Only once a week do I spend $10+ on a meal for our family of 6. Homemade veggie burgers on homemade buns with all the fixings only cost about $0.40/each. There is a huge variety of recipes possible. Bean-based meals are ridiculously cheap. Also, you can make a nearly free meal from a roasted chicken carcass. Put it in the crockpot overnight with just water and it makes a delicious broth. Add beaten eggs for protein, grains if you want the carbs in it too. That might cost $1.50 if you add in 2 eggs per person. Bean tacos are also crazy cheap.

You can also put the root ends (after using the tips) into a little dish of water and they'll regrow. :)

Wrap them in a damp paper towel and they'll keep for quite a while.

Throw it in with roasted veggies. Add it to the rice. Salsa w/tomato,onion,garlic, cilantro... Oh, yum...

This is terribly tragic. Farewell, decent cheese at decent price. :(

$150???? No wonder we don't eat out!!! :)

Is it for a smoothie? Any chance you could just use cottage cheese for the week?

WOW! Was Little Israel a shop separate from the meat restaurant??? That's a change from when we were there. :)

When we were there a year+ ago, the meat restaurant had a small grocery section. I know they had lots of Israeli dry goods, some great cheese, and probably other things in the fridge section. I think it likely they had meat, but I don't remember exactly what. The separate kosher market was no longer there. Chabad will have the info, since it's all run by them.

Oregon-K is a VERY reliable hechscher, recommended by all major kashrus agencies. The head of Oregon-K is part of the Portland Kollel. The website is here: http://www.oregonkosher.org/ I'm a former Portland resident!

I love to make a cabbage/cilantro/lime juice/salt/oil slaw to go with that kind of food. It's best served immediately, rather than marinated a little.

I LOVE pea shoots. Raw, anyway. If you cook them, they get tough and stringy... :)

I always like rice milk in mashed potatoes. We make our own soy milk now, though, so I never buy rice milk. I like mashed potatoes with just some water and Earth Balance mixed in.

Forget Tofutti! Here's a GREAT pareve sour cream recipe:

1 package silken tofu
1 tbsp rice vinegar
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 tsp apple cider vinegar
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
1/4 cup oil

Purée it all in the food processor.

We've come to actually PREFER it to dairy sour cream. :)