Frugal In Florida

Entering Week 22 of Hubby's Unemployment Adventures too ... I shopped quite a bit this past week ... too much.  Hubby is out until Wednesday so I will really be utilizing what we have on hand for the following week ... Once he is home, I will have to buy some milk, but I think we are good on everything else ... I was home Monday (thank you to all the Veterans for giving and preserving our freedom!) and decided to get the freezers organized ... watch for a post on 'that' ... also used up a spa gift certificate ... seemed to be the perfect day to do so ... Here's what we got going on this week ... Sunday - inside out burgers made by the Princess boyfriend. Beef came from freezer and amazingly enough, the buns in the pantry were still edible Monday - leftover chili from last week with a small salad on the side Tuesday - stir fry veggies with some chicken (chicken in freezer, veggies in fridge) ... wont' be as elaborate as that particular post! We...

This is just to show you how, if you leave a 19 year old boy alone, he gets creative with his food ... and declares that perhaps, he should become a chef (NO, DON'T DO IT!) ... It all started with the Juicy Lucy failure (cheese explosions do not bode well on a gas grill, lets just leave it at that). So then I had to remake new burgers (pulling out the cheese on the remaining raw burgers and re-patting out). The kids (mini adults?), well, they were just very unhappy about that. I promised Juicy Lucys and they were now going to get plain ole 80/20 burgers? There was quite a bit of grumbling going on, trust me. Luckily, Hubby was also frying up some frys (frie frie, frie frie, I'm gonna get me some frie fries!) and onion rings ... and well, look what happens? We all had a pretty big laugh and lasting joke about the disproportionate size of the bun to the burger (Where's The Beef??) I don't suppose I need to worry too much about him making food to eat at colleg...