Slackin' .. but some useful tips!

OK. I have to admit I haven't been cooking over the past week--classes started for me and I have been consumed in review work/regular work all the time! I thought of some useful tips though to save some money while still eating healthy!

1. A bag of lettuce goes a long way.
--I bought a bag of lettuce (Dole or something) last Monday (Aug. 23). I have made multiple sandwiches and a salad with it and I still have a few more sandwiches to get out of it. For $2.39, it made at least 9 sandwiches and two salads. Excellent buy!

2. Two tomatoes.
--I bought these along with the bag of salad. I put them all on sandwiches (thinly sliced) .. for 0.99/lb, the $1.48 I spent really paid off.

3. Buy-one Get-one.
--Totally worth it. My grocery store near my apartment has bread specials (the loaves that come in plastic bags) where if you buy a loaf you get one free. I like wheat or whole grain bread so it tends to be a little more expensive. So, I always look out for this type of sale because you can freeze one loaf and use it later on. So $3.99 for one loaf translates in to $2.00 per loaf and it usually lasts me three weeks or so.

4. Buy green bananas.
--Again, totally worth it. The yellow ones which may look appealing are ripe RIGHT then. In two days they turn to mush and if you know how to make banana bread (I don't, next recipe maybe?) then you have to throw them away and you've wasted money. So, buy them green. They ripen up over the course of two-three days, so you'll have fresh bananas nearly twice as long!

5. Stay away from frozen food.
--I got lazy, didn't feel like getting chicken so I bought a bag of boneless chicken balls in hot sauce. Not only were these over priced ($7.14) I probably got 30 chicken balls in the bag. Not worth it. I understand laziness, trust me and I am busy just like you probably are too. Have an hour or two one night or during the weekend? Dice up the chicken, cook it up and throw it in the fridge. You can constantly grab from it for a sandwich, pasta, salad or stir-fry. AND it's cheaper too (and healthier!)

Left-over Fruit Salad

I mentioned before I bought squash at the farmer's market. I bought peaches too and found them when I was making dinner. I also have strawberries which I pushed back in the fridge, frozen blueberries I happened to "borrow" from my friend up the block and a banana. Fruit salad, here we come!

What you'll need:

cutting board
knife
tupperware

Ingredients:
strawberries
peaches
blueberries
banana
(**any fruit you have will work just fine!)


How to:

1. Take your fruit. Cut it up in to bite-sized pieces and put it in to the tupperware. (Don't forget to wash the fruit before you do this



2. Mix it together with a spoon.


3. Put it in the fridge.

4. Eat it whenever you like!

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