danuv | (no subject)

Today I'm attacking my food/cookbooks trying to figure out how to feed my family more healthy foods without spending anymore money than we presently do on groceries. I'd love love love to switch to grass fed local beef and 'organic' chicken but the costs are twice what you pay for conventional meat. I'd also like to feed them more wild salmon even in canned form and more fish in general but I didn't grow up eating it and I have no idea how to cook it beyond the uber disgusting "salmon patties". Right now we eat a lot of meals that involve chicken breast and pasta. The most economical way to buy good chicken is to buy the whole thing (around $14 a bird) so I need to learn to break a bird down better and/or come up with more meals that involve shredded chicken and also get back in the habit of making my own chicken stock. I wish we had room for a chest freezer.