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The
Don't Diet Digest
Stop
Dieting. Start Eating.
www.RealPeopleDontDiet.com TO SUBSCRIBE: Send e-mail to dontdietdigest AT aweber.com THIS ISSUE: $5 Dinners Trim More Than Just Your Budget It's finally
snowing here in upstate NY. I whined about not getting
snow when
everyone else had blizzards...now I have friends
and family
hunting me down. We're just wrapping up one storm
and gearing for
another to hit tonight. My lilac bush isn't too happy
but it sure is
pretty outside!
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My good friend
Leo Quinn (and yes, I have childhood photos that
would embarrass
him) just emailed me with something he
read in Reader's
Digest. I wanted you to hear it, so I'm throwing
it in today's
issue...
If
you're beginning a "we ight loss" program or "die-it", the first
thing
you need to ask yourself is:
"Can
I do this for the rest of my life?"
I'm guessing that
for 99.9% of the "die-it" plans out there, the
answer would be a
big, fat "NO".
If you're
currently "die-it"ing, and you can't answer "YES" to
doing it for the
rest of your life, then give "Real People
Don't Die t" a
try.
And if you're
wondering who Leo is, his website is here:
(Many of you know
Leo...)
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Okay, on to the
main part of the newsletter...
$5 dinners!
Wouldn't that be
great? For me, that would mean around
$150 in savings
on my monthly grocery bill, since I try to
keep most dinners
$10 or under.
I challenged
myself to feed my family for the entire month
of March on $5 a
dinner. While I could go through my
cookbooks and
recipes and try to guess at current costs,
I decided to take
a shortcut and look for a book on Amazon
that might have a
similar gimmick.
Sure enough,
there's a new book just published in
December called "The
$5 Dinner Mom Cookbook".
I don't have it
yet, so I can't do a full review, but some of the
recipes sound
pretty yummy (and normal). If there's curry
or arugula in it,
chances are no one in this house is eating it,
if you know what
I mean.
I'll use my "Real
People Don't Die t" strategy to choose
recipes, adjust
recipes or just plain avoid recipes.
I'll give you an
update in April as to how it went. If you use
the cookbook,
too, please write and let me know whether
Now, if someone
could just do a "$5 Crock-Pot Dinners"
cookbook, THAT
would be something...
...hmmm...maybe a
summer project for me?
:-)
Do you have any
$5 dinner recipes to share? Send
them on!
I have a new one
from a kids' cookbook that we made
on Chinese New
Year's:
Ramen
Noodle Chicken Soup
2 packages ramen
noodles, chicken flavor
1/2 bag frozen peas/carrots mix 1 boneless
chicken breast, cubed and cooked
Make the soup
according to directions, boilling the
veggies with the
water. Add soup flavoring and
stir.
Then add chicken. (You can add an extra cup
of water if you
think the broth is too strong.)
Serve with a
fresh salad!
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That's it for
today...off to get my son to shovel the walk!
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