Budget Gone...
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Brandie 
713 posts
Posted 4 months ago
I can’t stay on budget anymore. I try so hard, but it can’t be done. I am buying more expensive food – food that is grown locally, that is organic, etc, etc and so now we need to decide what is more important – the money or what we are eating.
Ug. It is feeling overwhelming and hard to manage. I want to feed my family healthy foods. I am trying to find a balance between the two. Like maybe organic meat once a week, non-organic meat another night and meatless the rest of the week? Or to stretch meals as far as they can go.
::sigh:: Anyone else trying to balance this?
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Becki
693 posts
Posted 4 months ago
We are having this exact problem. I am looking forward to the summer, when I can go to the farmer’s market and grow some of my own vegetables, but otherwise it is a struggle. We are not extravagant people, but the price of everything has gone up so much. I really want to buy organic milk, but at almost six dollars a gallon, I really balk at the price. I know some people would say, “Give up two lattes a week at Starbucks, and use the savings to buy the organic milk! Isn’t your family more important?” But, uh, honey? I gave up the lattes at Starbucks two years ago.
We are, for health as well as money purposes, using meat as an accent to more meals, as opposed to as the centerpiece. We did have a ham (non-organic, sigh) for Easter, but last night I made ham-bean soup (of which I froze two quarts for future meals) and the rest is being chopped up for use in omelets and casseroles. My husband marveled at how I picked that ham bone clean.
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Brandie
713 posts
Posted 4 months ago
Becki – same thing – I want the organic milk too. Here a gallon is 7 dollars (on sale!)
W don’t do any lattes around here either. Things are tight. I think they will get tighter. But summer will be a big help for us as well – we are planning a huge garden this year and I get to take the things my parents don’t sell home for free (from their farm stand). The only down side is it is not all grown organically – but oh well. They will be fruits and veggies mostly locally grown and it’s better than nothing.
But I also want to bulk up over the summer – go pick fruits and veggies in bulk from local farmers and blanch, freeze, jam, mash, cut, chop, etc and have them to see us through the winter. Because doing things like that has to help I think.
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