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Recipe of the Week

Mango Lassi

You'll want to make a lot of this. I triple the recipe, and we always go through it. It's perfect with spicy Indian food because the yogurt helps mitigate the spice if it gets to be too much.

Ingredients

1 c. yogurt, plain

1/2 c. milk

1 1/3 c. mango, chopped (or canned or frozen)

cardamom, fresh ground if possible

sugar or honey to taste (optional)

Directions: Throw everything but the cardamom in the blender and blend until smooth. Top with cardamom before serving. You can also garnish with fresh mint leaves.

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Where Do You Stand?

Posted on May 4, 2009 by shwankie

The USDA publishes average food costs each month. I’ve never posted these before, but a discussion came up on one of our boards. When looking at this, keep in mind it is for food only, not paper products, personal products, etc.

USDA Cost of Food

While we’re fairly frugal, we also eat really well. After deducting personal products, etc. and averaging the costs for a month, we fall somewhere between thrifty and low-cost, depending on the week. I’ve been able to get us well under the “thrifty” at times, but it’s not a great way for us to try and eat. Thadd needs too many calories to make that reasonable for long (especially without a garden, which we didn’t have until this year due to apartment living), and we do try to eat healthy. Unfortunately, real produce costs a fortune!

So, where do you fit?

Filed under: Food, Food Costs, Food Politics, Frugal, Groceries, Personal Chef, Philosophy, USDA, cooking

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virginiatrailschristine, on May 6th, 2009 at 12:25 pm Said:

That USDA chart was fascinating. We always fall between low-cost and thrifty according to these numbers, but I feel that we eat like royalty. I think it’s all in how you shop and plan menus.