Quote Originally Posted by pinkytoe View Post
Wow-I'm impressed with that chicken usage. We roasted a very small chicken yesterday with vegetables but ate half the chicken. Other half tonight with rice and mushrooms. Maybe I should see if I can get one more meal out of it? DH likes his meat though. Also, I don't have a separate freezer so can't store a lot of frozen broth everytime I roast or boil a chicken. As far as frugal moves, I tallied the majority of expenses by category from this past year and was blown away by how much spent on certain ones. I am embarrassed to say but now know which ones to be more careful about...so that we can retire sooner rather than later.
We ate more roasted vegetables and only a small portion of meat - we tend to fill up on the high-fiber foods - and I also served a small portion of cornbread (also high-fiber). We split one large baked apple for dessert (the apple was free). Over-eating anything is wasting food - loving it doesn't make it any less so. Most people don't have any idea how many servings they need or how many they consume. I only have my refrigerator freezer (no stand-alone freezer), so I have it down to a science when it comes to storing food in there, and my FoodSaver is also a huge help.