hrs pluss a week.  This is why I say make a list out and a meal plan Then it doesen't seem to over powering at all once you get use to it all.  I still luagh about falling asleep in my plate once a week when I started all of that years ago.  What helped out alot was the discount food chains and the trusty crock pot also thru all of it.  I still use the crock pot all of the time around here.  When you have got the meal plan in place then do the shopping form the calander or notebook that you have set up for the days of the week to cook what you have down.  Now if you want lets say pancakes one morning get the bag of flour, bakeing powder, eggs, and vinilla.  It is cheaper most times to get the items seperate also than to get the pre mix stuff.  I have done the powdered milk along with the regular milk in the pancake mix.  Now with the items that I have stated for the pancake mix seperated, there are many uses for that stuff for other meals also in the household.  I also get at least 2 bags of rice a month for my household while I am at it all.  Between the cassaroles and regular rice it works for my place also.  Yes I do have a rice steamer/cooker around here.  It is one of the appliances that I refuse to get arid of.  Alot of times I want rice and steamed veggies around here for dinner or supper when I do not have any leftovers to eat.  It is easier on me to use the rice cooker for alot of things here than heating up eather of the ovens also.  Rice has came down in price over the year around here.  When some folks tell me out in the stores that what I picked up is not enough to last on with the month in thier household, it will last in my household for the month.  I have became creative at times to feed the household around here to say the least over the years.  Now with some things that have went on yes I was on the food stamps at one time up here in NY State.  What we did was that the food pantries along with the stamps helped out in more ways than one.  Now with that being said around here I had to learn in how to become creative on what I had for the month around here.  There were lots of rice, beans, and tomatos that I ended up getting.  Years later that is why I got the rice cooker for the household.  With some things that folks will not do to feed thier households I do here.  Now there are the store brands also to cook with along with coupons for the name brands.  With that being said there are ways of doing alot to feed the place.  Sometimes yes I do pick up the better stakes for the household.  It only happends about 3 times a year.  Birthdays and aniverseries that is it.  Otherwise there is alot of chicken and burger floating around in the freezers here.  Pluss pork is fairly cheap in NY also.  I can really laugh about it now becuase it was a huge change for us both to revamp the household for the cheaper cuts of meat.  When I started all of this off my Husbans sister would get mad at me around here.  Now with the both of us working it was a treat once a month to have a good cut of beef here in the place.  Since I am not working it got cut to 3 times a year around here.  I would give the poor man the look of death when his sister would start in on a few things and that is how she came up with the "Rich Bitch" for me at one time.  I am and was at the time cheaper than she is and was before she passed on.  Since I do watch what I spend at the stores around here at all times and have a mental count of what I can spend around here.  There are staples in every place around here as in every house hold.  Anyway I have found salt pork at the one meat market that I always go to.  I have several recipies that call for salt pork around here.  I can not wait to try some things out around here.  That is one of the things around here that my Hubby does not mind at all around here.  When some turn thier noses up at what is on the table  at all times.  Around here it's eat it or starve eather way I do not care.  I know alot of kids and adults that will not eat something at all.  Some should be thankfull that they diden't grow up where I did.  Today was one of them cheap days at the meat market.  Under 30 dollars for several things that I did pick up for the can.