"I wish I could feed my family healthy foods but can't afford to!"

.Have you ever thought this? Believe me, I have. I ruefully sniffed and snoffed at any mention of balanced diets, grains, greens, it all pissed me off to no end. Who were these idiots writing these recipes in the backs of magazines? Certainly wealthy idiots, certainly had time in the kitchen with no babies tots or children pulling their pant-leg, climbing over the babygates, playing with white-out, erasing the hard-drive, writing on the dog, giving themselves home haircuts under the beds while they tried to find the pots and knives to even prep this rediculous stuff, right?..... and umm when was the last time they took 4 hungry kids to market, I often wondered---

Wrong!

I must gloat: I did it again! I made a fantastic grocery list with three fantastic HEALTHY meals plus snacks and drinks, for a family of six, who is home all day, including also buying baby wipes, deoderant, chapstick, 2 dishes for Thanskgiving dinner, body lotion and fancy coffee+coffee filters....for under 100 bucks! No coupons!

Heres the latest menu:

Monday dinner

mexican tacos/nachos

Tuesday

breakfast:

Organic Oat crunch cereal+soymilk

lunch:

PB=J sandwhiches

cottage cheese

oranges

v8 splash

snack:

popcorn

oranges

dinner:

Barilla "plus" whole grain pasta

with

Broccoli

snap peas

carrots

in a homemade white cheese sauce made of

soymilk

cream cheese

salt + pepper

parmesan cheese

shredded cheese

margerine

in the microwave stirred up

Homemade "orangina" to drink

(Squirt plus orange juice)

Wednesday

breakfast:

same cereal+soymilk

lunch:

black bean quesadillas

snack:

graham crackers and bananas

dinner:

baked potato "bar"

fruit punch

Thursday

Thanksgiving Day

breakfast:

scrambled eggs over Grands biscuits

orange juice

lunch:

snack tray while watching parade

olives

chips

dip

oranges

pop

Dinner:

(i am pitching in a stuffing and a salad)

my super lovely secret stuffing recipe for the first time ever in print:

celery and onions fried up with Goldens and Cherries

sprinkle in nutmeg and walnuts

crumble in finely chopped Boca italian sausage*optional*

Mix above mixture into Stove Top Sage stuffing

the salad is just a cesar salad kit into which i am going to add cherry tomatoes and more walnuts

Friday:

breakfast

Cereal again

lunch:

grilled cheese

vegetable soup

v8 splash

dinner:

Paul our dear friend is coming over to cook us a dinner.

I feel really healthy and strong after i eat this stuff. Not gross and starched out. Heres to next week!