Hi there! How was your week? We had a decently frugal week, despite having certain occasions that would have been pretty expensive, but even so, we managed to keep the costs down. 

As for the things that are not day specific… Rose is still fully nursing, fully cloth diapered, and Anneliese is still partially diapered, partially potty training. This week I’ve been pretty good at turning off lights and fans when not in use, and using sunlight when I could as lighting. And we’ve been on top of laundry so no needing to re-wash a load, and only line dried all the laundry instead of using the dryer.

Here’s what I did to save money each day this week:

Mike bought eggs from a cheap person who sells them herself instead of from the grocery store.

Made homemade gravlax.

Made an iherb order and only paid $9.22 instead of $65.50, including international shipping! because of using reward points!
My small Lock and Lock containers arrived in the mail, so I can now send even more “spilly” type homemade things like homemade yogurt and pudding and dressings for my kids’ and husband’s lunches.

Monday–
Made homemade vanilla pudding
Made homemade ketchup
Made homemade French dressing
Made homemade almond milk.
Used the almond milk to make a homemade vegan cheese sauce.
Made stuffed baked potatoes with foraged lambsquarters and the vegan cheese sauce.

Tuesday–
Used almond pulp left from the almond milk to make almond pulp biscotti.
Made tahini and date paste “caramels”.

Wednesday–
Made a fancy meal cheaply by including leftovers in the menu to stretch out the more expensive dishes.

Thursday–
Made soup from broth made from bones from a deboned chicken and leftover carrot salad and some zucchini that was on its last legs.
Made vegan, gluten free tahini cookies.
Made homemade jello.
Mike fixed a broken food scale.
Made homemade gluten free breadcrumbs from an attempt to make buckwheat rolls that didn’t rise so much.
Mike fixed my broken necklace.

Friday–
Stretched the small amount of ground turkey I had to make meatball with homemade bread crumbs and craisins and ground flax seeds.
Made a lentil dish.
Made soup with free leeks that I rescued before it got to the dumpster in the farmer’s market and past prime carrots.
Received a bag of chicken skin and chicken fat from a neighbor, to use to make rendered chicken fat and cracklings.

Saturday–
Repurposed sauce from a stir fry to make into a dipping sauce for spring rolls.

What did you do to save money this week?