Mac and cheese is a trigger for me
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| Mon, 02-19-2007 - 12:26pm |
Saturday i made a big pot of mac cand cheese (it's bassicly all we can afford right now) and it was good ( it cost 29 cents a box) so we eat it a lot. i've figured out why i'm so depressed the last few weeks. when my mom used to have her manic episodes and was drunk or on drugs so much she wouldn't cook and the only thing my older sister (by 18months) knew how to cook at the time was mac and cheese so we had it every night for weeks and weeks. sometimes we would have it for breakfast lunch and dinner. We have been eating a lot of mac and cheese because it is cheep and i like it but it occured to me last night that is why i've been triggering so much because it brings back so many bad memories.
so as i'm sitting here typing i'm eating a bowl of mac and cheese.
Robin

Hey Robin,
Im sorry for your situation. A couple of months ago when we were both unemployed we got "help". That is what it is there for. SpaghettiO's are cheap too and tuna and macaroni. I have some great cheap recipes if you like. I can feed 4 of us on $50 per week so I can give you some pointers. Hang in there and stay away from the mac and cheese lol.
Hugs
Jessica
One of my favorites from when i was a kid as a snack is butter on a cracker. I learned a few years ago how to make home made butter and my kids and i will make green or blue or red butter and they love it. havna't made any in a while i'll have to make some again it's pretty cheap and easy.
Robin
Well we bought our house back in march and because our intrest rate is so high it's hard to make the payments. we have a few more months of penny pinching before we can try to refinance. I make 130.00 a week for the little one i watch right now and i'm giving all of that to my dh to help pay the bills then a couple of days a week i watch my friends kids over night and i keep a little of that for gas but mostly give that to him too. it's getting tighter as the months go by and we are having to keep tighening the straps we've been through this before and we survived we can do it again. it's just eating a lot of mac and cheese and bologna sandwiches.
Now PB&J i'd looooove to have those but my two youngest are allergic to peanuts so not pb here but when i spend the night at my friends house i get my fill. I'll call my friend dd in a little while and place my order for 2 pb&j sandwichs and they'll be waiting for me for dinner tonight. last night we did have spghetti tonight dh and the kids are having tuna sandwiches. we'll get by i wish we did qualify for food stamps but they say dh makes too much money. and what is killing us is the medical bills especially my rx's. i'm out of my insulin right now an dhave been for two weeks we are waiting for dh to get paid this week and try to get it then. plus the kids had dentist appt.'s yesterday and ihad to cancle them. you don't realise what you put yourself in for when you have a large family and when you start you don't think about the financial aspects of it. I love all of my kids and i'm glad we had them ( sometimes when they get mean and nasty i wish they'd go away though lol) but i can't say i wish i hadn't had any of them.
Robin
I'd love to have your recipe's anything that will feed us would be great. we have 8 mouths to feed here lol.
robin
Robin