I never thought I'd write a post like this, Senor Dog used to cook, or we went out, but things have changed.
This Saturday, a friend and his wife came in from Europe. We don't see them very often, so we went out. Like usual, we picked a nice place. A few pitchers of margaritas later, the bill was $130. There was awkwardness with the lay-off, they reached for it, but I insisted on just splitting it, like we always did. But $65 plus tip really blew my non-existent food budget. That $65 really stung. I can't say I even noticed it before.
So, today, I tried to be frugal with my food.
Breakfast: poached egg, turkey bacon $3
Lunch: Costco brand Slimfast plus frozen burrito $4
Dinner: I made a big batch of this soup, sweet potato and peanut. The whole batch, with some for tomorrow, was maybe $10. I have a cilantro plant, and all of those things are cheap in Texas. This soup was incredible! FB always links to this guy's food, and I see why now! Wow!
So, I'm watching for cheap food. It's been a while since I had time to cook. It feels fun again!
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5 comments:
Kevin ROCKS.
He is incredible with his recipes because he makes it seem so easy and simple (lol).
Cooking is one of my great pleasures too, but not as great as it is for BF -- he practically hustles me out of the kitchen and there's just no room for 2 cooks LOL.
Cooking is the bomb. Have fun!
Your comment stream appears to have fallen off. I hope you come up with something controversial again soon! Thrifty dinners are not cutting it! ;oD
I am really sorry you lost your job but I can tell I'm really going to enjoy reading about your journey.
I enjoyed reading it before but it is always interesting to see a new perspective.
Ahahha I saw that recipe too and I am dying to try it!
I love that site, I just can't keep up with all the fantastic recpies, my google reader has about a billion stars for me to go back and read... most of them are his recipes!
Between Closet Cooking and A Year of Crockpotting I am quickly learning how to cook incredible food! :)
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