What I ate: very little
Hello, friends!
I have been down with a GI bug, so my "what I spent, what I ate" report would be very boring.
I spent very little. I ate very little. And honestly, although I am on the mend, I really do not want to think about food right now. The most substantial things I've eaten recently are bowls of Rice Krispies and cream of wheat (separately!)
Chiquita has been thrilled that I've been on the couch because hello, more snuggle time.
Anyway...I might not want to think about dinner food, but I don't want you all to be without a place to share your menus, so I'm putting this post up for ya.
BOOOOO. I hope you are 100% ASAP. And now I feel kind of bad even writing about food, but we still ate. And how.
Saturday: A totally made up casserole with loose Italian sausage, potatoes, tomatoes, beet greens, cream, and asadero (my mozzarella substitute) cheese. Every male that ate this--six of them--LOVED this. My daughter wasn't too wild about it. So I guess it was engineered for the Y chromosome. Since there were a lot of chopped beet greens in it, I just gave everyone some sliced radishes for a vegetable. And then there was ice cream after dinner.
Sunday: Two pizzas--one with some unpleasantly slimy deli ham that I fried to make crispy before topping the pizza with it, and one with garlic scapes, collard greens, and bell peppers. Ranch dip, carrot sticks, and the extra cake I baked when I made my small Fourth of July flag cake. I had baked some of the batter in a cake pan and froze the whole thing. I sliced that in half to make two layers, put the rest of the vanilla frosting in the center with strawberry/rhubarb puree, and then covered the whole thing with whipped cream.
Monday: Birthday meal! The birthday boy wanted lamb, pasta and pesto, and cheesecake. I used ground lamb to make burgers on the grill; some of the fresh basil from the garden to make pesto, plus the last of last year's frozen pesto; half a cabbage in the refrigerator to make coleslaw; the King Arthur recipe for easy cheesecake, which was indeed extremely easy. The birthday boy also likes fruit sauce on his cheesecake, which is why I had made the strawberry/rhubarb sauce that also went on the previous day's layer cake.
Tuesday: Roasted chicken, potatoes, carrots, green beans; leftover coleslaw for those who don't like cooked vegetables much. I also made a pot of something like baked beans, except cooked on the stove, with some cans of pinto beans because we had a last-minute guest and I wanted to make sure there would be enough food. Also also, while the oven was one for the chicken, I baked something called "butterscotch brownies," which were really just chocolate chip cookie bars made with all brown sugar instead of any white sugar. They were very sweet, but very good.
Wednesday: I used the leftover chicken and gravy to make what we call "chicken slop," and then I made rice with the chicken stock I had made from chicken bones in the morning. I also cooked one package of jalapeno/cheddar sausages for those who will eat them. There were peas in the chicken slop, so I didn't make another vegetable.
Thursday: I made meatballs in the morning to serve with leftover pasta and pesto. Pickled radishes for a half-hearted vegetable.
Tonight: I have leftover not-baked beans, leftover rice, leftover pasta and pesto, and I will supplement all of this with eggs. Vegetable . . . maybe carrot sticks? You can tell that the vegetable is always an afterthought in our house. 🙂
I hope you feel better soon, Kristen. And out of sympathy (and because I rarely do anyway), I will not post what I ate. But we did eat, I assure you. And most of it was homemade.
BUT my husband and I did something very not frugal on a whim last night after supper. We decided (since we needed to pick daughter up from work anyway) to go a little early and have dessert and coffee at the restaurant where she is hostess. We called to make reservations (she takes the reservations) and reserved a table for two for Romeo McFlourish (she loves that Bluey episode). It was decidedly delicious and terribly expensive. I am so, so thankful that she loves this first regular job, and the people are really nice to her (two of the servers bought a piece of cake for her to give to her brother-- whom they've never met-- to celebrate his pilot's license win.
Oh no, Kristen! I hope you feel better soon!
This week we mainly ate salads with new potatoes but last night we had veggie sausages with mashed potato, aka bangers and mash. No idea what we're eating tonight!
Oof, Kristen, sorry about the GI bug! Hope it passes quickly.
WIS: $15 at the Regional Market, $48 at Wegmans, and $20 at Aldi.
WIA: I'll join others in sparing you the details--especially as I have the usual nothing much interesting to report anyway!
Oh, I hope your innards settle down and you start feeling much better.
I spent $90 at Food Lion, but a chunk of that was shelf-stable items for the church food pantry. So probably $60 for my family.
We had leftover homemade soup, sandwiches, peppers and tomatoes from the garden, cheese and crackers, grapes and watermelon, tuna casserole and veggie burgers. Dessert this hot week was muffins from a mix.
I haven't eaten much either (different reasons), and was traveling all week. Japan is usually pretty rough for me if I'm not choosing my own meals, as I don't eat raw fish & that's...quite a popular option. 😉
-Skipped plane meal on flight over & home. Neither were worth having & I was exhausted & wanted to sleep
-I ordered room service 2 nights: one was a chicken club sandwich & the other was soup. Both were passable
-I ate at the lounge another night, and had salad, fried rice & fruit.
-Had a chicken skewer at another work event, along with some fruit.
It was a light eating week, and I got a bacterial infection in my foot & my appetite was low, so... I definitely saved some calories!
I hope you feel better very soon!!! When you feel more like your usual food appreciating self, update us, and I’ll add more menu details.
WIS: I briefly had my car back, so before I decided the mechanic needed to double check the new transmission because it was grinding a little going in and out of first gear and bucking a little going down from second, we did a quick grocery run and spent 212 at Aldi. Then, after dropping off my car, my husband wanted to buy our oldest a graduation gift of a laptop at Costco, so while there, we spent another 36 or so on easy quick food for dinner that did not require the oven. I finally tried one of the loss leader rotisserie chickens, and wow, is it a great deal! Annoyed that I never tried one before! Anyway, 246 this week is not too bad.
WWA:
Mostly things that didn’t require much cooking because it has been so hot and we’ve been eating lighter dinners and then heading to the pool afterwards. Walking home after the sun goes down is so much better when it’s hot like this. It makes it so a refreshing swim is not immediately erased by a sweltering uphill walk. The boys are hungry again when we get home after swimming, but they’ve just been helping themselves to leftovers or peanut butter toast, so it’s been fairly frugal too.
Get well soon!
We spent $56 ($36 at Aldi and $20 at the natural foods co-op).
-- Chia pudding and graham crackers
-- Egg-broccoli-mushroom-onion bake
-- Salad
-- Cashews, sesame sticks, apple slices, cheese and crackers
-- Plant-based chicken Bolognese over mashed potatoes
-- Cinnamon-raisin bread with butter along with yogurt with peanut butter protein powder
-- Bran flakes to which I added my own raisins