There should be a word for the type of one-handed Internet surfing you do when you're nursing a baby in the middle of the night. Nurfing? Sursing? I don't know. It usually leads me to Craigslist, where I temporarily contemplate buying someone else's crap.
But sometimes I find a treasure. Like this list of money-saving food tips I stumbled upon last night.
J and I are always trying to find ways to cut back on the grocery bill. His solution is to eat chicken. Just chicken. Until it's gone. Baked, with salt and pepper. Nothing on the side. This is the same guy who in college, back when people thought high-carb diets were the way to go, would eat pancakes all the time. No butter. No syrup. Just pancakes.
Myself, I require a bit more culinary diversity.
It's hard, though, getting dinner on the table sometimes. Tonight was super special--I added tomatoes, turkey and mozzarella to the mac & cheese.
Ugh.
There's a new plan in the works, though. Three friends and I are going to start meeting once a month to exchange meals. We each will prepare two different dinners for the three other families. The meals will go straight to our freezers, so they'll be on hand whenever we're in a pinch. Love it. Love it.
My sister-in-law does something similar. Every week she and three other friends cook for each other. Monday is Susie's night (I made that name up, in case you couldn't tell), Tuesday is Sally's night, etc. On your night, you're responsible for making dinner for everyone and delivering it. Then, three other nights during the week you get to enjoy a home-cooked, delivered-to-your door dinner. We've been the recipients of those dinners from time to time, and they're quite tasty.
Does anyone else do something similar?
The photo below is of my mom's recipe for what we simply called "Italian soup" growing up. As you can see, I didn't plan well and ended up with an overflowing pot o' food. Turned out OK. We've eaten about half the batch so far. The rest is in the freezer.
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