Seriously.  Have  you been grocery shopping lately?  Even fast food is up dramatically.  There are two main places I order pizza from here in San Francisco, and between the gas costs for home delivery and the dough it costs them to make the dough, ordering pizza has become an extravagance saved for a special occasion.  Like college graduation or a wedding.

So if you’re living close to the bone like me, here’s some food..for thought.

The Hillbilly Housewife has a bleak but nutritious grocery shopping plan.  $45 to feed a family of 5 for a week.  That’s breakfast, lunch and dinner people!  Lotsa beans, rice, cornbread and other starchy stuff; hardly any meat, fruit or veggies…but it’ll fill you up,  Y’all can go git a possum if ya’ want meat!

granny

And as long as we’re talkin’ hillbillies, during these difficult times, you may have to curtail your top shelf habit and set to makin’ some moonshine.  Hey, if it’s even half way tolerable, you might make a little foldin’ money on the side selling it to friends.  Or give it away, we’re all in this depression boat together, we may as well toast our misery in unison.  We played a little bit of one of my favorite bluegrass tunes “Mountain Dew” which was a big hit for Grandpa Jones of Hee Haw fame.  I learned it in Brownies though.  What a song to teach second graders!  A song about moonshine!  Come to think of it, another Girl Scout song I learned a bit later was “Long Black Veil”, a lovely ditty about adultry.  Guess it beats the heck out of “100 bottles of beer on the Wall.”

Anyway, back to the show.  Here are a couple links that could help you through the hard times:
cheapskate cuisine
memoirsofacheapskate.blogspot.com
http://www.realsimple.com/realsimple/gallery/0,21863,1844394,00.html

Good luck.  And happy munching.  We can all live on spam and popcorn til this blows over.

God, I love to quote Dave Edmunds when I have the chance!

Slowly, but surely, we will get this site back up and loaded with all the high calorie info you crave.  This poor site has been hacked, cracked and ransacked a buncha times in the last few months and it’s been HARD to catch up.  Guess there’s no better place to start than with the current episode….HALLOWEEN COCKTAILS!

Personally, I like to begin celebrating Halloween on October 1.  Mostly because so much blood, sweat and tears go into the decor, and it all comes right down on November 1, and I like to get my money’s and effort’s worth.  Kids get all the candy, and they don’t have to worry about dimpled thighs, spanx and cholesterol.  So let’s toast the bewitching season adult-style,…with COCKTAILS…NOW!

DOES THIS NOT LOOK DELICIOUS???!!!  Thanks to one of the many Sugar websites for this recipe.

And no Halloween party would be complete without the Halloweeniest of adult beverages, BLAVOD.

goth vodka,...or gothka

If you go to the BLAVOD site, you will find a mummy’s tomb full of delicious Halloween libations.

More links to sites with groovy spooktails:

Recipezaar

squidoo

and Drink of the Week which is currently featuring a totally tantalizing drink called the Black Widow.

It’s all about presentation, ya know, so if you’re looking for impressive, or spooktacular, glassware, dig this!

witchglass

Jeez, all this typing, I could use a drink!  Happy Halloween, and drive safe, y’all!