After thinking about the budget goal for a bit more, I realize I'm not doing a very good job of cutting corners. If the husband lost his job today, we'd probably have to cut back more than I tried in the last post about breakfast. In fact, if we were broke, breakfast would probably look more like this:
Oatmeal with apples and walnuts
scrambled eggs with apples and toast
banana walnut muffins with scrambled eggs
Poached egg sandwich, with apples & bananas on the side
Oatmeal with bananas & walnuts
Apple cinnamon walnut muffins with scrambled eggs
French toast with (you guessed it) apples and bananas
With a grocery list that looks more like this:
Oatmeal
2 dozen eggs
bag of walnuts
bag of apples
bunch of bananas
loaf of sandwich bread
Coffee
Milk
And if the staples were low, we might have to throw in a bag of flour or some powdered sugar, or baking soda or something. The main thing that got cut was the variety of fruit and the vegetarian sausage, neither of which are cheap. Oh, and the fancy creamer for our coffee; milk will work fine. And the nice thing about this menu, is Valentine can eat everything but the walnuts and coffee. So I won't have to budget in separate baby food items for breakfast. Now I've got to get thinking about dinners.
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