Comments on: A Peek at Our Real Food Budget

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:52:23 +0000

Azure Standard offers drop spots all over the NW and Midwest. They drop for free within their routes. Check out their website to see if you live in an area where they have a drop spot. Otherwise, you have to pay for UPS shipping and that can definitely add up.

By: Tammy

Tammy — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:28:16 +0000

This post is exactly what I have been looking for – thank you so much! My one question is with Azure – how do you get around the shipping cost – I wanted to order my grains/flour/beans and the shipping was $42.00!!! Is there something I am missing? Thank you!

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:49:44 +0000

We honestly don’t eat many meat sandwiches on a regular basis because yes, it does cost a lot. I mainly make meat sandwiches for my husband to take to work. At home, the kids and I eat PB & J, tomato soup & grilled cheese, burritos, leftovers, salmon melts (find recipe in recipe section), etc. Leftovers is what we mainly eat for lunch though.

By: Jennie West

Jennie West — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:26:28 +0000

Ok, there is just no way one pound of lunch meat would last us a month. What other options do you feed for lunches. We do sandwiches so much and maybe if I had other options I could cut back on the very expensive cost of weekly lunch meat??? Oh do help please!

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:23:09 +0000

Check out my Local Resources page.

By: Melody

Melody — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:21:41 +0000

Where do you get your Chickens & Beef? I’m down in Salem and lost my source so I’m looking for a new one and would be happy to drive!

By: Musings of a Housewife

Musings of a Housewife — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:52:22 +0000

This is incredibly enlightening. THANK YOU!

By: Kari

Kari — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:36:20 +0000

Thank you, thank you for this post! We are a family of five, and I have just, in the past few months, cut my budget to $85/week (food and toiletries) from $170/week…yes, in half! But, we were eating stuff we’d never eaten before..boxed potatoes, velveeta..whatever I could find on sale to pair with coupons. I couldn’t stand it anymore, and really prayed and asked God to show me how to do our menus healthy on our new budget, have read alot of blogs, but this is the first that shows me HOW! I have printed out this post and plan to go over it and make notes for myself! I’m so very excited! Praise God! thanks, again!

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:33:03 +0000

I purchase all my seeds, nuts, etc from Azure Standard. You can also find tahini at Fred Meyer Nutrition.

By: LM

LM — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:20:29 +0000

I was just looking over your food budget as we start CSA payments the end of this month. I like the way you have it all sorted…very helpful, THANKS. Do you have a specific source for your sesame seeds/tahini ingredients???