Let the fun begin

Today starts the Hell week as I call it around here in the can.  Pulling stuff and cooking for Thursday is not going to be fun for me.  Plus I get to teach my Niece in how to do alot of things around here for the holidays starting this year.  That is the funny part about the whole thing in my place a huge dinner on the cheap.  With some things around here I know what I have to do either way I go.  Now with the turkey I will get another 3 when Friday comes because it will be at rock bottom prices once again.  With that being said this is why alot of us hit the grocery stores at the end of the holidays around the area that are trying to get lower prices for the household.  I know that one of the girls in the doctors office has 5 children in the household as of now.  I know what the food bill runs for my place and I know she drops alot more for her crew than what I do around here for mine.  And yes I gave the woman the one site that I go to for hints of what to cook for dinner every so often that is low cost cooking.  It seems like when the gas prices go up so does everything else.  So if some use just one recipe off of http://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/ then it is a start of saving money for the household.  With myself I do cook with alot of onions, garlic, pasta, flour, and rice.  My Niece looked at me last night and asked if it was my famous rice dish that she loves so much here.  I looked at her and said no its the noodle stuff that ya like and tough cookies.  Well that sent out the laughter in the can.  The rice stuff will get done next month around the place to say the least since we will have turkey for a week.  Now I know alot of folks that have been trying to stretch out the dollars around the area and they have not been able to do it hardly.  I get it done in many ways around here by cutting back and several other things for the household.  It was somewhat hard at first around here when I got started and knew I had to do alot of what I had read on the sites.  So I cut the laundry supplies down to start with for the household.  Then it came to the food budget also while I was at it all.  I went to coupons and sales for the groceries for the place and did very well with that part of it all.  There were times where I got groceries for the week or month off of the bottle deposits around the area.  Well now I know that I am on overload this week for the place.  Besides the normal stuff and all the extras to say the least.  Oh well I will manage somehow around here.