Intro

To begin with, I wanted to tell you a little about myself and why I am doing this blog. First, my husband and I would like to take on a challenge to pay off our house in a much shorter time frame than the 30 years we signed to just last month. We also have another mortgage for a house that we are currently renting out and although we are getting rent payments that more than pay for the property, our debt amount is quite high and we would like to do something about this.

As we have looked at our monthly spending, we have found that food has made up a huge percentage of our spending in the form of groceries and going out to eat with the latter being the biggest culprit. Those little drive through stops can really add up, not to mention the date night twice a month eating out. Don't get me wrong, we do need date night a minimum of every other week, but when we can easily drop well over $60 on a meal, most would agree is a little excessive.

There are some other areas we are finding that we can cut our spending and I plan on sharing those here with you. My goal is to share daily during the week. (probably no Saturdays or Sundays). I don't want to share just the ideas, though. I want to share my experience. This will keep me accountable to try and actually DO something each day to save money.

So here is today's money saving activity...

We are usually in a hurry in the mornings much like other people these days. We don't always have time to cook a meal for breakfast and I have found myself going through drive through for breakfast a lot more than I should. I know, I could eat cereal or something like that, but sometimes I just need protein. Not only because I crave it, but I tend to have a blood sugar drop around 10AM if I don't have protein in my breakfast.

Well, today I made a large batch of easy breakfast burritos. I would have liked to add a few more ingredients, but I have some picky eaters in my house and I am trying to please everyone.

I started out with a whole 18 count egg carton of eggs and scrambled them up with a little milk. (You will find that I rarely measure anything) I would say 1/4 cup or so. I added them to a lightly buttered non stick pan along with about a TBSP of onion soup mix (easier to hide than onions and peppers, but not quite as good...) Added some soy churrizo sausage (1/3 the package), salt and pepper and cooked them until done. I then wrapped them up with some cheese in tortillas. I individually wrapped them in paper towels and then placed them, two each, in sandwich sized freezer bags and labeled them with the date, what they were and the main ingredients.

This ended up making 17 burritos that I threw in the freezer for a quick meal on the way to church/school/work for my family.

My cost of making these 17 burritos???

Eggs - Roughly $2.00

Churrizo - about $2.00 (because we didn't use the whole package)

Cheese (I used half slices of american cheese) - less than $1

All other ingredients, I had in my pantry

Total cost - about $5

Cost per burrito - less than 30 cents.....

Wow, when you think of the amount you spend going through drive through, the savings is huge! Especially when you add the drinks and the hash browns (which I don't need, I can drink water at home and skip the hash browns)

Hmmm...I am starting to think that this venture may not only save money, but help me loose a little weight...we will see.