how I divide my hamburger

I don't know exactly how much hamburger I use in my recipes, but I do know approximately.

I buy it in bulk when it goes on sale and then divide it up into smaller meal size portions.

This week I bought my meat for $1.69 a lb. - I got 2 big packages of it -

each for about $8.00 and $8.50 - I divided it into 16 smaller packages so that each one was equivilant to about $1.

From this picture below you can see it was 5 lbs (or 80 oz.) for $8.50 - so each smaller portion from this one is around 10 oz. which is fine with me - when a recipe calls for a lb. of meat, 10 oz. will be enough.

another blog for me

I have wanted to start this blog for a long time, but I kept putting it off, because I knew it would be time consuming - and as of right now, I don't have a lot of time on my hands. But I had to remind myself that it's just a little at a time, do a bit here, do a bit there, and I can get it to become what I have wanted - eventually.

I have tried several different methods of trying to keep track of recipes I like, from ordinary recpie cards, to homemade recipe books, to spreadsheets - so this will be attempt number 4 at getting all the information I want into one handy place.

I love taking pictures of my food. At first I thought I was pretty weird, but I have discovered there is a plethora of food bloggers out there just like me, taking pictures of their food all the time. So, I had to start a blog to fit in. LOL

I like knowing how much a recipie is going to cost - thus the long pondered name of the blog - calculating in the kitchen -
We are working on keeping costs down, learning to live the Frugal/thrifty lifestyle, because we will soon be homeowners. We closed on our "house" just this last week. Technically we now own the land - and we will be building our house on it over the next many many many months. Paying a mortgage will be a major difference from the way we have been living and budgeting.
So now - on to all the fun stuff!