Beans, beans, beans

I'm trying an experiment this week. No meat (okay, one recipe has smoked sausage), all beans, lentils, and peas. Five meals.

This is going to be a fragrant household.

But!

Our grocery bill for this week's meals was $75. Seventy. Five. Dollars.

That includes the beef roast I bought for something like $7.

Our grocery bill rarely drops below $100, even with meticulous planning and couponing. I couldn't believe it when she rang it up.

I hope we turn out to really, really love beans. The idea of saving $25/week almost made me pass out.

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I didn't shower yesterday. I looked up the price of a ten-minute shower. *It's about $2.10. Now, I don't know how accurate that is, but I'm guessing it may even be low for this household. I like my showers hot, and in the winter, mine tend to run longer. Even though we insulated most of the pipes in the basement, we still have a few naked ones running around, which means the water loses a ton of heat on its way upstairs. So, I think I'm going to start showering every other day. Don't worry, friends; if you come to my house, or if I come to yours, I'll shower first.

So let's say I drop three showers a week (it's better for my hair and my really dry skin anyway, right?). That's $6.30/week, which is $.90/day.

That's five things. Five down, ninety-five to go.

I'm beginning to think this was a little ambitious.

*That just doesn't sound right. Even with our house and my love of extremely hot water. Okay. I take about a ten-minute shower. We have an older water heater, maybe 10-15 years, it's FREEZING in our basement, water takes about a minute to get warm enough, and I'm pretty sure we don't have a low-flow shower head. I found a calculator online, but it really seems off. So I don't know. We'll call it $.30/day for now.