Groceries and Menu-The Three Picture Edition
Another week, another report! Here's my produce.
And the rest of my groceries.
The cow from the local farm has milk now, so I got two gallons, one for yogurt and one for other purposes. I only felt like dragging one out of the fridge for a picture though. The glass jars are kind of heavy, and I didn't want to risk dropping one (I've done that before...it broke and spilled milk all over my kitchen floor!).
My Aldi total this week was $54.97, and at Weis, I spent $27.05. That's $82.02, which would be great except that I spent $8 on those two gallons of milk. Soo, I'm at $90.02.
I bet I can make that up next week, though, by spending $70. I'm going to at least try.
Saturday
- Ham sandwiches with bacon and Basil Mayonnaise
- strawberries
Sunday
- We're going to a birthday party, so we'll eat there. I need to bring a side, but I haven't decided what that will be yet!
Monday
- Fried Mush
- Buttermilk Waffles
- Orange Juice
- Cantaloupe
Tuesday
- Pizza Subs
- green salad
Wednesday
- Basil, Chicken, Tomato, and Onion Paninis
- Fruit Salad
Thursday
- Italian Garden Pasta Salad with Chicken
- English Muffin Bread
Friday
- Grilled Pizza
- Green Salad
- Root Beer
You're lucky to get cilantro with roots! If you haven't already, put it in a cup of water in the fridge, just like flowers. And just like flowers, it'll last longer if you change the water a couple of times a week.
I think I've found a way to use the last-ditch cilantro: with carmelized onions, rice and black beans. We'll see in a couple of months how the idea holds up in practice.
Boy, those jars look heavy and cumbesome! Could be kinda fun to see them in your fridge. Of course, then the world gets to see how "uncivilized" (my grandmother's term for our fridge growing up and I love the description!) the fridge really is! Where is the farm from which you purchase the milk?
I still haven't gone to the store yet this week, so yesterday we were reduced to eating a casserole made from canned stuff mixed with rice! I usually try to avoid doing that, but I had forgotten to defrost the chicken I intended to grill and the potatoes I was going to make into mashed potatoes went bad! Hopefully I will have better luck tonight.
Is that one lonely potato I see in your produce photo?? Trying to figure out what you're going to do with one potato.
Dana, I know---the potato's in the deep dish pizza recipe, right Kristen? Oh wait---that's not on the menu this week. I thought I was on to something. Hey, maybe I'm coming over for dinner? A baked potato is one of my favorite meals. Gotta get working on a flight to Maryland! 🙂
Well I ended up going WAY over budget and spending $153! I budget $125, so as you can see I went a lot over. I had run out of a lot of staple ingredients, so that was a lot of the cost. I'm hoping next week I'll do better! So in short, don't feel bad about your $90 grocery bill!
I have cornmeal! It's so cheap! I am going to definitely try this. All I have made so far is corn bread...I'm strangely excited about corn meal right now!
I am surprised to see that you purchase tea already brewed! Have you considered brewing it at home yourself? You can save a lot of money that way! I know we do - being a Georgia girl our family goes through a lot of sweet tea! ^_^
I just wanted to tell you that I tried your whole wheat bread recipe the other day, and it was AWESOME. My husband and I both loved it. We'll never buy sandwich bread again!
So after the jars of milk are empty do you reuse them or recycle them?
Oh and watch for spiders in your bananas.
Dana, Julia is right! The potato is for the deep dish pizza. We had it this past Friday, so it was on the menu I posted last week.
Jessie, I do brew tea sometimes, but I was feeling lazy. lol
Cate, so glad the bread was good!
Battra, we wash the jars in the dishwasher and then return them to the farm where they get filled again. It's a completely no-garbage-produced process, which is awesome. So, my yogurt produces no trash either...the milk comes in glass jars which get reused and I cook and store my yogurt in glass jars, which I reuse.