Sleeping is hard to do... but not eating

Aric is gone this weekend in Tulsa, teaching. Which means I don't cook (read we eat like crap) and I don't sleep (less than usual)
Tonight to keep myself awake I went on a reading rampage. What made me say, 'what the ??' is when people write about how to eat healthy for inexpensive. Really? Can you feed six very active people for less than $1000 a month? Not with the crazy recipes I see them display for 'cheap' healthy foods. Salmon and asparagus. For six would cost me a weeks worth of dinners. I on the other hand make things like:

Black eye peas and rice with turkey bacon. Green peas for veggies.
Bag of black eye peas $1.19
Rice $1.54 (for whole bag we use about .42 worth)
Turkey bacon $1.89
Onion $.35
Peas $.50

A dinner and two lunches worth for $4.35

Now that's a low fat, high fiber, healthy inexpensive meal!

(I love to eat salads and throw whatever is in the fridge into it)

Homemade cheesy broccoli soup

Extra Sharp cheddar $2.99
Ramono cheese $.50
Onion $.45
Veggie stock $1.25
Broccoli $2.69
Butter $.35
Flour $.02

Price $8.25. Whole broccoli used. Healthy inexpensive meal! Again one dinner and two lunches. It makes a large amount, but the kids eat so much of it I have to make such a big batch.

I have so many recipes that I like to make to keep the prices down. They might not be fancy but they taste good and are good for you. I feed my whole family for about $800 a month. We do not eat out but maybe a lunch a month. It's usually a treat like taco bell, junkie and a cheap treat. Every once in a blue moon we eat at Izzy's, because the kids like it for some reason.


So what do you cook? What's your favorite meal?

Last night's fun

21 -60lb lat pulls
21-push ups
21-8lbs flies
21-15lb upright rows each arm
21-Thurster squats with 15lbs each hand
15 -70lb lat pulls
15-push ups
15-8lbs flies
15-20lb upright rows each arm
15-Thurster squats with 20lbs each hand\
9 -80lb lat pulls
9-push ups
9-8lbs flies
9-25lb upright rows each arm
9-Thurster squats with 25lbs each hand
9 -80lb lat pulls
9-push ups
9-8lbs flies
9-25lb upright rows each arm
9-Thurster squats with 25lbs each hand\
15 -70lb lat pulls
15-push ups
15-8lbs flies
15-20lb upright rows each arm
15-Thurster squats with 20lbs each hand\
21 -60lb lat pulls
21-push ups
21-8lbs flies
21-15lb upright rows each arm
21-Thurster squats with 15lbs each hand

Then we did plank for 1 min followed by 1 min of sit-ups (25 for me)
then plank 1 min and 1 min sit-ups (20 for me)
then plank 1 min and 1 min sit-ups (20 for me)
then plank 1 min and 1 min sit-ups (19 for me)
then plank 1 min and 1 min sit-ups (20 for me)

I'm a junkie...

a workout junkie, that is. I was an idiot and ramped my miles up too quickly and now am paying the pied pipper. My IT band hurts. OK, not hurts as in oh ouch I stubbed my toe. No it brings me to my knees. My wonderful husband has been rolling, rubbing, and just beating the crap out of my IT for me, yet to no avail. It still hurts. Today I was able to do a whole mile and a half of running before it screamed at me to stop. So what to do? I'm feeling my fitness slip away. I can kiss my PR that I was going to run at the girlfriends half marathon on October 17th good-bye. I won't be able to run 8:15's for the half. Now I'm not sure I'll even be able to run it at all.

I guess when you can't do what you love, you find alternatives to get your fix. I will be cross-training doing swimming, spinning, and cross-fit. It's easy to get a run in when you have kids, it's hard to get the time to cross-train when you have kids. I will just have to be creative I guess. Maybe call in a few favors and begging of my mom and sister in law. What do you do when you can't run?