What I Spent, What We Ate | $430 (!!)
What I Spent
Well.
I went to the store and I spent many dollars.
I normally would budget $300 for two weeks, but I spent $430!
I attribute this to a few things:
- prices are definitely higher
- I am not shopping around as much for good prices
- I am buying more than usual because I'm trying so hard not to go out often
- I am being more generous with what I buy because I am trying to throw my girls a bone. I can't fix the current situation but I can buy fruit snacks and mochi ice cream. 🙂
We are spending so much less in other budget areas though (such as....gas!), I'm not worried about the grocery spending.
I imagine that at the end of the month, our overall spending is going to be lower than usual, despite the grocery bills.
What We Ate
Saturday
We had breakfast for dinner: coconut milk French toast for Sonia, chocolate chip buttermilk pancakes for the rest of us.
Sunday
Lisey was going to make her specialty (grilled BLTs, since it was Mother's Day), but our day didn't go quite as planned, and we ended up just throwing a frozen pizza in.
Monday
Lisey did a make-up BLT cooking session, and she put extra mayo in mine because more sauce is always better. 😉
Tuesday
I made chicken burrito bowls, much to Lisey's delight.
(She's a fellow TexMex lover!)
Those do have veggies in them, but I also cut up some other fresh produce to eat on the side.
Wednesday
I tried a recipe from the latest Cook's Country magazine for French bread pizzas. This one intrigued me because you spread garlic butter on the bread, toast it in the oven, and then add tomato sauce and toppings.
Verdict: pretty good, but I would shorten the baking time a bit next time because the bottoms got a little too crunchy.
The garlic butter is a very welcome addition to my usual French bread pizza method, though.
Thursday
Chicken croissant sandwiches, made with this brinerated chicken and this basil/roasted red pepper mayo.
Friday
I think we might do our takeout date night tonight, so I just need to figure out something for the girls.
I have had lots of chicken noodle soup because they days seem to be running together and what I plan is rejected. We had one meal of baked beans on toast. I truly can't remember the rest.
Our spending for grocery has also increased as we buy more special items. But as we do not spend much elsewhere, it will be fine.
Saturday: vegetarian quesadillas with a filling of sweet potatoes and red bell peppers
Sunday: Delivery: Vegetarian Asian noodles with lots of colorful vegetables
Monday: a new receipt: mushroom dumplings. They were delicious but much work. As vegetables, we had pan-fried radishes with bacon. Special combination but kind of good.
Tuesday: summer rolls with smoked tofu abd peanut sauce
Wednesday: Leftovers and bread, cheese and salami with cucumbers, tomatoes and radish
Thursday: we met my in-laws. It was the first time in over 2 month that we met someone in person. They made roast beef.
Friday: Going easy today with a hearty soup made of berlotti beans.
Since I’m not doing in-store shopping right now I guess I’m not seeing the immediate impact of rising prices, but although the Walmart prices seem pretty stable I’m sure they are going up. Frog in the pot, I suppose. After my husband goes to the store today I’m thinking we’ll be at about $160 for the two of us, which should last about 10 days. Other than picking up milk, I don’t think we grocery shopped last week. Plus I replenished a bunch of spices in this weeks order.
What we ate......
Saturday- kids came over and we had hotdogs on the grill
Sunday - beanie whiniest
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday- spaghetti and frozen vegetables
Thursday- popcorn shrimp and French fries
Friday- tonight will probably be tuna melts or poached salmon
This week is my shopping week, lets see how this goes, I did hop in the store last Monday for a few items, well that didn't go well... 145.00 later! Seems the prices are up, not as many sales.
Here we are limited to 2 chicken and 2 beef only. I asked the guy putting out meat, did they have something, he said no...I said that stinks, he said its going to get worse.... UGHHHHHHH
Saturday- did drive threw at Chick fil al, ate in the car in the parking lot, then cold stone, order in car and curb pick up.
Sunday- steak, baked potatoes, corn, DH picked up a cake (you know mothers day)
Monday- Chicken alfrado,
Tues- Hot dogs on the grill, tarter tots, I had some Brussels sprouts
Wednesday- Kielbasa on the grill , mac and cheese
Thursday- BBQ chicken on the grill, Pasta w/garlic and oil, mixed veggies
Friday- Think its going to be homemade Belgium waffles, and maybe pork roll.
I have resigned myself to not shopping sales or shopping multiples places for the best prices. I use the "shop for me" option at Sam's Club once a week. I don't think their prices have changed much over the past several weeks. I know we are spending a lot less overall because we are not going anywhere.These are the times where you don't worry about every dollar, if you don't have to.
You need to get back to shopping at Aldi. I was there yesterday, and I was impressed at how well they handled social distancing. The layout of the store lends itself well to one-way traffic. An employee was sanitizing carts and monitoring how many people were entering the store (and, by the way, no quarter required to get a cart at the moment), and they've increased the number of checkers to keep things moving efficiently. In general Aldi seemed less crowded and less chaotic than the big supermarkets. It was also MUCH cheaper. Prices have gone up at Aldi, too, but they seem to have increased less than at other places.
It's the same at my Aldi and I'm loving it. Now you had to go and blow the secret. 😉
I have actually spent less on groceries lately because I am "making do", but we are treating ourselves to beer, so I guess that makes up the difference? I've been shopping on average every 2.5 weeks and it has saved me some sanity. This week we ate:
Monday - Taco Chicken Bites, refried beans, corn on the cob
Tuesday - Porcupine Meatballs, steamed carrots, sauteed bok choy
Wednesday - One Pot Spaghetti, zucchini
Thursday - Link sausage skillet with onions, peppers, carrots, and rice. Very tasty!
Friday - Roast Pork over a baked potato with sauteed mushrooms, fresh green beans from my mother's garden
Saturday - Going to do a skillet ravioli with homemade tomato sauce
Sunday - (freezer) Lentil Soup with cheese toast
Dessert this week is chocolate covered raisins, because I love 'em
We end up eating a couple of inexpensive take-out meals on the weekend and have been diligent about eating oatmeal for breakfast (:
Gina, I'm impressed by your only shopping every 17 days. How do you store enough produce to last that long, and how do you get produce that will stay edible that long?
Saturday: Carnitas-style pork, rice, green salad with ranch dressing
Sunday: I made myself leftover pork, oven fries, and salad, because salad and fries is all I ever want to eat anyway. The pork was just to make it a more balanced meal. I think my mission for this year should be to teach my eldest son to make oven fries, so that HE can make Mother's Day dinner next year.
Monday: Pulled pork sandwiches for day three of the pork, plus some frozen green beans
Tuesday: Enough with the pork, already. I made a cheese pizza with green garlic and fresh basil, and we had another salad
Wednesday: Bunless hamburgers, oven fries (yes, again--I really like oven fries), frozen green beans and the cursed baked beans, the full story for which I won't even go into here but is on my own Friday food post today
Thursday: Breakfast sausage patties, pasta with butter and cream cheese, frozen green peas
This has been my laziest week in months and I LOVED it!
Saturday- I made a buffalo chicken potato bake
Sunday- I received an airfryer for Mother Day so we made a bunch of random things for late breakfast and lunch to try it out. Dinner was lost in translation I guess cause the husband said the 15y girl offered to make it and SHE said she offered to help dad.. So I ordered my favorite pizza splurge for me and a regular for the kids and made them pick it up!
Monday- I cooked a beef roast in my dutch oven with carrots.. I have not cooked one in my oven in so long( did not want to smell the crock pot all day) that i actually looked up a recipe to verify time/temp! lol Served with instant potatoes and frozen veg.
Tuesday- help yourself eat the leftovers!
Weds- ordered chinese to celebrate the 18year birthday of the oldest! My mom offered and paid for the meal! Served with homemade cheesecake at his request!
Thursday- help yourself there is still leftovers! lol
Friday- Everyone will be here for supper so BRINNER! Sausage, gravy, biscuits and scrambled eggs!
Saturday- probably grill something...
Sunday- helping great grandpa all afternoon so I am thinking takeout...
I hadn’t planned on grocery shopping this past week but DH wanted “snacks” - ice cream & Bakery type sweets. However I did find 85/15 ground beef for about 3.23 per #. Bone in chicken breasts were also .99/#. This store also has meat limits of 2 per customer per type of meat. I miss being able to stock up at the lowest prices.
Like many of you, I have also noticed that the prices of groceries continue to climb. We spent $175 for a week’s worth of groceries. Restrictions make it difficult to buy more than a week at a time. I have tried to stretch the budget using potatoes, rice, pasta, bread and beans which has caused me to gain 5 pounds. So this week, since my pants are too tight, we ate fewer carbs.
Saturday - Egg Roll in a bowl ( no rice for me)
Sunday- My eldest son cooked Mother’s Day Dinner at his house.
Monday- pork loin and salad ( roasted potatoes for DH and son)
Tuesday - Hamburgers, oven fries and salad ( I skipped the bun and fries)
Wednesday - Meatloaf with zucchini fries and salad
Thursday- Chicken with roasted fennel and lemon (Rice for the boys)
Tonight- ?
M - Grilled cheese, fruit and veggies
T - Baked chicken, rice, roasted carrots and broccoli
W - Beans, cornbread, fruit
Th - Cheeseburgers, fries and birthday cake for E who turned 9!!!
F - No idea yet!
I thought that was you in the first picture at first!
I am also spending more for the same reasons, and also not worrying about it for the same reasons. Food is one of the few pleasures we have at the moment and we aren’t spending a lot of money elsewhere
M- Taco salad
T - Cheeseburger Macaroni, broccoli
W- Leftovers
Th- ham, macaroni and cheese, green beans
F - not sure yet, maybe just frozen pizza
We are spending SO MUCH money on food right now, but I keep reminding myself that we're not really spending on much else, so that helps. We had sloppy joes along with cucumber slices and grapes, we ordered pizza one night, which was supposed to be a no contact delivery, but wasn't entirely no contact, so won't be doing that again, chicken/spinach fettucini alfredo, tacos, and last night was fajitas, tofu for hubby and shrimp for me. In case you can't tell, we're also Tex Mex lovers.
Have you ever tried oat milk as a substitute for Sonia? I've been using it some to help space out the grocery trips. I like it because it doesn't give things a flavor. I tried coconut milk in a green tea latte, and the flavor just didn't work for me, but it works fine with the oat milk. I've also used it in your Dutch Apple Pancake (I'm not even going to attempt spelling the name you use for it!) and we couldn't tell a difference.
Howdy Kristen! You may have covered this at some point already and I missed Nci; however, I was wondering where is Josh and how is he? I assume he is still in his own apartment. I don't have any family left, but if I did when all this began I probably would have run over and dragged them home with me!! lol How did you resist the urge?!!?
Yep, he's in his own apartment, about an hour away. I'm not too worried about this healthwise for my kids, since they're all in an age range where COVID is not too terribly deadly. And they're all practicing social distancing and wearing masks when going out for anything necessary, so all precautions are being taken. I figure, take precautions, and trust God with the rest, even with a kid who is not living at home. 🙂
I did not spent much at the market this week. I only went because someone said there was yeast at a smaller local supermarket.. I found it for $4.99. This market also sells their day old bakery products for half price. They had bread we like on the rack--a pumpernickel and a cheese. And I picked up some basics for my daughter.
I did check the King Arthur site and they do now have yeast in stock at a reasonable price (plus shipping) compared to the prices on Amazon (and even some of those had a shipping price even if you were a prime member).
We are planting our garden. I am trying some corn, which I found already started.
Yup, I too am spending more for groceries and trying to limit the stores I go into. I'm seeing food price increases (meat!) but I'm also relaxing my food purchases and including fun foods because mealtime is the highlight of the day.
In backwards order, tonight we are having pizza subs which finally were delivered from a school band fundraiser; last night was mac and cheese; Wednesday was apricot chicken over rice; Tuesday we ate some sort of food which now escapes me; Monday we had Mexican skillet supper.
Husband's turn this week.
Monday - lamb burgers with broccoli and salad
Tuesday - leftovers
Wednesday - homemade chicken noodle soup
Thursday - baked chicken with roasted potatoes and salad
Friday - green chili chicken bowl
This past week:
Friday - take-out pizza (first night in the new house!)
Saturday - take-out from a local burger joint (didn't have enough kitchen unpacked to cook)
Sunday - take-out from Chipotle (got burned out emptying/cleaning our old house)
Monday - spaghetti - much to the enormous relief of my children, especially my older child, first home-cooked meal in the new house!
Tuesday - split pea soup and bread
Wednesday - leftovers
Thursday - breakfast for dinner - we're "in quarantine" with our good friends, who are now our across-the-street neighbors! The mom invited my kids over to prepare a breakfast-for-dinner meal, and we all ate together. It was glorious. Then my husband and I helped clean up their kitchen.
Friday - homemade pizza, per our Friday night tradition dating back to when I was 14!
Part of my son's daily "what's your favorite part of the day" since Monday has been "eating homecooked food!" He's not a huge fan of restaurant food... 😀
It's wonderful being in the new house, though because it's a little older (1989) and needs some love, it does occasionally feel like living in the movie "The Money Pit"! We just discovered this morning that there's a drainage problem in the back yard (first time we've had continuous rain for several days in a row).
Thank you for succinctly identifying the reasons my grocery bill is enormous these days! You hit all the points; I was fretting, but am saving money in so many other areas that it all comes out in the wash 🙂
I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one spending more at the grocery store. First few weeks we also indulged the kids with special snacks and Easter and birthday celebrations, and of course there was some stocking up in the beginning, but even after that the grocery bill has been significantly higher. I have noticed that there are hardly any good sales, and when we limited shopping to just one grocery store, we couldn't shop around for better prices. It's gotten a little better after we started going back to Trader Joe's in addition to our usual grocery. My husband also placed an order of meat from a local farm.
The other thing bringing up the grocery bill is that the kids no longer eat lunch at school (we let them buy lunch because the packed lunch came back uneaten), so I remind myself we no longer have the lunch money charge.
At the end of week, the fridge is completely empty and we have less food waste, so I just have to content myself with the higher bill!
Our dinners:
-Slowcooked baked beans from scratch, one dinner with oven-baked mac and cheese and one with johnny cakes from cornmeal. Sides of broccoli or corn on the cob.
-White navy beans in broth with minced veggies, grilled potatoes and green beans (my husband also grilled some meat from his freezer stash. I'm a vegetarian so I don't pay attention to what cut it was!)
-Meatballs/veggie balls from leftover beans, tater tots, green salad
-Linguine pasta with grilled brussel sprouts
Today we will have falafel and pitas.
Have a good weekend!
We make double or triples of everything & have mostly leftovers during the week. Here's what we had last week:
Saturday - takeout. I had an UberEats promo + a gift card, so we ordered Greek food
Sunday - my husband grilled beef kebabs, rice & yogurt sauce
Monday - carnitas
Tuesday - leftover kebabs & rice
Wednesday - leftover carnitas
Thursday - the kids had pasta & meatballs, the adults had kebabs
Friday - we're having steak salad
Easy week this week:
Saturday- Chinese takeaway
Sunday - roast gammon ham, roast potatoes, peas, green beans and sweet corn with home made (up) sauce
Monday- homemade beef lasagne using noodles instead of lasagna sheets which we prefer with veggies
Tuesday- chicken fajitas
Wednesday- smoked salmon, bagels, scrambled eggs and salad
Thursday- home made beef burgers, salad and fries
Friday - home made pizza, one son makes the dough, the other preps the toppings and cooks the pizzas, teamwork!!
We had:
Sunday-grilled flank steak and salmon, chopped salad, watermelon, berries and lots of desserts
Monday- leftovers from Sunday repurposed
Tuesday- chicken Parmesan, pasta, salad and homemade French bread
Wednesday- Boboli pizza
Thursday- chicken, veggies, and pan-fried noodles, and fruit
Friday- Probably takeout pizza
This next week I plan to use my Instant Pot at least twice- I got both of the Rootitoot cookbooks for Mother’s Day- gotta try her highly rated recipes...
I've never set a limit on grocery purchases but with price increases, that may have to change. It also doesn't help when my daughter & her boyfriend are home for a week. Having to make little stops just to pick up meat, because of the limit, can get expensive if I'm hungry. 🙂
S - Chicken Bacon Ranch Casserole w/ Speckled butter beans and Mac & Cheese
S - Spaghetti & Toast
M - Carry out pizza from Sir Pizza - My favorite
T - BBQ Chicken w/ Crowder peas, Mac & Cheese and Potatoes
W - 2 of us had Sloppy Joes & 2 of us had Pigs in a Blanket
T - Chick-fil-a
F - haven't decided
We had chicken casserole, frozen pizza, a frozen pad Thai meal bought with a coupon, and lots of sandwiches with cheese, nuts or chips, and fruit on the side. Today I put a pork butt roast in the crockpot with sliced apples, diced onion, dried cranberries, a little chicken stock, sage and black pepper.
Our grocery totals are 30 to 50 percent higher because I am not shopping around for deals and we are eating every meal and snacks at home. On a low week, I can get everything at Save a Lot. On a high week, I have had to go to the local expensive grocery store. I have also been keeping the freezer and dry goods fully stocked instead of letting it run down a bit, which means buying a one or two extra cans and packages per week.
Since I'm back at work and have about a 55 mile commute each way, I am spending plenty on gas again (and our prices are rising on gas here) and food as well.
I shopped last week at one store, which is how I've done most of my shopping during this period. Since I buy almost all organic and grass fed, it was expensive. I noted the sales, what there were of them, were mostly on pre-packaged and snack foods. Very little "real" food was marked down at all. I had a $50 gift certificate and I'm glad I did, as I still paid $145 for two weeks of groceries after the certificate. That didn't include my farm order, which was $37.
Since I'm back at work, I'm also back to doing more of the prep on weekends so my menus reflect that. We had:
Chicken vegetable soup, made with chicken bone broth I'd made earlier and frozen, and the upper and lower backs and neck of a chicken I'd cut up. I cooked the pieces in the broth just enough to cook the meat through and pulled it off the bones, then cooked the vegetables in the broth and added the meat back when done. So it had a lot of flavor without using a lot of that chicken.
Pressure cooker beef stew
Hot dogs with homemade slaw, chips and fruit. I wrapped my dog in a cassava flour tortilla and had cassava chips
Shrimp with carrot salad
Our sweet daughter brought us fajitas and quesadillas from the local Mexican restaurant last night. I can eat a deconstructed fajita without the tortilla and rice, and my husband ate the quesadillas and some of the fajita makings. This was an anniversary present, since no way can we go out to eat even though restaurants can have limited capacity here. I can't take that risk with my husband's health.
Our grocery spending has been all over the map. I think mostly because my husband and I take turns, and one of us spends more than the other. Our spending is going to be high this month because we realized our kids are outgrowing everything (shoes, bikes, clothes etc.) and can't search for deals as easily. Honestly, we can't complain because in the 6 years we've had kids, we've hardly had to spend money because of the generosity of others and hand-me-downs. We've also been a bit more lax with fun spending to help alleviate some of the quarantine blues.
Meals this week:
Sunday- sweet potato fries and quesadillas
Monday-Pork stir fry with vegetables
Tuesday-I don't remember
Wednesday- yellow flesh sweet spuds with chicken, black beans, rotel and cilantro and cheese
Thursday-pizza and salad
Friday-something quick and easy, maybe pasta or sloppy joes
Monday: Chicken in honey-mustard sauce with mashed potatoes and a shredded salad. No lettuce but it was still delicious.
Tuesday: Spicy tilapia with turnip and carrot puree and spinach.
Wednesday: The remaining tilapia with potato cubes and asparagus.
Thursday: Pizza plus another shredded salad.
Friday: Hubby is making Chinese food.
My grocery bill was about the same as last week. I'd been looking forward to receiving our first CSA box of the spring but it's been cancelled due to the restrictions that are in place here with respect to bringing in outside farm workers.
I, too, am spending a lot on food. I'm going to only one store, since I'm going to only one store I'm not price checking but I expect prices are higher, there are fewer sales, I'm buying more indulgent foods (supermarket sushi? sure!), and I'm not eating down my meat supply because I remain uneasy about the near-term future of the meat supply chain.
My usual store is undermining itself in a funny way. The official policy is that you can buy only 2 packages of each kind of meat. However, the meat department is making large packages of meat, such as wrapping two 8lb racks of spare ribs and calling it one package. That was $35 or so right there. I think it would be more effective to allow 3 packages and keep the packages small (what if I didn't have room to store 16 lbs of ribs?).
So this week's damage was about $350. This included several large packages of meat, high-end snacks and drinks for deliverers, and a $15 tip for the bagger.
Sunday: Smorgesborg.
Monday: Pork "fajitas", apples and the last of the berries.
Sliced pork, simmered in a pureed mixture of Rotel and diced tomatoes (pure Rotel is spicer than I enjoy), with eater's choice of spinach, minced onion, cheese, sauteed onions, sauteed mushrooms, and tortillas.
Tuesday:
Chinese take-out, with enough for leftovers, eaten in the backyard. I was sad to learn that the restaurant isn't doing sushi for the time being; it was nice to be able to get both at once.
Wednesday:
Baked chicken burritos, grapes.
Simmered leftover plain chicken in the Rotel/tomato mixture, wrapped in tortillas with a lot of sliced spinach, cheese, extra sauce, and some minced onion. Then baked in a square pan till the tops were crisp. I liked the flavor and the convenience but the bottoms were soggy.
Thursday:
Lamb chops, green beans, and several kinds of berries.
The lamb chops were a bit of a hack. The plan was to sous vide two small lamb roasts (4 ribs each), then sear in cast iron. But the recommended minimum cooking time was laughably inadequate: the roasts were warm but definitely still raw. They also had a HUGE amount of fat, I mean like half of the roasts' weight. So at the last minute I was frantically cutting off enormous chucks of fat, slicing the roasts into chops, and steaming the green beans instead of browning them so they could cook at the same time as the ribs. It came out really well and there were fewer leftover than I anticipated.
Friday:
Tonight's dinner will be spare ribs (natch).
Saturday: Smorgesborg. There's going to be so much leftover food that Sunday may be smorgesborg as well.
Thanks for putting bullet points to why our grocery bills are so high right now. Tomorrow's my big shopping day and I'm really trying to menu plan off my freezer and pantry as much as I can because my last shopping bill was atrocious. We have lots of meat in the freezer, which I'm thankful for.
Sunday - I chose Bob Evans takeout for Mother's Day. It was a decision that made me feel old (I'm not) but I was super excited about their delicious pot roast. And we fed our family of 5 for less than $35 and still had leftovers.
Monday - Aldi Chick-fil-A knockoff sandwiches for me and my husband, chicken fries for the kids, pineapple and broccoli with cheese for all
Tuesday - Cheeseburgers, chips, grilled asparagus and zucchini, pineapple, chips
Wednesday - Roasted hot dogs over a fire, watermelon on the side, s'mores for dessert
Thursday - Sheet pan dinner with brats, cauliflower, sweet potatoes, green beans, broccoli, summer squash, and zucchini. My daughter put together a fruit salad to go with it.
Friday - I think rice and bean burritos and the second half of the watermelon.
I wish I were at your house on Wednesday! My idea of a perfect meal.
Everything is better with garlic butter. 🙂 4.3% increase in the price of groceries in April, the largest in 50 years.
Saturday/Sunday/Monday: Home made chicken hash, to use up elderly potatoes and two random chicken breasts that were hiding in the freezer, plus three elderly leeks. Made so much, we just ate it for three nights. Carrot slaw, using up elderly carrots. I guess this was geriatric food night.
Tuesday: Split pea soup, which I can only stand for one meal. Blueberries.
Wednesday: Split pea soup for him, tuna sandwich for myself. Blueberries.
Thursday: eggs, sausage, pancakes since we didn't have any potatoes left. Strawberries.
Tonight: Filet of fish and strawberry salad.
Elderly- lol!
I am slightly upwards of $100 for 2 people, that is eating all meals at home other than a weekly spread the love to our local restaurants.
Not going to Aldi due to packed store and skinny isles.
I don't normally shop at Walmart but have been doing their online shop pickup orders and their prices for what I buy are slightly lower than Meijer.
My other shop was at Sam's Club and other than $25 for ground round and some veggies the rest was medicine, hand soap (yay) & paper products.
Friday -Meatloaf, green beans, tater tots
Thursday -ham and scalloped potatoes, salad
Wednesday -Pork chop with noodles and cheese
Tuesday -grilled ham and cheese with tomato soup
Monday -don't recall
Sunday -5 Guys bacon burgers and they were soooo good!!
This weekend we are either hitting up a local sub deli place or another local small burger joint that has killer fish and chips!
We are definitely spending more money on groceries, too! Rather than go to a few different supermarkets, we just go to one place near us. It is more expensive than our regular spots, but it’s also far less busy.
We feel safe shopping there, and right now that means a lot to us. I’m sure eventually we’ll go back to our other, regular stores.
We spent $38 on our weekly fish delivery and $3.35 at our local Portuguese bakery, and are still eating the food from 2 2/7 week ago shopping trip when we dropped major coin. We continue to eat well, as it provides a rare moment of joy. Working backwards:
Tonight: homemade Bolognese and homemade fettuccine with garlic bread (made with green garlic from our garden!!) and a big salad
Thursday: Japanese-style salted salmon (shiozake) -- way TOO salty!, rice, roasted broccoli and carrots, miso soup
Wednesday: sautèed haddock with chunky tomato, caper, olive sauce, sautèed summer squash, zuke & red peppers, grilled sourdough and halloumi
Tuesday: the "Schlow" burger (our favorite!), with a big salad
Monday: Broccoli rueben, homemade 'tator tots, homemade pickles
Sunday (the winner of the week): Bánh Töm with Nuac Cham (Vietnamese sweet potato & shrimp fritters -- Cookinglight.com) this was incredibly fast and incredibly tasty! served with sautèed veg and Ipuddo cucumbers
This week has been a series of leftovers since we made a lot when we cooked. All week, the choices were: smoked pork ribs, turkey sandwiches, raviolis, oven fry chicken, steamed veg, boiled eggs and various fruits.
I did make blueberry muffins and oatmeal applesauce blueberry muffins.
Let's see what I can remember;
Sunday - I requested grilled chicken for Mother's Day - One kid made the marinade and the other helped daddy do the actual grilling
Monday- Potato and Ham Soup (ham frozen from Easter)
Tuesday- take out- continue to support the local restaurants
Wednesday- Turkey Burgers on the grill
Thursday- Chicken Cordon Blu Casserole (using up the ham from earlier this week)
Friday- BBQ Pulled Pork Sandwiches
There were sides, fruit, and veggies this week too, but I am just happy to remember the main item 🙂
Same budget, same spending jump, and for the same reasons here. I miss making my regular frugal stops for groceries, but our Fred Meyer (Kroger) has free pickup right now, and the staff have been amazing at picking out produce and item substitutions. As a nurse I am trying to avoid any type of non-work interactions as I deal with mostly high-risk patients, so this has been a great option for us.
Steamed broccoli garlic oil over veg. Ravolis from Trader Joe’s. The ravolis used to be $1.99 a package . Now their more. About $2.00 something.
Apiece of grilled salmon from BJ over mixed green salad tomatoes onions with oil and lemon. It was tasty.
Mother’s Day we ordered out wings. Yummy!
Monday: turkey and cheese sandwiches, applesauce
Tuesday: loaded nachos, salad
Wednesday: ham and cheese quiche, salad
Thursday: Leftover ham and cheese quiche, salad, sliced apples
Friday: goulash, Brussel sprouts, salad,
With the weather so nice we have outside most of the time, I’m not wanting to be inside cooking! It’s supposed to rain here for 3-4 days starting Tuesday so I plan to cook some big meals and freeze the extra. We are spending more at one time but only shopping every 2-3 weeks except for milk. A friend gifted us a big bag of homegrown spinach so lots of yummy salads. Another friend gave us extra apples from a food giveaway.
Sunday - Lasagna
Monday - Chili
Tuesday - Beef Stroganoff
Wednesday - Baked Chicken
Thursday - Hamburgers
Friday - Pizza
Saturday - Soup and sandwich
Mother's Day - Steak / Mashed Potatoes / Red Cabbage Salad
Monday - Beans / Rice / Ground Beef / Cabbage Salad
Tuesday - Various Leftovers with Chickpea Wraps
Wednesday - Meatloaf / Rice / Sautéed Cabbage
Thursday - Burrito Bowls / Red Cabbage Salad
Friday - Baked Oatmeal
Saturday - Pulled Pork / Rice / Sautéed Zucchini & Yellow Squash
Vegetable Chinese dumplings, cucumber salad
Lentil soup, homemade whole wheat bread
Teriyaki salmon, couscous, broccoli
Homemade pizza!
Chicken piccata, buttery lemon noodles, broccoli
Couscous cakes with tomato-garlic ragout, roasted green beans
Zucchini tostadas with homemade corn tortillas