it's working

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well, the $40/week thing....it's worked so far.  i knew we could do it, but i kind of also thought that by mid-week, we'd be eating soup pie with kidney beans and broccoli. 

but we haven't.  yes, some of it has been things left in our freezer that we should have eaten a while ago...but there is nothing wrong with it.  for instance, i've eaten more shrimp in the past week than i have in a year.  which is AWESOME. 

this is not to say that everything has been "normal", but we also have not been starving.  we stopped buying G2 and started drinking more water.  we eat rice, we don't eat desserts, we have been fine. 

apparently, it is even more generous than i thought, as t informed me that we would EACH have an extra $20/week to spend.  but, except for $5 last night, it is still untouched.  so, ideally, if we eat in all weekend too, we'll have $35 in the pot for next week or the week after.  pretty good.  we figured that even if we are spending $320, it is a HECK of a lot less than we were.  i'm not kidding, i don't remember if i told you this or not.  i'm almost embarrassed to do so, if i haven't already.  seriously....we spent almost $1500 one month on food.  TWO OF US. 

do you know what we could have bought with that?  oh well...never mind.  point being, i think we are doing well...being healthy and we did something that i said i would NEVER EVER do.  we shared a meal out last night.  i could never get people that do that.  but it worked.  and it was more than enough food.  it made me start thinking, why did i not do this when i was single?  it is SUCH an easy thing to do to have someone box up half a meal before you start eating it. 

just a new mind-set.  we'll see how it goes