Frugal Villagers discuss: Is healthy food more expensive
One of the best discussions I’ve seen in a long time on the Frugal Village forums is this one: Is healthy food more expensive than junk food?
The points that are made include:
Contrary Housewife: “If they have nothing at home they have to start with the basics, and stocking even a simple pantry can cost [...]
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From Monroe on a Budget.
In Honor of Stay At Home Moms
I have been trying to practice what I preach and started clearing out piles of paperwork. As I was doing it I ran across this cute “Cathy” cartoon which I had to laugh at and thought you stay at home moms would get a kick out of it. It goes like this;
It shows Cathy talking to her best friend and saying, “Just let me see if I have this straight, Andrea. If I become a housewife and cook meals, I’ll be a subservient slave… but if I were a chef in a restaurant, I’d bring dignity to all of womanhood.
If I spend my days cleaning bathtubs and toilets, my status as a female is equal to a groveling worm… but if I go to work for the sewer company, I’ll make headlines as a feminist star.
What’s the difference, Andrea?!?! What makes the same measly job an insult if you do it at home, but an honor if you make a career?!!?
Andrea answers, “MONEY!”
I just thought this was kind of funny. Oh and for you younger generation out there a housewife is what they used to call a stay at home mom. 
Jill
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In Honor of Stay At Home Moms
I have been trying to practice what I preach and started clearing out piles of paperwork. As I was doing it I ran across this cute “Cathy” cartoon which I had to laugh at and thought you stay at home moms would get a kick out of it. It goes like this;
It shows Cathy talking to her best friend and saying, “Just let me see if I have this straight, Andrea. If I become a housewife and cook meals, I’ll be a subservient slave… but if I were a chef in a restaurant, I’d bring dignity to all of womanhood.
If I spend my days cleaning bathtubs and toilets, my status as a female is equal to a groveling worm… but if I go to work for the sewer company, I’ll make headlines as a feminist star.
What’s the difference, Andrea?!?! What makes the same measly job an insult if you do it at home, but an honor if you make a career?!!?
Andrea answers, “MONEY!”
I just thought this was kind of funny. Oh and for you younger generation out there a housewife is what they used to call a stay at home mom.
Jill
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In Honor of Stay At Home Moms
I have been trying to practice what I preach and started clearing out piles of paperwork. As I was doing it I ran across this cute “Cathy” cartoon which I had to laugh at and thought you stay at home moms would get a kick out of it. It goes like this;
It shows Cathy talking to her best friend and saying, “Just let me see if I have this straight, Andrea. If I become a housewife and cook meals, I’ll be a subservient slave… but if I were a chef in a restaurant, I’d bring dignity to all of womanhood.
If I spend my days cleaning bathtubs and toilets, my status as a female is equal to a groveling worm… but if I go to work for the sewer company, I’ll make headlines as a feminist star.
What’s the difference, Andrea?!?! What makes the same measly job an insult if you do it at home, but an honor if you make a career?!!?
Andrea answers, “MONEY!”
I just thought this was kind of funny. Oh and for you younger generation out there a housewife is what they used to call a stay at home mom.
Jill
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In Honor of Stay At Home Moms
I have been trying to practice what I preach and started clearing out piles of paperwork. As I was doing it I ran across this cute “Cathy” cartoon which I had to laugh at and thought you stay at home moms would get a kick out of it. It goes like this;
It shows Cathy talking to her best friend and saying, “Just let me see if I have this straight, Andrea. If I become a housewife and cook meals, I’ll be a subservient slave… but if I were a chef in a restaurant, I’d bring dignity to all of womanhood.
If I spend my days cleaning bathtubs and toilets, my status as a female is equal to a groveling worm… but if I go to work for the sewer company, I’ll make headlines as a feminist star.
What’s the difference, Andrea?!?! What makes the same measly job an insult if you do it at home, but an honor if you make a career?!!?
Andrea answers, “MONEY!”
I just thought this was kind of funny. Oh and for you younger generation out there a housewife is what they used to call a stay at home mom.
Jill
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In Honor of Stay At Home Moms
I have been trying to practice what I preach and started clearing out piles of paperwork. As I was doing it I ran across this cute “Cathy” cartoon which I had to laugh at and thought you stay at home moms would get a kick out of it. It goes like this;
It shows Cathy talking to her best friend and saying, “Just let me see if I have this straight, Andrea. If I become a housewife and cook meals, I’ll be a subservient slave… but if I were a chef in a restaurant, I’d bring dignity to all of womanhood.
If I spend my days cleaning bathtubs and toilets, my status as a female is equal to a groveling worm… but if I go to work for the sewer company, I’ll make headlines as a feminist star.
What’s the difference, Andrea?!?! What makes the same measly job an insult if you do it at home, but an honor if you make a career?!!?
Andrea answers, “MONEY!”
I just thought this was kind of funny. Oh and for you younger generation out there a housewife is what they used to call a stay at home mom.
Jill
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Crafters Medley: 25 Neat-O Projects To Make (November 2009)
li>Embroidered Housewife Needlecase: (As seen in picture) So sweet! Also see 21 Free Tutorials For Needle Books & Cases.
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From TipNut.com.
Menu Clarification
I think there needs to be some carification on our menu.
I have not published all of my recipes. I think recipe posts are boring. I try to make them interesting with a story and a few sarcastic quips if I can, but generally, I find them boring. I force myself to publish about two a week because I know that the food budget is where most people can cut the most.
We have a fourteen meal rotation, but several nights are pretty open. Our chicken night, quesadillas and our mac and cheese night have a lot of room for creativity. I don’t know if I’ll ever exhaust the recipes I can try with chicken.
This is not a rigid rotation. I just found a recipe on Hill Billy Housewife’s site that I want to try. It’s a rice and beans recipe. I’m always on the lookout for good rice recipes, but usually am disappointed because I don’t like rice much. I’m just going to skip one of the other meals for this one. I have that freedom whenever I want it.
We go out to eat once per week on average. Sometimes it’s to a sandwich shop, sometimes it’s to a steak house, and occasionally, we even go to a fast food joint. I wrote a whole post about how we can afford that.
Meals get switched in and out. Just this month, two meals were replaced, one for health reasons and one because I got sick of making it. There are plenty of recipes we like that we could switch in and out anytime if we wanted to. We’ve had the two week rotation for several years. A friend in Quebec gave us the idea when we were on vacation; she was making fun of her mother-in-law’s two week rotation and I thought her mother-in-law was brilliant. I don’t remember what our rotation looked like at first, except that Sunday is always a Sunday ham, Wednesday is always chicken night, and Saturday is Mexican.
My family is not depraved, they like my food.
The other day, while I was cooking supper I realized I was real hungry. Then I remembered I had forgotten to eat since that morning, as a post partum appetite can be a little erratic. I told my husband about that after work and he was amazed. “How can you forget to eat?” he asked, “Eating is the best part of the day.” He went on to explain that he bases his whole concept of time around when he gets to eat again. He has a structured eating schedule and is not a grazer like the rest of us. That’s my food he’s eating, that his thinking revolves around, that he is looking forward to.
If someone looks at a picture of a meal and decides they don’t like it, I would consider that close minded. If someone looks at the few recipes I’ve published and decides my family’s diet is not varied enough, I would consider that ignorant. If someone reads a few blog posts, or even the whole blog of someone who has been blogging all of ten weeks and assumes they know everything the blogger does and does not do, that person is being a little presumptuous.
I love blogging, and find it a sort of brain splat, where you get a piece of my mind every day. Sometimes you get a big chunk and really get good a glimpse of my life as a whole. Sometimes you get a detailed look at a minute section. My brain has not been exhausted, and I still have much to say. Please, don’t limit me to only what I have said, for if I had said all that there was for me to say, I would have nothing left to blog about.
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From Under $1000 Per Month.
Website Spotlight: The Happy Housewife
I was recently introduced to the website The Happy Housewife when I was looking for a way to get rid of my surplus coupons that I was not using. Someone directed me here and I soon found out through her website that you can send your expired and soon to be expired coupons overseas to troops who can use them. This really got me excited, so I started looking around the website and I found many useful tips and resources on The Happy Housewife.
Be sure and stop by there and check it out!
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From Econobusters.