Let's Talk Butter

This month my sweet family have devoured 12 pounds of butter! TWELVE POUNDS! That's 48 sticks or 1.548 sticks per day. 38,400 calories of butter a month or 1,238.7 calories per day.

That is over 200 calories of butter per day per person. This is just butter and not all the olive oil we've gone through. If I had to guess on olive oil I would say about 5 to 6 tablespoons per day for us. Or another 100 calories per person.

I usually eat three whole eggs and about 70 calories of butter for breakfast. Between the egg yolks and butter most of the calories are from fat.

People fats do not make you fat!!!!!

I am nursing so I get to consume a mass amount of food so this does help. But bring on the cream on top yogurt and eggs yolks, butter, olive oil. Eating a bowl of granola and full fat yogurt to the tune of 4 or 5 hundred calories keeps me from diving head first into a bag of chips or cookies at 10:30 in the morning. Fats digest slow causing you to not have to eat every two minutes.

Full fat milk will not make you fat, skim milk will. Extra calories will make you fat. And you will eat too much if you constantly feel hungry or starved for nutrition. You will eat mixing bowls of ice cream made out of skim milk but try eating more that a thin slice of full fat cheese cake or scoop of coconut ice cream.

Real food is hard to binge on. When is the last time you over indulged on broccoli or carrot sticks. Keep it real and you body will figure the rest out.

More Shopping

You're not surprised are ya?

To the tune of 25 bucks.

The salsas were 50 cents a jar- be picky some contain preservatives and others don't.

Yes that is crap chocolate but at 50 cents a bag and three girls COVERED with the chicken pox it is helping save my sanity.

I also bought three things of toothpaste, per the hubby's request, and rented a movie for the girls so 8 more dollars for that.

I'll be doing more shopping too because we're almost out of eggs. Yes we have less that a dozen eggs left, we ate over 4 dozen eggs this week. I think its safe to say we have a big family and big families eat a ton of food.

Please Go Read This!!!

I oh so want to do the Happy Meal experiment with my kids next to a real hamburger. You know see which one is real by seeing which one rots.

We've looked up the four year old cheeseburger on YouTube that even mold and bacteria won't touch. But now the bakery goods!!! I wonder what would happen to those Costco cakes everyone raves about. GAG!!!

So please go read this WITH YOUR KIDS!!!

If it doesn't rot don't eat it!!!!

Health Store Trip

Here is our Friday midday run to the health store. The bread is delivered fresh around noon so we show pretty close to that. $34. Yes that's more yogurt. That will make 13 quarts for the month! They were out of eggs;-( So the hubby made a few stops for five dozen eggs. Yes that's right FIVE DOZEN. The shear amount of food we devour amazes me.

We also were gifted a deer which we had to pay to have process so $45 for that.

Maybe it because you're watching me but I can't seem to stop spending money. Really the money is flying out like crazy.

Apples Crisp

The apples pre- topping. Don't you just love the color! For the love of butter. Waiting it's turn in the oven.

Half a gallon of granola out. Time to melt that butter.

Time to hunt down little people to polish this off.

SAUSAGES!!!

Can you find the kid in this photo?

She is my official grocery stacker. 51 more dollars. Really I have no restraint! But these were REALLY good deals! My receipt said I saved $171!!!!! I used $65.49 in coupons!!!!

Sausages- $1 (I bought 24)
Olive Oil -Free
Toilet paper -$1.69 each
Cans of MSG - .09 each

I needed contact solution and few groceries, bananas, canned salmon and corn.

More Shopping!

$25!! Well a few things are missing, bandaids and more dishsoap. The dish soap was supposed to be free but I didn't realise until I got home I didn't get my Catalina from it;-(

The Epsom salt and sparkling waters are for my patients. Puddin and Racky have the chicken pox- ugh!!!

The hubby also picked up bread and eggs for me on Friday but it came out of "his" money so I'm not counting it.