WIS, WWA | Hello, Chiquita
Chiquita was watching me through the curtains while I blogged. 😉
What I Spent
I spent:
- $8 at Giant
- $19 at Aldi
That makes $27 for me, which is pretty dang low.
What We Ate
Saturday
I worked, and I ate my chili/rice lunch.
Sunday
I came down with a cold, so Zoe picked up some Panera for us after her work shift, using one of my credit card gift cards.
I realize that looks mainly like a bagel, but it's their asiago steak bagel sandwich, which is super good!
Monday
I cooked the rest of my clearance thin-sliced beef and ate that with some sweet potatoes (sriracha mayo on top of the potatoes and beef) and some red peppers with Greek yogurt dipping sauce.
Tuesday
I thawed some chicken and used this quick chipotle marinade on them. I also made a cilantro-lime sauce, and used it as salad dressing.
Zoe had an evening class, so after she left, I took my serving to the park. 🙂
I packaged up two lunch servings as well, since I had Wednesday and Thursday work shifts this week.
Wednesday
I ate my chicken salad at lunch.
And I had some yogurt and fruit after work.
Thursday
More chicken salad for lunch at work.
And then I had some shredded wheat after work.
Friday
I'm off today (the only Friday in September I'm not working!), and for a day of fun, I'm getting my tuberculosis test spot-checked (you have to have it looked at 48-72 hours after the injection), and I'm also doing my drug test.
I know how to spend a Friday, that's for sure. I have not decided on dinner, but maybe I deserve a cookie for all the background check testing I did this week. 😉
WIS: $65 at Food Lion and $10 at Dollar Tree.
WWA: DH ate sandwiches with fresh garden produce and plums. I had leftover chicken spaghetti with garden veggies a couple of days, a mini frozen cheese pizza with canned peaches, and we had a meal out that I brought leftovers home from to eat a second day. Last night DS was home, so I made French toast, scrambled eggs, sausage and applesauce for our supper. Did not make a dessert this week.
Happy Friday, everyone! We spent $87 at Trader Joe's over two trips.
-- Chipotle burrito bowl (THREE nights in a row - from the same original bowl!)
-- Neighborhood bonfire/potluck
-- Omelet (spinach, mushroom and goat cheese) left over from a restaurant meal
-- Salad (greens, corn, black beans, tomatoes, cukes) with avocado ranch dressing left over from a restaurant meal
-- Noodles and homemade marinara sauce with kalamata olive rosemary bread from the Farmers' Market
Saturday - We had pizza and breadsticks while watching a movie. This was the second week that I made a gluten-free pizza for myself (I made myself a GF breadsticks, too!) I've suspected for a few years and confirmed recently, that my body is much happier without gluten. Heavy sigh. I'm happy to feel so much better (and amazed at my lack of eczema right now), but sad to have to say no to so many things I love to eat. On the bright side, it's not too much per pizza for a bag of King Arthur GF pizza flour and the dough tastes pretty good.
Sunday - I made FG enchiladas - a triple batch! Most of them went to our life group meeting (I made a small pan with corn tortillas. I prefer flour, but it was fine.) Then one pan went in our freezer.
Monday - Spaghetti (spaghetti squash for me) with meat sauce
Tuesday - Burgers... and sides that I can't remember
Wednesday - Everyone was kind of on their own. One kid went to a friend's house. One kid had an away volleyball game and she and my husband had Culver's after. My son redeemed his Pizza Hut Book-It pizza. I had leftover spaghetti squash.
Thursday - Salmon, pears, corn, shells and cheese
Friday - We have an early (4:00) home football game, so I'm going to make chili in a crock-pot so it's ready to eat as soon as everyone gets home.
Ruth -- my body is also happier without gluten ... though I am wish it werent the case. Another King Arthur GF consolation -- the baking mix makes outstanding waffles, better than any gluten-full version I've ever made. They are crispy and light and don't feel like a gut buster. I am trying out the KA GF bread flour recipe today.
Saturday: I made taco meat with ground beef and canned beans, which I used to make toasted burritos. And I had leftover coleslaw.
Sunday: I cooked two of the roosters we butchered last week, just in my pressure cooker. After stripping off the meat, I used it and some of the broth to make a chicken and rice dish with caramelized onions, from Smitten Kitchen. I still have a lot of caramelized onions in the freezer from when I had like 70 pounds of onions, which makes it much simpler to make this dish. I would not be making it much if I had to caramelize the onions every time. We also had frozen peas, and I made mini hand pies with pie dough and some of my sister's plum butter for Sunday dessert.
Monday: Pork shoulder, butter-swim biscuits from The Kitchn, green salad with ranch dressing, rice pudding. Still a little too hot for this meal, but my daughter requested the biscuits, and the pork was the only meat I had that reasonably went with those. And if the oven is on for the pork shoulder, I pretty much always make baked rice pudding.
Tuesday: Leftover pork fried in its own rendered lard, not-baked beans made with two cans of pork and beans from commodities, rice cooked in the pork braising liquid, and a cucumber salad that used the last of the ranch dressing from the previous night.
Wednesday: It finally started to cool down, so I used the rest of the pork liquid to make chili. And then I made cornbread.
Thursday: Cheeseburgers on homemade buns, leftover not-baked beans, pickles, the strawberry-rhubarb crisp I had made at the same time as the mini hand pies and didn't serve until this night.
Tonight: We're trying again with our kids' passport appointments at the post office 100 miles away. It was canceled last time the morning of (welcome to New Mexico, land of enchantment and highly inefficient bureaucracy), and this is the first Friday since then we've had a chance to try again. No one is excited about the drive after a long week of school and on an already-busy weekend, so we will certainly be bribing them with Sonic milkshakes. I'm hoping it won't be so late that they will need to eat dinner there, too, and we can come home and have vegetarian fried rice with the leftover rice. However, in the interests of everyone's emotional well-being, including my own, I reserve the right to just buy them dinner in town before starting our drive home. We'll see how it goes.
This is a busy month for us, with all the Jewish holidays and multiple family birthdays--nine in all. I joke that the end of December is kind of boring if you're Jewish. Cough cough.
Friday: Rosh HaShanah dinner #1, we went to my parents' for apples and honey and challah, then chicken soup with matzah balls, chicken, fish, roasted vegetables, roasted potatoes, salad, and then fruit and honey cake. My contribution was our family's honey cake. It's my great great aunt's recipe; an old-world style with fennel, anise, ginger, allspice, and cloves instead of the more typical cinnamon-based pumpkin spice blend.
Saturday: Rosh HaShanah dinner #2, we had pumpkin challah, chicken, rice, and broccoli, then pomegranate seeds and honey cake for dessert.
Sunday: The baby and I napped through dinner; Mr. B made pasta and peas.
Monday: Pancakes, eggs, fruit.
Tuesday: Mr. B was working late. My daughter had plain pasta, I had pasta with "baked" beans from the freezer and cheese. Kind of weird, but it tasted fine.
Wednesday: Takeout sushi. I simply Could Not.
Thursday: My little bee is five! Her birthday dinner request was chicken schnitzel (which I prep ready-to-bake in big batches,) broccoli, and French fries. Dessert was a Japanese candy kit (something she requested) but the candy tasted horrible, so we had Oreos (another specially-requested birthday item.)
Friday: To my parents' for Shabbat with my brother, SIL, and nephew.