Today was spent making food. Andrea and I worked on a big pot of chili, then she made a potato salad, then I made the remaining pinto beans into a big thing of refried beans for our daily mexican lunches. You see, a few months ago Andrea started a lunchtime ritual known as "Mexican Mush" (for a short time nicknamed "Taco Pudding" by yours truly. Now commonly referred to as simply "Mushy Mushy"). Essentially this consists of the burrito essentials minus meat: rice, beans, salsa, cheese, sour cream, with occasional additions of guacamole and black olives. Mix it all together and fill into your preferred tortilla. Delicious and simple.
This started as a cheap lunch for her when she was home alone and wanted something quick and easy. Now we all eat it. As such, we buy almost everything in bulk. Sam's Club has become our grocery store. Cheese, sour cream, beans, and tortillas are all bought in bulk. We home-make our salsa from ingredients bought in bulk as well. And then there's rice. Rice is cheap on it's own, but it's ridiculously cheap from Sam's. 50 pound bags for roughly 20 bucks. It's just a matter of finding a place to store it. We took one of those big plastic containers that had Christmas decor in it, washed it out, and filled it with those little white grains. The mothership resides in our closet upstairs, with an old plastic coffee can downstairs for quick kitchen access.
We've definitely adapted well to budgeting, whether it's the bank account or space around the house. It's amazing how much money you save on food living like this.
Wow, did I just ramble for multiple paragraphs about buying and storing food? I hope it's interesting.
- Jeff
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It's way interesting! I <3 Costco... but now living back with my mom there isn't much need for it. But every now and then I go in just to pretend I was shopping..... lame I know.
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