I will confess to making less pancake batter than in my pre 10for10for10 days. Pancakes are full of carbs, (which Rodger needs to regulate throughout the day) and I'm against too much syrup and butter and childhood obesity (just like Michelle Obama), so I limited everybody to 3 pancakes, and 5 for Rodger. With tea it was just enough. You wanted another, but your stomach didn't ask for another, after you left the table.
That griddle in the picture is a mondo griddle. The pancakes are not dollar size, they are about 3 1/2 to 4 inches in diameter.
My sister was asking me today about Boothie syrup usage. I have always limited syrup because we usually use real maple, which is almost as precious as gold. We try to stretch out our Christmas costco syrup jug as long as possible! So my syrup cost isalways fairly low, probably below average, but it isn't a fluke or a lie, or anything related to the project.
We also finally found some imitation syrup which did not, repeat, did not contain high fructose corn syrup. We had to search 4 grocery stores before finally locating one brand of syrup which didn't contain any high fructose corn syrup. Cash and Carry's cheapest house brand had gallon jugs of the stuff. I'm good with that---cheap and the least unhealthy syrup at that.
breakfast menu: pancakes with syrup or jam, tea with milk
Breakfast total: $1.68
1 batch pancake batter: 1.10
1/2 cup syrup: .16
8 pats butter: .16
2 cups milk for tea: .26
Lunch had to be on time for all the hungry little ones, so I made something easy and fast. Rodger had picked up some marked down bagels last night for 99 cents, so I figured we had better eat them asap. Having beautiful onion bagels sitting around on the counter would be too big a big temptation to snitch on a Saturday.
I've got lots more ham, which I had pre-sliced from a large ham, and then bagged up in 8oz, 75cent portions. That made it simple. Just reach in and get a meal's worth, no hurried up calculations.
lunch menu: bagels with ham and lettuce, romaine salad with carrots and cucumber, orange juice
Lunch total: $4.05
ham: .75
bagels: .99
1 head romaine: .46
1 carrot: .11
1 cucumber: .50
1/2 gallon orange juice: .99
1 roma tomato for Rodger: .13
salad dressing (for those who asked): .13
Did you know that orange juice tastes better out of a beautiful cup? An old professor of mine, Dr. Kalin, who taught the beauty of floral design as well, always said that. Drink out of your most beautiful cup, he used to say. Surround yourself with the beauty you can afford.
Check out the pictures. Rodger's meal has the tomatoes. The other (female or child sized) meal shows a small bowl containing the dressing. Yum.
snack menu: popcorn and kettle corn
Snack total: $.62
12 oz. popcorn kernels, 1/3 cup oil, 1/2 cup sugar
This afternoon Mercy whipped up a small, one loaf batch of french dough, then we took a stray, starving llittle chihuahua that the children found to the Humane Shelter When we got home, Charity and I made the risen dough into fry bread, a traditional Yakima Indian treat. It made a great addition to our split pea soup, and I didn't have to call anybody twice to the supper table.
Here you can see Charity helping to fry the bread. The next shot shows the bowls of soup dished up. We let children choose based on age, from top down. (There has to be some advantage to being the oldest!) In this way, too, the largest portions go to the largest people generally.
Waiting their turn teaches young children an important skill and gives the older, more responsible ones a small privilege. Those late to the table may lose their place in the choosing and might have to take last pick. Sometimes I take last pick so that Noah feels that he actually has a choice.
Even though the steam clouds the picture a bit, you can see that there is a lot of soup left for seconds. Everyone ate their fill on excellent soup tonight, with 2 large soup bowls left over, even after bedtime snackers had some thirds. Take a look at the awesome price tag below.
supper menu: split pea soup with carrots, potatoes, and onions, fry bread (and we were supposed to have grapefruit, but in my hurry to get a good seat at tonight's game I forgot to cut and serve them)
Supper total: $2.06 (which hardly seems possible)
split peas, 1 lb: .68
4 carrots: .44
4 lbs potatoes: .40
1 onion: .10
1 loaf recipe of french bread: .24
1/2 cup canola oil for frying: .20
Today's total cost: only $8.42 because I forgot the grapefruit
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Everything looks beautiful! Would you mind posting your recipe for fry bread. My guess is you just...fry it up, but just in case there's a special trick... I make french bread each week and always have a loaf on hand in the freezer. Sounds yummy.
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