I’ve been at this for eleven weeks now, and am starting, I think, to get the hang of it. My waist size this morning came in at 41 inches – that’s 1/2 inch less than last week, and we spent $142.34 on groceries.
As I mentioned before, I’m not sure that we’re saving money on this system, but we are feeling healthier, and I am slowly losing some of the belly fat that I put on through 2008 and 2009.
One of our challenges this week is to see how many meals we can get out of a single chicken. We’re partly inspiring ourselves with Kirsten Swensson’s 1 Chicken, 17 Healthy Meals, $26 Bucks, No Mayo post. Yesterday I roasted our chicken, and removed the meat from the bones. I used the juices from the roasting pan and a bit of meat to make a chicken soup. I had been planning on making stock from the bones, but I started the stock before the chicken came out of the oven, and I had decent, mostly vegetable stock, so I froze the bones for my next stock pot. I’m not sure what we’ll make next with the chicken, but I’ll try to post about it.