Day 25, with scrambled eggs for lunch

I love daffodils

     Last night I put it out to the kids whether they had any ideas for school lunches, and one daughter insisted that she had a great idea.  So it is in our lunches today.  Scrambled eggs in rice.  Different.  But I decided to take her suggestion, since I asked for it.  Nobody complained.

     Breakfast was simple.  Cold cereal and milk.

breakfast menu:  cinnamon life cereal with milk

cost:  $1.75

1.00 for the box of cereal, and .75 for half a gallon of milk

Lunch:  scrambled eggs with rice, applesauce, orange juice

cost:  $3.65

14 scrambled eggs:  1.18

2 tsp oil, for scrambling the eggs:  .02

soy sauce and oyster sauce to flavor the rice: .10

3 cups (before cooking) rice:  .96

one quart applesauce:  .40

1/2 gallon orange juice with pulp:  .99

afterschool snack:  dry oat squares, one ounce each

cost .69

supper menu:  mashed potatoes and chicken gravy, green salad and dressing

cost:  $3.33

5 lb potatoes:  .50

1/4 chicken, with its broth:  .99

gravy packet:  .33

salad, 2 hearts romaine: .88

2 carrots, to decorate the salad:  .10

salad dressing, 3 oz:  .19

Today's total eating cost:  $9.09

we are saving up for something good, I think---Salmon.