Cheap, Easy Healthy Lunch

Since my debt diet  began 6 weeks ago, I made the decision to pack healthier, reasonable lunches to prevent me from going out to lunch (which I used to do once per week).

READY TO GO SALADS

On Sunday nights I've been packing salad jars (yum) with the organic greens coming from Aldi's.  I've been packing them in canning jars with the salad dressing in the lids with the jar placed upside down.  At lunch time I just flip the jar over and I have a delicious lunch in a jar.  I've also been adding nutritional yeast to the jars, but I would add feta or blue cheese if I had it available.  I need some healthy fat in my salad to fill me up.    SOON, I hope be able to buy my produce from the farmer's market or harvest from my own garden.

Ready to go lunches and snacks
You'd be surprised at how many greens you can pack in

I've also been packaging up broccoli and cherry tomatoes for a snack.  I like to think I don't need a snack during the day but in reality around 3 or 4 p.m. every day I experience a drop in blood sugar and if I don't have a healthy snack I'm tempted to eat chocolate flavored twizzlers (I'm embarrassed to admit that I tried these at work this week - yuck).

AMY'S ORGANIC SOUPS

AND, if you are committed to healthy eating without a paying a ton of money - WALGREENS has a great sale on Amy's Organics Soup this week.  Back in my unconscious money days I would pay $4.19 per can but they are on sale (nation wide) this week for $1.99 per can.  I bought 18 cans so I should be set for awhile but be warned they will only let you buy 6 at a time.

If you have to pack a lunch, what do you bring?  I also like leftovers when we have them.

Thanks for reading,

Kristin

Selling Our Stuff

Since I started some serious financial planning with a clear vision of being "debt-free" as quickly as possible (including the house), I have been only focusing on how to bring in as much revenue as possible while keeping my family front and center.  With my goals of being debt-free I started to fixate on bringing in more revenue to pay down debt. 

We are very, very blessed in so many ways.  Gosh, we have enough to pay the bills and save money for various things, so I feel super guilty about wanting more but there's a clear method to my madness (it's called reaching my dream of being able to give back in a BIGGER better way).

MY BAD IDEAS:

Below you will find my ideas for raking in some easy money, although many of them are crazy.  Here it goes - brace yourself for my nutty ideas (I'm a little embarrassed here):

• Donate bone marrow ($50 for 90 minutes) - great cause but since I'm usually training for something this doesn't really work for me at this time
• Sell kombucha or jelly rolls - I finally found a few magic recipes, but I worry about the liability
• Sell my eggs and not the kind from chickens (I was only 1/2 serious).  Clinics pay top dollar for eggs but I was seriously not sure I could handle wondering if I had a child running around (when I mentioned this to Chad he really thought I was nuts)
• Sell my blog but I'm not great at self promotion and I'd need about 1000 more followers than I have right now - I'm just grateful to those of you who do read my blog.
• Pick up another job on weekends (not possible since I can't bear to miss a second of my kids lives)

***I'm embarrassed by this list but ??

FINALLY I SCORED!!!

MY WINNING IDEA:

• SELLING ON EBAY

Here's a list of what I've sold over the last month:

• Ipod 2GB Nano (one of the firsts)          $46
• Boy Scout Uniform                                  $ 7.00
• Nintendo DS (old)                                   $12
• Paintball Gun                                           $22
• Graham's shoes                                       $16.50
• IPad screen                                             $41
• Ipod Touch (broken)                               $36.00
• Gus' shorts                                              $5.00
• Gus' long sleeved shirt                             $6.00
• Gus' church outfit                                    $2.00
• Gus' hearing aid                                      $102
• Avon Pheasant Cologne Bottle               $5.00

Avon Cologne Bottle - remember these?  I just sold one for cheap.

This was literally crap I had laying around the house and I made $200 bucks with virtually no work at all.  I've been feeling very guilty since I like to donate all of my stuff, but I made a conscience decision to donate 50% and sell 50% until I'm living debt-free so I can really give back. 

Since ALL I seem to be able to talk about is my new vision of paying off the house and killing off my friend Sallie Mae, I've had more people ask me how I'm able to sell stuff on Ebay so I'll devote my next blog post to that topic.

Do you have any ideas on way to bring in more revenue?

May 2nd - I just might have cabin fever since we just received a ton of snow and I still went outside to drink my tea.

Happy May!

Kristin