Maybe save a few cents?

[chowmama]

10. I started stockpiling chocolate in November.

We should be ok for a while.

Mom had about 12 meals that involved cooking, and several of them were for holidays only. I'm not counting reheating from cans or frozen - we did a lot of Chun King chowmein and fishsticks. But what she did was good and frugal. Dad would do a big commercial pan sometimes full of blue box mac & cheese, layered with cheddar. He also did chili and in one house, had an oven that would rotisserie chickens, two at a time. Anything he made was on the weekend, if he felt like it, and we'd just free-graze heat and eat it till it was gone.

I still make her 'depression syrup' (she hated when I called it that', but don't add the Mapleine flavoring - I simmer the sugar and water with a cinnamon stick. If I have some crystallized honey sitting around, I throw that in, too. It dissolves nicely. The commercial stuff is also just sugar syrup with maple flavoring and is ridiculously priced for what it is.