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It’s been a few days of cheap, good eating here at Casa Jones. First, let me extol the joys of Greek yogurt with blackberries. Blackberries were on sale at Giant for 99 cents, and I still have some of the Greek yogurt I got at 65 cents a container; I’ve been mixing maybe 10 blackberries with [...] On Sunday, I made a big batch of food to take to work for the coming weeks. Specifically, I made 12 Sausage Egg Biscuits for breakfast purposes, and 10 burritos for lunch purposes. The breakdown: Biscuits: Bisquick and milk, approximately 50 cents; sausage, $3; 10 eggs, about $1. Total, $4.50, or 38 cents per biscuit. Burritos: Tortillas, [...] I’ve got a friend who wants to get started couponing, so on Saturday we went to Harris Teeter together. She lives in the city and doesn’t have a car, so she usually walks to the Safeway; I drove, so we had our choice of supermarket. We picked HT. There is definitely some strategy involved in couponing. You have to know approximately what your household buys and approximately how often you buy it. You have to know what’s a “stocking up” price as opposed to what’s a “good deal” price. For me, there are generally three categories of groceries: (I tried to work the word “bother” into the title of this one, but I couldn’t come up with a clever way to make it fit.) Here, I’m going to show you a few examples of what you can get and for how much. In the future, I hope to have many triumphant, better-lit photos of [...] OK, so here’s what you do: Step 1. Clip coupons. I get them in the Sunday paper, but you can also order them from sites like The Coupon Clippers and The Coupon Master. I’ll do this sometimes if there’s a really good coupon for something I know I’m going to buy a lot of. [...] Here’s the thing: You’ve got to buy food. In a meeting at work today, I accidentally described food as a “fairly necessary” purchase, and people laughed at me. They were right to laugh at me, because food is just plain not optional. Whoever you are, you gotta buy it. So it makes sense to buy [...] ALL RIGHT WHOOOO LET’S GET THIS SHOW ON THE ROAD! Um, sorry. What I meant is, hello. My name is Janie Jones (OK, it’s not really, but let’s pretend it is). I’m 29 years old. I live in Alexandria, Virginia, right across the river from D.C., with my husband and our cat. Most importantly, I am [...] |
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