Get Rich Slowly

If you’re new here, you may want to learn what this site is about. I encourage you to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!When our friends Mike and Rhonda moved into their new house a couple years ago, their yard was just like every other in the neighborhood: green grass. Chances are, [...]

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” — Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
During 2008, my wife and I are tracking how much time and money we spend growing food in our garden. April finally saw some action in the yard, but not the sort we’d hoped for.
The hail [...]

Kris at Cheap Healthy Good recently wrote how 60 minutes a week can save hundreds of dollars on food.
This kind of stuff never occurred to me in my early ‘20s, and The Boyfriend and I are much better for it now. We eat like the dickens and haven’t had to sell any major organs to [...]

This is a guest post from my wife, who has her own little fan club around here. Maybe she should start a food blog!
Asparagus used to be one of those foods that I loved to eat restaurants, but rarely made at home. For some reason I thought it was difficult to prepare, or that [...]

We ran out of milk this evening, so I made an emergency trip to the grocery store to buy more. Generally we purchase a half gallon of one-percent, which lasts us about a week.
When I went to grab the milk from the refrigerator case, however, I was startled by the price: $3.19! Usually we pay [...]

This is a guest post from my wife.
I’ve been gardening for almost fifteen years. I started with flowers, added herbs and vegetables, then a few fruits, then a lot more. I’ve gardened in plots and pots and raised beds. I’ve drooled over bedding plants, spent too much on whatever was my obsession-of-the-moment [...]

During 2008, my wife and I are tracking how much time and money we spend growing food in our garden. In my mind, March is filled with gardening activities. Not so much, as it turns out. I think April will also be light.
Planting seeds
Though we didn’t do much in March, we finally got to see [...]

Earlier this week, the always-interesting kottke.org pointed to a couple of pieces on 99-cent fine dining. First, from the March 21st episode of National Public Radio’s Day to Day, comes a story about cooking gourmet with 99¢ food.

These days, the idea of making a three-course meal for a family of four for less than $20 [...]

This is a guest post from my wife, whose January recipe for baked potato soup garnered rave reviews.
March in our part of Oregon means rain, rain, rain. I’d like to be out working in the yard, but the cold and wind keep me inside where I work off my frustration by baking. [...]

This is a guest post from Karl Katzke.
Eating well is one of the small pleasures that I decided not to forego when I dug myself out of credit card debt. I’m a busy bachelor with an active social life and an absorbing job; I like food with a lot of flavor to it; and I [...]