$2 Meals and Under

It doesn't get much better than only spending $2 on a meal! All this was store bought unfortunately. Next week I'll actually be "cooking". I've just been taking it easy and super cheap since I'm transitioning between jobs and paychecks. 

Anyway...

2 pot pies : $0.79 ea. = $1.58

1 box mac and cheese : $0.39 

Total meal cost : $1.97

Awesome!!

You can find my receipt and food calendar here - 

Mid April Food Budget

Last night, I made grilled cheese and tomato soup for dinner. My poor bread just torn as soon as we put the butter on it! I also ran out of spray olive oil, so my bread stuck and ruined it more. This is the end result.

Ham, cheese, and bread we always keep on hand for lunches

tomato soup : $0.59

Total meal cost : Probably under the $2 mark

Our Breakfast yesterday morning:

3 eggs - $1.75 for 12 = $0.45

1/2 pack of bacon = $1.02

Total meal cost : $1.47

DIY : Body Scrub

So, my madre works for a health care agency, and actually goes out to the doctor's offices and tries to market off her healthcare agency. She explained to me about two weeks ago that she's running out of ideas. She's done the candles, cookies, lunches, ect and needs some new ideas. Thanks to pinterest, I had a ton! Lip balm, lip scrub, body scrub, bbq sauce, the list goes on!!

We settled on Body scrub, since we could pick out different colors and scents for the girls and guys in the office. My mom pre-ordered 100 tiny jars, we got 2 things of dye, and 3 different scents. She apparently thought we needed a lot of sugar, so she bought a 25 lb bag of it. lol.. let's just say I left with 12 lbs of sugar to take home. Thanks mom. I'll be set for a year.

So, here's the recipe we used. This filled about 33 jars of each color/scent. I'm not entirely sure the jar size, but maybe you'll get a feel from the pictures. They're small.

What you will need (33 jars):
8 cups of sugar
3 cups of EVOO
1 entire thing of fragrance 1/2 fl oz {hobby lobby}
2 entire things of dye {hobby lobby}

Mix well and scoop them into your jars. They smelled amazing!!

Our ginormous amounts of sugar and oil

The first batch of everything mixed together. We later dumped it back in and added more red.

Our color dye.

Wild Berry Fragrance, smelled great

Coconut was the best one I though.

Our assembly line of colors. This isn't even all of it!!! Still more blue, and all the red/pink was packed

My mom's logo and work sticker.

The final product!! It attached these cute tags on them to let the people at the doctor's office know what kind they got. So cute!!! 

Weekend Fun

So today is the first weekend Rob and I have gotten together that wasn't scheduled. 

It was actually a pretty amazing day so far. It's nice having a day off, and not having to worry about working the next day. Just pure freedom.

After last night's incident, I needed to go find some new jeans (great excuse). I was on a mission to find some cheap jeans, that make my butt look amazing. People always talk about how cheaper items don't last as long, which is turn in some aspects, but if you treat your clothes well, no matter how much they cost, they'll always last a long time. Two years ago I bought skinnies from Forever 21, and they still work for me! In fact, I probably wear those the most. 

I wanted to find some similar pairs at F21 again. So, off to the mall we went. 

First stop. H&M : I found two great pairs of jeans! They looks fab on me :) One was $9.95 and the other was $19.95.  Two amazing, plain shirts for 2 for $10, some new glasses $6.95.

F21: I found the same style of jeans I bought two years ago, just a different wash. Awesome!! $9.95

In a later post I'll include pictures.

All this shopping already pooped Rob out. We got this amazing spot in the food court. They have an area in the very center that is actually outdoors. It was such a beautiful day, we couldn't pass it up.

We tried out a bunch of new places we never have before. You think after being here almost two years, we'd try Which Which?? But no....

As you can see we had some fun. Our name was Plurf.

The lady that called our name to get the order looked at Rob strangely and tried to pronounce it. Then he tells her it's his girlfriend's name. Thanks babe.

My new favorite!! Gelato. It. Was. Amazing. 

We split a Texas Pecan Caramel cup. I was in heaven with every bit. Thankfully we got the tiniest cup since it was so so rich. Def getting this more often!

 To top off our amazing day - The Croods at the AMC

This movie is recommended for all people of all ages. I was laughing through the whole movie! And it's soooo pretty in the forest! All the amazing animals created for this movie. I applaud the artists. Even Rob liked the movie, and he typically doesn't like animated ones.