Home Cooking Challenge: week 1

Bringing lunch everyday last week worked pretty well. I ate well (a lot of veggies!) and I ended the week with a slice of pizza. I managed to make breakfast all but one morning (last minute decision to go to KE's on Tuesday night didn't really have time to plan for what I was going to do for breakfast). And the purchase of pizza fridge night because I wanted to have time to work on my baby quilt project.

Now that I'm in a week without that goal, I have purchased breakfast once and lunch twice (counting today) and I miss my homemade lunches. I know where the ingredients came from (more so than from the restaurant anyhow). I did finally make chocolate chip cookies this weekend and they were phenomenal and now I am working on selling them. (They won't be up until at least this upcoming weekend however, please check again!)

Last night I went to half of the Moth show about penny pinching. The stories were entertaining, though a couple felt like a stretch for the theme. It was interesting to hear one guy's story about a Christmas without gifts. I only stayed for half because it is ridiculously cold outside right now and I have been trying to go to sleep at a reasonable hour so that I can wake up early and have "me time" before work. Returning home we were greeted by a sink of dishes left from the hotpot party on Saturday that hadn't been cleaned yet. Let me tell you peanut butter sauce left in the sink for 2 days smells horrible. After washing, twice, the smell still wasn't out. I poured some vinegar (and baking soda!) in and we'll see tonight how it smells!

Off to buy lunch and wish I'd brought it. Tonight I'm free and I plan to assemble some lunches for the rest of the week.

Stories about being cheap (not always by choice)

An event through The Moth - celebrating storytelling.

"PINCHING PENNIES" on March 2nd:
Host: Kyle Grooms

7:30 Doors
8:00 Stories begin

$7 at the door*
at Southpaw
125 5th Avenue
(between Sterling and St. Johns Place)
**Please note our spacious new venue! No one will be turned away due to lack of space!**

Prepare a five-minute story about living on the cheap. Downsized and flat broke? Tell us of pawn shops, Ramen Noodles, and other desperate measures. Scraping the bottom of the barrel, busting into your piggy bank or just clipping coupons. Bring us tales of the frugal, the tightfisted and the downright stingy.