do you cook on a budget??

i do always cook on budget i have to that i have to budget everything if i buy expensive food how will my family eat for the other next day.cooking in low budget doesnt mean you cook food with bad taste you always see to yourself that you have to cooked good food so no one feel that they ate on a budget.i do also have recipes on a budget so i have the guidelines on how i buy.

I'm single and I only shop for me and my cat and I like to shop at walmart. You can get a lot of non perishable items for really cheap. Plus the fresh stuff is cheaper than anything else at grocery stores. I don't have a lot of money so I totally shop as cheaply as I can!

I cook from scratch most of the time, although it's only me and I could probably afford to buy things ready made. I don't think all those convenience foods are good for us. Too much salt, too much sugar and heaven knows what kind of chemicals that we don't need. Besides, food cooked from scratch tastes better.

I cook most everything from scratch. We have a family of 5 and spend about $60/week. That includes diapers, TP, cleaning/grooming products, school lunches, etc. I do use a few packaged things like mac & cheese, but not often. Most stuff is totally from scratch. Tastes better that way too!

We had to cook on a budget for many years. It CAN be hard. I still had to buy the generic gravy packets to flavor my gravy. I can't make home-made gravy to save my life! Most of the things I made were not dishes you could really buy already made, anyway. Back when the boys were growing up, there was no packaged Chipped Beef and Gravy, no Smothered Chicken, Beef Tips over Rice or Pepper Steak. If they WERE pre-packaged, we couldn't afford them. I did grow some of our vegetables. Purple bell peppers, green beans and tomatoes. I'd start the seeds in cardboard eggcartons of soil in the house windows. The birds couldn't wipe me out that way.

I do!! not to save money but because I like it better when I know what actually went into the food I am going to eat.

We do too. We are saving money because we have a lot of debt to pay off, so everything has to be made from scratch. We can't really grow our own veggies, because we live in an apartment and also because we are not good with plants - they end up dying.

I cook everything from scratch. Not only does it save money...it tastes better. We live on a limited income and try to stretch the dollar as far as it can go. I love to cook so we decided we would stretch this way. We grew our own tomatoes this year. I have alot of frozen tomatoes for soups, stews and such.