Cinnamonhuskies:

Husbands are too funny!

Dh loves cold cereal too, but like a dessert before bed. Luckily he's not picky with cereals.

Maybe I can get him to eat more meatless meals! I'll tell him it's a matter of the budget: it's either your PopTarts or 2 days of meat! I wonder how that would go over?

I would try it! My DH response would be "what type of meatless meals?" He is suspicous, lol. He cannot stand TVP or soy/tofu so I can't even suggest that to him. I can do a veggie soup or a tomato soup with grilled cheese sandwiches but only for one meal. The next day needs to have MEAT, lol. He will also do bean burritos or bean tacos. But again, the next day, there should be some MEAT.

But funny, when he was single, he told me he could survive on cold cereal for 3 meals a day??? Yep, when he's cooking, he's more flexible, lol.

 My DH hates all soy-based anything, too. For him, we do bean burritoes, cheesey potato type dishes, etc when we do meatless.

Budget so far:

income 472.

auto fuel 50.

charity 40

dining 30

entertainment MISC 5.28

Groceries 63 (some is non food but I can't remember how much)

Medical 12

Farm grain 28

Savings 50.

Doing bills later. Est. $430 income, phone/ internet 82, charity 40, savings 50, tool bill at hvac supplier 10. I know the truck will need gas in a day or 2 and with gas going back up it may be $40 or it may be $60.

Spent my $50 Meijers gift card on medicines and motor oil instead of groceries, so I'll need to add that to my budget amount.

overspent $67 so far this month, so the categories I'm below budget on need to absorb that. $30 Clothing not allowed for, $10 over on Electric, $13 over on Grain, and the rest over on Misc.

Hey all it's been awhile. Been doing alot of juggling. Paid off a big bill last month of over $1000. just made the lst payment last month. Playing catch up this month.

778 mortgage

100 phone- double

331- car

400 electric

100 student loan

100 garbage

140 cell phone

100 plowing

130 drivers ed

hh/food  300

gas 75

kids/hubby 125

total--- 2479

income- 

hubby 2200

guards- 150

me-  200

total- 2550

savings----71.00

However this month our electric bill is higher than normal as well as the student loan amount- although I may just leave it at that amount. Plowing is also more than normal.

Anne