Cooking Large Quantities on a Shoestring funds

A large house with specialized diets can do it, so can you!

Cooking for a house and staying within a allocation is tricky, but it can be done. We feed eight people, two who must eat a gluten free diet, and three who are allergic to milk. Every two weeks we spend 0 sometimes 0. That calculates to per day and per man per day. You could never eat like this eating out all the time.

Food And Dessert

How can this be done? The answer is to learn to cook as many things from scratch and rely as minuscule as potential on pre-made things. Make large amounts for supper and eat the left-overs for lunch. Breakfasts consist mostly of oatmeal, grits or eggs.

Here is a sample of our supper menu this two week period:

Fiesta Lima Chicken Soup

Gluten-free spaghetti with salad

Coconut Curry Chicken with Risotto

Pinto beans with fried corn tortillas (and taco toppings)

Lentil Soup consummate with gluten free Cornbread

Bbq Chicken thighs with potato salad

Chicken casserole (Gf pasta, mayo, tuna or chicken, and topped with crushed potato chips)

Parmesan Chicken Breasts over rice (with soy flour)

Red beans and rice with sausage

Chicken enchiladas (with corn tortillas)

Homemade pepperoni pizza (with gf flour)

Chicken Salad

Vegetarian chili over baked potatoes

Vegetable Soup with gluten free biscuits

Snacks are fresh fruits and vegetables or the occasional homemade brownies, biscuits, or crackers.

The trick to feeding a house on a smaller allocation is to make most of your foods from scratch, buy few if any convenience foods, and minimize sweets and desserts as much as possible.

Be true of the quality of foods you buy for your family. Just as the books you read feed your mind and sway your thoughts and decisions, the food we eat fuels the body or makes it ill. It is prominent to purchase foods that are low in preservatives especially Msg, organic foods which are free of pesticides, radiation, hormones, and antibiotics, and foods that are as fresh from the source (earth or animal) as possible. It is always worth your while to spend a minuscule bit more for higher quality meats, fruits, and vegetables and have the peace of mind knowing you are not putting garbage into your family's bodies.

Those with food allergies beware of underground sources of allergens. Things like Velveeta cheese or processed cheese comprise wheat flour. If an animal was fed junk food like many non-organically raised cattle are fed, your meat could comprise traces of wheat and other allergens.

"It is not critical to have an extravagant food allocation in order to serve things with range and tastefully cooked"Every homemaker can learn the art of feeding her house well on any wage it just takes a minuscule attempt and a love for her house and their well-being.

Works Cited:
Schaeffer, E. (1971). The underground Art of Homemaking. London, England: Tyndale.

Cooking Large Quantities on a Shoestring funds