Thanks JerseyGyrl!
I have good news: My rent will be lowered next month. (My rent is based on income and I quit working in June to get ready for school.) So I'll have 100 extra dollars to spend on gathering ingredients for recipes. And I will do that next month - I'll check Linda's recipes and see what sounds good to me!
And I'm getting back on the Atkins wagon tomorrow! My dear friend was telling me how I don't stay on one diet long enough to see if it works. And I haven't weighed myself since I started. So, I'll have to invest in a scale (what are some good scales to buy?) because I don't want to have to turn on my Wii every time I want to weigh myself.
I may tweak Atkins, and do what someone else was doing, which was to just keep my carb count down to 20g a day. Or I can see about different ways to cook veggies.