Starting the day

Well I have started the day around here in the basement already.  Between all of the drafts in the basement it is fairly cold down there and I could hear the wind already while I was at it all.  Now with for today here I will be cooking for at least part of the day and the other part is going to be down in the basement since I took off yesterday here in what I wanted to do.  With the washer already started up and dinner pulled also here for the weekend around here I have had the chance to think about some things first thing this morning.  I know it sounds wierd and it is wierd that I am always thinking on my feet around here.  I have plotted most of the day out of course and do not mind it one bit.  As I have been thinking of alot of recipies also for the household I may as well do it up cheap while I am at it from now on.  I will get alot of funny looks from now on at the store when I go do the shopping for the household.  This is what some have not got about me as of yet that have came over as of late.  There are things that I will do for the household instead of pulling something out of the box or can like some folks that I know that have came over.  With some I can understand only because the poor girl is cooking for only one in the household.  I guess this is why I try to invite the woman over more then I know she is eating a good meal also.  So now yesterday I got asked in what I do for dinner ideas for the household here by at least 2 people.  I guess it is that I always cook something like a whole chicken and some do not know what to do with the leftovers once they get done with dinner or supper.  In what I do if I have leftover veggies is that I will throw them togeather in a container or a zippy (zipper bag) and throw it into the freezer.  It helps with homemade soups and cassaroles for a later date in time.  Alot of things get used around here like that in my household.  With alot of folks that I know they do not know in what goes with what and alot of the meals are doubled and trippled thru the month in their household.  Yes I have a pizza night around my household here and it depends on what mood that I am in on the day that I want the pizza.  Also the one couple that are always crying that they are broker than snot around their place get food stamps every month and they refuse to streach in what they get a month out totally.  With alot of things here in the place I try to mix it all up for meals.  This is why I get alot of flour for the household also and getting an idea in my head of ok biscuts, pancakes, breads, waffles, and gravies for the household.  There are a ton of things you can do with powdered milk, a bag of flour, butter, bakeing powder, yeast, eggs, rice, hamberger, and chicken for meals in the household.  I know some folks have to eat 3 times a day in their households and the trick is to think smart about it.  Since I do not pick up any boxed mixes for the pancakes, waffles, biscuts, and muffins for the household here some get adjatated with what I do for that part.  So I am just wandering in how many folks that have the food stamps that really waste them on useless things instead of looking it up for a cheaper way of making things.  With myself I started this part about 10 years ago in finding ways to feed the household at dirt cheap prices and it has paid off in looking into it and snagging things off the net.  As I have sat here and thought about alot of things and have ran to some people for recipies and how they make things and do it on the cheap side for my household here some do not understand the whys of what I do also.