{"id":380,"date":"2010-01-27T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coffeefreakdesigns.com\/teenstotsandeverythinginbetween\/?p=380"},"modified":"2010-01-27T19:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T19:20:00","slug":"cheap-food-diet-impossible-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/?p=380","title":{"rendered":"Cheap + Food + Diet = Impossible for me ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the post that has been in my head since lunch. I debated on posting but since this is an honest blog thought I should go ahead and get it out!<\/p>\n<p>I was very poor as a kid. I am ONLY 38 but I remember things like the first time we got a Polaroid pictures of myself and my brother, a stranger took it and gave it to us at a store, and we actually lived in a rent house without indoor plumbing for the first several month. So living cheaply is something I learned from the best My MOM! I know we were poor now but I can&#8217;t tell you one time that I didn&#8217;t have something we needed like food or clothes! Food is the biggest area of expense in our house. I can&#8217;t stand the thought of throwing away food for any reason. I am famous for my left over nights where we pull out of the fridge and make at least one if not several meals. I have even been known to look up recipes to use the ingredients I have on hand! Since I am now staying at home, leftovers are a staple for lunch. Lily thinks getting a sandwich is a treat! So after Zach&#8217;s dedication last week, there was an entire baked ziti left untouched. No big deal I thought at the time. I even put it in our weekly menu plan in my head, Thursday!  But even the best laid plans are interrupted! On Wednesday, I received in the mail some free items from Atkins and showed them to Matt. He decided Thursday morning to start the diet and asked me to join him. I did with the acknowledge that he would be more successful than me but I wanted to support him! I am actually glad he is starting to attempt to lose weight with the deaths of both his Mother and Sister, I get worried. So of course the Baked Ziti is off the menu. I have actually feed it to the girls 2 days for lunch but 3\/4 is left. Today I broke down and had some for lunch because I hate for it to be wasted!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the post that has been in my head since lunch. I debated on posting but since this is an honest blog thought I should go ahead and get it out! I was very poor as a kid. 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