Day 1 breakfast

Full disclosure: I am a classically trained chef. I don't cook anymore professionally but I do have the knowledge. That being said, nothing that I will do is overly complex or not readily available on the internet or your public library. All it takes is a little bit of work.

Now, let's make some BISCUITS!!!

So, here we have a bowl, a 2 lb bag of self-rising flour, 1 qrt of buttermilk, and two sticks of butter. I use only butter. Butter is more expensive than alternatives, however, the point of this is to get the most high quality calories you can for your buck. Since margarine and shortening basically have no redeeming nutritional value we must use butter.

I used about three quarters of this bag of flour and a little over half of the buttermilk. First you meld the butter into the flour and then add buttermilk until you get a dough.

You should kneed the dough as little as possible so as to not make your biscuits tough. Then cut and place your biscuits on a sheet pan. This yielded 11 biscuits and a bit of extra dough.

I am going to bake 9 of the biscuits and freeze the remaining two along with the extra dough. The extra dough has many different uses. I can make more biscuits or I can use the dough for chicken and dumplings or chicken pie. When you are eating on a budget you have to save everything. You have to choose foods that you can get 100% utilization.

Now we place the biscuits in the toaster oven and bake them until they are golden brown. I typically cook in a toaster oven because turning on the full size oven for small cooking like this just needlessly wastes power. I highly recommend getting a high quality toaster oven.

Yummy. So, here are the biscuits. I will have 1 biscuit along with a two egg omellette for breakfast. The remaining biscuits will be bagged and kept in the refrigerator to be eaten for breakfast for the rest of the week and into next week. This is the point of eating on a budget. I am already preparing food for next week with the groceries I bought for this week.