Grocery Spending and Menu: Pre-vacation (and backwards) edition

The Menu

As I was planning the menu for the upcoming week, I realized that this is the last one before we go to the beach for two weeks. Woohoo!

Saturday

• Asian Chicken Pasta Salad
• Sandwich bread, toasted and buttered
• fresh corn

Sunday-We’ll be with my in-laws to celebrate several family birthdays, so no cooking for me here. I’ll just help with the prep while we’re at my in-laws. 🙂

Monday

• Crab Cakes (this is part of something we’re doing in homeschool. I’ll post about it soon!)
• watermelon
• some kind of bread…not sure what

Tuesday (I’m going to be gone all day, documenting the arrival of my niece, so I needed an easy meal)

• Bacon Turkey club sandwiches
• raw veggies
• fruit salad

Wednesday

• Grilled marinated chicken breasts
• fresh corn
• watermelon

Thursday

• Asian Tilapia
• whatever bread/veggies need using before vacation

Friday

• this will probably be a clean-out-the-fridge night

The Spending

Because our milk consumption is all off-kilter (due to the cow from the farm not producing), I had to make a quick stop at a local grocery store to get milk. I also bought a chuck roast, some eggs, and some cocoa, for a total of $12.28.

I spent $53.23 at Aldi and $36.30 at Weis, so my total grocery bill for the week was $101.81. That’s $1.81 over budget, but I was under by more than that last week, so it’s all good. 🙂

The Food

In addition to the food pictured here, I also received a big bag of green beans and tomatoes from my mom. Yay for her garden! (note to self: start taking care of your tomato plants earlier next year so that you have ripe tomatoes before September)

I normally go grocery shopping every Thursday, but since we leave for the beach next weekend, I’m hoping to skip a trip to the store this coming week and instead we’ll buy groceries at the beach. I can’t promise I’ll take a picture of that, though!