Centsible Meals Lorae Bowden
5 Stars
If you read my family blog then you know that recently I've been trying to find new ways to cut down on our grocery budget. I think there is always room for improvement when I found this book and read it I was really inspired to do better.
Lorae is amazing, coming from a larger family herself, she learned well from her mother and now feeds her family of 9 for under $200 a month, and trust me, it's not junk - the trick is that she makes everything homemade! This BYU graduate is amazing, she does doesn't use coupons, but instead her meal plan by fillers - potato, pasta, bread, beans, etc. She does use meat, but might cut the meat in half, for example I noticed in her book that on her lasagna night she still put hamburger meat in the meal, but only half and used the pasta to fill everyone up. They eat fresh fruit for every meal, sliced on a plate. They make their own breakfast instead of using box cereal. They don't eat snacks (I don't think I could get away with this, but I do think I can make wiser choices (I have tried to cut out fruit snacks in the past 3 moths and it really makes a difference, they are so expensive and never fill the kids up!)
The only negative thing about this book is that I would have loved to have more recipes!
The book was short, easy to read, it only took maybe an hour, but was such a powerful resource. I've been recommending it to almost everyone I meet!
2 comments:
I can't read anything on your blog because the text runs off the center white box onto the books in the background. Only half of each sentence is visible. There were a few I wanted to read but it is too hard to guess at the parts I can't decipher.
Sorry Elizabeth, what browser do you use? I have checked it in google crome and explorer and it seems alright, I know my background doesn't appear right with explorer..I'll work on it.
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