{"id":9012,"date":"2022-09-10T19:24:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T23:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/?p=9012"},"modified":"2022-09-11T19:36:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T23:36:46","slug":"saving-on-saturday-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/?p=9012","title":{"rendered":"Saving On Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/sos1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today was a very rainy and dreary day.\u00a0 The perfect time to catch up on some meal preparation and food preservation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Matt and I took 2 packages of cube steak from our previous cow purchase, breaded and deep fried them. They will be used for steak biscuits for breakfast for the next 6 months or so.<\/li>\n<li>I went ahead and meal prepped for the week. Stuffed green peppers, grilled chicken and bacon cheddar burgers are all ready to go.<\/li>\n<li>Sorted through and combined items in the freezers in the house as well as the chest freezer. The plan is to purchase as little as possible over the next 8 months and use the food we have in our freezers and pantry.<\/li>\n<li>Soaked and cooked a bag of black beans that Matt can use in his chill. (We have 2 cans of beans so this should last awhile.<\/li>\n<li>Packaged up gravy from breakfast into can size bags for use with breakfast pizza. I purchased a single can of gravy to use and it was $2.09&#8230;. our breakfast left-overs saved us $5.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We debated but decided against turning off the a\/c. The humidity is still really high, and it feels sticky outside.\u00a0 I will continue to watch the weather and as soon as we are below 80 degrees consistently, we will open the windows.<\/p>\n<p>The kids all caught up on laundry, which means less stress for me.<\/p>\n<p>Remember it is the small things that add up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a very rainy and dreary day.\u00a0 The perfect time to catch up on some meal preparation and food preservation. Matt and I took 2 packages of cube steak from our previous cow purchase, breaded and deep fried them. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/?p=9012\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[55,59,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5-meals","category-every-bit-counts","category-saving-money"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ySyX-2lm","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9013,"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9012\/revisions\/9013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}