I’m taking a little break from posting my food journal here on the weekends, but wanted to show you an easy way to make sprouts. We have a super limited grocery budget ($480 a MONTH for 8 of us.)  A few times a year I make a big order from Azure standard of bulk grains and seeds and have lots of broccoli, radish, and red clover sprouting seeds on hand. Sprouts sound so good! And even though they are easy to make, I haven’t done it for about a year.

Here’s a video I made for GroceryShrink that shows how easy it is.

Brandon and I went to Aldi today with my last $20 for groceries this month. We bought 1 bag of gala apples ($3.50); 1 bag of bananas ($1.25); 1 bag of baby bell peppers ($3.50); 1 sleeve of celery ($.79); 1 can of tomato juice ($1.29) for making goulash; and 1 carton of oats ($1.50); 2 loaves of whole wheat bread ($1.20 each) and 2-4 cup cartons of plain yogurt $2 each). I had to put several things back after I added everything up and saw how fast we ran out of money.

Brandon is only 5 and poor dear was telling me he would get his piggy bank and give me money so we could buy food. I explained to him that I have plenty of money, but we are sticking to a budget. That means that even if we have money we decide ahead of time how much we are going to spend on what and then stick to it. It was a good life lesson for him.

After we got home, he helped me do some scratch cooking with our bulk grains.  We made homemade cinnamon rolls for the family for snack today and breakfast tomorrow. (I added protein by filling them with Neufchatel cheese instead of butter and pouring a yogurt sauce over the top and baked it in.)  And started the sprouts to fill in when we run out of lettuce.  I’ll have to make homemade bread and such later this week too, but it will be fun to do :). The hardest part will be not eating it!  It will be super healthy but full of calories that I don’t need right now.