Mahalo Chico,

February is such a short month, I thought that maybe this is a good time to test out my savings plan.

The North American dollar is to 22.00 Uruguayan pesos. In 08, the dollar dropped to as low as 1.00 to 15.00 pesos.

I spent 3,946.67 pesos for groceries at the grocery store for this week, plus 529.00 pesos for fruits and vegetables at the farmer’s market. The grocery goods are suppose to last until the end of February. The farmer’s market fresh produce until the following Tuesday -when they have it again-. Now normally I could spend up to 1,500 pesos at the farmer’s market and up to 6,000 pesos at the grocery store four times a month. I plan to spend  a lot less, so far I’ve done pretty well with following the menu for this week. 

Fortunately, our meals don’t vary too much. So, Saturday and Sundays can be repeat menus.

Just to give an example, Wednesday and Thursday menus consist mostly of baked goods (low fat, of course), vegetarian lasagna, adult mac and cheese, spinach gratin, and vegetarian enchilada. Paired with fresh house salad.

The idea is too cook once for the weekend. This would  be our traditional Sunday brunch. All the other meals are just reheats and quick house salads. I take the already baked goods from the past Wednesday and Thursday, reheat for weekend meals.

We’ll see what the end results are.

Ciao,

Odeliza Jacoba