Visiting Family

I'm leaving tonight for my sister's until Monday. it's about 600miles so we will drive through the night (I sleep and my housemate drives and then when we get there, he gets to sleep).

This presents a dilemma for me because I want to be generous and share in the expense for food but I'd also like to stay within my weekly budget if I can. So my plan is to take actual food with me rather than offering my little $15 dollars. I think this works really well because there are things I can get cheaper here than she can get there and it also helps with her ability to get everything done.

This is the list of what I'm planning to take:

6 loaves of bread (from the outlet 3/$1)
2 sets of hot dog buns 2.50

Two pounds of coffee which I already have in my freezer
that "relish" accident I made the other day- I'm going to stick it in a pretty jar and make it be gourmet

I'm also going to make a couple pounds of Greek style green beans . green bean are running about $1.50/lb right now.

and, since I am developing a surplus of milk and eggs, I'll do a bread pudding to take with me too.

Then I need to get some beer so I'll get a case of the local stuff and that will put me over budget but it will be worth it since it's sort of a gift.

The more I plan, the more excited I'm getting!