I have been trying to save money and cut down on my grocery bill in particular. I burn a lot of calories at work. Like in the "just ran a marathon" category. I'm hungry All. The. Time. Figuring this out has helped me realize what I need to do to lose weight (hello, starvation mode! eat more!) so lately, my grocery bill has become astronomical. What to do? What to do? I've found some good resources for budgeting at meal time, but a lot of those folks don't eat like I do. No offense, really! It's just that the bulk of my groceries are from the produce department. And I eat a lot of Asian food. A lot. I also don't have kids, and many of those blogs are geared towards family-friendly meal time. Soooo, enter Budget Bytes. What's the first thing I make? The Dragon Noodles, of course! I made a couple changes, but I don't think it got me too far off the $1.02 cost per serving! (Whattt?) I added a bag of frozen stir fry veggies that were $1 at Kroger and an extra egg. I needed a bit more sauce, so when I made it the second time, I used a little fish sauce and and a little garlic chile sauce. It gave it a little more of a Vietnamese flavor than just straight up "burn down the house." I also used angel hair pasta because I had a half of a box which was perfect for this. Dudes, this was easily one of the best things I've made recently. And it took 10 minutes. It had the perfect amount of heat for me and was filling!
Do yourself (and your wallet!) a favor and hit up Budget Bytes for a recipe or 15.
I was half way through the bowl of noodles before I realized I needed to document the deliciousness.
2 comments:
I am going to try it.
Do it. And report back on what you try!
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