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Grocery Spending and Menu Plan-3.7

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(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

Wednesday

Thursday

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

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Frugal Liz

Friday 13th of March 2009

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

Carrie

Thursday 12th of March 2009

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.

Battra92

Monday 9th of March 2009

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. ;)

Amanda

Saturday 7th of March 2009

What cheese? What spider? What snickers?? All I saw was the blueberries and milk. That would be a nice treat right about now.

Kristen

Saturday 7th of March 2009

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. :)

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