Prudy
09-23-2009, 08:43 PM
$3,333 For Dinner? I'm IN!
We all know it is cheaper to cook at home than it is to eat out. But that just doesn't help if you don't have time to cook every night! Many are full-time parents and by the time you come through the door at the end of the day, let's face it, you really don't need to be around sharp knives and hot stoves! C'mon...you know exactly what I mean!
So what if you could cook only one or two nights a week, eat more home cooked meals, eat out less AND and keep an extra $3,333 in your bank account! No, it's not a dream. Take a page from Ginny Bowie's book. She's a vice president of a Virginia based financial securities' firm and mother of three who solved her scheduling and budgeting dilemma in one swoop by forming a "cooking co-op".
"Every Tuesday night, I cook dinner for three families besides my own, which is about 18 to 20 people, and deliver it to their door," Bowie says. "Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, the three other families cook for me."
Bowie's web site (http://www.mynight2cook.com) and DVD, "If it's Tuesday ... it's my night 2 cook," contain recipes and tips for starting a co-op. She says cooking in bulk has cut her grocery bill in half and practically eliminated her need for eating out.
According to Bankrate.com (http://www.bankrate.com), "the average household spent $6,133 per year on food -- $3,465 on groceries and $2,668 on meals away from the home -- in 2007, the most recent year for which data are available from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. We suspect food prices soared in 2008, but let's use these numbers anyway. Assuming that a co-op could reduce the grocery bill by half and lower restaurant expenses by, say, 60 percent (factoring in the occasional meal out), families could save $3,333 per year by going co-op".
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We all know it is cheaper to cook at home than it is to eat out. But that just doesn't help if you don't have time to cook every night! Many are full-time parents and by the time you come through the door at the end of the day, let's face it, you really don't need to be around sharp knives and hot stoves! C'mon...you know exactly what I mean!
So what if you could cook only one or two nights a week, eat more home cooked meals, eat out less AND and keep an extra $3,333 in your bank account! No, it's not a dream. Take a page from Ginny Bowie's book. She's a vice president of a Virginia based financial securities' firm and mother of three who solved her scheduling and budgeting dilemma in one swoop by forming a "cooking co-op".
"Every Tuesday night, I cook dinner for three families besides my own, which is about 18 to 20 people, and deliver it to their door," Bowie says. "Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, the three other families cook for me."
Bowie's web site (http://www.mynight2cook.com) and DVD, "If it's Tuesday ... it's my night 2 cook," contain recipes and tips for starting a co-op. She says cooking in bulk has cut her grocery bill in half and practically eliminated her need for eating out.
According to Bankrate.com (http://www.bankrate.com), "the average household spent $6,133 per year on food -- $3,465 on groceries and $2,668 on meals away from the home -- in 2007, the most recent year for which data are available from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. We suspect food prices soared in 2008, but let's use these numbers anyway. Assuming that a co-op could reduce the grocery bill by half and lower restaurant expenses by, say, 60 percent (factoring in the occasional meal out), families could save $3,333 per year by going co-op".
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