Food Prices

So, food prices just keep going up. The last time I went shopping for groceries I picked up a loaf of bread. Ten seconds later I put it back on the shelf. The next day I made bread. I've made bread every few days since. Needless to say, I have been having a lot of fun experimenting and eating my own bread. It tastes so good, and especially wonderful when it is fresh out of the oven. It is enough to force myself to stop eating it. If you put me in a kitchen with fresh warm bread and a jar of jam the two would disappear.

The amount of food prices has definitely put a damper on my efforts to acquire a good food storage. My food budget has decreased while my gas budget has increased. Each time the gas goes up the only place to take money from is the food budget, everything else is set in stone. Thus, I am forced, out of necessity, to find ways to make good use of every bit of food I have along with finding more ways to make my own foods. The same day I put the bread back I looked at so many foods in which I really wanted to buy but instead walked past them knowing I could make them myself. Yesterday I made wheat thins. Tomorrow I make graham crackers.

In a few weeks after I get back from a family reunion I will try making my own yogurt. Every cent counts now. I've taken to making most of the baby food and will hopefully wean the little one off of store bought baby food shortly, until then I am forced to pay a lot of money for food that would really only cost me 10 cents to make (of course, that is just an estimate, I'm just saying...)

There are things I won't give up on, like buying good sales. That is how I am going to still work on my storage. I may only be able to get a few sale items vs. all of them, but some is better than none.

Despite all of the prices, I did get a new can-opener. I did not have a choice because I left the last ones in our old home. They did not make the move with us, so I bought a nicer one, not high end or anything like that, but nicer.