Top 8 things to cut expenses on so you can spend more on quality groceries

Oct 23, 2009 by Anna Migeon

1. Restaurant meals
2. Soda
3. Junky snacks
4. Cable TV
5. Movies in the theater
6. Electronic gadgets and video games
7. New cars
8. New clothes

Related post: “Reaching the Promised Land: Home Style or Restaurant” Style? https://www.thehappydinnertable.com/2009/09/28/reaching-the-promised-land-home-style-or-restaurant-style/

Food Forethought: How to Make a Grocery List

Apr 7, 2009 by Anna Migeon

I once asked my French mother-in-law, Lucienne, how she managed to cook for the crowds when large numbers of her five children’s families descend on the old farmhouse for days or even weeks at a time. Her answer applies equally to managing daily dinners for one’s own little family: “Il suffit de prévoir”: it just takes some planning ahead.

Traditionally, French women, unlike my mother-in-law, are said to make almost-daily trips, on foot, a little basket on her arm, to the corner grocery store, or better yet, to an outdoor farmer’s market where local growers are displaying their just-picked produce, sparkling with dew. This ideal woman is supposed to know how to choose what’s freshest and most appealing,…