Week 5

This week we are spending $30 on nuts. That’s it.

If you cook with nuts:

Choose those types of nuts. If you’re using slivered almonds in your recipes, or chopped walnuts, or whole pecans, whatever it is that you use in your regular recipes, focus on that.

If you don’t use nuts in your recipes: 

Then go for nuts that you would snack on. So if you like to grab a bag of almonds on your way out the door, or if you’re sending nuts to school with your kids or whatever it is, get nuts that are in little pre-packaged bags or buy ’em in bulk. Whatever you do, it’s nuts this week.

If you do not eat or cook with any nuts whatsoever:

Then pick a snack. Pick a snack-type food that has a decent shelf life. I would go for at least six months. So granola bars, crackers, something like that, and spend $30 on something that you would have. Try to make it higher in protein than not. Let’s have this be kind of more of like a productive snack, if you will.

So that’s it! $30 on:

(1) Cooking or recipe nuts
(2) Snacky nuts if you don’t cook with them
(3) Snack-type item with a decent amount of protein