Comments on: Getting Real With Food, Pt. 5 Our Food Budget http://heavenlyhomemakers.com/getting-real-with-food-pt-5-our-food-budget Encouraging women in homemaking, healthy eating and parenting Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:08:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: shauna http://heavenlyhomemakers.com/getting-real-with-food-pt-5-our-food-budget/comment-page-1#comment-143473 shauna Sat, 14 Jan 2012 05:59:26 +0000 http://heavenlyhomemakers.com/getting-real-with-food-pt-5-our-food-budget#comment-143473 Forgot to check the "notify me" box. Forgot to check the “notify me” box.

]]> By: shauna http://heavenlyhomemakers.com/getting-real-with-food-pt-5-our-food-budget/comment-page-1#comment-143472 shauna Sat, 14 Jan 2012 05:58:54 +0000 http://heavenlyhomemakers.com/getting-real-with-food-pt-5-our-food-budget#comment-143472 Please help. I read your blog a lot for healthy recipes (and those of your blogging friends). I like you had to come to the realization that spending money on good food is important and worth the extra cost. However, I'm spending $200 per week and only have one young child!! I need help finding a way to feed my family on less but keeping the real, organic, healthy food priority. I'm headed to your link about your budget breakdown now. Please help. I read your blog a lot for healthy recipes (and those of your blogging friends). I like you had to come to the realization that spending money on good food is important and worth the extra cost. However, I’m spending $200 per week and only have one young child!! I need help finding a way to feed my family on less but keeping the real, organic, healthy food priority.

I’m headed to your link about your budget breakdown now.

]]> By: Stephanie http://heavenlyhomemakers.com/getting-real-with-food-pt-5-our-food-budget/comment-page-1#comment-125895 Stephanie Sat, 05 Nov 2011 19:56:29 +0000 http://heavenlyhomemakers.com/getting-real-with-food-pt-5-our-food-budget#comment-125895 I could have written this post myself. I used to be a coupon queen until I started to realize the things that were in the foods were we eating. It's been a struggle especially when my dear husband asks me to start couponing again so that we have "quick" food in the house. Seems like he always wants something he doesn't really have to cook, he loves the microwave. I have 3 little boys and changing the way they look at food is hard. My oldest is only 4, he hates trying anything new and hates vegtables. I'm trying though, to teach the younger two how to eat before they learn bad habits. Thank you for your blog, it's been a source of inspiration when I needed it most. I could have written this post myself. I used to be a coupon queen until I started to realize the things that were in the foods were we eating. It’s been a struggle especially when my dear husband asks me to start couponing again so that we have “quick” food in the house. Seems like he always wants something he doesn’t really have to cook, he loves the microwave. I have 3 little boys and changing the way they look at food is hard. My oldest is only 4, he hates trying anything new and hates vegtables. I’m trying though, to teach the younger two how to eat before they learn bad habits. Thank you for your blog, it’s been a source of inspiration when I needed it most.

]]> By: The Happy Housewife http://heavenlyhomemakers.com/getting-real-with-food-pt-5-our-food-budget/comment-page-1#comment-3090 The Happy Housewife Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:04:22 +0000 http://heavenlyhomemakers.com/getting-real-with-food-pt-5-our-food-budget#comment-3090 Laura- Right on with this post. As someone who has slashed their grocery budget over the past few years, I can honestly say that eating healthy costs less. Although when we were purchasing raw milk that was more expensive at $6.25 a gallon. But it was worth it. Unfortunately there are no sources around me where I live now, so we are back on the poison milk! Toni Laura-
Right on with this post. As someone who has slashed their grocery budget over the past few years, I can honestly say that eating healthy costs less. Although when we were purchasing raw milk that was more expensive at $6.25 a gallon. But it was worth it. Unfortunately there are no sources around me where I live now, so we are back on the poison milk!
Toni

]]> By: Elizabeth http://heavenlyhomemakers.com/getting-real-with-food-pt-5-our-food-budget/comment-page-1#comment-3052 Elizabeth Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:13:25 +0000 http://heavenlyhomemakers.com/getting-real-with-food-pt-5-our-food-budget#comment-3052 Hi Laura, I love this post. We soend a lot on food each month. But it is very important to us to eat healthly. We both have health challenges.It really frighten me all the blogs out there that encourage women to be coupon queens and to feed thier family marked down food. Also process cheap foods. When I see the pictures of what those ladies are buying with thier coupons it makes me so sad to think of the poor children doing without healthly foods. I really admire the change you have made. Blessings, Elizabeth Hi Laura,
I love this post. We soend a lot on food each month. But it is very important to us to eat healthly. We both have health challenges.It really frighten me all the blogs out there that encourage women to be coupon queens and to feed thier family marked down food. Also process cheap foods. When I see the pictures of what those ladies are buying with thier coupons it makes me so sad to think of the poor children doing without healthly foods. I really admire the change you have made.
Blessings,
Elizabeth

]]> By: Kate http://heavenlyhomemakers.com/getting-real-with-food-pt-5-our-food-budget/comment-page-1#comment-3048 Kate Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:45:34 +0000 http://heavenlyhomemakers.com/getting-real-with-food-pt-5-our-food-budget#comment-3048 Laura, THANK YOU so much for sharing this. I am in total agreement on your phiosophy of spending more money to eat more heatlhfully. I battle that often myself and I'm just beginning to work on tweaking our budget a bit to add in more real food. While I am glad we do not eat proccessed food (well, 98% of the time at least), I definitely want to incorporate real, whole foods into our daily diets. I can not wait to read the next part of your series. I have been so inspired by what you've written so far. Laura, THANK YOU so much for sharing this. I am in total agreement on your phiosophy of spending more money to eat more heatlhfully. I battle that often myself and I’m just beginning to work on tweaking our budget a bit to add in more real food. While I am glad we do not eat proccessed food (well, 98% of the time at least), I definitely want to incorporate real, whole foods into our daily diets.

I can not wait to read the next part of your series. I have been so inspired by what you’ve written so far.

]]> By: Calina http://heavenlyhomemakers.com/getting-real-with-food-pt-5-our-food-budget/comment-page-1#comment-3042 Calina Sun, 15 Jun 2008 11:29:51 +0000 http://heavenlyhomemakers.com/getting-real-with-food-pt-5-our-food-budget#comment-3042 We came to the same understandings about food and body products several years ago. My seven year old daughter was born with a skin rash (sometimes it was eczema, sometimes more psoriasis). After cutting all corn, soy, milk and gluten products out her rash is gone, her skin has completely healed! Currently we're spending about $800/mo to feed a family of 5, (3 adults, 1 teen, and 1 child) but we do have alot of company, because as you know, you entertain at home alot when food allergies are involved. Looking forward to more installments of this series. We came to the same understandings about food and body products several years ago. My seven year old daughter was born with a skin rash (sometimes it was eczema, sometimes more psoriasis). After cutting all corn, soy, milk and gluten products out her rash is gone, her skin has completely healed!

Currently we’re spending about $800/mo to feed a family of 5, (3 adults, 1 teen, and 1 child) but we do have alot of company, because as you know, you entertain at home alot when food allergies are involved.

Looking forward to more installments of this series.

]]> By: tami lewis http://heavenlyhomemakers.com/getting-real-with-food-pt-5-our-food-budget/comment-page-1#comment-3018 tami lewis Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:14:27 +0000 http://heavenlyhomemakers.com/getting-real-with-food-pt-5-our-food-budget#comment-3018 i love this series! we spend $650 a month on a family of 9 and we have to make all our snacks too , as one commenter mentioned. it does get to be a hassle tho! keep up all the good ideas- i need them cuz we are soooo tired of what meals i make lol i love this series! we spend $650 a month on a family of 9 and we have to make all our snacks too , as one commenter mentioned. it does get to be a hassle tho! keep up all the good ideas- i need them cuz we are soooo tired of what meals i make lol

]]> By: Lenetta http://heavenlyhomemakers.com/getting-real-with-food-pt-5-our-food-budget/comment-page-1#comment-3017 Lenetta Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:53:16 +0000 http://heavenlyhomemakers.com/getting-real-with-food-pt-5-our-food-budget#comment-3017 I swear, you could post about this every single day for six months and I still couldn't get enough. It would wear you out, though. :>) Sometime, I would be interested in knowing what kinds of things you cut out in order to fund your food budget. It would be interesting, but also help me evaluate my own priorities. I'm finding lots of things I ought to be cutting down on, or cutting out of my life entirely. I swear, you could post about this every single day for six months and I still couldn’t get enough. It would wear you out, though. :>) Sometime, I would be interested in knowing what kinds of things you cut out in order to fund your food budget. It would be interesting, but also help me evaluate my own priorities. I’m finding lots of things I ought to be cutting down on, or cutting out of my life entirely.

]]> By: Jenny B (aka Mother Hen) http://heavenlyhomemakers.com/getting-real-with-food-pt-5-our-food-budget/comment-page-1#comment-3016 Jenny B (aka Mother Hen) Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:16:13 +0000 http://heavenlyhomemakers.com/getting-real-with-food-pt-5-our-food-budget#comment-3016 Thank you for taking the time and trouble to do these posts. Of all the people I know in real life, maybe 1 eats right. We all need to do something better for our families. Thanks for the encouragement! Thank you for taking the time and trouble to do these posts. Of all the people I know in real life, maybe 1 eats right. We all need to do something better for our families. Thanks for the encouragement!

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