Grocery Spending and Menu Plan-3.7
(excuse the black spider...Joshua put him on top of the chicken just as I was taking the picture. Boys!)
Since the February grocery challenge is over, I splurged on a couple of things this week. Crabmeat was on sale, so I decided to make crab soup. Plus, Aldi had triangles of Parmesan and Asiago cheese, so I'm going to use some of the crabmeat to make a seafood dip, which has Parmesan and Asiago in it. Oh, and I'm also using some of the cheese to make Parmesan Crusted Chicken(something I don't make often because Parmesan is usually expensive).
Happily, despite these splurges I'm only a bit over $80 for this week. I spent $39.76 at Weis and $45.51 at Aldi, so my total spending was $85.27.
By the way, the reason I didn't buy a whole lot of veggies this week is that we didn't end up using all of ours from last week. That's because we brought home a big container of green salad from last week's birthday party, and we were busy eating that up before it went bad. Soo, we have some catching up to do on the veggie front...hopefully we can eat it all before it's too late. 😉
Saturday
- Believe it or not, we have another birthday get-together(!) to go to. I think this is the last for a little while. I'm bringing bread(shocking, I know).
Sunday
- French Toast
- OJ
- maybe some sausage
Monday
- Parmesan-Crusted Chicken(a Cook's Illustrated recipe)
- Bagels
- green salad
Tuesday
- Grilled hamburgers on homemade buns
- potato cubes (I follow this recipe, except that I leave the cilantro out)
- fruit salad
Wednesday
- Grilled Tropical Island Chicken (I'm just using chicken breasts instead of the whole chickens. This is the marinade I use when I make Hibachi Chicken.)
- grilled vegetables(red peppers, zucchini, and onions)
- french bread
Thursday
- French Bread Pizza(made with french bread from Wednesday's dinner)
- green salad
Friday
- Cream of Crab soup
- garlic breadsticks
- I'm unsure of our veggie/fruit side...it'll depend on what's on sale next week
Love the spider! It took a second to register that it was even in the photo and then it seemed perfectly normal to me, since my son (7) has one like that and he leaves it around the house trying to scare me, too. That's just life with boys! 🙂 Although we do have the rule that he can't put on any of his scary Halloween masks without telling me first. I don't need a little ghoul peeking around the corner and giving me a heart attack.
I'm eyeing those snickers bars! Snickers candy bars are my weakness!
I didn't even notice the spider until you mentioned it. I guess I was too focused on food and those snickers bars!. (have you ever tried the ones with the dark chocolate? Very good!)
LOL Julia! What is it with boys and spiders?
Gail, my the Snickers are for my husband. He likes to have a little piece of chocolate in his lunch every day, and Snickers were reasonably priced at Aldi. 🙂
What cheese? What spider? What snickers?? All I saw was the blueberries and milk. That would be a nice treat right about now.
Boys? Personally I think that's a good sign he's on his way to manhood. First comes the spider phase and perhaps frogs. I can remember the fun times had by snatching a frog out of the pond and making my mother squirm or scream (and with any luck both!)
My Epic Win was achieved around age 13 when I found that two cotton balls mushed and glued together with the end of one pulled and spun into a long white tail and some extra effects added with a gray Crayola marker made for a very realistic and believable mouse. She claims I took five years off her life with that. The punishment was stern I recall but it was worth it.
The best (worst) is yet to come. 😉
WOW! I am so impressed! That is a lot of very healthy eating for your family! That's really awesome. I love your meal list too - sounds delish! I only hope I am as creative when I have a family - haha.
We used to have a lot of food waste, but luckily I've learned to be more creative with leftovers, so now we have less waste. I still haven't totally eliminated it, but I'm hoping I will someday.:P