Comments on: 10 Strategies to Lower My Grocery Bill - Part 2 http://www.glutenfreecookingschool.com/archives/10-strategies-to-lower-my-grocery-bill-part-2/ Lessons and Recipes for the Gluten Free Cook Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:49:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: childlife http://www.glutenfreecookingschool.com/archives/10-strategies-to-lower-my-grocery-bill-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2345 childlife Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:33:55 +0000 http://www.glutenfreecookingschool.com/archives/10-strategies-to-lower-my-grocery-bill-part-2/#comment-2345 I love your $/pound tip - I'm always looking for tricks like this and this is a new one to me. Thanks! : ) I love your $/pound tip - I’m always looking for tricks like this and this is a new one to me. Thanks! : )

]]> By: Mary Frances http://www.glutenfreecookingschool.com/archives/10-strategies-to-lower-my-grocery-bill-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2299 Mary Frances Sun, 17 Feb 2008 05:01:41 +0000 http://www.glutenfreecookingschool.com/archives/10-strategies-to-lower-my-grocery-bill-part-2/#comment-2299 Hi Lisa, it is difficult to balance good healthy foods, desires, and the funding for such. I work at having an abundance mindset rather than a scarcity mindset and that has helped a great deal, though it's taken a lot of mental work to get the new mindset to stick. Right now the budget seems more of a challenge than a punishment and I really enjoyed the fact that we didn't realize I"d been paid until a day after the it happened. Usually we're waiting with great anticipation for the new infusion of cash. Thanks for taking the time to stop by and comment. It's good to be reminded that we sometimes need to just take care of ourself with food, whatever that means at the time. Especially when you're going through other changes in life. Hi Lisa, it is difficult to balance good healthy foods, desires, and the funding for such. I work at having an abundance mindset rather than a scarcity mindset and that has helped a great deal, though it’s taken a lot of mental work to get the new mindset to stick. Right now the budget seems more of a challenge than a punishment and I really enjoyed the fact that we didn’t realize I”d been paid until a day after the it happened. Usually we’re waiting with great anticipation for the new infusion of cash.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by and comment. It’s good to be reminded that we sometimes need to just take care of ourself with food, whatever that means at the time. Especially when you’re going through other changes in life.

]]> By: Mary Frances http://www.glutenfreecookingschool.com/archives/10-strategies-to-lower-my-grocery-bill-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2298 Mary Frances Sun, 17 Feb 2008 04:57:06 +0000 http://www.glutenfreecookingschool.com/archives/10-strategies-to-lower-my-grocery-bill-part-2/#comment-2298 Slacker Mom, I'm totally with you on the frozen veggies. We go through a couple of bags of frozen spinach a week and I always keep English peas in the freezer for Fried Rice and for a quick veggie for the little guy. I just wish there were a somewhat greater selection in the stores here. Thanks, Sally. Marsha, soy free would be tough for me too. With the diet that you're moving towards have you had to find lots of new sources for food. How have you gone about that? I'm overwhelmed with the thought of actually going to various farms to find different fresh, local foods. Let me know how the raw foods works for your problems. I'd like to move more towards a raw diet myself. Slacker Mom, I’m totally with you on the frozen veggies. We go through a couple of bags of frozen spinach a week and I always keep English peas in the freezer for Fried Rice and for a quick veggie for the little guy. I just wish there were a somewhat greater selection in the stores here.

Thanks, Sally.

Marsha, soy free would be tough for me too. With the diet that you’re moving towards have you had to find lots of new sources for food. How have you gone about that? I’m overwhelmed with the thought of actually going to various farms to find different fresh, local foods. Let me know how the raw foods works for your problems. I’d like to move more towards a raw diet myself.

]]> By: Lisa http://www.glutenfreecookingschool.com/archives/10-strategies-to-lower-my-grocery-bill-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2292 Lisa Sun, 17 Feb 2008 03:50:23 +0000 http://www.glutenfreecookingschool.com/archives/10-strategies-to-lower-my-grocery-bill-part-2/#comment-2292 There's only one of me, so, extravagance is out the window. If I want an avocado, I get one. I eat as close to the bone as possible. Do I eat take-out/junk food? . . . yes on occasion. I love to cook and fix my own stuff, but I'm in a tight spot right now. I am WF GF. I will not punish myself with a budget, regardless. I love watching everybody's recipes and recommendations. Thank you! LISA J There’s only one of me, so, extravagance is out the window. If I want an avocado, I get one. I eat as close to the bone as possible. Do I eat take-out/junk food? . . . yes on occasion. I love to cook and fix my own stuff, but I’m in a tight spot right now. I am WF GF. I will not punish myself with a budget, regardless. I love watching everybody’s recipes and recommendations. Thank you! LISA J

]]> By: Marsha http://www.glutenfreecookingschool.com/archives/10-strategies-to-lower-my-grocery-bill-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2288 Marsha Sat, 16 Feb 2008 23:38:45 +0000 http://www.glutenfreecookingschool.com/archives/10-strategies-to-lower-my-grocery-bill-part-2/#comment-2288 I have really enjoyed your posts. Cooking gluten free is a challenge, but cooking gluten and soy free is a bigger challenge and cooking gluten free, soy free and switching to a raw foods, pasture fed meat, wild fish, raw milk diet is even more a challenge! I am reading "Performance Without Pain" written by a lady who is Celiac. She went to this kind of diet because her bodies muscles and tendons were breaking down...her body was robbing them to keep her vitals going. She is now pain free. I am having the same issues she did. My muscles and tendons are being robbed of nutrition to keep the rest going and I am in almost constant pain from tendonitis. I am learning more about this type of diet in hopes of helping my situation. I have really enjoyed your posts. Cooking gluten free is a challenge, but cooking gluten and soy free is a bigger challenge and cooking gluten free, soy free and switching to a raw foods, pasture fed meat, wild fish, raw milk diet is even more a challenge! I am reading “Performance Without Pain” written by a lady who is Celiac. She went to this kind of diet because her bodies muscles and tendons were breaking down…her body was robbing them to keep her vitals going. She is now pain free. I am having the same issues she did. My muscles and tendons are being robbed of nutrition to keep the rest going and I am in almost constant pain from tendonitis. I am learning more about this type of diet in hopes of helping my situation.

]]> By: Sally Parrott Ashbrook http://www.glutenfreecookingschool.com/archives/10-strategies-to-lower-my-grocery-bill-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2217 Sally Parrott Ashbrook Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:51:05 +0000 http://www.glutenfreecookingschool.com/archives/10-strategies-to-lower-my-grocery-bill-part-2/#comment-2217 Great tips! Great tips!

]]> By: Slacker Mom (aka Mrs. G.F.) http://www.glutenfreecookingschool.com/archives/10-strategies-to-lower-my-grocery-bill-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2202 Slacker Mom (aka Mrs. G.F.) Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:18:32 +0000 http://www.glutenfreecookingschool.com/archives/10-strategies-to-lower-my-grocery-bill-part-2/#comment-2202 Great post!! One of my tips (before I have to log off and go make supper!), is buying frozen veggies during the winter. Nutritionally they have the same benefit as fresh, are much cheaper than fresh in the winter, and were picked and frozen at the peak of the season, and save on prep time when busy. Go to run!! SM :) Great post!!

One of my tips (before I have to log off and go make supper!), is buying frozen veggies during the winter. Nutritionally they have the same benefit as fresh, are much cheaper than fresh in the winter, and were picked and frozen at the peak of the season, and save on prep time when busy.

Go to run!!
SM :)

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