Livin' rich on the best of life

Most people think you've got to be rich to have something like roasted goat cheese and sausage stuffed red bell peppers and local pasture-raised beef burgers with grilled portabellas, roasted red pepper, fresh greens, tomato, guacamole, homemade mayo and topped with smoked pacific sea salt in the same week. Those wal-mart shopping idiots would be wrong.


In the first photo, we paid 25 cents each for red bell peppers at our nearby produce stand, 15 cents for potatoes, 35 cents for the local pasture-raised sausage (don't have to use much of it for flavor), Becca made cheese out of some free goat's milk from my sister, and maybe 25 cents for a shallot and onion, for a grand total of about a $1 a piece. In the second photo, we grilled out today and had some spectacular burgers for similar results: $2 pasture raised local hamburger, $1 beefy tomato, 75 cents worth of guacamole, $2.55 portabella mushrooms, 25 cents in shallots, free greens from the garden, $1.50 for the multi-grain buns and a spoonful of my homemade roasted red bell peppers in oil (not even 10 cents worth)=$8.15 for 3 awesome stacked, juicy hamburgers hot off the grill!