Food. It's What's Fer Dinner!

In an effort to save money this summer,

I cut back on my food bill.

Made it a goal to save a few bucks

by skimming around the "extras" in my menu planning.

I'm here to say

it wasn't worth it.

I was cranky.

La familia was cranky.

We was one cranky bunch o' familia.

(I'm not really fluent in spanish, fyi,

but for some reason, my brain rolodex pops that word

"familia" out, everytime I think about "family",

so there ya have it.)

Anyway,

it boils down to this:

We like food.

We are, in fact, 

"Foodies"--

and trimming the "extras" off 

like salsa and chips, 

cutting back on side dishes,

or little treats every now n' again--

well, 

it was depressing.

So I stopped that.

And we're good.

You can cut back on many things,

to bring your budget under control--

combine trips to save gas,

for instance,

and surely, food bills should be managed carefully--

but when noone's looking forward to dinner,

somethin's gotta give.

A sweet gal in our ward asked me if

I wanted to participate in something called

A Meal Exchange--

that's where you only have to cook one meal a week,

but you make enough for 4 other similar-sized families.

Just the main dish.

I said something along the lines of

"Heck Yeah!"

I'm excited to try this out.

We moms will get together and plan a menu,

find out allergies n' stuff,

and go from there.

My kids aren't particularly picky eaters--

and have no allergies,

so hopefully this will be an easy deal.

I like easy.

So I'll let you know how this goes.

In my ideal world,

this sounds like a money-saving venture,

yet exciting---

to savor other cooks' menus

and not have to cook it!!

YES!!!

Sounds good to me.

Doesn't it sound good to you?

Have you ever done anything like this?

Results?

Yay or Nay?

Food. It's What's Fer Dinner.