Left overs for lunch rule – even more when they have home grown herbs and vegetables in them. I’ve been cooking meals for two and a half decades and I prefer my cooking to most of the take away and restaurents in my area. The other week I cooked up some very tasty pork chow mein that provided four dinners serves and two left over lunches at a cost of $1.43 per serve. Buying the equivalent take away meals would have cost $4.95 per serve for the four dinner serves only (the preparation and coooking time was ten minutes longer than getting in the car, driving to the take away food place, waiting for the order to be cooked and getting back in the car to get home).

I don’t know why sensible living suggestions are considered extreme.

Great job presenting the post. Thanks for sharing your space.

We rarely use coupons because we get store brand on discount which is usually cheaper than coupons anyway. We eat out maybe 1 month on average – no drinks. We do have internet and cable (ARGH!), but I’d like to ditch the phone and the cable (biggest time waster ever invented). I intend to build our own house, currently we rent. And I buy books because the reading I prefer is never available at the library, I do get 90% of my books used on amazon.

BTW Money Magazine and the likes are usually more pedestrian. They start calling people extreme when they save just 30-40% of their income

No thanks..

Mike