1st. I’m putting out a call for submissions. I’m planning to do a week of $1 dinners. If I get really ambitious, I may do an entire week of menus for $1 per person. Would love your submission. I’ll gladly include your name, and blog. Please include menu, recipe and cost breakdown.
2nd. If you’re really technically savvy or just an early adopter and like to read blogs on Kindle, Penny-Wise Family is now available there too! I think the charge is $0.99 a month. Sorry about that, I don’t have the option to publish free with Amazon, but if you’d like to read that way, I wanted to make it available to you.
3rd. How interested would readers be in an ebook on specific cost-cutting strategies at home? I’m talking about immediate budget triage followed by budget physical therapy to get it in shape and slowly tune you into being a lean mean frugal machine. The idea has been kicking around in my mind and it sounds like fun, but I’d hate to write it if nobody wants to read it. If you or your friends would like to read something like this, please let me know and let me know what you would want to see in this publication.
As always, I appreciate the your feedback. I also am really pleased with the number of regular readers/emailers/commenters who’ve made it through our transition from Blogger to our own domain name. Thanks for keeping up with the change of address!
More to come soon!
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ebook sounds great. Please provide us with that, you have great tips… I dont have a kindle, but that's great you made it available. Thanks for everything you do
Here's my input: would be VERY interested in the results of your results for you calling for $1 dinner submissions! And the e-book on cost-cutting strategies at home. I just subscribed to your blog today, and am looking forward to all your sharings!
Ann–thanks for subscribing. Please let me know if there's anything in particular you want to see more/less of. Bloggers love that sort of info.
I'm getting started on recipes now. Will head to the store this weekend with calculator in hand I think. It's all the math on this stuff that's slowing this down. I have to get a lot of pricing info collected.
I think I'll be able to post the first $1 meal within the next few days.
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I was wondering what exactly qualifies as a $1 dinner–is that per person or for the entire family? And do you include the cost of home grown food or consider that “free”? I have some ideas, want to make sure they qualify. Thanks!
Hey Robin! Thanks for your interest. A $1 dinner is per plate. Home-grown foods are great. For calculating the costs, calculate the “cost to replicate” (i.e. I figure my basil was $0.98 and I may use it 100 times a year. I throw a cent at my calculations for “basil” each time I use it). My box of corn that I processed and froze from the local green grocery was $17 and netted 17 lbs of freezer corn (sans cobs) total per serving is $0.11. If you don't have the total breakdown, but you figure your dinner is under $1 a plate, that's fine, let me know and I'll try to replicate it here (my pantry is covered in post-it-notes and prices written on things that the man of the house brings home from the grocery) I'll re-do the math, and if it isn't under $1 but still doggone close, I may throw it in for good measure if it's a hit with the kids and close enough to a buck. (One can always trim serving sizes or add a potato to stretch the $1 figure).
Thanksf or your interest!
I was wondering what exactly qualifies as a $1 dinner–is that per person or for the entire family? And do you include the cost of home grown food or consider that “free”? I have some ideas, want to make sure they qualify. Thanks!
Hey Robin! Thanks for your interest. A $1 dinner is per plate. Home-grown foods are great. For calculating the costs, calculate the “cost to replicate” (i.e. I figure my basil was $0.98 and I may use it 100 times a year. I throw a cent at my calculations for “basil” each time I use it). My box of corn that I processed and froze from the local green grocery was $17 and netted 17 lbs of freezer corn (sans cobs) total per serving is $0.11. If you don't have the total breakdown, but you figure your dinner is under $1 a plate, that's fine, let me know and I'll try to replicate it here (my pantry is covered in post-it-notes and prices written on things that the man of the house brings home from the grocery) I'll re-do the math, and if it isn't under $1 but still doggone close, I may throw it in for good measure if it's a hit with the kids and close enough to a buck. (One can always trim serving sizes or add a potato to stretch the $1 figure).
Thanksf or your interest!
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