This is my first entry into the world of food and lunchbox blogging.
It has now been a week and a half of bringing in lunch every day, and although this is by no means a life-changing habit that has been formed, I can feel this being something good. Something that is not quite as hard as I thought it would be.
Something that *maybe* I could keep up with. Blogging about it, we will see…
In addition we’ve been eating at home nearly every night (except when social obligations intervene). I find a solace in cooking… it’s so fulfilling, not just the process, but the transformation of raw ingredients into something delicious, satisfying, and made by hand. I guess in some ways, I am very traditional: I see cooking as an act of service, an act of love.
A couple of things have changed in my life recently that is contributing to this propensity towards packing lunch and cooking at home:
- The economy sucks.
- I realized that between a venti chai every day, and lunch every day, I was spending easily $75-100 a week. Factor in dinner a couple times a week and I am spending over 10% of my weekly salary on food; sometimes 20%, and not very good food either!
- The live-in boyfriend now has a day job, which means we are much more often at home, hungry, and twiddling our thumbs on what to eat. Shopping in advance and having a stocked refrigerator helps to avoid this.
There are three primary goals that I am hoping to reach by keeping this blog:
- I am honestly not sure if this route saves as much money as we think it does. I am hoping to be more price-conscious of how much ingredients and things cost, and how much I am spending on groceries.
- Part of this whole experiment is to help me to be more organized with my shopping and ingredients, and help reduce the amount of spoilage and food that we end up not using.
- I am hoping to explore cooking in general. I’m a newbie, and while I am not confident enough to try the French Laundry cookbook or anything close, I do have some basic skills and knowledge. I see recipes online and in magazines all the time that I’d like to try, and I think I would if I had a general repository where I could go to “clip” everything together. So one thing I will be doing here is storing recipes that I find over the internets that I think I would like to try.
So, without further ado…
