I just wanted to share with the frugal mommas here that in the past few months I have been able to cut our food budget from $100 a week for a family of five, eating mostly organic, to around $60 a week, eating mostly organic, with one simple step: eat Ethiopian food 2-3 times a week!
I'm serious. The staple Ethiopian food is a flat bread called injera that, when made with teff, is very nutritious. It's also very filling. On top of injera you pour various wats, or stews, that are generally made of dried peas or lentils or vegetables. (You can also make meat wats, but we are vegetarian.) The foods are extremely easy to prepare and very tasty. Our whole family loves Ethiopian and, like I said, our food budget has gone down drastically.
I buy a 50-pound sack of flour and 20 pounds of lentils and dried peas at a time. I buy onions bulk. Any other ingredients are fairly simple to procure. The hardest to find is berbere, the traditional Ethiopian spice. You can buy it at ethiopianspices.com or you can find recipes for making your own online. You can find excellent and easy to make Ethiopian recipes at Food Down Under. Our "faux injera" recipe comes from Kitchen Chick. We substitute teff for the whole wheat flour. Shiro is basically chickpea flour, which can be found at healthfood stores. We buy teff at Kroger and you can also buy it in bulk from Amazon.
Namaste!
I'm serious. The staple Ethiopian food is a flat bread called injera that, when made with teff, is very nutritious. It's also very filling. On top of injera you pour various wats, or stews, that are generally made of dried peas or lentils or vegetables. (You can also make meat wats, but we are vegetarian.) The foods are extremely easy to prepare and very tasty. Our whole family loves Ethiopian and, like I said, our food budget has gone down drastically.
I buy a 50-pound sack of flour and 20 pounds of lentils and dried peas at a time. I buy onions bulk. Any other ingredients are fairly simple to procure. The hardest to find is berbere, the traditional Ethiopian spice. You can buy it at ethiopianspices.com or you can find recipes for making your own online. You can find excellent and easy to make Ethiopian recipes at Food Down Under. Our "faux injera" recipe comes from Kitchen Chick. We substitute teff for the whole wheat flour. Shiro is basically chickpea flour, which can be found at healthfood stores. We buy teff at Kroger and you can also buy it in bulk from Amazon.
Namaste!
!! and the stories are very eye-opening!
