Shaking my head

Well on the food network here today they are talking about the most bang for the buck in the kitchen at this point.  I have all of them beat except for maybe 2 that have shows on the channel and I may have them beat to snot at times also in my place.  Ok so I can laugh about the stone soup at this point here since I made it more times than I can count and have learned totally here in what to do to streach out the food dollars along with the other dollars for the household here also.  Since I was really broke at 16 and started cooking that way also for 3 kids and a husband at the time you tend to do what you can to streach the dollars and get really good at it also.  That is how I knew to hit some places for the soup bones also around the area along with other things for the household.  Also there was alot of pasta floating around the household at the time while I was at it all.  Now there is rice, pasta, beans, potatoes, onions, caned tomatoes, along with flour, yeast, baking powder, garlic, and butter sticks.  There are ways to cook on the cheap and alot of the times it is better for you than other ways of cooking also.  Also I have the powdered milk in the household so I can use that also for cooking here.  It drives some nuts when I do use the stuff but it also works here for the place while I am at it all.  So now at this point some have reminded me that I can cook out of what I have here in the household totally.  When you get either totally broke or can not get up to the store all of the time with either health reasons, weather, and you get the point look in what you have around the household.  I have made a ton of meals just from what I have had on hand here.  Over at the trailer yes at one point we were on food stamps.  One social worker asked if we could barrow money off of someone for food and I started laughing and said fine I will hit your household and raid your fridge and pantry then.  At that point I had about 10 dollars for the month for everything.  So I got good about some things around the trailer at the time and when some finally realized in what I was doing to feed the trailer since one totally busted me going to the dumpster at that point she pushed it all thru for us.  When I found out that she seen me doing what I had to do for stone soup around the trailer at the time I laughed.  So it worked and got the place going again with meats and other things.  All I can do is laugh about some things and remember what I did by the end of the month around the trailer.  I still pull out the old tricks every so often for the house here and it works still to this day when I do not feel like going to the stores at all.  Also now some have not got that I can still cook on the very cheap and will continue to do so around here totally.  There are times where I go with pasta salads for the week and eat off of that at times.  When the neighbors found out that I could cook around the house here it was even better.  Some did not like in where I shopped at and that is ok still here untill they got use to it all.