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• 10:25 Has the makings of five large freezable meals in her cupboard, time to go buy containers, a whole day to cook tomorrow and busy week ahead. #

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I beleive the current internet terminology is "om nom nom" or, thrifty Chris is thrifty.

I have spent most of today cooking.

On Tuesday we had $35 worth of fruit and vegetables delivered to our house.

On Wednesday we went to the supermarket.

For the next seven days mc_shamo and I will both be extremely busy with shows, work, study and life in general- and often with all of these on the same day! We are also both trying to spend less money in a bid to actually be in a position to save for Fun Things like holidays and houses.

So today I cooked up a storm, and our freezer is well and truly stocked to survive the oncoming week. It contains:

-3 containers containing two home made burritos each
-2 containers of pasta with pumpkin, spinach and tomato sauce
-4 containers of morrocan vegetable stew with pumpkin, lentils, potato, chickpeas, tomatoes carrot etc. for the sake of using what we have this stew is accompanied by polenta instead of cous-cous.
-4 containers of thai fish curry with basmarti rice
-3 containers of stir-fried vegetables with tofu in hoi-sin sauce, with Japanese buckwheat noodles.

Of the vegetables delivered on Tuesday all that is left are three potatoes, a carrot and a tomato. So almost all perishables are used up, potatoes can be kept longer than a week and carrots and tomatoes make good snacks.

mc_shamo and I had fun with maths and have concluded that the cost of the above meals works out roughly to $3 a container on adverage. You should see the freezer! It's full to bursting point!

I feel very pleased with myself indeed. I am now less worried about my ability to stick to my financial plan.

I like cooking. By the way, none of these had recipes, but if you are interested I can let you know how I made them.

And the best bit? mc_shamo says he'll do the rest of the dishes!