Great idea!

Wow! So my little family had a wonderful Family Home Evening tonight. Jess was in charge and he came up with a great idea! I am so tickled at the turn out!

We gathered together and made a list of all the dinners we like to eat. That was fun in and of itself! LOL! Then we picked only four complete meals (as Mac & Cheese doesn't count as a real dinner in Mom's book!*wink*) Then we listed all the ingredients that are needed to make that meal complete. (fun! :) ) After that we loaded in the car... the girls with one list of 2 meals ingredients and the boys with the other 2. And off to Macey's we went...

We wrote down what the price for each item was... 6 potatoes at $ .74/lb was fun to figure out as the produce man gave us funny looks when we put them back! LOL! We then met up at the Deli and over a soft serve iceream we ran the totals. Emma and I came up with $27.86 for a favorite steak dinner, and $27.85 for Ribs and Sweet potatoes (only a penny difference was kinda cool!). Jess and the boys got $15.66 for Homemade Pizza (5 Buck is not looking so expensive!LOL!!) and $14.52 for Tacos.

Wow. Feeding 6 is not so cheap. The adverage dinner costs us about $20. The adverage lunch is likely $15ish and breakfast if we only eat cereal is likely over $5. No wonder my shopping bills have been so painful lately! And that didn't include tons of good produce or snacks! Ugh.

Anyway... he then taught them about how much each of them "spends" at dinner time... and how much $ they end up throwing away when they wont eat all of their food and whatnot. They were all amazed. Even my 6 year old was rivoted by what he heard. They seemed to REALLY *get* it!

**GOLD STAR** Jestin! That was an highly effective FHE! I always dreamed of doing fun learning ones like this when they were little... so it was AWESOME to do it now that they can truly understand! I am keeping the papers they took their notes on too for our scrapbook! Someday it may be fun to go back and see what it cost to feed us when they were kids! *Giggle*