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In a message dated 8/27/2006 10:15:39 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
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Due to schedules I'm not the one who shops or cooks. While my wife will make
lots of accomidations, she doesn't want to eat paleo. Does anyoen hav a meal
plan that is set up in a more dual format? Something that the basic meal
would be paleo butthat was easily added to making a mroe "regular" meal?
We prepare a Paleo meal and then my SO can add pasta or bread if he wishes.
In the winter we eat a lot of soups and stews and it is very easy to make
noodles in a separate pot that he can add to his bowl. This past weekend, I made
a big pot of meat sauce with fresh veggies and herbs grown on our deck and I
had mine over steamed veggies, while he ate his on noodles.
We even do this with things like beef stroganoff. I do not use flour to
thicken the sauce, I just reduce it down and then at the end add raw organic
cream or yogurt instead of pastuerized sour cream from the grocery store. His
goes over pasta, mine over green beans or spinach.
Since I'm not the one shopping a shopping list/meal plan would bne a huge
boon. Even if I was I'm actually overwhelmed bt the number of choices and
trying to set up the dual meal plan format
Tight budget. We jsut adopted a newborn baby boy and cost is an object on
everything we do. What do you do to follow the diet on a budget?
The question here is how much time are you willing to spend to avoid
spending money? We buy forage fed organic young beef for about the same cost or less
than regular grocery store beef, but we have to pick it up 1/4 of a cow at a
time at a beef processing place approx 2 hours from us.
We have joined a cowshare co-op to get raw organic dairy and eggs for a
reasonable price (a gallon of milk that comes with at least a pint of cream is
$5) but we have to drive 35 minutes each way to get it.
For our veggies and fruits, we go to the Asian and Hispanic supermarkets
because in our area (DC suburbs) their produces is as good as or better than the
produce at Wegman's and other high end groceries, but much cheaper.
By purchasing different foodstuffs from different suppliers, we are able to
eat a Paleo diet on a small food budget, but it does take a lot more time
than just one trip to a supermarket once a week or every two weeks, so the
question becomes how is your time worth? Will the potential savings be worth the
effort of finding the best prices?
If not, the other way to eat cheaper is to stock up when things are on sale
and freeze them. Eat more frozen veggies than fresh when fresh are more
expensive and only eat fruit in season. Fresh seasonal fruit can also be frozen
and while it will not have the same texture as fresh, frozen fruit makes nice
smoothies.
Robyn
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