1. Eat 20 home-cooked dinners in one month. - COMPLETE!!This one has been difficult, but we started budgeting... and realized where we could save the most money was on food given that we were eating out for both lunch and dinner most days. This month, we saved at least $200 just by cooking at home and packing lunches some days. I've also lost ( Read more... )

Been a busy couple of months. I've been way more social than I can usually manage, which has left me a bit frazzled, but mostly happy. I was recently able to enjoy one of the items which was on early iterations of my list that didn't stick around to the current one; it was wonderfully enjoyable, and I'm glad to have done it, even if I don't get ( Read more... )

WHAT: Get in the habit of eating more home-cooked meals than take-out.

WHY: Home-cooked tends to be healthier and less expensive. And it gets more variety into my diet than what I can get by ordering from the same handful of delivery restaurants every day. At some point, Justin and I had been really, really good about shopping and cooking, but we ( Read more... )

• 1. I cooked, uh, once this week. That should count for something. I keep telling myself that I'll get better at this one--I'm really excited to try out some recipes, and I love homecooked meals--but I really, really don't enjoy going grocery shopping at the end of a busy work day, then carrying all those bags up two flights of stairs. Why don't we ( Read more... )

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I stumbled last week on the update. Life's been weird. We have a new roommate (as of the weekend just before the last update), who is currently sleeping in our living room until she gets a job and we get the second bedroom fixed up for her. This makes life really strange. Routine's a little more difficult than usual. That said ( Read more... )