Pizza ! Pizza!

Have you noticed the price of groceries goes up every time you step foot into the supermarket? Scary, isn't it? Sometimes I make dinner out of whatever is in the pantry plus a couple of frugal purchases. Today it was pizza. I bought 2 plum tomatoes and a box of sliced mushrooms, (on sale) half of which can be used with another entree.

We had a weird mixture of stuff of hand: a little mozzarella, low-fat ricotta, Parmesan curls and shredded Parmesan, somewhat long-in-the-tooth pepperoni. Frozen dough, although it you make your own if costs pennies, but that is, like, work.

So I arranged everything on top of the dough and stuck the whole business in a very hot oven. Was it good! Better than store-bought. Of course I don't stint on the pepperoni or the mushrooms or even the fresh tomatoes.

You can always make soup out of what is on hand or an omelet, too, assuming you have eggs.

When I was in college for a while a bunch of us would get together to cook a weekend dinner at someone's apartment. We bought a bag of noodles, a couple cans of tuna and some peas. Dinner cost mere cents, which left more money for beer. Students know how to get by.

Sometimes when you have the least money is when you have the most. Think about that.