Another Day; Another Dollar - Day 16

What do you get when you mix:
- half a giant head of cabbage
- half a pound of ground beef
- a can of diced tomatoes
- half a can of leftover tomato soup
- one organic tomato "on its last legs"
- garlic
- onion powder
- water
- an "eyeballed" amount of uncooked rice
...in a crock pot on high for 4 hours?

CABBAGE! ROLL! CASSEROLE!

Not just cabbage roll casserole. But CABBAGE! ROLL! CASSEROLE! These three words will be taking over my meal-planning vocabulary for approximately the next FOUR YEARS.

Not pictured: another full kitchen bowl, covered in plastic wrap

In fact, I am going to have to eat one serving at least every other day in order to whittle it down to a freezer-fit-able amount. Because of this, I decided it was worth it to buy sour cream. Some people think I'm weird for eating my cabbage rolls with sour cream, but that's how I roll. And if I'm going to have to eat THISMUCH of it, I had better give myself the best chance to enjoy it.
I told myself, on my way to the grocery store, that I was only going to buy sour cream if it was in the 50% off section. It was not. BUT the milk was, so I spent LESS than I would have with full-priced milk and half-priced sour cream. Win!

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Day 16 and I've spent $17. No requirement again to shop until Sunday afternoon, so we're looking good.

I'm out of CoffeeMate. And I don't have enough cream for even one decent cup of coffee. So now I move on to milk, coconut milk, candy cane hot chocolate and Milo to sweeten and cream-ify my morning java.



Side note: I may not learn a dang thing about sacrifice this Lent season if people keep it up with the blessings. Perhaps what I'm supposed to learn is that there is always enough to share!