Day 37 and everybody is hungry after a skimpy lunch

Rodger has a big week coming up, and had to leave before 7am.  I did not put enough effort into planning lunch for today, so the family got whatever was easy to put in bags this morning. 

That included the cinnamon bears made yesterday, carrots, oranges, pretzels, and some koolaid lemonade.  Not enough to fill anyone up. 

What is worse (or better if you're a kid), I gave them cap-n crunch cereal for a snack.  I had used a coupon to buy a 22 oz box of cap-n crunch for 1.50, which is only about .07/oz.  I was a champion mom there for a minute when I handed out their snacks. 

We walked to the hardware store to purchase seeds while everyone crunched away.

Christiana and Noah, checking out the seeds

Noah displays pea seeds.

Charity, with Jackie.  This is Jackie's favorite store, because she is allowed and welcome to come inside.  So welcome, in  fact, that she gets doggie biscuits every time she enters the store. 

Beautiful hyacinths adorn the doorway to Ace Hardware.

Their aroma is amazing.

More to come soon.

Here come the details on the skimpy lunch.  Details for the whole day follow:

breakfast menu:  cold cereal and milk

Cost:  $1.75

box of cold cereal:  1.00, as usual

milk,  1/2 gallon:  .75

lunch menu:  parts of the cinnamon bears (homemade bread), carrot sticks, oranges (half an orange each person), pretzels, lemonade

Cost:  $2.41

cinnamon bears:  .66

22 oz carrots:  .38

pretzel bags (of 16 each):  .60

koolaid lemonade:  .27

snack:  Cap'n Crunch cereal, to crunch on

cost:  $.62 for 9 oz

there was enough chili for us all to have a second bowl full.  Even so, it looks a bit boring, doesn't it?  We did get our leafy greens for the day, though, didn't we? There is also celery, and plenty of it, in the chili.

supper menu:  chili beans and crackers, green salad with ranch dressing

(we were supposed to have bread, but a dog reached up onto the table and ate it while I was gone.)

Cost:  $3.64

pinto beans, 2 lbs:  .80

chili powder:  .10

bread:  .33

Crackers, 2 sleeves:  .40

3 romaine hearts:  1.25

salt:  .02

salsa:  .64

ranch dressing, 3 oz:  .10

Today's total:  $9.07